skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit unsure exactly what it is you are describing. Pretty much all the crossings I use regularly in London follows an at least very similar pattern to what I'm used to seeing in the US when visiting, with traffic parallel to the crossing getting green at the same time as the pedestrian crossing in question

In fact, here's a discussion in the UK Parliament in 2004 where it was proposed to restrict the use of all-red phases in low traffic junctions, and where the person proposing the change saw it as necessary to describe why this was even an issue:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmstand/a/...

"Mr. Redwood: Until a few years ago, no one would have understood why new clause 5 would be necessary. All traffic lights that motorists or cyclists encountered on our highways had a simple form of operation which meant that there was always one free route across the junction showing green. In the normal four-way junction where two roads intersected, one road had priority for one phase and the other road had the alternate priority. There could be more complicated variations at larger junctions, but there was always a green phase for vehicles on one part of the junction"

[The proposed clause 5: 'No authority shall be entitled to install or operate traffic signals with all red phases at road junctions where there is no hazard other than traffic.']

You may be right that no vehicles will have green light to cross the pedestrian crossing while pedestrians have a green light, though I'm not 100% sure that's true either - I seem to remember crossings in London at least where turning traffic will have green at the same time as pedestrians, but I don't drive so maybe that's just me as an impatient pedestrian misremembering, as I'll regularly cross on red.
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> In all, I think the Lua's require is a much cleaner way to implement modules.

The idea behind ES6 modules is to add static name resolution to JavaScript. Because of the incredibly dynamic nature of JS, you can never know what any global name resolves to, as it could change at a moment's notice. The same is true in Lua's module system: `_G` is completely mutable and it (or its metatable!) can change at any time, altering the bindings in the program.

I personally feel that, given how JavaScript is getting used in larger and larger codebases, some measure of static checking was long overdue.
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Hi Balsam, the program would start mid september going on for 6-12 months with some flexibility on timing. For grad students, we partner with a number of universities to work with capstone / final project programs. Reach out to us at fellowships@bayesimpact.org.
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People say that, but then the truth is:

https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/478087637031325697

* * *

Seriously, it's an interesting exercise of thought. Things are saved 'forever' once posted online, simply due to the probability of an individual/system making a copy being high enough vs. the number of viewers. But then, although all this information is archived, the vast amount of data it sinks with renders it just as anonymous as something that wouldn't have been posted in the first place.

In some perspective, information posted online is there 'forever', where 'forever' means 'until it gets effectively submerged in a sea of similarly meaningless documents, lost in a maze of 404s'.
Which is a half truth at best, the list of sponsors includes far more than the US government, including non-govt bodies, and 4300 individuals:

https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en
TDD, where did ‘I’ go wrong
I wasn't going to mention it, but since you asked, my answer when somebody asks this for AR on the publicly available plans is: "I have been in business since 2006. AR has been my main product focus since 2010. I don't have any current plans of exiting the business any time soon. At the same time, I'm a one-man operation. If you were to say you feel less sure that I'm going to be around than $COMPETITOR, I'd say you're probably right. I'd also say that you can always get me to answer your email and their CEO wouldn't even know much less care that you exist. Your call." ($COMPETITOR is a well-known company in the space with eight figures in revenue whose minimum buy-in is close to the maximum I've ever charged a client.)

If you were on one of the non-publicly-available plans, you'd get language similar to "Vendor agrees to provide services as per the attached Statement of Work for the Contract Term as specified in the attached Statement of Work." That means exactly what it and related contractual terms say. It isn't like continuity of service is something that e.g. hospital systems suddenly realized they needed in 2004. They quite literally have similar contractual guarantees written in their contract for garbage disposal.
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In regards to having difficulty sleeping (I assume for you this is what you experience at night):

I asked my doctor about how I can stop feeling tired all the time, and I had some problems falling asleep. He said that one of the biggest things about sleeping well is always waking around the same time. Basically, don't sleep in on weekends.

