skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not 158 in one year, 158 "to date" as of the year 2000 (source below):
http://www.airbag-law.com/index.html
"As of April 1, 2000, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's Special Crash Investigation (SCI) has confirmed a total of 158 fatalities induced by airbag deployment. Of that total, 92 were children, 60 were drivers, and 6 were adult passengers."

Wikipedia puts it at 175 fatalities between 1990 and 2000 (source: http://web.archive.org/web/20080226234316/http://www.nsc.org...). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag#Airbag_fatality_statist...

Also, most of the fatalities occurred from being sitting too close to the airbag or not wearing a safety belt. From the wikipedia source again: "These fatalities have predominantly occurred when the children and adults were positioned precariously close to the compartment where the air bag was housed. Most of the children killed were not secured by safety belts and were thrown forward during pre-crash breaking, placing their heads just inches from the air bag when it deployed. Therefore, the best defense during an air bag deployment is to be wearing a safety belt."
This is true. I don't have some a scientific study that proves this - just every entrepreneur friend I have that is kicking ass right now as an example of this being true.
Tell HN: Heroku is Down
https://status.heroku.com/
The Spark documentation for the machine-learning library MLlib is also pretty good, albeit with fewer pretty diagrams: https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.0.0/mllib-guide.html
SF Sends Cease-And-Desist To Apps Selling Public Parking Spots
Jasper is supposed to deliver that on a Raspi: http://jasperproject.github.io/

No personal experience though.
>what will it take to create the next Detroit, circa 1950?

Also, this is happening in Fremont Ca - where Tesla is redefining what car companies should look like (aka technology companies with fast innovation and cross pollination between other industries).

But, to answer your question, what will it take is more Elon Musks in the world. Those with vision and resources to execute on that vision.
Putting aside the obligation(s), the mere fact they (and to be fair, likely other clouds) have an automated deletion process for unwanted content reduces their reliability. There may be bugs, possibly poor hash distributions, malicious misreporting, erroneous classifications, or misappropriation of the tool for other purposes.

I don't think this measure is effective (it's trivial even for non-techies to circumvent hash-based detection) nor proportional to the likely incidence/impact of this crime. While I cannot speak to what their legal obligations are, I don't think we should encourage invasion of privacy for no particularly good reason. As such, I strongly object to the notion they have a moral obligation to commit this particular harm. Facetiously claiming that doing so somehow protects children is just a joke in particularly bad taste.
The law prohibits selling or contracting around public parking spaces, ie contracts formed for the purpose of exploiting a public resource are automatically void.

The app itself invites users to 'request a parking spot' and asks 'how much would you pay?' The knowledge of imminent departure is just an instrumentality for gaining occupancy of the parking spot, to claim otherwise is disingenuous. There's a mentality among some hackers that 'the means justify the ends,' ie if you can find some definitional wiggle room on what you're doing it automatically validates the outcome. That works OK on computers, but the law is not a big computer system and does not operate on the same sort of binary logic as computers do.
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Here's the specific law they say that people are violating:

"It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to enter into a lease, rental agreement or contract of any kind, written or oral, with or without compensation, for the use of any street or sidewalk."
Never rebased? Wow. The basics aren't so terrible but once or twice a month I find myself going to Google for an answer, that having read a Git book front to back.
By design games that are popular end up having a certain amount of random noise in them, otherwise they would be terrible to watch. Furthermore, teams are run by rational actors who have seen fit to put millions of dollars into getting slightly better players, which seems to suggest that there is a certain amount of talent involved in winning the game.

So his conclusion that a 3:2 beat means that there is only a 5:8 chance that a team is better, perfectly makes sense in my mind. Popular sports are fun because they are close to watch.
We're making progress on that front with Numba:
http://numba.pydata.org
Thank you for your concern, we are not based in France though.
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"My thesis is that soccer is an amalgam of random processes whose net effect produces rare events—those more-or-less unpredictable events spread more-or-less uniformly in time."

What? What proportion of events in soccer is he proposing are random? This seems a very poor start for any kind of examination of sport whatsoever.
Nice, thanks! I'd rather do this than say backup /whatever/whatever because in my experience the value of /whatever/whatever changes on different flavors of UNIX.
-1 for mis-use of "Real-time". This appears to just be a visualization of NextBus data, which as we know is a pack of lies.
Why are there so many wallets on Kickstarter?
This is Matt from 303 Software. We pay our taxes in full and on time. Our two accounting firms and one law firm had never heard of this tax until the auditor showed up at my door. And sadly we weren't the only ones in Denver who thought they were in compliance.
This is a good point. I was in the same position as you as a kid. I was interested in computers, but I didn't know anyone that could teach me much about them. I assumed in college they would teach you all the secrets, I had no idea that all the tools I needed were available online. With this IDE, the barrier is super low, if Mozilla decided to market it that way.
This reminds me of a Kickstarter campaign I saw a few months ago. The campaign's goal was to build low-cost bouncing balls that cleared mine fields. You could roll the ball into a dangerous, abandoned area and it would cause dormant mines to explode.

