skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of the original article misquotes the 30% statistic. According to the PDF he linked to [1], 30% of American motorist fatalities are "speeding related." This is not the same thing as "caused by speeding." According to the NHTSA, speeding in this context is defined as

"Speeding is reported in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) as a driver-level attribute that combines 'driving too fast for conditions' or 'in excess of posted speed limit.'" [2]

Note that, in multi-vechicle accidents, only one party needs to have been speeding for the accident to be considered "speeding related". The 30% figure quoted also seems to vary quite a bit depending on the data you look at:

"The percentage of all crashes that were speeding-related (DTFFC or EPSL) varied considerably among the States, from about 6 percent to about 20 percent of all crashes" (ibid)

The NHTSA distinguishes between two types of speeding:

1) Exceeding Posted Speed Limit (EPSL)

2) Driving Too Fast For Conditions (DTFFC)

The former simply occurs whenever one's speed is greater than the posted maximum. The latter is a subjective call by the police officer, etc investigating the case and factors in road, traffic, and weather conditions.

The NHTSA has found (ibid) that about half of speeding-related fatal crashes occur for EPSL (55%) and the other half for DTFFC (45%). For speeding-related crashes that result in injuries, the respective ratios are 26% and 74% (ibid). The same source mentions that

"The relative proportion of crashes that occurred on the curved sections of the road was much higher in speeding-related (DTFFC or EPSL) crashes"

which suggests that many of these accidents were actually caused by either some form of driver inattention or adverse weather affecting road conditions, and that speeding was a contributing factor in the accident (i.e. less ability to correct for an unexpected event) but not the sole cause. Since driver inattention is almost impossible to prove absent records of an untimely text message or tweet, it's likely that the true causes of most of these accidents (most likely driver inattention or overly agressive driving) go unreported and are instead attributed to the only measurable data point that can be discerned: speeding.

[1] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812006.pdf

[2] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811090.PDF
I don't think autocomplete is supposed to work for fields that check typos?
Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!

Not very technical, but there's some interesting stuff in there, for example about working on the atomic bomb in WWII.
He obviously doesn't think it's normal. He thinks they are making abnormal claims ("we will remain available") and therefore should be prepared to make guarantees beyond normal in order for anyone to take them seriously. Sounds reasonable to me, if you think it is unreasonable, can you explain why?
"Another popular one was that Fred Smith had the idea of FedEx for a college paper while he was at Yale, and that the professor gave him a C on the paper and said it was a bad idea."

I've heard this as well. This goes along the lines of many similar "ironies" that the business press likes to bandy about. The problem with saying how foolish the business prof was (or was not) is that we don't have any data on the other ideas that he said were foolish and never went anywhere (or the ideas he liked) nor do we know exactly what the paper said to see if there was a particular reason the prof thought it was foolish. Devil in the details. Maybe something changed between the implementation and the paper. I mean has he ever published that paper?
Redhat employs some of the CentOS people now, although their build process still seems to be pretty separate.
I was confused why you'd use a popup in this case, then I looked at the source and realized this has to be at least a decade old.
This looks great. Now if you could only turn websites into a spreadsheet using http://scrape.ly and then turn it into an API using Sheetlabs, that would be awesome.
One reason that you see this sort of behavior in the first place is that very few people are able to successfully become lifetime bankers. The skillset required to be an excellent investment banking analyst is extremely different than the skillset needed to be an investment banking vice-president (or higher). Modeling skills and pitchbook formatting knowledge will do little for you if your job is to try to bring business to your bank. Analysts know that the internal track will end at the associate level (or, more likely, they'd be booted out after two years with no internal promotion to associate at all). Therefore, it makes sense for them to jump ship, and the subsequent prisoner's dilemma also makes sense.

What's interesting is that a similar thing happens after two years as a private equity associate, in that almost all PE associates are booted out after two years, being told that they don't have the skillset to be promoted within the shop. At this point, I believe that many employees move onto internal corporate development, but my knowledge here is pretty incomplete about what happens after that break in the track. ("Greatness", perhaps?[0])

[0] http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2007/07/breaks-in-the-track
How is this different from Context.io?
It's only tech/startups journalists right now. If we decide to add more groups we'll implement a tag system but we decided it was not needed for now.

The reason for making this was that we really wished something like this existed when we were trying to get press. Some of the emails are easy to find but many of them were pretty tedious to find!
I disagree with the idea presented by this post. Simply looking for problems that people know they need solutions for is a safe approach, but not necessary a good one. For example, I know that people need to eat, and it's true that restaurants are good business ideas--but it doesn't necessarily mean getting into the restaurant business is a good move for a startup.