For a month or so I set an alarm every day, even on weekends (something like 7:30 on weekdays and 9:00 on weekends). After a while I would wake a bit before the alarm, and even on weekends I would wake normally around 8. It's been about 6 months since I reached this point and I do not need an alarm anymore, because I always wake up around the right time.

I do have a hard time staying up until 4 AM like I used to, but I feel well rested when I wake up (even if , due to going out, I stayed up exceptionally late), and I always wake up around the same time. I'm also now able to sleep on command, both at night, and in the middle of the afternoon I sometimes nap outside for 15 minutes or so.

your results may vary, but I've gotten a lot more control over my sleeping habits thanks to always waking up around the same time.
youre equating myredbook to prostitution in general. its hard question, since its the oldest profession. there will always be bad pimps, debts whatever. that is why in my opinion myredbook was so popular, because it acts as a great medigator suchas airbnb, uber etc.

the culture in myredbook is to treat them well and be alerted with foul plays at all times. myredbook is innovative in that sense, because it made a lot of people's lives both clients and provider easier and safer conducting business

users know whats best to protect themselves. youre naive to think if users can go for foul plays and manipulate these presumably exploited sex workers thru websites like redbook. users know there are pigs whos watching all the time ...
Hi kfor, the fellowship program sounds really interesting. Do you mind chatting with our team and telling us about your experience?
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I've heard a lot of negative things about Amazon as an employer (mainly from current or ex-Amazon people), which is depressing because they're an awesome vendor and I want them to continue to be able to get great people and thus produce awesome stuff. (I've also heard "but X group is awesome and not like that" too, though.)

This really doesn't help things on that front.
That's pretty direct, I like it. I try to ask "what is the worst thing about X right now?" where X is the project/product/thing being worked on.

Caginess and dodginess in this answer is a flag. Of course, different interviewers will be more or less forthcoming and straight with you, but if the entire slate of interviewers hem and haw around the question, I take it as a bad sign.

An organization where people are afraid to be frank and call a spade a spade is hiding a lot of systemic problems.
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The best way to stop this is not taking jobs that require a non-compete agreement. By signing offers with non-competes, you're literally acknowledging this is acceptable.
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I assumed it was removed for slander, as there was no basis behind the accusations. Thanks for clearing that up!
I don't remember the source, but I read an article a couple of years ago that linked that statistic of plummeting death rates in Norway during WW2 to high consumption of cod liver oil, which apparently was readily available. Take that as you will.
You should give rio window manager from the plan9port a shot. There is no cascading, window borders, background etc.
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Come now, it must be a coincidence! Either way:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:w3g4Msy...
The data from the last 8 quarters or so shows that Apple's app store revenue lead over Google is shrinking rapidly. Given Google's rapid gains in both marketshare and app store revenues, it isn't crazy to think that Apple could be the underdog before too long.
I agree Tor isn't as slow as many think. It's just slightly slower. My biggest problem with Tor, though, is having to enable Javascript even for common tasks, like logging in to Reddit, which hopefully they aren't doing on purpose, considering Reddit is known for a site where you can use pseudonyms as much as you want.
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I'm surprised they excluded nuts, and avacados? I guess
they wanted a diet of zero fats? When I was younger I had
and extreme fear of my clogging up my arteries. I ate a
normal diet, but no processed food, and no sugar.(I was so
young I didn't know about fructose, etc.). I just really
vigilant about sugar. I got my cholesterol down to 120.
Yes, it's antidotal, but my doctor was surprised. I wish
I wish I stayed on that diet! One other antidotal story.
My best friend smoked three packs of cigarettes a day(12 to 70 years) and
at least a pot of coffee. Everyone told him his arteries
are probably partially occluded. Well he went in for extensive
tests, and he had no plaque build up. We were all surprised.
I think what saved him is he only ate one meal a day? He
died at 71 because of COPD, but he was functional up to 70.
I pass this along to the Smokers who can't stop. Everyday,
people told him he would get cancer, or heart disease--he got neither. I'm not condoning smoking, but in think calorie restriction might save your life if you just won't/can't quit? When he finally quit at 70, he said I was
much easier than he thought, and comparing it to quitting
Heroin was ridiculous. And I know--it's antidotal, and his
experience does not come close to a double blind study.
Null boogeyman? It's inventor doesn't seem to think so:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billi...
There are 2 things which influence CAD: omega 6 intake and stress.

