skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend suggests another motive: government power over the newspapers, because they can decide to take away the tax (and income for the newspapers) at any time.

There's nothing good coming out of this.
I think I'll print that as a giant wall poster and bumper sticker.
I don't think you're disagreeing with the article's premise. Your "horrible drivers" can include people who either drive far too fast or far too slow, thus creating a speed differential. Lt. Megge's idea concedes that you can't get the fast drivers to slow down, but maybe you can get the slow drivers to speed up.

(Aside, I agree 100% about more rigorous licensing. I spend 3 hrs on the highway each day; easily 80% of the drivers I see are utterly incompetent: texting, driving slow in the left lane, passing on the right, lights off at night, falling asleep, etc. Heck, I saw one driver eating out of a bowl with both hands.)
Building a community Not a SPAM list
That would likely make the road more dangerous for the 85% who drive under the limit. Like any engineering project, roads must be designed with headroom…
A Kardashian index for overrated researchers
I'm actually impressed. Most of the news I hear out of the midwest is how the libertarian movement has stripped most municipalities of money to make any improvements.
This is consistent with most drivers behaving like _archon_ (and like me). For example, if every driver thinks she can safely drive 90 mph, but 80%, like _archon_ and me, stay below 10 over the limit out of fear of police, while 20% drive as fast as they like, then raising the limit from 60 to 70 will have no effect on the 85th percentile.

The article seems to quietly conflate the fastest 15% of drivers ignoring the limit with "most drivers" ignoring the limit. Which is odd. However, even under the _archon_ model, increasing the limit would lead to a reduction in speed variance.
I highly recommend Codebender.cc which is an Online IDE for Arduino.
It has code completion, a lot of already included libraries (you can request for your own), a huge list with examples, the ability to share your code or find another user's code and its on the cloud.

For setting up your computer, you don't need to install any special heavy development kit except Codebender's plugin. I remember that after completing a getting started guide in 5 minutes I was able to program my Arduino board!

Cheers
Planes Can Be Hacked Via Wi-Fi
My ego is saved by its weak endgame but it plays a pretty decent opening all on its own.
The data in the Wikipedia article you cite can also be sorted by road fatalities by 1 billion vehicle/kms. This accounts for variance in population, auto ownership, and amount of driving.

Country and traffic fatalities per 1b veh/kms.

United Arab Emirates 310
Brazil	55.9
Slovakia	24.5
South Korea	22.8
Bulgaria	19.1
Estonia	17.5
Cyprus	16.7
Czech Republic	15.7
Malaysia	13.8
Spain	8.5
New Zealand	8.3
Japan	8.3
Belgium	7.7
United States of America	7.6
Slovenia	7.6
Austria	6.9
France	6.3
Canada	6.1
Switzerland	5.6
Israel	5.2
Australia	5.2
Germany	4.9
Netherlands	4.9
Malta	4.9
Finland	4.7
United Kingdom	4.3
Iceland	3.8
Sweden	3.7
Ireland	3.4
Denmark	3.4
Norway	3.3

As usual, everyone in the Nordics is home counting bullion, so nothing going on there. But among the more vibrant quarters the U.S. doesn't seem especially dangerous.
They have lots of pixels, though, which means you should be able to go higher than nyquist with some clever work.

With two time samples you shouldn't be able to learn anything about the state of waves in a pool, but if each sample is a photograph with lots of pixels you can actually tell a lot.
Nice work.

However, in the example on the main page when you choose sentences it thinks that "Blast.js" is a sentence with the beginning of another. I think that you should ignore a dot if it's there to declare a file extension.
Pretty neat stuff. Looks like the move generator is missing a few features like underpromotion but it is very concise. I wrote a rudimentary engine + move generator[1] using bitboards[2] a couple of years ago. Unfortunately python poorly suited for bitmath optimizations because it doesn't support fixed width integers. Once I saw how slow my movegen went compared to a c version, I gave up on finishing up the minimax search to complete the engine. It does run quite a bit faster in pypy but still no easy way to force 64 bit integers.

[1] https://github.com/vishvananda/ivory
[2] https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Bitboards
yes, but you are a full time paid employee throughout the traineeship, so it's not really comparable to the years spent studying for a jd. i don't think there is any qualitative difference in the work a trainee solicitor does vs. a newly minted jd in the US.

qualifying as a barrister is a tortuous and, to an outsider, bizarre process, but they are definitely a minority of the legal workforce.
Without commenting too much on the narrative aspects of this (because to be honest it sort of feels a bit exploitative and icky), I think these typefaces could be improved quite a bit with the use of some more-powerful OpenType features, and particularly random contextual alternates, which let you supply multiple variants of a given glyph of which one is selected at random each time. It makes handwriting typefaces feel a lot more organic and natural, since as it is, anytime you have double letters the illusion is broken as it's plainly obvious that it's the exact same letter form on the page twice (see, for example, the double L in Guillermo's name).

