skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way does the need to wear a helmet reduce your capability of cycling? Last time I checked helmets were sold in the same shops as bikes.
Uh, B. isn't correct. The risk to the Great Barrier Reef is to do with a new nearby port for coal exports. The dredging of the area is expected to unsettle seabed which could impact the nearby reef.

Despite all that, these are all unrelated to the original post.
Yeah, your comment breaks the readability of this comment thread on my mobile (as in, everything is horrible stretched horizontally).
Yes, but what aspect of it is novel? Images, touch screens, animation? None of it is new; "the conclusion that when a patent simply arranges old elements with each performing the same function it had been known to perform and yields no more than one would expect from such an arrangement, the combination is obvious." I would venture to say the patent NEVER should have been granted, even under pre-Alice conditions.
Of course it does. But presumably most people who bike will never have a potentially fatal brain injuring accident, while having a healthier, more environmentally friendly, cheaper life (gas is expensive!), and on balance, it's a net positive expected benefit, for some set of plausible weights of pros and cons.
Lord Justice Leveeson's inquiry into the press (the context in which this discussion of defendant anonymity takes) place has been a very high profile event in the UK. You asked for examples, I supplied some.

If a country's stability is so easily damaged by details of a corruption case, then maybe it's time for a change. Nothing is more important than the truth and the freedom to report the truth. Who should be trusted to judge what should and should not be reported, and how much "damage" the truth would cause someone? The answer is no one.

I hold a different opinion. The media likes to wax noble about the truth when a great deal of the time it aims to exploit gossip or poorly-substantiated rumor for economic gain, cf. the tabloid press. I can see value in a temporary moratorium which does not distort the historical record but which does not facilitate exploitation of it either. As I've said before, what the public is interested in is not the same thing as what is in the public interest.
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Maybe the paid version of your site could support virtualenvs.
Another big difference is that those mobile ads are only in the Search and YouTube apps, and not in the Play Store app itself (although the ads link directly to the Play Store). From a usability standpoint, putting app ads directly in the Play Store is a terrible idea. I can see users easily getting confused about whether a listing is part of the Store proper, or an ad in the Store. That's probably a big reason this hasn't happened.
Ah, but this is the tricky moral question, do we enact a law that may decrease a large population's quality of life significantly, or do we enact one that doesn't, but allows for the death of a few?

Arguably, the greater good is done by not enforcing helmet laws, because vastly more people will bike, and thus get more exercise, outweighing the few major accidents per year.
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> Just 2 months ago ... she can't hold a job or go to college

Oh god. How severe was it? A traumatic brain injury is something I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy (and I know how frustrating it is. I went through a severe TBI myself).

And keep in mind that the healing is just beginning. Hell, at two months I was barely out of the hospital and the recovery took a full two years. I would guess she's not healing and has a ways to go; those effects are likely not permanent.

> Due to nerve damage she will always have a little trouble walking, but most people won't notice it.

The physical ailments are the visible ailments, but there's many more invisible ailments (at least in my case). How you think almost defines who you are and if that gets messed up, it's almost impossible to see and much more of a loss. In my view, it seems almost pointless to mention the lasting physical ailments: they're just small things you live with. They don't change who you fundamentally are.
Interesting that the other provinces are only now seeing the effects. I would have thought 2006 was the peak skills drain. My first year economics professor at been working in the provincial economic advisor office at the time. He said about $60 Billion was being put into Oil Sands at the time.

This may not seem like much but it works out to 30k per man, woman, and child in Alberta. Most of whom are not welders...

It meant every job was paying above minimum wage. McDonalds was paying $1 above min wage. I've heard stories of 14 year olds running gas stations all by themselves, despite the illegality of it.

2006-2007 was pretty insane in Calgary. Fort Mac would have been Hell.
I think the real danger is that smart people will find very complicated and contrived reasons (twist statistics) to justify whatever they want to justify.

The real reasons are often personal, simple and embarrassing
things like: "I don't want to wear a helmet cause it is not cool", "I want to be contrarian", "I will create controversy and get a lot of discussion focused around me". And then it is just a matter of finding some statistics or anecdotes to support the position.

This happens in every sphere of life.

It seems this is a case of that. The danger is now not only to himself to also others if anyone starts listening and stops wearing helmets.

But I think in this case they went to far and the message contains its own destruction so to speak. They tried to hard to justify it and they appear too irrational to hopefully anyone take their advice to heart.
Results from one person experimenting cannot trump studies, or even natural experiments that look at a wide cross section of individuals, at least not in terms of applicability to the wider population.

That said, I'm glad you found something that works well for you, and that provides such positive results
I did: having your skull cracked open and your brain distributed on the pavement is certainly worse than having some strain put on your neck.

Both can be lethal. The former is very much so, the latter usually not.