The problem with that campaign is that it instilled a false sense of confidence. The technology was "an in-between": certainly better than nothing, but not as effective or safe as traditional mine-clearing methods.

Cruise is in a similar position. They have a chance to improve people's lives and prevent serious injuries. At the same time, they're toeing a delicate line between improving drivers' safety and causing them to become complacent.
Well, there might actually be value in knowing the content for e.g. searching, analysis, compression, deduplication, and advertising purposes. I'm not terribly in favor of exploiting these uses, but there certainly are conceivable reasons for the online service to examine the content of the stored files.
The biggest benefit of the technology/data is the motivation it provides to continue being active. If that doesn't motivate you, then there is no value... unless you share the data with a physician who finds value in it, which seems increasingly likely, but not yet common.
Agreed ... my own parents were pretty dumb until I moved out of the house, got a job, rented a house and had to completely support myself. Getting married and having kids added more responsibility (and made my parents seem even smarter).
They are proving value by solving a market inneficiency (a good, parking spaces, being available at sub-market rates, free). As such, they have a right to some of the profits.

By increasing the cost of parking spaces, they improve the efficiency of allocation by making sure they go to people who value them at $20 before people who value them at 0.003$

Or, more likely, they live outside of US juristiction, so they have plenty of time to make a profit, and when the law does catch up to them, they are likely not looking at anything worse then needing to shut down the service.
"What I'm saying is that you do and will for a long time need a degree of technical expertise to develop webpages."

This is simply wrong. I was writing web pages with very little technical ability starting way back in 1996 because view source was built in and not an add-on and that made it easy to learn without any technical expertise. Today the web platform is richer and so it makes good sense for the view source of today to also be richer.
The means of blocking is the car that they have sitting in the spot, which presumably they won't move until the payee shows up. Its also not paying for prior knowledge but payment for vacating, as the Monkey Parking website clearly states: "Get notified about drivers willing to pay you for leaving your parking spot"
http://www.lightningmaps.org/extra/coverage?lang=en

As mentioned by mnw, coverage is actually pretty sparse in North America (at least relative to Europe, presumably because it's a German project?). The continent simply has environments that are ideal for severe thunderstorms. I imagine the other continents are grossly underrepresented.
I didn't look for anything else after I started using iSSH. Perfect for me. https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/issh-ssh-vnc-console/id28776...
Just a note: I too have noticed that my trackpad (on my HP envy laptop) will sometimes lose 2-finger scrolling or any multitouch support, usually it's just in chrome but sometimes it'll be for eveything. I have a touchscreen as well so it's not as big a deal but often the only way I've found to fix the problem is to restart the machine.

I'm assuming its a driver problem possibly with symantic. I'm dreading calling HP support about it because the first 4 or five layers seem to be ignorant knowledge-base-only-readers. (They really are only about as effective as google. They'll recognize a keyword and use that as the basis for their response. No matter how insignificant that one word is.)
Its 158 total since 2000 or so. Most of those deaths were children. That was before weight sensors were put in to disable the passenger side airbag and before parents were encourage to always put children in the back seat.

>automobile manufacturers just consider a certain amount of money paid out in liability a cost of doing business.

Actually for airbags its federal law and I believe liability issues there are handled by the federal government. I believe the government pre-empts "common law" liability here and can more or less wash its hands of it.

There's this great scene in Silicon Valley where one the characters gulps nervously before entering a self-driving car. I think there's going to be an element of fear here that's undeniable. I can't imagine riding in one at expressway speeds. Frankly, I think considering all the issues like weather, accidents, etc the self-driving car might be our generation's jetpack. Sure, sounds great on paper, but in reality its horrifying.
PEG is not a formal grammar? PEG being not a subset of context-free grammars? That's all new things to me.

And you actually have seen PEG parsers for Markdown? Like this one: https://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/, with grammar written explicitly and lexer/parser generated?
Started getting tons of emails from end users. Went to investigate and was greeted with this:

!
! Heroku has temporarily disabled this feature, please try again shortly.
! See http://status.heroku.com for current Heroku platform status.

Hopefully they will be backup up soon. Also wonder if we will get any sort of reimbursement? I currently spend around $3k/month with Heroku.
I think the assumption that AI would have a natural motive to conquer things, or even to expand beyond the confines of its current resources, is flawed.

The absurdity of simultaneously fathoming the eventual death of the universe and also caring about accomplishing things and making decisions and living the particulars of one's life is uniquely human. We all know we're going to die, but we still spend lots of effort deciding about pizza toppings. (See Thomas Nagel's The Absurd).

