skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco numbers are misleading. They likely counted both BART and Caltrain. Since Oakland is included, Amtrak trains (Capitol Corridor, ACE, San Joaquin) might also be included. All the systems I mentioned are heavy rail and carry hundreds of thousands of passengers daily.

Muni has an always packed light rail subway system as well. Unfortunately, unlike San Jose's VTA, that subway has no bike carrying capacity. This makes it difficult to ride the bike to a light rail station and then use it again to reach your final destination in downtown or elsewhere in the city.

Regional heavy rail systems like BART have enormous ridership.

San Francisco buses need dedicated lanes in residential areas. Based on my personal experience, the root cause of traffic slowdowns appears to be double-parked cars. Buses run quickly at night when they are not slowed down by cars.

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/10/02/the-sorry-state-of-doub...

But this is changing. Dedicated lanes are being put in place. http://sf.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Picture...
> Allowing designers to pick the outcome of tunnel-like problems treats those dilemmas as if they must have a “right” answer that can be selected and applied in all similar situations [...] it becomes clear that there are certain deeply personal moral questions that will arise with autonomous cars that ought to be answered by drivers.

The answer is not as clear-cut as the example would suggest. First, it's not zero-sum since computer control results in more safety overall. The computer has more information available (e.g. sensor readings on all sides) and can react much faster (eliminating the ~1.5 s typical reaction time [1]). The driver and the kid in the road will both survive more often this way.

Second, drivers can be pretty selfish. E.g. everyday behaviors like cutting people off or running red lights offer little benefit for the cost of endangering everyone on the road. How many would simply set it to "always drive over the kid in the tunnel"?

[1] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/STHF0203_1#.U9wU2...
What if programming languages were methods to eat an orange?
Every single value in Python is weakly defined, and can change at runtime. Functions can accept any set of parameters, objects do not need to conform to a class, the entire namespace can be replaced during the execution of a function. If you have a better name than "flexibility", please tell me, because I can't think of any.

Haskell is in the oposite extreme of that dimension.

Anyway, that has no relation to readability. Python's flexibility leads too easily to metaprogramming, for example, what's extremely powerfull, but a nightmare to read. And classifying a language as "mathematical" is borderline nonsensical - it only carries some slight meaning because people that say that normaly want to say "algebrical", in oposition to, maybe, "logic-temporal".
I'm working on a voicecall widget that lets businesses be called by their visits for free with just one click (using Flash and WebRTC). It's called Calloud (https://calloud.com ).

I'm doing it because I'm a big fan of tools like Olark or Zopim which are essentially the same but for live written communication (chat). Because some people prefer talking rather than typing, I'm selling a live voice communication alternative so websites can tailor to this preference as well.
Tox is distributed meaning it doesn't rely on any central servers.
It's where hackers come to share and shoot the shit. It used to be somewhat more welcoming and friendly when it was small. But it's grown like 1000x since those days. YC is working on it.
You must be talking about cellphones or something. I know all of the updates that I'm getting on my machine, and they're usually improvements (unless GNOME.) I'm often expecting them. It's not any more than I was getting five years ago.

If you're talking about web services and applications, most major changes or announcements are bad.
Yesterday I got a survey on the Google Opinion Rewards app[1] asking if I'd be comfortable using a service called Google Photo Vault on my phone.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
I still miss native software. Google used to make some great Windows software back in the days of Talk.

Even today, the Talk program requires about 5MB of ram with half a dozen conversations open.

When you compare that to Hangouts in a Browser, you have 400MB of Chrome that has to run, then 100-200MB of Hangouts that runs depending on how many conversations you have open, and how long its been since you cleared out the perpetual Chrome memory leak machine. I mean I get that Google wants to build an operating system out of a Tootsie Roll pop amount of layers of javascript but that doesn't mean I have to appreciate it

5MB... to 500MB. For a roughly identical service (I'd call it inferior because they still, STILL can't handle presence indication and away messages correctly in Hangouts, but Hangouts in Gmail does have some other features like easter eggs or w/e)
How to construct a Time Machine
“Jacques,” he said, “You and I share a common faith. You’re Roman Catholic, I’m Methodist, but we are both Christians committed to the teachings of the Bible. We share one common Lord”

Chirac said nothing. He didn’t know where Bush was going with this.

“Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East,” Bush said. ‘’Biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.”

Gog and Magog? What was that?, thought Chirac.

“This confrontation,” Bush said, “is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a new age begins.”