No-helmet crowd claims the severity is the the other way around.
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I think I saw that one by Linus on Youtube but didn't have time to watch it. I'm going to have this class use Git to submit all their work (project and otherwise). I've used it a lot for my own work, but never on a team project, so I will need something of a primer on how to do branching, merging, and so forth.

I understand there's a typical workflow in which you have 'master' for the releases, 'dev' for the latest working version, and feature branches are branched off 'dev'. If there's a good video on how to do that, it'd be ideal.
I call bullshit on helmet use reducing physical activity. I would claim any helmet related issues as excuses for lazyness.
"PER 100,000" doesn't cover the number of hours spent performing each activity.
Another vote for PIA. Have been with them for almost a year and can't complain.
> Let’s first get one thing out of the way: if you get into a serious accident, wearing a helmet will probably save your life.

Well thanks for wrapping up the debate in the first sentence after your intro!
If a helmet will save your life then why would you not wear it? It seems like your argument for wearing a helmet in the car is a lot better than your argument against wearing a bike helmet.
> do we enact a law that may decrease a large population's quality of life significantly

Before asking that question, I wonder how many people don't bike because of the helmet versus how many say that they don't bike because of the helmet but really would take any excuse.
UK to allow driverless cars on public roads
Viterbi is used for decoding e.g. HMMs, when there are multiple possible state sequences given the observations, and you want to find the most probable. In a normal (non-hidden) Markov model, you can just follow the state transitions and get out a probability (or go to a state and see what the next possibilities are).
thanks for allowing me to test windows ... cheers and great easter egg
Thanks for the great comparison! Just want to note that OCaml's GADT stuff is really great, but you can even do a final encoding of GADTs if all you have is signatures and structures (as in SML). I'm not familiar enough with F# to say—is this also possible in F#?
I'v always used eclipse. There are plugins for every task you would want to do.

http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/
http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/
http://eclipsefp.github.io/
I'm not sure if they can compete with Amazon. They're losing money and competing with Amazon which has deeper pockets.

Right now, their prices are higher and I can find (and have found) better deals on either Amazon or Snapdeal. Amazon has always delivered faster and the sellers are all the same on these sites now.

Not it seems Amazon is in trouble.

I think Flipkart is in real trouble here. Amazon can discount for long and eat losses (that's what they have always done) and though Flipkart has good ideas, they have made really strange moves (making a Tablet? Infibeam tried that back in 2011. Didn't work.)
Among others, these two points scream of grasping at anything to throw at the argument:

> wearing a helmet may create a false sense of security and induce risk-taking that cyclists without head protection might not make.

> Bike helmets discourage cycling

We are not discussing if not wearing a helmet should be legal, A competent adult should be able to go base jumping, ride a motorcycle, or just bang their head against the pavement if they please, but that doesn't mean your not an idiot for doing it without any good reason.

But as he opens,

> Several of them asked me: Where is your bike helmet?

We're clearly discussing the validity of the choice as an individual to choose to not wear a helmet, and the argument that it induces risk-taking? Well consider that fact, and use your head and don't take extra-risk.

Or about discouraging cycling? Does the existence of helmets discourage cycling? Does me, or you wearing helmets discourage other people from cycling? The study at least says that mandatory helmet laws discourage cycling.

Now, if you choose to go base jumping for the adrenaline, to ride a motorcycle for the freedom, and thrill, fully aware and accepting of the risk, that's great, and better to you.

Similarly, if you want to ride without a helmet because it you think it makes you look cooler, you like the wind in your hair, prefer the convenience to the safety, or even if you are just trying to be different, a contrarian. Sure, do what you want. But stop fucking pretending it's because "It's safer".
I don't know of a video. But you should check out this project and its readme:

https://github.com/nvie/gitflow

edit: oh, the readme links to screen-casts! Also, I've worked on teams that require gitflow so I assume it's useful experience for students to have.
Excellent article, but this post needs a better title. C and Go without CGO might be okay for here.
Yeah, same. The first time I ever heard "Markov chains" was when I was a 13-year-old hanging out on black hat SEO forums. Back in the day, software like "YASG" (or something like that, "yet another site generator") made a lot of money with simple PHP scripts for rewriting Wikipedia articles with Markov chains, thus skirting Google's duplicate content algorithms, which were much weaker at the time.

There were actually quite a few vulnerabilities back then. I wrote a script that allowed me to create a Google account with the IP address of a visitor to the website, all without them knowing. All I had to do was open the registration page with a server side script, download the CAPTCHA, display it to the user and ask them to fill it out. When they filled it out, the submitted form targeted the Google registration form in a 1x1 iFrame, then another button targeted the logout form. Google was not checking the referrer of the sign up form, nor was it comparing the IP address that received the CAPTCHA to the one that submitted it.

