skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always loved this example. I lived in MT pre, during, and after this experiment. We went from:

- 65 Mph

- "Reasonable and prudent" daytime speed

- 75 Mph daytime speed

During the reasonable and prudent period, I think many people still had an internal model of 65 Mph. Certainly many people did drive faster. In my younger days, friends and I would find straight, empty sections of highway to flirt with death. But... many many people still set their cruise control to 65.

Case in point, my parents and the parents of many of my friends were careful to clarify that "reasonable and prudent means 65 mph, or you will have your driving privileges revoked." I was out from under the parents' roof by the time things went to 75, but I know my own highway averages went up with the codification of 75 mph.
Show HN: Scoreboard – The simple, secure and Open Source basketball scoreboard
Eh, adjectives can function as nouns sometimes (females, whites, although doing this sometimes creates an issue such as where it's preferred to say 'x people' instead of 'xes') and nouns tend to easily function as adjectives (laptop mouse, house key). Very malleable language. In French you'd have to say "mouse of the laptop" for example.
You left out being in Tornado Alley and otherwise nasty storms.
Oh, ugh.

Why not "human fonts" or "people fonts"? (Or "natural fonts" or "handwriting fonts" or...)

The problem I have with this is that if you help people based on the their status of being homeless, then do they stop qualifying once they are off the street? That kind of thing is what keeps poor people stuck. It's why the American welfare system is broken. You first have to qualify as "poor" and often some other thing to get assistance. Countries that just, say, provide national healthcare for all citizens, because you exist, help reduce the gap between rich and poor. Stuff like this helps widen it.

We need to think about how to remove barriers so all people can live well and all that but you need to treat very carefully with programs which are framed such that you are basically rewarded for having a problem. That just tends to promote having that problem. (That's what the American welfare has done: It changed the social contract to reward being a poor, single mom such that it increased the incidence of poor, single moms in the population. Great job, that.)
Disclaimer: I am from Germany.

The speeding system we have here seems to make a lot more sense to me: On most highways, there is no speed limit. The only (theoretical) limit is the motor limitation of 155 mph (250 km/h), which can be taken out, but will almost always lead to losing any kind of motor warranty.

In practice, there are limiting signs to 75 mph (120 km/h) for passages where the road is not good enough or there are narrow curves, unclear conditions etc. In my experience, this system works wonderfully: when the road is good, you can drive as fast as you like, so people are more concious about paying attention to the road and their rear mirrors, especially when hogging up the left lane.

I acknowledge that completely overtaking this system would be impossible for the US, simply because the roads are not up to it and the driving tests are not rigorous enough, but I think Germany serves as a fine example that there would be no harm in raising the speed limits a few notches.
What parts of Austin are those big companies located in? (When I left Austin in 2007 Google had just announced an office, which they closed a couple years later.)
>>Of course there are some drawbacks of being a female CEO. When you’re a woman in charge, you do have to work a bit more to get credibility and have people listen to you...

The way my company's CEO, who is also female, put it: "when you're a woman, people in business don't take you seriously until you are successful."

I'm a guy, but I see this phenomenon everyday when observing the way my female coworkers are treated by (male) managers. The good-looking ones have it worst, in my opinion: while their looks may give them an advantage in certain situations, they often have to work extra hard to get noticed, and when they do become successful, their success is attributed to their looks instead of their intelligence and hard work.
I'm also in the "drive a little under 10 over" camp, and I totally accept that once every 10 years (or whenever), I'm going to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and get a ticket for it. I'm OK with that. It's not fair, but it's well below the bar of meaningful injustice for me to really care about it all that much.
It's kind of a weird idiom because you end up with a class 'Position' inheriting from another class named 'Position'
“We need to start emphasizing the success of women CEOs instead of the womanliness of successful CEOs.”

I cried male tears of joy, and when I showed this to my friend, she smiled as well. I'd upvote more than once if I could.
I studied Structural Engineering in University, which was under the Civil program, and, at least in Canada, we don't design for what people will go, but for how drivers can handle unexpected conditions, like cars turning out in front of them, a loss of traction due to ice, and visibility at night. I've also seen multiple studies that show that during high visibility / traction days (summer during the daytime) the speed limit can be safely raised to at least 130km/h for most highways that are 100km/h.

One interesting thing I observed while driving to university was that there was this one section of highway that was marked at 60km/h, but everybody drove around 95km/h. Every now and then there would be a cop that would give out a bunch of tickets, but it didn't seem to change the speed people went.

Well it turned out that the person that ordered the sign had a dyslexic moment, and the speed limit was later changed to 90km/h. What was interesting was that the design of highway (the guards, the lane width, the shoulder, the banking of the ramps) were all cues for drivers and they drove the actual intended speed without regard to the maximum speed sign.