Chirac was bewildered. The American president, he thought, sounded dangerously fanatical.

After the call ended, Chirac called together his senior staff members and relayed the conversation.

“He said, ‘Gog and Magog.’ Do any of you know what he is talking about?”

Blank faces and head shakes.

“Find out,” Chirac said.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/10/kurt-eichenwald-50...
Yeah! I think judging by web traffic that is how most people use this project - which wasn't my intention at all - but I'm glad some people are finding it useful. I tried to make it as easy as possible to digest/use/install the colors however you want. Whether it's cutting and pasting from the web page - or installing through npm.
Actually, most google cars will be void of any passengers. They'll be google trucks (or amazon trucks). The "ethical" question takes a whole new dimension when it's the life of a child vs. millions of dollar of merchandize, expected-just in-time by enterprises who need them to make billions of profit.
I would not be deciding that rule for everyone's car. I would provide a checkbox (or what ever way there would be to customize a car's options). I'm a pretty big believer in user settings. I wish more software gave users more options on some of the stuff some random developer thought was best.
Ah! "Corporates" is a term that's often used within European professional service firms and is a holdover from my Dutch corporate banking days. Thanks for the advice, I'll change!
What Americans don't understand is that their democracy is a joke.

-Real democracies don't suffer from gerrymandering.
-Real democracies have a free media that will challenge their government (the US news agencies are controlled by large corporations, the corporations are fine to challenge the government on a range of issues, but nothing truly substantive).
-Real democracies have elections with choice, not two parties that differ only by shades of grey.
Same here. Looks nothing like maroon on my 2011 13" MBP. When I hear maroon something like Panatone 202 is what I want to see.

http://mera.se/PMS/202C.html
If nobody can query the server from behind the firewall, you're fine. Nearly every home router runs a copy of dnsmasq as a recursive resolver for the users on the local network.
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I tried dashlane when it first came out. Pegged my CPU and uninstalled it immediately. I assume it's improved since then, but that was a major turn-off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
Reading HN full time as a job must be extremely enjoyable. :)
An epic battle in streaming music is about to begin, and only a few will survive
What about its design makes it secure? Do you guys have a design document or a description of how you've implemented security? Have any security experts audited the code?
'Impossible' Space Engine May Actually Work, NASA Test Suggests
Steno is a great at taking advantage of something humans do well, it might be on the far end of that spectrum. I'd like to see a keyboard that with 100 hours or less of practice would let you type at 100 WPM.
This would be good to note in the post, since right now it's easy to decide not to click anything because there are so many links and the salient feature is never mentioned prior to visiting them!
There are bullet-ridden and blood-stained flags in San Francisco's City Hall that beg to differ and were carried by this city's sons to different wars and conflicts. I cried when I first saw them.
Thanks for sharing.

Interesting also to see that Everpix (consumer svc for organizing photos that also shut down) shared a ton of their internal data (presentations, survey results, status updates, etc.): https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence
Great document, a joy to explore. Does anyone know of similar documents, exploring deeply technical topics with visual language?
Great job! I've long wanted to work on this problem because I think there's so much more that can be done. You definitely seem headed in the right direction.

1. I want to follow all my favorite movie-makers and actors and get an email every time they make something new.

2. I want to go through all the movies they've made that I missed.

3. I want to discover new great people to follow by finding great movies.

In order of importance, for me.

Good luck!
I really wish Google could come up with a good overarching strategy for their products and stick with it for a long time. I'm losing track of how all the different services relate to each other.
What's fascinating is that under "Research Through Development of Installed Tools", the author describes agile software development, some twenty years before it got that name.
I don't understand: surely with pencil and paper you are able to see the code you are editing?
It may be a good move, but calling it 'Very Smart' seems like giving them too much credit given that it's really just returning to what everyone else does after the disaster of Google+
Will autonomous cars prevent me from choosing the radio station or the cabin temperature? No. Why should they prevent me from choosing if I live or die?
I think the best site for finding movies is this:
https://www.icheckmovies.com/

The lists are very addicting.
Like http://www.freesound.org/ maybe?
Not any time soon, as iOS isn't very FLOSS friendly (in fact, the GPL is not compatible with the Apple app store). There have been talks of making a licensing exception, but the iOS client with the most progress (https://github.com/Jman012/Toxicity) isn't functional at the moment.
People have been saying Google+ is dead since it launched.
Al Qaeda gets serious about mobile and encryption
Nice. Good presentation.
There's only two systemic problems in the current road system that I know of: traffic jams, and the fact that increasing road capacity increases road traffic (and therefore doesn't reduce the potential for traffic jams). They're entirely due to the behavior of human drivers (given the surrounding circumstances in part too, of course).

