skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Running a stop on a bicycle is perfectly safe when there is nobody around. You can be sure that nobody is around because, first of all you're not in a cabin, and nothing blocks your vision: you have a 360 view of the situation, and you can hear well also. A driver's vision is blocked by window posts, the rear-view mirror, and additional things like object hanging from the mirror and passenger's heads. These objects can occlude an entire pedestrian or three. Secondly, on a bicycle, you will rarely go faster than 30 km/h. If you sustain 30 km/h on flat pavement in the absence of wind, you're pretty fit and going at it quite hard. The higher speeds are achieved when going down hill or in a tailwind. 30 km/h is in the ballpark of what cars slow down to when running stops. Drivers don't even consider that running because they believe they really slowed down and looked very well; it's called "rolling" through a stop, or making a "taxi stop".

If you still runs stops at full speed on your bicycle when going downhill at 50-60 or more, or barging into intersections where visibility is poor, then you're crazy.

Obeying traffic rules to the letter is not a substitute for knowing the limitations of the machine, accounting for weather conditions, being "radar aware" of everything that is going on as far as your eye can see, and predicting the possible thing that drivers are going to do several moves into the future. Oh, and being properly clothed and lit for visibility at night! If you're doing all that, then reward yourself by rolling through a few stop signs.

Being vigilant for drivers swinging their doors open into traffic will pay off a lot more than coming to a full stop at stop signs. Cyclists are often killed in "dooring" accidents.
Yeah definitely!

iOS: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox-ios

JS/Angular: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox.js

Full API docs: https://www.inboxapp.com/docs
Data Leads to Depravity
> Speeding is responsible for ~30% of all road fatalities

That's not true. First, "speeding related" is not synonymous with "caused by speeding". Second, the data that relates to "speeding related" crashes has a significant overlap with "alcohol related crashes". If you exclude the "alcohol related" crashes from the total, you'll find that percentage drops quite a bit.
Hi there, Christine from Inbox here.

Inbox integrates with your existing email accounts---we connect to the provider via IMAP, and provide a nice REST API on top of that. We don't support POP right now, but there's no reason we couldn't if there is demand.
Drivers are routinely vilified in bulk in mostly any major American city. For most residents of a large city, it has almost become a pastime to remark on how bad all the drivers are and how their city just must have the worst drivers out of all cities.
google can easily help spread https more by offering:

* free ssl cerf.
* free/low cost https proxy / caching proxy for small websites.
I don't think 'oops sorry' is demanded. You're allowed to disagree. That's there so people don't think that being corrected means that they're terrible racist sexist homophobes that don't belong in society, it just means that they made a human error and can apologize and move on. If you really don't feel you did anything wrong, that's fine. That being said, I don't know how many times people have told me (not at Hacker School) that it was fine that they said, "That's gay" about something because they 'didn't mean it that way.' Yeah, well, you don't get to tell me what offends me, especially if you're a person that's not a member of the group at hand. I tend to think women, for example, have a better idea of what a sexist remark is than I do and, if not, at least bring a perspective to the table that's different than mine and worth listening to.
Location: Belo Horizonte / Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C#/Javascript/SQL

Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvn3jguk3r1m33j/ACAZ_EN.pdf

Email: acazsouza@gmail.com
If you're using the USS Enterprise as one of your key visuals, you're probably taking yourself too seriously.
"Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-...
...Or in crosswalks when pedestrians are there. So bikes must respect stop signs and signals, period.
This is exactly why we built the Inbox API.
Code Complete 2nd edition

Super hands-on book. Since reading it, I'm writing better programs faster.
Yeah, and you can't have that discussion without understanding why it works for HS.

By ignoring this context, the parent comment, and your comment here, debate a position that was never posited at all. In some sense you are debating yourselves.
Vagrant with Docker: How to set up Postgres, Elasticsearch and Redis on Mac OS X
especially for mobile app websites.
Ask HN: Invitation to YC Hacks?
The YC Posthaven blog post about YC Hacks says invitations will be sent by July 7. I was just wondering if anyone here obtained an invitation already, or if YC will send the invitations all at once before the end of today.
I've personally been training for a while to do the planche.

For those who are starting with their fitness goals or want to get back in shape, I always recommend http://nerdfitness.com, great program with simple progressions.
Tree Style Tab and Snaplinks are the main reasons I switched to Firefox from Chrome.
Do you know what OpenStreetMap has done to avoid the toxic editing community? Wikipedia also has a problem with a toxic community; are they doing something different?
The article seems to be saying "I can't see anything you've written but I'm going to review it anyway: no matter what you've done, I don't like it."

Maybe it's just the way the article is organized, or maybe I gave up reading the "I don't like this" examples before I got to one that said "This is good".
http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-hacks-august-2-3-2014
an XSD?
Yes, any good language can be obfuscated by converting to JS.
Walter is answering questions on this article over on proggit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a20h5/wired_ma...