I think that's neat.
Fexl – Highly robust functional evaluation
"The AI will chase us there pretty quickly." Erp.
I fail to see how that would make this any less impressive.
This version handles syntax errors, out of memory errors, and out of time errors, propagating them upward instead of halting with an error message, and reporting them in an orderly fashion at the end of the main program. Now the only calls to "die" are those which should never happen, i.e. they are pure assertions which are never expected to fail.

This allows for some very nice embedded calls to parsing and evaluation from within a Fexl program itself, which can always be expected to return to the caller instead of halting.

Ultimately I'm going to put a full-powered interpreter right on the web to allow arbitrary programs submitted from strangers, and this release is a necessary prerequisite for that.
Very interesting. How well do you think that 65 MPH internalized limit (during R&P) mapped to the 85/15% split as described in the original article?

Do you have any other insights into other factors that might have contributed to the change in fatalities, or do you think it was just as simple as "people are driving 10 MPH faster on average", with correlated increases in fatality rates?
>It's not like Chess is some weird, esoteric game where there is a gray area of whether or not moves are legal or not.

Actually it is exactly like that.

If you play tournament chess, like USCF tournaments, then there's no doubt what the rules are. However if you play casual chess, like with some random guy in the park, then be prepared for some misunderstandings.

Some things casual players think are rules:

Pawns move two squares only on the first move of the *game* not the first move of the pawn

You can't promote a pawn the move after it arrives on the 7th rank, you have to wait a move

Perpetual check is illegal (somewhat like the Ko rule in go)

Capturing En Passant is generally not known

So when I'm playing a stranger I always ask if they've played any tournaments, not to gauge how strong they are, but to see if they'll know the rules of chess.
An Argument for Building Multiple Apps at the Same Time
Looks like there are at least 150 affected devices: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=title%3Asynolocker
> The facts should speak for themselves regardless of what each of us wants.

But when I'm looking for facts I should prefer well constructed research, and not a documentary.
What tool do you use for simple money management?
Wondering what tool(s) you guys/gals use for simple money management. I've tried Mint in the past, but I don't need a budgeting tool, per say, and it's bells and whistles were more than I needed.

I seem to simply want something where I can manage my inflows and outflows and figure out what I have left at the end of each month.

Any simple tools out there for this that maybe I have not come across?

What do you use?
Technically and linguistically speaking, "female" is an adjective, and "woman" is a noun. You'd talk about a woman who is a CEO, or a female CEO. Some professions and niches, often in the sciences, use female and male as nouns: i.e., "the female of the species," or "the subject is a Caucasian male, 47." This latter usage is becoming increasingly common, to the point where the exclusively adjectival nature of "male" and "female" is being erased. Meanings and usage are pretty fluid over time.

Of course, words like woman, man, female, and male also have connotations above and beyond their technical parts of speech, such as the connotations Mathilde talks about.
Sounds like you're in the Milwaukee area? I'm from there, but likely won't move back due to the lack of job opportunities. For others curious about Wisconsin, Madison isn't much more expensive and has significantly better tech job opportunities, so far as I hear.
> This is just another reason why all browsers (not just mobile) should be reporting their screen size. As in, the actual height/width.

That's completely useless, 1cm on a mobile device and 1cm on a desktop are not the same for a user, to say nothing of 1cm on a TV screen, an Oculus Rift (where would you even measure size there?) or a projector (which would require a rangefinder for precise estimation and will probably vary slightly over the whole surface, won't that be fun?)

> Not pixels. Pixels lie and so do browsers, actually.

And you'd expect them to lie less for "physical dimensions"… why?

> Did you know that the CSS spec has 'in' and 'mm' as size options? Yet when you set the font-size to '1in' you will almost never get a font that is one inch tall because the browser is hard-coded to assume that the user's display is 96dpi. It drives me crazy and it will only get worse over time as we get a larger variety of devices.

Before suggested that others read the CSS spec, you may want to do so yourself:

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#absolute-lengths

> For lower-resolution devices, and devices with unusual viewing distances, it is recommended instead that the anchor unit be the pixel unit. For such devices it is recommended that the pixel unit refer to the whole number of device pixels that best approximates the reference pixel.

> The reference pixel is the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm's length. For a nominal arm's length of 28 inches, the visual angle is therefore about 0.0213 degrees. For reading at arm's length, 1px thus corresponds to about 0.26 mm (1/96 inch).

> We need to stop the madness (that was introduced by Apple with the pretend-the-screen-has-this-many-pixels nonsense)

That's not going to happen. Every time some schmuck advocates "practicality > purity" somebody down the road will have to support their "practical choice" and you end up with virtual pixels because all content is completely broken if you use actual physical pixels.

> switch to accurate screen size/dpi reporting.

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/06/devicepixelr...