Arterial plaque is formed not as a result of a high fat diet (even animal fat) but as a result of inflammation which kickstarts the plaque building process.

The myth that high cholesterol or high fat is the culprit of CAD is difficult to kill, even when study after study shows no correlation whatsoever between them and CAD.

The correlation though does exist between high stress combined with poor diet: high omega 6, processed foods, high sugar, high starch/carb intake coupled with stress which is the precursor to inflammation.

Inflammation is in fact the #1 cause of disease in humans. But like cancer, it is a slipper sonofabitch to nail down.
Wait till they use that photography on a white background patent.
Where are you travelling from?
I agree that in the USA "there may not be much room for micro-financeable cottage industries".

The closest we have around here is "very small business owners". I see landscaping, housekeeping, small restaurants (e.g. yogurt shops), food carts, etc. They all involve a lot of hard work for relatively low pay!

It's possible to start a landscaping business with a microloan. But most other small businesses require more capital than that. Even a food cart requires thousands of dollars in equipment.
I think I'm comfortable with that. Then you push the "that we care about" question down to considering correctness and optimization of implementations.
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I could make a Linux build, but I'm not willing to test it or support it right now. Want to test it? I mean just a minimal smoke-test to see if it runs.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss something as obvious just because it is obvious to you.
All kinds of memory safety issues. Heap use-after-free is very common. You can go to Bugzilla and search for sec-critical to get a list of the ones Mozilla has disclosed.
Sure, but long term strategy at a 6 month old company is a year out. 2 years at best. 5 years is multiple lifetimes for most startups.
> The best way to stop this is not taking jobs that require a non-compete agreement

Easy to say, and then one day you get an offer for a job you really, really like.

> By signing offers with non-competes, you're literally acknowledging this is acceptable.

Not at all. Very few (if any) of these terms are legally binding. The only way to actually find out is to have them challenged in court.

If anything, the only way to stop this is for people to keep accepting jobs tied to non compete agreements so that we can finally see how legally viable they are. Seems like we are about to find out.
Mea culpa. That was the original title I submitted. When no one had responded for a good while, I inserted the "99.4% effective" part. I should have at least wrapped it [in brackets]. I hadn't intended to drop the question mark.
Why have the "Apply" button link to the expired "Apply to Y Combinator" page? Maybe show it only during the application period, or have the applications submitted after the deadline go to the next funding cycle?
It wasn't ridiculous, we found a processor that was happy to work with us but we just decided to go ahead and work on some other stuff. Washboard was a ton of fun, no regrets at all!
It was at least leaked 1 year ago by Techcrunch[1,2]. The search string is: "If you are a YC founder, your username will show up in orange to other YC"[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730720

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-new...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=If+you+are+a+YC+founder%2C+your+us...
Say what you will about the US government, but you could do worse as far as sinister sponsorship.
For sure it can be a downside as well. Of course, napping in situations where it might be a downside probably wouldn't be wise in the first place (... and maybe they could build in a proximity sensor?)
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Maybe I'll pick one up and try that. It still seems like a way to greatly reduce the market. Isn't the whole point of Cardboard to be a kind of cheap VR? I can't imagine the target market going out to buy a controller.
Eh, I have two rebuttals against that:

- Is your job worth caring about? Let's be honest, not everyone is working on putting people on Mars or pushing the boundaries of machine learning, etc. A lot of programming jobs are just spitting out code for a paycheck.

When I was a tad younger, with less experience under my belt, and fewer choices in employers, I interviewed at many a job where I was expected to act like I'm deeply enthusiastic about jobs of little import to anyone and technically amounted to not much more than flailing my arms at a keyboard for 8 hours a day. That expectation is ridiculous.

The mudane, boring jobs need to be done. Hire people who are capable and willing.