There are plenty of scenarios where successful products come out of solving problems people didn't think they have, until the product was marketed to them. The iPhone and iPods are very obvious examples. Snapchat, Gmail, Whatsapp, Uber, Airbnb, Facebook, and the list goes on and on. In hindsight these products all address problems we now know we have, but before the products became popular, most people did not actively see these as significant problems (e.g. I didn't know I had much need for an app that gives me transportation, before I started using Uber for the first time).

Yes, if you look for problems that have very high demands, that is a safe approach that would lead to a solid business, but that it could also be the case that the safe approach would lead to more competition. Most problems that people need solutions for have already been considered--the more demand there is, the more attempts there have been to find solutions for these problems.
Ah, your sites down.

I'm a bit skeptical of the value, but $9 isn't much of a risk so I can go for it.

I think a better place would be for you to find a way to filter emails for writers. The list you're building is going to get less valuable any time someone signs up for it.
Hi secfirstmd,

Have you had a chance to look at concur?

https://www.concur.com/en-us/resource-center/small-business

https://www.concur.com/en-us/pricing-editions?icid=en_us_h-t...

We use it at my bank and it works fine (considering we are still on Windows XP and Outlook 2003, I'm guessing Concur was so good that we decided to upgrade to that).
They got official support is what changed.

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/1/red-ha...
I understand that point, I know you can't use the certificate on another domain by design. I'm just curious why you wouldn't issue a certificate to your CDN signed with your domain as well. It's something that bothers me about npr.org especially as it creates problems with their API for member stations wishing to go fully SSL.
Show HN: I paid an engineer $4k to build a dating site
http://www.percodate.com/ - DO NOT PAY FOR THE SITE. Use code HEYHN if you want to sign up.

I've had some experience with website development, but I'm not technical whatsoever. So I went on craigslist (in Los Angeles) to look for an engineer to build a dating site.

Luckily, I found someone amazing. We agreed on $4,000 in milestone payments and $6,000 in potential bonuses if the site does well.

We recently launched the site and would love your feedback. I know the design is lacking, but any feedback would be appreciated!!
According to the
"Your App, Your Website, and Safari" WWDC session from this year [1] (Slide titled "Signing up with confirmation" towards the end of the document), you simply use the `current-password` or `new-password` autocomplete attribute again for confirmation of either field.

[1] (Session PDF Link): http://devstreaming.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/506xxeo80e5ky...
You say you've never excluded women, but you are aggressively dismissing an attempt -- it seems, mostly from women -- at improving what they perceive as sexist undertones in the workplace.

If someone says "hey, we should work on addressing this sexism," and the response is, "be quiet, there isn't any sexism, you just hate fun," that seems pretty stinking sexist, doesn't it? Dismissing someone's concerns by saying they aren't real doesn't address the concerns, it just sweeps them under the rug because they aren't perceived as being important enough to give a shit about.

If some group has evolved office slang that includes saying "Quit being a ginger" to people who make dumb mistakes, and then that group hires some redheaded dude, wouldn't it be within his rights to say "hey guys, it's kind of weird to use 'ginger' as a euphemism for 'dumbass'"? Yeah, maybe he's "invading" and stepping on the group's ability to insult people at the expense of other groups, but it doesn't mean he's wrong.
And the period when Truman would've attended college, if he had done so at ages 18-22, would've been 1902-1906. At that time, quite a small percentage of people went to college. Nonetheless, he did apply to West Point, but was turned down for poor eyesight.
http://cleancoders.com/ See them all. The best investment you can make into yourself.
(1) You actually do meet a developer from time to time who fetishizes complexity. More frequently, you'll find developers and managers who'll fight any attempt to reduce surplus complexity.

(2) I don't think the root cause of crappy software is the cost of quality. Quoth Phil Crosby, quality is free, it's the screw-ups that are expensive.

Nobody has suggested that the federal and state Obamacare sites failed because too little was spent on them. The way it was done, state by state, made the experience a laboratory of software development.

It was certainly possible to make an Obamacare site that works. New York had a rough first week, but at the beginning of Week 2 I had no trouble signing my mother-in-law up. Some states never processed a single application online.

The trouble wasn't that "quality is expensive" but more incompetence in management, procurement, etc.
The Little Lisper:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-LISPer-Third-Edition/dp/002...
All the books by W. Richard Stevens[1], especially the TCP/IP Illustrated Volumes.
No one covers theory with actual illustration and real world examples like Stevens does in his books.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens
Is this bad? (The approach, not the contest.) I thought it was pretty well-established that you can boost participation by posting under multiple accounts to make it look like there's more activity. And since the point of this was to make women feel more comfortable on the site, it seems like a net positive.
Very interesting idea: one possibility for driving demand would be to provide free API hosting for public-domain spreadsheet data (essentially anything published by the government) and charge heavy usage users for access (they could eventually just import the source data if they cared that much, but it could help get the word out).
Possibility to break things, use multiple versions at the same time, testing dangerous operations, seamless deployments, etc.
Numerous schools offer online master's degree programs that you can complete part-time. If you live near a good graduate school, going in person may be more rewarding, but otherwise, a part-time online program is perhaps the best way to work it into your existing schedule.