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/07/more_about_d...
New Website Reveals Google Forgotten Search Results
If you don't want to have your data sitting in the cloud somewhere, try this:

http://goryachev.com/products/taskmaster/index.html
As an experienced chess player, there are some situations in which people who know the rules still might get tripped up on. For example, consider the situation:

K R r
_ _ _
k _ _

Can `k` move to the right? Someone who isn't familiar with this situation might think so, because `R` is pinned to `K` by `r`, but it turns out that even though `R` can't move to the square right of `k`, `R` can still give check to it, so the move would be illegal.

Then you also get people who don't know about rules regarding castling through check, etc.

Basically what I'm getting at is, there are moves that even people who casually play chess might misunderstand, so OP was implying that they were not one of these people.
As someone who does quite a bit of survey work, this looks great for lightweight stuff. I'm biased, but a key part of almost all survey work I do involves cross tabulation, which requires an ability to manipulate the collected data. Do you have any plans to handle data export to SPSS files, or to have a web-based analysis tool that would enable generating simple cross-tab reports?

Also, a small nit: lack of www caused a heroku 404 page, not sure why. After clicking the link once, this stopped happening.
I shouldn't have to do anything as they should have their basic needs cared for by the state through govt. agencies paid for by taxation. This idea that the welfare of the worst off can be left to ad-hoc private charity is just cruel.
We don't need to eat other animals to survive.

Why should animals suffer for our pleasure and/or convenience?

Define suffering.

If you raise them in conditions not worse than they'd face in the wild, and kill them in a way that they die quickly (which is far better than they'd face in the wild), what's the problem?
There still remains the problem - they were raised for the ethically iffy purpose of being our lunch. E.g. you could make the same argument about 'wild' humans, were we don't try to justify raising, killing and eating them. Of course its different, but how different? That's the issue.
Could be OKC is just good at PR. The mayor is an ex-TV celebrity and a perfectly reasonable person who makes a good interview. They interviewed him on NPR recently and his side was, in summary, they needed to spend money so they raised a tax and spent the money.

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145437581/oklahoma-city-avoids...

It's a pretty good example of why Republicans make good mayors, even when state and national level Republican politicians are insane.
We could also stop breeding animals into miserable existences in order to fatten them up and slaughter them for our consumption (which, in addition to causing suffering, causes great harm to the environment as well).

We could also sterilize the planet and end suffering entirely.
This is not that different than the slut paradox. Most people are having less sex than the people they're having sex with, mostly because of a fair number of super-sluts (male and female) that have sex with a large number of people.

edit: clarification: I'm one of those super-sluts.
Frankly the conclusions of that video are "cars are safer, so we can drive faster" which totally glosses over the fact that cars are safer and fatalities are down as a result. Raising the speed limit raises the fatality rate back up to 1950's level and that point just isn't made.

Ultimately, how many deaths are acceptable for people to get to work 5 minutes earlier?
>Why not "human fonts" or "people fonts"?

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then the lanes are striped with "person first" language (and all of its mutations).
Machinery – A Systems Management Toolkit for Linux
Mattt Thompson kicking ass and taking names per usual :)
Automation is Auxiliary – Don’t Rush to Test
I think it would work to just make the inside lane unrestricted and only have speed limits on the outer lanes. That way, slow and fast drivers aren't endangering each other because they're in completely separate streams of traffic.
Experimental drug improves ebola patients’ condition
Regarding Houston, it's among the fastest growing cities in the US. People are moving there in droves from the coasts. It's also not even remotely as cheap as a lot of people think.
Which wireless router do you own? Why?
I am looking for a wireless router for my home office. Looking to see what HN has? What do you think about the best pick here? http://wraws.com/the-best-home-wireless-wi-fi-router/
That doesn't follow at all; foreign drug companies sell plenty of drugs to Americans. The test of that assertion is to look at when drugs have been introduced to different markets, compared to R&D costs and the price the manufacturer got for them.
> Perhaps we're more interested in angular sizes

Which is how the reference pixel is defined:

> The reference pixel is the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm's length. For a nominal arm's length of 28 inches, the visual angle is therefore about 0.0213 degrees. For reading at arm's length, 1px thus corresponds to about 0.26 mm (1/96 inch).
The good news is that at least Tornadoes come with plenty of warning (visible, audible, TV, radio, etc.).
That's actually quite depressing. "You are always surrounded by people who are more popular than you."
Clickable: http://wraws.com/the-best-home-wireless-wi-fi-router/
1K ZX81 chess:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/
http://ledger-cli.org/
I tend to put things into categories like food, electronics, bills, etc and can run a report each month to see how much was spend in each category. I can also determine how much was left at the end of the month and transfer that amount to savings after the first paycheck of the new month has come in.
Using WebCode to create a Pixelation-Free Logo
Excellent example. I've noticed a few roads by me that are marked for 45mph that made me think, "woah, that speed limit is quite high for this road", but then I realized that it's actually on-par with the actual speed that people drive on that road (40-45). Then, there are other roads that are marked for 30mph that everyone drives 50mph on and you wonder wtf they were thinking when they set that limit.