Why would an AI care to do anything we didn't tell it to care about? There's no inherent link between being sentient and having the same psychological priorities as humans. We're irrational, and I don't think they will be.
> so what's the problem?

According to the article it's plain illegal.That's the problem.
SeaFile has a .ignore file with pretty much the same syntax as a .gitignore. And it can also operate on multiple independent directories, has client-side encryption, it's open source and you can host it yourself. So you could actually still use dropbox as backend for the storage, and run both client and server on your machine if you wish. Link: http://seafile.com/en/home/
Looking only at one World Cup, you are looking at something that can be hugely influenced by chance, yes. But if you look at the history of World Cups, patterns emerge and it's very clear which countries are better. So think of the World Cup as one round of an extended competition.
Hi folks, this is Matt from 303 Software, the dev shop in the article. Happy to answer your questions here.
Why don't you encrypt those pictures before getting them out of your control on the "cloud"? I would extend this suggestion to every other file but those in particular kind of scary me to be available somewhere else without encryption.
The case for an absent-minded Internet
Even in unchecked mode, these will throw exceptions. The difference between unchecked and checked mode has to do with how static type annotations are processed. How unknown methods are handled is purely a facet of the dynamic dispatch semantics.
SF already has the nation's most advanced parking space pricing system, called SFPark. However, that is a low bar. The prices change very slowly and some neighborhoods still have not found their equilibrium price (for example, a busy stretch of Valencia has had its price increased in every adjustment round and is now up to $6/hr. Nobody knows the equilibrium price for that area.)

There's also the problem that SFPark isn't very widespread because "local merchants" who are a kind of caveman often oppose it.
Indeed. Whether our mental 'modes' actually involve different sides of the brain doesn't seem relevant to the point that the articles is trying to make.

Now whether we actually 'switch modes' or not would be relevant. I notice a difference. In fact, sometimes I get the feeling that I have more than just two 'modes'. For example:

- bean-counting/organizing
- writing/verbal
- coding/logic
- research/reading

I sometimes have a day where I can be fully productive, but I simply cannot be motived to perform in some of the above modes...

I wonder if there's solid science on this and if these really are different modes.
The problem is bigger than a market inefficiency.

San Francisco has been pushing a hard line anti-car agenda, while making no noticeable improvements to transit. MUNI is a disaster being held hostage by unions. Bending to environmentalists to not address legitimate need for parking. Inefficient responses to groups like Critical Mass that breed resentment against bikes. Refusal to address the vagrant problems resulting in crap covered sidewalks. etc.
I can't even get in to New Relic.
Aside, but can we drop the scare quotes? If something frightens you, just say it. Or choose a better word.
What we need is a crowd-sourcing-tower triangulation mapping app. It will continually poll the RSSI for the tower, and the tower details from your phone and map the location of each tower - and provide info to help identify what the tower type is or who it belongs to.

If there were a way to differentiate between a Stingray tower and then let mobile devices blacklist connecting to them...
Rapper wants to be a "venture capitalist like Ben Horowitz" in crazy music video
I feel the same way ... but I'd like to add that the main reason I hate bars is that they're too loud to have an intelligent conversation (except when they're almost empty). I have problems filtering background noise so it's even tougher for me - to the point where I commonly read lips.
It's sad to read stories like this. But I have to wonder... if the concept is profitable what keeps it from being executed without 2 million dollars in investor money? So maybe you stay smaller... who cares? For you, it is about what you are making, not how big the company is. How much does it really cost to set up a database driven website? Hmmm?

Now, I realize this doesn't apply if the end game is a high dollar exit, but if you can make a decent living with your application/web site ("startup" and "founder" are overused terms in my opinion) who cares?

If you can't make a profit long term, then maybe you your idea doesn't deserve to live. Simply passing the bomb on to the next set of suckers be they the public at IPO's, or acquires, or VC investors hardly seems like the right thing to do (although no doubt it is done all the time... sometimes with incredible profits).

There is life outside the VC world. If it's a good idea and profitable and you love it....stick with it. If you are looking for a billion dollar exit... that's another thing entirely and it's time to move on to the next idea.
I recommend you read http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf

Personally, I think we’d all be better off if American cities were friendlier to pedestrians, cyclists, and buses, and stopped catering so heavily to automobiles. Devoting huge amounts of space to free/cheap street parking is incredibly expensive and inefficient, compared to just about any other use.
What on Earth is the point of all this? Yes, there is a random element to soccer. No, the outcome is not purely random. The fact that there is a random component to the outcome does NOT mean that "the attention devoted to the World Cup is founded on flimsy numerology and might even be called a tremendous waste of time and money." And to the opening question, "is soccer anything more than Poisson noise?" Of COURSE it is.
This is a promising start. I've felt for a while now that we need some strong alternatives to Rails for the folks who feel like the Rails Way and the Ruby Way don't always get along.