I've had some good experience with the online education program at the University of Illinois, but where to look depends on your area of study.
They would have gotten exactly the same press (TechCrunch) minus that commentary. But with that commentary they instantly cloud their announcement with two immediate thoughts-

-abandonment. You know, I wasn't thinking of it, but now it's top of my mind.

-delusion. If a funded company talks about the misled motivations of others, I instantly question their self-honesty or delusion. I mean throughout this thread we see claims of not being bought out, etc. You don't take VC money if those things aren't always on the table and top of mind. The selling out already happened.

I don't think it was good at all. Instead of talking about the product or its place, people are talking about that commentary, and not in a complimentary way.

As an aside, "Inbox App" brings you to http://inboxapp.co/. There's also http://inbox.com (which is a decided two generations ago site), and then http://inboxapp.com.
"Evangelist". Nothing quite as pride-instilling as being compared to a preachy religious fanatic.
I hate this model. Try to buy something get redirected to a 4th party (not the retailer, buyer or the bank / card issuer) and get asked to enter private secret information. It teaches all the wrong things about security.
Yes, going to college is the first in a long series of exercises you'll perform to show that you are qualified to be president based on doing what other people tell you. ;)
"Losing up to a million a month" doesn't necessarily mean "using a million in cash a month." The first may be based on accrual accounting, the second is based on cash accounting, and they don't need to equate in any particular time interval.

E.g., if you pre-paid $12M in rent for a warehouse for a year, you might be "losing $1M a month" in accrual accounting (as the prepaid asset gets run down) but using no cash in that same month.
If you have multiple people on your team, a common dev environment can be a huge time-saver. New developers can install an identical environment quickly.

Another benefit is that your project's development environment is self-contained. It's not going to clash with anything else on your system, and will even work across platforms.
You can disable iCloud Photo library, atleast in current betas. Regarding iPhoto, it is being discontinued in favor of a new Photos app in Yosemite. Existing app should work with maintenance updates to it.
I'd rather not pay to support retailers like Amazon that sell DRM-crippled books, just to (illegally) circumvent it. I'll demonstrate that I don't support this by only buying DRM-free books.
SEEKING WORK - Vancouver, BC or Remote

My name is James and I've been a freelancer in the area of financial forecasting for 1 year. I have an MBA in financial management from a top Canadian school and 5+ years of industry experience.

https://www.elance.com/s/jamesconnolly93

I'm also a Rails developer (no formal education in CS, just self taught through books/Edx etc). My primary motivation for doing freelance work is essentially gaining a better understanding of the market for my startup. The startup will be focused on providing tools to allow entrepreneurs to easily track their business performance vs forecast on an ongoing basis.

email: jamesconnolly93@gmail.com
linkedin: ca.linkedin.com/pub/james-connolly/2a/390/4b9/
No, they are not. They make more mistakes than during shorter shifts, especially towards the end of the shift. An aggravating factor is that they actually believe they can still perform as well after 16 hours of working. This is all well known from research, it's just that it's hard to break ingrained traditions. Look at how long it took for doctors to start washing their hands, after research decisively proved it reduced the number of deaths and complications. In a few decades we will look back on this time and shake our heads at the ridiculousness of doctors, of all people, working 16 hours straight.
This will drain your battery. Better is to use GNU/Linux natively, e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu.
How the D language aims to dethrone C++
The proof is in the pudding.

Implement FFT using a JIT that over any length of time/samples is faster than FFTW [1] or an h.264 encoder faster than x.264 [2] .

[1] - http://www.fftw.org/

[2] - http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
Isn't the whole point of blocking third party cookies so that you don't send cookies to tracking sites? For instance, if you're on example.com, and it loads a resource on ads.shadytracker.com, that it sends no information to the ad site (in addition to not accepting them)? If it's not this way, then all the ad site needs is for you to visit them one time and they'll track you from then on.
AGPL with Contributor License Agreement, just to be crystal clear.
Well, you paid $4k and it shows. No clear UVP (unique value proposition), no design, looks half done - if even. I would not use the word amazing with this - in any context.
Sounds like he took a loan from his family but wanted it to sound more sensational.
Giflinks
https://github.com/tholman/giflinks
(Try To) Predict The World Cup With Monte Carlo Simulation
Google Spreadsheet to store bookmarks, using a bookmarklet.
I have heard from friends that Jive is good.

http://jive.com/small-business/

However, they do not have a faxing capability.
That's nice but I'm sure many people never plan to cheat on their partner until it happens either. [1]

And I'm sure that when Google was founded it never imagined things it would be doing years later at the expense of some users of it's products.