Also, the State Police in my state, PA, typically won't pull you over on a highway marked 55mph unless you're doing over 80mph, so what does that tell you?
It's actually supposed to, but there's a bug. Thanks for pointing this out. Fixing now... Fixed.
The video doesn't play on my Chrome (loads though).

Version 36.0.1985.125 m (Windows 8.1 Enterprise OS)
Teamwork is fun, but in the end of the day you want a proof that you are capable of doing great things on your own. To make things worse, development can be a creative occupation. All game artists have personal pieces in their portfolios.
Does anyone know what Apple uses Cassandra for?
SumoMe is not exactly free(they have paid upgrades as you suggested). The differentiating factor is the WYSIWYG pop builder which lets you completely customize the popup to match your website.
Cython? Numba?
I'm sure you hear this all the time, but it's my understanding that US drivers are not nearly as well "trained" as German drivers. Anecdata, yes yes. It's trivially easy to acquire and maintain a driving permit here in the States, and it shows.

(US citizen here - I don't know about German drivers, but of course the skills of Germans are legendary. The automotive media tells us all German drivers are as skilled as Walter Röhrl. I'm only partially kidding.)
How we nearly doubled driver reliability
The apple ones just work. Most other brands at the home office price point have a good chance of dying in two years. Source: the consulting firm I used to work for installed hundreds of this class of router and the apple ones pretty much never broke.
When I lived in Lincoln Park, Chicago (a dense urban neighborhood), there were no speed limit signs. I think the speed limit was 25 mph, but between the narrow streets, parked cars, frequent intersections, and lots of pedestrians, I rarely felt comfortable going faster than 20. They could have had 100 mph stop signs all over the place and I still wouldn't have gone faster than 20.
And we all know male founders are always taken serious from the start. No male founder ever had problems convincing their parents that they are on the right track. People the male founder meets are always convinced his startup is the next Google.

Sorry, but I think your observations are just confirmation bias.
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yeah, but the fact that there even exists hole-in-the-floor public toilets in Japan kinda ruins your argument. I've been there, and seen it myself multiple times. In the US, I've never seen a hole in the floor bathroom anywhere except camp grounds. (I've also never seen a massaging, heated toilet seat either)
This movie will be number one on IMDB!
"linguistically speaking" words mean whatever native speakers use them to mean... the field of linguistics would be pretty boring if it were about writing down mostly-arbitrary rules for people to follow.
Yes, the main point is that I pay more attention when driving faster on a freeway. One need only take a road trip in Australia to see how ridiculous low speed limits on open roads are. 110 kmh limit with, yes, very strong enforcement in place, in a completely rural area with few cars around, no people, no pedestrians, on a long drive (it's ten hours from Melbourne to Sydney with basically nothing in between).

Result -- zone out on cruise control, look at your phone, talk to others in the car, etc. Focus on the road? Nope.
Curious how contracting helped you realize this. Did you work more or less hours while contracting? How did contract work help you avoid burnout?
IMO, to be a successful CEO, women have to give up as much personal life as men do. if raising children is part of the equation, it just depends on how much either sex is willing to give that up for a career. i believe i've read that Elon's family is pretty hard-hit on the available-father standpoint stemming from his ambitions.

also, depending on the size of the company, i think women CEOs need to take on some atypically aggressive and assertive business characteristics that are unbecoming of either sex but are typically more acceptable in society for men to step into.

could a woman be the next Larry Ellison? certainly yes, but not without first taking on his asshole qualities. the aggressive characteristics that make him a great multi-$bn CEO also make him a pretty hated guy in many circles. there's a difference between business-respect and personal-respect, some people don't give a shit about the latter and will step on their partners' throats to get ahead.
On a perhaps related note, a road I used to drive regularly had many curves and signs warning you to slow down at each one. Only one of the curves actually required you to slow down to navigate it safely. Guess which corner was where all of the accidents happened? If you "cry wolf" too often, people will ignore the speed limit (or caution signs or whatever). If, however, the speed limit is usually appropriate, people will take note when it changes, and drive appropriately.
Teither that or a telepathic connection. To rule the latter out you could design some experiments. For example a variant of one of the psychic pet studies. Use a webcam to log and analyze motion and correlate with coming home at random times.
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Ah, thank you. I was under the impression that Medicaid was just another form of insurance, which would need to be paid for like normal insurance.

That sounds similar to Medicare (Australia), although I haven't had to use Medicare to pay for medications.

That certainly does make it seem like they're attempting to price gouge the government, because "they can afford to pay".
RFID and Loyalty Program concept