I had a friend load that script into thousands of generated blogspot blogs, which got long tail google traffic and asked the user to "fill the CAPTCHA to continue." The script ran for ~2 weeks and generated ~60000 Google accounts all from unique IP addresses.

That was around 2007, so obviously it's all patched up by now. I was 15 years old and never did anything with the accounts, so if anyone from google is reading this, keep the lawyers away from me please.

Blackhat SEO actually has a lot of clever tricks. I haven't been part of that space in a while, for a lot of reasons, but I can attribute 99% of my knowledge of marketing to time spent trawling through blackhat SEO forums reading not my about that, but also landing page optimization, conversion tracking, copywriting, etc. It was definitely a worthwhile learning experience for me.

Oops that veered off topic. But yes, Markov chains. Blackhat content generation. :)
Is this in English or French? I would love to attend a surf/code hack event!
Home screens for Docs, Sheets, and Slides are officially announced
Good link, cheers for sharing!
Most Americans would probably call it "soda" (there are a couple of weir areas where everything is "Coke", no matter what it really is, and some of the more civilized areas use the word "pop" as the gods intended); Brits would probably say "fizzy drinks".
More specifically, I'm looking (at least) for talks on the following topics:

- Agile requirements definition, user stories, and/or backlog grooming. I'd like something that emphasizes how you can use acceptance criteria or BDD to make user stories more informative than just a sticky note.

- Continuous integration; maybe something that involves automated deployment to a cloud hosting service like Heroku or Azure.

- Maybe something about building an open source project, creating an identity, finding community, promoting the software, etc.

- Something about careers in development, or software project management, or scrummastering, that would be relevant to college seniors about to be kicked out into the world.

Other great talks or videos would be awesome, too, and maybe I'll find a place for them if they're good enough.
The longest I've ever spent between the front of the line and the concourse was ~2 minutes. The screening process doesn't need to get shorter, just more parallel.

Have more lanes. Hire more staff, and schedule them more evenly. Every time I've waited in an obnoxiously long line, additional lanes were extant but closed. Meanwhile there seemed to be at least 5 staff standing around doing nothing. Have them man a second lane and cut the waiting time in half?

There's no inherent reason you can't solve this problem, the limiting factors are just the size of the screening room and the payroll budget.
yep, this in a crontab somewhere is all you need:

curl -k -o ~/backups/pinboard-backups/pinboard-$(date +\%y\%m\%d).json 'https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?&auth_token=username:APItokenhere&format=json'
This old blog post of mine needs a refresh, but there's nothing magical or permanent about $9.99: the average price of an e-book bestseller (= Amazon Top 100) has been trending down roughly by a dollar a year, and was already at $7 last year. Likewise, the share of $5 books in the top 100 is already close to 50%.

http://gyrovague.com/2013/03/26/down-down-down-books-e-books...

Some crappy code for pulling these stats from Amazon:

https://github.com/jpatokal/amazon-price-watcher
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Exactly. Comparing Holland to US is like night and day (well with regional variations -- some cities try at least to build bike lanes).

> I dutifully wear the helmet here, while my Dutch friends laugh at me.

Better to be laughed at wearing a helmet than being laughed at while being a vegetable.

> The roads are not built for bicyclists

There is another more insidious element -- in some parts of the country, there is a negative aspect of motorist culture where motorists are irritated by and hate bicyclists. Really doesn't make any sense but if you go on tours through rural parts on a road bike, be prepared to be honked at and have beer cans thrown at you. I wouldn't be too shocked to hear that on a secluded country road you might end being a target and be specifically clipped or pushed off road.

That probably sounds totally ridiculous to our but that happened to two of my coworkers.
The market exists, but it's in its infancy. The Snowden revelations blew a hole wide open in the privacy market, and that's why you're starting to see more and more privacy companies opening. I suspect it won't be long before one of them (whisper?) offers a cross platform, encrypted group chat like you speak of. But these things take a while to build.
Street artists or Republicans?
I'd love to know how this works behind the scenes.

In the article, a file called chello.c and a file called gohello.go are created - do the filenames have any significance? How does the go compiler and linker know what to do here?
Did you read this bit:

Risk of head injury per million hours travelled

Cyclist - 0.41
Pedestrian - 0.80
Motor vehicle occupant - 0.46
Motorcyclist - 7.66

"but that doesn't mean your not an idiot for doing it without any good reason."

So by this logic someone not wearing a helmet while in a car is also an idiot ;)
Unless something has changed recently, a citizen of a Commonwealth nation (e.g. Australia) can vote in UK elections without being a citizen, as long as they are a resident. Maybe it's about reciprocity?
> After thinking it over, I'm inclined to believe it matters what type of biking you're doing.