> What goals did you aim to achieve with D?
>
> I wanted to create a language that was both fast and easy
> to use.
I find the angry tone of this message to be misplaced and unnecessary.
Yep, totally, email is probably as good as it will ever get. Pack up the bus guys, let's go home.
"I really am at a loss to think of something that email as a standard (and SMTP as a protocol) is lacking that requires a replacement."

Scrap push and go pull, every destination I send to is just a personalized RSS feed I create and you can poll it or not. You want to connect with unknown people, post to a mailing list. Or people can push you a pull request which you're free to ignore.

If you want something a little less ambitious, how about mandatory cryptographic authentication as a 100% requirement, no downgrading and not optional. You wanna be in the new network you will have a real (not self signed) CA issued key and you will have a keyserver with all your users valid keys in them or we aren't accepting any mail from you or your supposed users. This isn't so much new tech with new code as issuing whips and chains to the sysadmins to enforce common sense.

Want something even simpler, I assume the only reason gmail doesn't do locale / charset filtering is a patent, but if not, it seems blindingly obvious that if I don't read Korean you could filter out anything containing more than 10% Korean glyphs or entire words. This is so obvious, the reason gmail doesn't provide it today must be a patent.

It would be funny if "inbox" means literal inbox as in a remake of that "scan and email" postal mail provider but they get around postal regulations by living in a civilized .gov or by not handling mail (they eat interoffice paper spam, which is admittedly a dying product, I haven't gotten a genuine paper memo in many years) Perhaps if you recall the anecdote from snow crash where the fedgov employee had her email reading habits tracked in detail, they could sell this to HR for sending HR-spam.
College Educations of US Presidents... 20% Never Went to College
Curious about this as well.

Clickable link: http://context.io/
Well,

AS C++ competitor, it seems logical that D would require more time to mature than a scripting language and even now-successful languages like Python have taken a long period before they gained traction and then popularity.

And Facebook is using it, that seems to imply some reasonable momentum.
Nice result! You can’t run a formal experiment were you post the same new at regular intervals to measure the importance of the submission time. But you can wait until many people submit a rehash of the same TSA statement!

I think it’s important in this case to concentrate the discussion in only one place, but I don’t know how to solve it.

Also, I think you missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7995512 (52 points, 22 hours ago, 83 comments)
It is?

I've routinely used email like an IM system with folks in different companies. GMail will spool email in <30 seconds. Exchange can be near instantaneous.
I don't think the author of this piece disagrees with you, there. In fact:

"I tense up when I see a cyclist approaching a stop sign without slowing all the way down, but I tense up a lot more when a car does the same. And I fantasize about a cop showing up and ticketing them both, so I can make it safely to work today."

I mostly agree, although if there is sufficient visibility and no one around I might relax "period" slightly.
hey there, Christine from Inbox here.

You can think of Inbox as a cross-provider superset of ContextIO. Also, since Inbox has its own datastore, it's a lot faster and more flexible than just proxying REST queries back to an IMAP server.
SAFE and convertible notes rarely works outside the US.
I think it would. All this is doing is shifting data from an optimised UI to an unoptimised UI. Performing a search on Twitter and selecting all tweets, and every now and then hitting the load new tweets button is free and easy, compared with sifting through emails, and $19 a month.
Im a bit amazing that the name "Inbox" was available for a product involving email.
I worry that the Washington Post has unintentionally created a honeypot for leakers. I wonder if the Post has the resources to sufficiently secure it:

The requirement for security is to make successful attacks more expensive than they are worth for the attackers. (There is no perfect security, of course.)

How much is information leaked to the WP worth? It's information that can change the course of history; it could make war or peace; it could be worth billions or even trillions of dollars; it could simply change the course of the stock market or of one stock and be worth billions to an individual.

If I ran a state intelligence service, with the fate of my nation and all my citizens in my hands, I would be irresponsible not to invest in monitoring the Washington Post (and the NY Times, and others') "secure" tip line. If I ran an unscrupulous business, it would be worth it, if only for the information relevant to the stock market.
EDIT: Also, the information can change the course of elections and be a target of unscrupulous politicians.

I find it hard to believe that the Washington Post or any news organization has the resources to protect assets that valuable.
You shouldn't have beliefs that strong about someone else's thought process as gathered through a single weakly-related sentence.
I'm also from the UK, and although I'm part of the "we" who normally use the term CV, due to the incredible pervasiveness of USA culture, I (and probably most of the people I know) am perfectly aware of what a résumé is. I just never expected to see it spelled "resume".

I mean, résumé and resume have the same French root, but in English - even American English as far as I can tell - they're totally different words! Even the pronounciation is completely different. So why would someone spell résumé as resume, especially in the name/title of a project about them?