Are other systemic problematic effects known in the current road transportation system? Notably, are there any systemic effects that lead to increasing speed and accidents, rather than traffic jams (not that traffic jams don't cause accidents, since human drivers are running too fast, not expecting jams).

It seems obvious that the two systemic problems above, won't occur with intercommunicating robotic cars.

It would be "fun" to discover new systemic epiphenomenon with robotic cars, but I would expect them to be more discreet and even less "catastrophic".
The story is sourced to “people with knowledge of the matter.” In the same piece Google goes own the record saying “over here in our darkroom, we’re always developing new ways for people to snap, share and say cheese.” It reads almost like a comedy on sanctioned leaks.
So, it's not "impossible", DUH!
The Saudis are generally seen as completely in bed with the US by people who live in the Middle East, largely because the Saudis are completely in bed with the US.

Everybody in the Middle East isn't the same.
IPython Memory Usage interactive tool
Yep that's kind of my deal too. I don't like testing at all but I accept it as a part of the job. What draws me to programming is the creativity and building things.
I know that most IT jobs aren't really creative but the experience you gather is great and I can always code in my free time.
I really enjoy it so most of the time when I'm learning new stuff, it's fun to me.
Fixed.

Thank you.
The thing is, in the absence of collective action people choose to defect in prisoner's dilemmas. Giving people the option results in everyone defecting. Having it be preset results in everyone cooperating. Everyone cooperating is a better outcome for everyone.
Porn? No, not necessarily at all, or as I said, "safe for work or not".

Spam? No, not at all. Instead, as I said, searches people want to do and results they want to find, and those are nearly never spam.

Nothing tricky; take my description just the way I gave it.

The content types are primarily still images, recorded music, video clips, i.e., content types where search by keywords/phrases work from poor down to not at all due to far too little text in the content for matching users' keywords/phrases, and a major fraction of blogs and long tail Web sites, that is, where the content is mostly text.

A point is that search by keywords/phrases works well for only about 1/3rd of the content, searches people want to do, and results they want to find. My work is for the other 2/3rds. This description is difficult to understand?
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The UI is very cool. Very easy to use and quick to search and aesthetically pleasing.

Also thank you for not making me sign-up / sign-in with twitter first. I have already found 4 new sci-fi movies to watch so far :)
I took a look at his journal 9 May 1918-2 Feb. 1919. Specifically I'm trying to find his reaction to Wilfred Owen's death on November 4th. Owen's own letters were burned after his death by his brother.

November 11th is an interesting read:

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-09852-00001-00013/64

"The war is ended. It is impossible to realize. Oxford had much flag waving also & signs of demonstration."

Edit: Ah-ha. Sassoon didn't learn of his death until several months later. I'll try to track down the passage.
libnmap for node.js
Article is misleading, The librarian of congress is permitted to make exemptions from the DMCA every few years. After exempting cell phone unlocking twice, he declined to do so again on the grounds that these exemptions were not supposed to be used to create permanent public policy.

Congress and the President have now exempted unlocking with a new law, which is exactly what the librarian of congress said should be done if they want to create permanent public policy for that exemption. So they did not overtune a decision of his, he was in support of this, he just insisted it be done properly.
Wow thanks for all the input. I already decided I want to do this. What do you think of Python Group meetups? What are they like?
>>It occurs to me that you Sir are not trying to be objective at all.

1. You use bloggers as references while shrugging at serious references.

2. A single minute's check on wikipedia showed that your claims about the May vote is garbage.

Why should anyone takes you seriously after that?!

(I am a bit disappointed that you ignored this subject and didn't explain the conspiracies and lies about your Glorious Leader?)

-----

About Syrian chemical weapons:

Of course there weren't much physical proofs remaining, the Assad government shelled the target area a lot, to remove them...

The rebel side didn't have the type of artillery used, no one overheard any communications from them about this -- and the rebels didn't use that artillery on their enemy afterwards.

But if the rebels seems so unlikely, maybe it wasn't the Assads either but a third party. Elves? :-)

[I am repeating myself and my references here.]