You should wear a helmet regardless. It's easy to misjudge. I remember seeing a cyclist at U.C. Berkeley laying on the ground with blood pooling around his head. No helmet. From what I can tell, he was zipping downhill and hit a water fountain. You might think that the middle of a college campus is a fairly safe place to bike given the lack of cars, but in truth, it can get dangerous pretty quickly. Lots of student walking around not paying attention and, in Berkeley's case, steep hills.
Slight inconveniences most likely. If you commute by bike, you then need to carry the helmet around with you or risk it being stolen. You have helmet hair, which sounds trivial, but might be an issue for some people riding to work and such. Things like that. Nothing huge that I can think of, but I'm sure these things discourage cycling to some extent, for some people.
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http://www.prlog.org/12350696-delphi-internet-founder-compares-information-security-technology-to-bloodletting.html

Got this press release the other day and this guy seems to have it going on. I mean, comparing information security technology to bloodletting ? But it kind of makes sense…Thoughts ? mentor2@gmail.com
Her injuries are very similar to what you describe experiencing. Thank goodness she's 18 and healing fast. A lot of the visible damage was healed after a couple months. However despite graduating early from high school the doctors don't want her to start college yet.

I think in 2 years she will be fine. She will probably be a different person unfortunately. But it could be much worse.
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OMG - the first actual photo is a guy standing in front of laser lines and curves and had a tag line "soon to be replaced by the Oculus Rift"

And yes ... I can easily imagine flogging exploratory gloves and goggles to impress the Board and let them surf through data looking for insights
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I was biking to work the other day and had a guy pass me using one of these on his front wheel. It was completely silent and he practically doubled my speed on a road bike just cruising. I'm used to being one of the faster commuters, so my brain did a pretty serious double take. Having had a nasty crash at normal speed I will say that I would seriously suggest wearing more protective clothing if you are going to roll with one of these.
If Haskell were on there, I'd at least transliterate the Python example from the video as a contribution ;)
My iOS Indie-Nongame Numbers

First published app (an educational niche): $1,832 in first three months. $1,360 in past 30 days.

Second published app (a semi-educational game-related app): $49 in first three months. $6 in past 30 days.

Third published app (an educational niche): $360 in first three months. $385 in past 30 days.

I now have over a dozen apps. Three of those earn less than $100 a month and I've all but abandoned them. Four more also earn less than $100 a month but are part of suite of clones that address different niches. Together, the suite earns over $200 a month now. My top 4 apps earn more like $100, $300, $400, and $1400 a month now. Over the past year, those iOS apps earned me just over $40,000. Not enough to live on alone but it's not a bad start.
Will get you GO asap.
Does this mean you will now wear a helmet while driving, because it gives you 85-88% less chance of serious brain injury?
The fact that they require money, maintenance, and effort to use? It may be minimal but it is there.
I think what (B) is referring to is ocean acidification caused by atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolving. This also threatens coral reefs.
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> So by this logic someone not wearing a helmet while in a car is also an idiot.

That may also be true, assuming that we have similar data showing that helmets help as much in cars as they do on bikes.

Considering that car incidents are vastly different however, I suspect a helmet in a car incident doesn't have quite the same affect on head injuries.

And even if they have proven to be useful, the studies are almost certainly with helmets that much more closely resemble a motorcycle helmet. In which a case the convenience and comfort helmet have a much more significant impact, which plays directly into my comment of "without a good reason"

Additionally, I'd really like to see the paper where that statistic came from, sadly it doesn't give the numbers in the abstract. And while it's totally anecdotal I know a non-zero amount of people (directly or indirectly) who have had a head injury cycling, yet zero as a pedestrian. Despite knowing vastly more people who spend vastly more time walking. Saying that you're more likely to get a head accident walking is a pretty strong claim. Thus I'd like to see strong evidence.
One can pour over all the meta analysis and rationalization to support a view, but until one has experienced the reality of head trauma, talk is cheap.

Here's more cheap talk:
http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001855/INJ_wearing-a-helmet-...

http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD005401/INJ_bicycle-helmet-le...

Over 20 years ago, i rarely wore a helmet commuting, mountain biking. When you're young, life seems forever. Luckily, I had some sense to listen to my colleagues one day and wear my helmet while doing my usual run across some headlands. I was volunteering at a clinic at the time and frankly I was weary of the MD and NPs digging me for NOT wearing my helmet (they have seen it all). My styrofoam plastic encased ANSI helmet literally saved my life sustaining a rt temporal crushing cavitation that left me only with the standard clavicular fracture and embedded asphalt abrasions to my nasal bridge, upper and lower limbs that still reminds me today. Moreover, the logistics of the Nat. Park Service, the nearby public hospital emergency room, the public university insurance and my saviors at that free medical clinic further eased my burdens from this unfortunate accident.

Believe me, I applaud changes in public policy encouraging mass transportation with biking right up there in the fore, however, when it comes to health behavior/policy look at more data.

and maybe consider a seat belt and stop smoking, too.