How is that going to do anything except cause confusion?
Not really. If someone claims that their service will not be discontinued, unless they can offer some sort of agreement then it's worthless.

Not like they can't shutdown their company irrespective of any promises.
Woa cool! Missed that, thanks!
Unrelated to content, it's interesting that I could reduce the scaling to not 90, not 75, not even 67, but a whole 50%, in order to have the font sizes be of comfortable normal size rather than extremely large. It's a pattern I'm noticing more and more, and it makes me worry.
I do. At most intersections, a driver of normal capability should be capable of determining whether there are any other cars at the intersection without completely stopping for multiple seconds. And in reality, most drivers in my area do roll stops and it does not cause an appreciable number of accidents.
Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in action. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
> If I see a cyclist approaching a 4-way stop that I've stopped at in my car, I wait until their intentions are clear.

As a cyclist, this is one of the more annoying things I have to deal with. In the example you mention, I would expect you to proceed before I actually reach the intersection. Now, instead of slowing down and then proceeding through the intersection (after you've gone), I have to come to a stop and wait for you to proceed before I can go.
Downloading Tor from an inofficial source sounds like a recipe for trojans though... I don't think most people will have Erinn's signature to verify.
Those in cars getting angry at cyclists are most often doing it because they believe the cyclist to be slowing them down. There are plenty of valid reasons as well, but by and large, this is the reason when you boil it down. We have an unrealistic expectation of speed on city streets because our highway speed limits are so disproportionately high compared to urban ones, that travelling at the true speed limit is frustrating if one doesn't constantly do it.

Yield to those at greater risk than you, and never assume your travel time is more important than anothers safety, and all other laws/rules enforcement arguments go out the window, in my book.

If there was one thing that would greatly improve cyclist-pedestrian incidents, in my mind, it would be heavily enforcing the stop sign parking distance laws. Too often I see cars (especially delivery vehicles) parked in such a way that a cyclist doesn't even see a pedestrian about to cross or vice versa until the last minute, because the pedestrian side of the crosswalk is obstructed from view by an illegally parked vehicle upon approach. This stops the "Idaho Stop" philosophy from working well here in Chicago.
" and will not be ‘discontinued’ unexpectedly."

'unexpectedly' is the key. Giving people 3-6 months of runway to say "we're shutting down on day X" is still living up to that statement.
I also disagree with the tone but I understand the reason. They will gladly shut the service down once someone offers them enough money in aqui-hire.
Signal.

Which is not to say that I wholly endorse the comment you were responding to, just that there is a good way you can make your intentions clear.
I actually agree, but I think it's a debate worth having.

Clearly, this system works for Hacker School. Kudos.

This system is also being advertised for wider implementation, possibly into communities and companies that all of us are a part of, and any broad social reform deserves a good deal of scrutiny before implementation. A key part of these rules, in particular, is the potential for abuse and the sorts of implications they have on the culture that implements them.
I don't understand why tools like this aren't built into every editor. Syntax highlighting and code folding are great, but those are ~30 year old innovations; adopting the 'blurry text' approach of the OP (where you can't read specific things), consider the general lack of visualization tools for utterly basic things like loops and branches. How come we don't automatically generate function flowcharts, for example? I use a lot of flow-based programming tools for DSP and the more time that goes by the more perverse the text fetish of many programmers appears, like a statistician that hates graphs and insists everything has to be presented in tables.
> Maybe the gap will close but fundamentally you can do anything a JIT does AOT at zero run-time cost but not the other way around.

You can't inline virtual functions, which is the number 1 optimization done by the JVM (as it enables most other advanced optimizations). You can try achieving it with a profile-guided optimizing compiler, but a JIT can adapt its optimizations based on changes in the inputs (which trigger different code paths at different times in the program's lifetime). Also, the JVM inlines virtual calls even for code loaded at runtime.

> The other thing is that if a specific language doesn't allow fine control over memory layouts and data types at the native level...

True. Java 8 already takes steps in that direction with the @Contended annotation (that adds padding to prevent false-sharing), and Java 9 will let you have much more precise control over layout with value types.

On modern multi-processors, performance is also determined by your ability to use scalable (usually lock-free) concurrent data structures, and those are a lot easier to implement and use when you have a good GC.
That is a silly example to the point that it is hard to relate to my original comment.

100metres has a bias towards fast people? What does that mean?

I wager if two males born on the same day on opposite ends of the earth trained 8 hours per day to run the 100 metres eating exactly the same diet and following the same training regime to the same intensity they would post almost identical 100 metres results.

The difference comes from the application of focussed practice. It is the mental intensity through which you train.

Jack Nicklaus famously said he has never just "hit a ball" in his life. Every single stroke of every single session was a genuine attempt to accomplish a defined goal. Every shot analysed. That is why he is arguably the greatest (or second greatest golfer) of all time. 99% of golfers just hit the ball.