It still feels a bit DSL-centric from the examples I've seen thus far, and haven't dug into things to see what the generated Ruby looks like -- but if it's anything close to simple, this is something that has a chance to become an important part of the Ruby ecosystem.

If nothing else, it's great to see things like this because they provide concrete example code for discussions that (IMHO) need to happen.
How does one possibly defend this?

Well, it typically comes across like this (if you notice depends on if you like the company):

Their disruptive innovation is just scaring the shit out of those dinosaurs down at City Hall. Local government are stupid for protecting citizenry financially and/or setting minimum standards for a service. It doesn't matter if the service model is the kind of things that the law is meant to protect or genuinely a case not considered when drafting the law. All valley business models are golden, market success makes them beyond reproach!
Everything runs on quantum mechanics, which is a lot of weighted random number generators. So yeah.
The new "fast introduction for programmers" is also a good place to start:

http://www.wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-progra...
Bad luck. Though, where are all the expenses? Seems to just be an iPhone app with not much schelps, could your technical partner manage it part time?
I think the assertion is that "who won the game" is not, strictly speaking, the same as "who is the better team."

That is, it could be akin to saying that "this particular coin shows heads today" because that is what the last flip did. Definitely true, but does not tell you anything about the nature of the coin.
Because the company is operating in the US city, of course. Would it be OK to sit in San Francisco and remotely run a service that was illegal in Rome? Of course not, Italian prosecutors would issue demands and then seek a court ruling that they would then ask US courts to enforce. This is the sort of thing that international treaties are for.

EDI for clarity, of course there are no treaties about parking spaces. But treaties usually include general provisions about courts recognizing each others' judgments in criminal and civil matters, not least to prevent cross-border financial fraud, tax evasion and so on. It's not foolproof because not all territories have treaties, eg someone based in Somalia could run an illegal internet business with relative impunity because the US has no treaties with Somalia (as far as I know). On the other hand, countries that have no criminal or commercial treaty relations with other countries tend to be hellholes.
Already submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932778
I thought this was going to be some sort of one-time monthly fee for an actual human driver.
The stats could be really interesting, but the whole opening salvo against sports fandom turned me off to much to continue reading. I don't know if the author believes the ridiculous stereotype that all geeks hate sports and therefore it's okay to make ridiculous unsubstantiated leaps of logic like "attention devoted to the World Cup is founded on flimsy numerology", but it certainly is not a smart thing to say for someone who prides themselves on their logic and critical thinking ability.

The randomness of a football match is no different from the randomness of every day life. People like sports because they identify with the players and their human capabilities. Every moment on the pitch there are 22 people taking action. A football match is not a sequence of random events, but rather the continual human response to a changing situation that each one can affect only in a limited way. When amazing "low-probability" events occur, it's often because of tremendous human skill that anyone who's ever tried to kick a ball can appreciate. If it was robots playing no one would care. The fact that there are upsets and freak occurrences is just another part of what keeps it interesting; absolute pinpointing of the objective "best" team is irrelevant.
That's a trend indeed (and personally I like it pretty much).

But lotus has a view component that allows you to do stuff """just like rails""" (many quotes intended). That's the beauty of it: it's modular and not opinionated, so you can pick an mix the tools you want to compose in order to suffice your needs.
I understand all of this, and yes, plainly in the case of ESP cheating seems much more likely than genuine ESP. My point is that there's nothing in the overall process to prevent this sort of subversion:

* do an experiment;

* get result that doesn't comport with your beliefs;

* retroactively decide "aha, a hypothesis I hadn't considered!" and assign it a greater prior, thereby making it the thing for which you are actually generating evidence.

What I am trying to argue is that this last step is uncontrolled and highly gameable since there's no limit to the amount of possible hypotheses you could dream up (and thus you could keep fishing until you find one you like.) I don't feel that all of the maxent stuff later in the book does much to help you choose priors for this sort of thing.
If you're like that, then you probably shouldn't be using Angular. That thing is a mess.
Is anyone else having trouble getting this site to load?
When I login I get either a blank screen or an error page.
If you would have bought stock 11 days ago you would have made a hefty 24.75% ROI. Too bad that doesn't happen every 11 days so we could all be like Warren Buffet.
Thanks for that explanation, makes sense now. I really don't want to upset anyone and would like Scholar Ninja to be perceived as an additional value to all involved parties. For publishers specifically, it surely must be in their interest that people are able to find their papers. I'm hoping that because Scholar Ninja is also framed as an open-source, non-profit initiative, I'll upset people even less.

Fingers crossed.