[1] People cheat of course but also people change over time with how they see the world.
It's a fair and honest criticism that has produced interesting conversation. You're being mean-spirited as well, but you think you're exempt. Shove off.
It could be phrased differently still without insinuating that what they say is worthless.

Something like,
"How will you back up your claim of the product not being discontinued?" or "What will prevent your product from being discontinued?" Gets the same point across without coming off rude (it may just be me but saying "your claim ... is worthless" seems rude.) The OP of the comment definitely has a good point but it's said in a way that isn't constructive.
Back in January there was a "[blank] is joining [blank]!" type of announcement.

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janua...
Show HN: Reel - A HTTP movie share
There are quite a few choices of lightweight Linux distro. This isn't aimed at that market
I agree that DCSS is a great game, but I think that its loot system leaves much to be desired. Don't get me wrong, the user interface for item and inventory management is smooth as buttered silk (if you know your history, this is in fact the reason for DCSS's ascendance in the first place), but it merely serves to make tolerable the practice of sifting through mountains of worthless garbage to get at the goodies.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that monster drops in DCSS are universally useless, with the following exceptions: corpses, artifacts dropped by unique monsters, and a few god abilities that are powered by dungeon trash (with Jiyva's being the only one that's actually interesting). Other than that, all interesting items in the player's possession will have generated either randomly or via vault loot.
CentOS 7 to be released shortly, project lead says
Dawn of the Web: An Oral History
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Yelp customers don't want theme-able, if I'm browsing five restaurants closest to me to decide which ones to go to in the next 10 minutes, I want to see the type of cuisine, hours, menus, etc. in a consistent way instead of playing "find Waldo" with whatever artistic genius designed that specific theme.
Cheers man. It's back up now. We only spent the weekend on this and there was bound to be a bug somewhere.
I hate to sound stingy but at $445 is there a cheaper alternative? Like a book, or maybe shorter series?

What videos would prioritize over the others?
Dive into design patterns. Get yourself a good book listing them. The bible of all developers is the Gang Of Four (http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obje...), but there are plenty good ones out there that aren't as dry and academic.

Design patterns are the greatest tool there is for learning software design. If you know them, you can apply them, but much more importantly they show you how you can apply the basic principles of OO development to various problems. By learning them, you're learning the thought process of how they came to be, and you'll be able to apply those thought processes to your own problems. Consider it like learning algebra by doing exercises. You can read theory all you like, but unless you apply it it just won't click.
that looks so much cleaner than init.d scripts. I have heard some people refer to systemd as not very linux-esque - can someone comment on what that might mean?
You are probably right about the company name, but inboxapp.com is still a pretty good domain name. Looking at the whois record for the domain[1] shows that it was registered in 2008. Moreover, archive.org[2] tells us that it was parked at GoDaddy for some time, before they purchased it in 2013. So, they probably invested a bit of money in a good domain name, yes.

[1]: http://whois.domaintools.com/inboxapp.com

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20110201102718/http://inboxapp.c...
The Concise Guide to HTTP(s) Proxies
JavaScript: how I start every day...and how I end every day.
I've been thinking along very similar lines, but more along a Github-esque model: Host your data and APIs for free, providing you publish them publicly. If you take them private, you pay a little. Early days yet, today is mostly about gauging interest.
You disingenuous bastard: "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory in action"

You seriously don't think you called him a fuckwad?
Yuuuuuup.

If you're a company that wants to prove that you actually care about providing services that customers can rely on then you need to make a financial and legal commitment to that statement. Create a legal entity tasked with carrying out continuing operations in the event that the company shuts down, set up a bond or other funding source set aside which will provide enough operating budget for operations at some level to be continued for a year or several years.
You might find one of these interesting:

http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Architecture-Primer-John-Reek...
Let me get this straight, you charge me $9 to get contact emails for various journalists? What if I decide to contact them and also reveal how I got it? Did they consent to this? I would certainly not be comfortable with the fact that someone is selling my email address.
VT-x is not enabled in the bios of our cloud images. Is there a specific need to run the build inside of a nested vm, as opposed to running directly in the runner itself? Feel free to email me jfrye [at] githost.io to discuss further.
Orrery Construction Time Lapse
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Indeed!
It's the platform upon which a better email can be built. The IMAP/POP wrappers provide backwards compatibility, so that you don't have to stop using the old email system while the new email is built around it. At some point, theoretically, IMAP/POP can be transparently replaced with better delivery protocols.