Schwarzenegger pioneered the idea that you can literally will your muscles to grow larger by thinking about them tearing and rebuilding. Subsequently proven almost three decades after he was laughed at. [1]

Natural talent is the witch doctor name we give to those who practise harder, longer and better than we do. Syed also subsequently disproves the idea of Kenyan runners as champion long distance athletes. Another cognitive dissonance.

[1] http://docsfitnesstips.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/can-thinking-a... (Ignore the web address, it is the academic study he discusses and links to).
The authors seem to have completely ignored the fact that the atmosphere on Mars is far thinner than on Earth. Comparatively, it's a vacuum. A helicopter that could fly on Mars would have to have huge blades running at very high RPMs. While this NASA article plays up the possibilities: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_Hel... it seems to dismiss aerodynamics by invoking magic "ultra-lightweight hardware components".
Hey Thomas,

I'll start adapting resumebeacon.com to support jsonresume. I created my site as a LinkedIn resume generator, so integrating a JSON formatted feed shouldn't be much trouble. I'll start work on it tonight and post it to "show HN" when it's done.
I think Wired presumes you have not heard of it because they assume the reader is not a programmer.
Work on Five Elements to Motivate Your Readers to Share Your Content
Another multi format resume/CV tool: http://ars.io/
Goldman Sachs Alum Launches YouRoam to End Roaming Fees for Travelers
Besides syncing to a device, inboxapp stores a copy of a person's mail data on the server side?
(Michael from Inbox here.)

Ouch. We're just a few hackers trying to fix broken developer tools.

Any claim is just a claim, for sure. We know that it's a long road to earn trust of other developers. One of the (many) reasons we made the sync engine open source was so that developers could run it on their own metal without trusting us. Transparency is really important to us.

This is just the beta announcement of our API. I'd love to hear any comments you have on what guaranteed level of support+performance you would need for a hosted product. We're working on a hosted version now (so you don't have to run it yourself), and developer happiness is the #1 priority.
Now added - thanks!
I enjoyed "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" back when there we had multiple UNIX operating systems and probably more versions of standards than operating systems. Stevens carefully documented every detail (in a way where you could learn about what was going on; I also had the POSIX standards at the time which were not readable).

The book had some nice typesetting which I believe was done in the mystery language also used for man pages.
Absolutely insightful. Just today I discussed the BTC and other cryptocurrencies usability as remittance medium and felt that it is not globally feasible because of national regulatory risks. You just showed me the magnitude of the problem. For that I thank you.
I think Java is exploring that for version 9, but this can only improve startup times. When you consider the entire lifetime of the program, JIT compilation is negligible, so there's no point in caching the results (other than to improve startup time). Also, the JVM never (AFAIK) "settles" on a specific machine instructions. It will always be on the lookout for optimizations that are better adapted to the current execution profile.
Show HN: Listen to London's live music scene
Not sure I get it.

You mention below that this "focuses on the developer experience", but it's not clear to me what those developers are going to be developing. I really, really hope that it's not aimed at apps which badger users into granting the app access to their email; that's not something that should ever be encouraged.

You say in your reply to novum that "We know we need to work to gain the trust of developers", but developers aren't the vulnerable ones here. Users are.
He's referring to the long-dead dinosaurs, clearly. You know, the ones we pay for by the gallon. Not everyone makes as much as you do either.
I'd also point out that Hacker School's anti-isms rule is probably a lot _less_ strict than most corporate HR policies.
Yup, for sure. And I'm working on it and certainly hope other cyclists work to improve their behavior as well.
But then, isn't having an appropriate speed limit for the type and layout of the road still the issue? What makes it tricky, if we consider the safe speed on straight open 4 lane roads to be 90 and an urban street with frequent crossings to be 30?
That makes sense. If you view Haskell as a research platform, pointing out ugly corners of the type system is entirely appropriate and even helpful for people working on GHC. From the outside, for those of us that would like to see these ideas gain greater adoption, it can be frustrating or even seem petty to focus on them.
Reminds me of IBM Big Blue Disk Alfredo Series (eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zeEkRCr44 ) ... which I managed somehow to get working on Hercules Graphics using an EGA emulator I think. Anyone have all the old Big Blue Disks by chance? :D
I tested the page on Opera 12 for Mac and Windows 8, but couldn't reproduce the issue. Which OS do you use? Could you also let me know the exact version number of Opera 12. Thanks!
Last time I looked at D (maybe 6-8 years ago), I saw a C++ reskinned, and two standard libraries, incompatible.

Looking at it today, it looks much more modern, but I'm simply not interested. I've drunk the Rust koolaid. :-)

(But it would be interesting to do a compare and contrast with a decently sized project for both D and Rust).