(And bombing the Assads: Because of internal politics, Obama has left hundreds of thousands of Syrians to be killed by Russian weapons. It is an outrage.)
The tech firm helping one of San Francisco's worst areas
This isn't a weakness at all. Your wallet knows what it can spend, and you only consider payments paid when they are paid according to your terms.

A wallet isn't tasked with knowing about crazy things that it might be able to spend if you modified the code— what you're saying is completely isomorphic to saying that the US Dollar has a weakness because someone could put a $100 bill in a locked safe with your birthday as the combination and bury it in your back yard without your knoweldge, and you wouldn't know that you could spend it.

Any contract use with Bitcoin requires you to have software that understands the contracts— no wallet does or will ever show arbitrarily encoded contracts written by a third party. Otherwise, someone could start "paying" you using 1 of 2 payment with one of them being a private key your wallet knows— then claw the funds back after you thought the transaction was settled. Because a contract could do almost anything it would never be safe to just automatically accept them, in any system, and so nothing does or will.
Yeah, I liked it too. It was a good movie. But notice I was complaining that my friends liked it way too much. To me it was a good movie, and the twist was good too, but, for example, two people I know got fight club tattoos on them.
Times of Israel removes op-ed proposing genocide in Gaza
Geez I would love that so much.
Actually you shouldn't, in the sense that there's nothing certifying that the images are 'clean'.

But: I downloaded one of the images just for testing out some servers setup locally (no deployment to the wild net) and for that I think it's gonna be fine.

Of course, I'll give it minimal access to the Internet.
that's what people outside and even many inside don't understand about Russia - many people there, even university graduates, will stay there at their own will. Putin is really supported by the Russian people - that is the real deep problem, ie. the problem is with the people not with the one of them who just happened to be the leader.

To "adamnemecek" (below) - no. Unfortunately support of Putin (or at least of the national ideas he is actively using/riding/associating himself with) among the "enlightened" people is appallingly high. The people mentioned by the parent have had ample opportunities to emigrate and they haven't.
Every 5 starting at 1 instead of 0
For visualizing a large quantity of crons, I'd recommend something akin to https://github.com/federatedmedia/cronviz which will graphically show when jobs are scheduled to run.
Off topic, but I really enjoyed your post about writing a Python lexer/parser in Haskell. Thanks for that!

http://blog.nullspace.io/obvious-python-parser.html
I'm in the same boat (KeePassX and Dropbox), but I have been thinking about a peer-to-peer sync option. I don't need it to sync on WAN, just LAN sync is probably good enough for me. If it syncs between my couple of laptops and my phone, that's good enough for me. I have to see if BitTorrent Sync helps me do this.
Autonomous cars are supposed to be more intelligent, and capable of making better decisions than a human driver, based on access to more information and having more accurate controls. The entire argument about autonomous cars improving safety is predicated on the assumption that human drivers, in general, are simply not capable of driving safely.

You being able to make a decision about the way your autonomous vehicle behaves which could result in a greater risk to other drivers is no different than the risk you present anyway just by having access to a steering wheel, and making the equivalent decision directly. Changing the radio isn't going to kill anybody, but letting you decide the ethics of your car just might. What happens when two cars with conflicting driver-set ethical subroutines come into contact? Do they debate? It doesn't work unless there's a single standard.
Do you have any suggestions/articles on where people can learn how to run a DNS safely?
Goldman’s Icy Arbitrage Draws Interest to Meet EPA Rule
I liked it. Though it initially it is not obvious and in the beginning of the game (setting the first 20 ticks) I found myself setting ticks at more or less random.

Have you considered having the computer set the first couple of ticks? Or maybe have a non-quadratic board or even non-square.
Engineering a Product Re-Launch
Law changed to allow 'unlocking' cellphones
It seems obvious that the second systemic problem (increasing road capacity increases traffic) is a result of the effect of road capacity on the decision to take trips using a car, rather than the way people drive, and will therefore continue with intercommunicating robotic cars.
I wonder, what do you guys think virtual reality do to the tourism industry ?
It's like being paid to eat cheesecake.
Will probably be awesome too. However, actually going scuba diving, for real, is much easier than going on a flight like that. Closest thing is probably hang-gliding, which is much more dangerous than scuba diving.
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An audit is currently planned when the core stabilizes.
Hmm, this other 1979-era history of Emacs also doesn't mention Steele, though it does mention Weinreb and Moon, whom the author seems to have worked with closely: http://www.multicians.org/mepap.html.