This is a job, not a church.

- One thing I've experienced are the grueling full-day interview process that certain companies are a fan of (one such company rhymes with Blamazon). Literally 7-8 hours straight of interviewing, even your lunch hour is yet another interview. I don't think I've ever had intelligent questions by the end of those. The questions I did have were answered by interviewers before you, and at this point I've been thinking about manhole cover sizes, jelly bean estimations, families crossing bridges, and regurgitating CLRS algorithms solutions for so long I can't possibly come up with anything more.

Full-day cycles are grueling, and to expect candidates to be chipper and operating at 100% (or even 80%) is unrealistic.
Ouf, no thanks. I have a key per location. I have a single key for the machines I log in to at work. Another key for AWS. Another key for github. I also have separate keys for all of the above services for my semi-persistent local virtual machines.
I don't think the effectiveness of a whole foods plant based diet is really in question here. There are enough robust studies showing that it prevents and reverses CAD (look for Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Collin Campbell).

Knowing that CAD is the number one killer in several countries, I am all for studies like this being published, even with the lack of formal control group, after all, the numbers are pointing in one direction. If I had heart disease, I would have liked to know about this data.
I've been browsing the internet for 15 years with 3rd-party cookies disabled.

I never had ANY problems with any website - no idea if there would have been more functionality with 3rd-party cookies enabled. But then again, how can functionality depend on THIRD parties?

Also activated the setting for my girlfriend years ago, no complaints so far.

This feature should really be the default for any browser and any user. Too bad Android Chrome doesn't have such a setting. Too bad for Google I'll use something else instead.
Maybe Google can win back some karma they lost for participating in the "No Poaching" deal with Apple et al by defending this guy.
Trivia: This code is older than many of the readers.

https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blame/7057506456ba18f080679b2...
There's an off-by-one error in this thread's title. ;)
Didn't Bill Clinton switch to a vegan diet to "manage" his heart disease? Think I saw it discussed on CNN. Here's a NYT article that I found on it:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/bill-clintons-vegan...
Look up Sony Dash, it was Sony's version of the Chumby. Got it for free with a notebook purchase and it's still running beside my bed however I stopped using most apps long ago. Loved the concept but the execution left a lot to be desired. CPU could never make the flash based apps feel snappy. Still makes a sweet alarm clock though.

One app would load content from any url you specified. Tied it to a script that summarized the status of our servers so I could monitor it anytime.
Why not break it up into variables or functions so that the logic can be followed while reducing the likelihood that a bug creeps in? What is the excuse for horrible code like this?
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It's a reference to TrueCrypt being shut down, they are pushing BitLocker. The reason you in theory shouldn't trust closed source encryption solutions is because you have no idea if they have a way to decrypt your data internally. If such a thing were leaked or discovered in the black hat community, your data is now compromised (in theory).
Ah, that makes total sense. I was thinking about it from the perspective of the tax the entity pays, and didn't realize "donations" to this type of entity were tax deductible. That would indeed be ripe for abuse.
This code is one month younger than me.
Agreed, but I'd put Heather McKay up there with The Don.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_McKay

> When she retired in 1981 at the age of 40, McKay had gone nearly 20 years undefeated (with the only two defeats to her name occurring at the beginning of her career).

Interestingly, both come from Australia.
How did the feds locate freedom hosting?

How did the feds take down silk road?

The "tor stinks" slide was over a year old when these events occurred. A lot can change in a year.
This is not by design. You may still have a non-zero commandedSpeed. There's an internal commandedSpeed variable that should get set to 0 on a crash stop, but that's a bit of a hack.

Try reversing (pressing brake or down-arrow or S) out of the wall, instead of turning.
> Low vote counts on the new page don't prove nobody goes there.

True, which is why I did that experiment. The odds of getting the results I did by accident are one in 64, which counts as a statistically significant result.
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Willing to relocate: Yes

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I specialized heavily in the best tools I could find (Haskell/C/Unix/git), but I'm having a hard time finding a place for those skills in the industry.