For an example, see http://www.graphics.com/news-old/p22-releases-c%C3%A9zanne-p...
Things like this are why I use key commands or gestures for navigating from a page.
A lot of the reviews now are purely trolling. Streisand effect in full swing, but I expect many of these will be removed by Yelp since they aren't from people who were actually guests. I'm sure that violates Yelp's TOS as well.

The owners stole one sock from every single pair I brought with me.
When I complained the manager showed up at my door with all my socks
stapled to his body and said I was being delusional.

Also none of the rooms have beds.
The difference is most other food-delivery services tap into an already built-in delivery infrastructure.

Is this true? Seems like every modern food delivery company (DoorDash, et al) does this.
>'That's (supposedly) because a ticket for anything less than 10mph is simply not worth it for the cops.'

Depends on your cops.

I've witnessed tickets for 5 over (40 in a 45), 4 over (49 in a 45) and a stop, thankfully without a ticket for 1 over (31 in 30).

I'm given to thinking of it as a lottery. Someone is getting pulled over, today me, tomorrow someone else. I'm just glad I haven't had a case of 'marijuana smell' for 10 years or so.
Of course, "credit" is how the modern banking system works.

So an "IP layer for credit" is infinitely more valuable (if it works…which is a big if).
That video only gained traction in social media because it is telling people want they want to hear. It's always important to filter everything you read through "do I want to believe the thesis/conclusion of this?" Because a lot of people throw critical thinking out the window when they want to believe something.
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2672
Corporations Are Not People, For Now
> We will need to invent telepathic communication (mind to mind) to preserve privacy.

Or maybe it's time to think how to adapt to a world without privacy?
It looks nice as intended. Related note, I have found a lot of the cruft is needed in building and accessing the JSON bits, of which I only saw a small example on your page. Even then, I'm not sure how much I like the approximated syntax. Worried that it might be confusing it you don't look carefully for braces.
If I was to use Varnish, would that make my need for Redis obsolete - should I switch to a non-memory based key-value db and use Varnish on top of that?

My current stack: nginx/php-fpm/redis. Nginx and Redis serve me well, but php-fpm makes my website rather slow with high volumes of traffic, so I believe the solution for that would be Varnish(?).
Hm, I see. It was more a reference to an alternative form application that serves a different audience. I'll have what you said in mind from now on.

Thanks for explaining the reason to me!
You could always build a robot that allows him to explore the world from the safety of his tank: http://io9.com/watch-this-goldfish-steer-its-very-own-roboti...
To elaborate on why it "isn't worth it for the cops"... friends who are in law enforcement have explained to me that it's too easy to get a ticket thrown out for anything under 10mph due to arguments of device/speedometer precision.
The MAPS projects were funded by a temporary one-cent sales tax increase that was proposed by the city, and the citizens voted to approve. The first MAPS project was so successful that the voters passed MAPS2, and now we're on MAPS3.

A good article with a nice summary of events is here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mick-cornett/oklahoma-city-map...
Why did Pearson sell the stake if the business of Safari is good?
It seems significant that the ExitIntent site doesn't use ExitIntent, aside from in the demo.

Is it because they know deep down it's annoying and spammy?
I understand what you mean. But one thing I'd like to mention is, if you think about it, there are already several concept pieces worth several billions of dollars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films, and others, in terms of hundreds of millions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_arti..., etc.

I'd also like for readers unfamiliar with 4'33 to read up about it, and what was said about it at the time.
The 'instant gratification economy' is nothing new
That doesn't have to be the case. There are ways to make a road where people want to drive more slowly but that isn't any less safe.
I've heard a lot of claims of things being standard advice (not picking on you, just this is commonly used expression) where the thing in question isn't standard, and is actually harmful or detrimental (or more specifically, highly biased in favor of the person handing out the "advice")

All of the "advice" I've seen from Venture Capitalists have been self serving rationalizations that almost never are really "standard" terms as much as they would like them to be.

For example, in one company I worked with, every employee had an anti-dilution clause. This didn't keep the VCs away.
I really like this idea. I'd love to see this at a larger scale as well (i.e. hundreds of teams) as part of a conference or something.
A gambling site that allows you to make Dutch books? Lunch is on me!
This only makes sense as a solution to the problem "some people are going faster than the little sign says they should". By design, it doesn't make anyone any safer; it makes them less safe. What problem are we trying to solve?
As an Okie (now living in NY), the last two are very accurate. Can't say I've heard much on 1) but polite or quiet racism is definitely prominent. The state hates Obama, hates renewable energy (even though it could be a leader in both wind and solar energy), and hates rational thinking.

If you're not a church goer or conservative, imho, it's not an enjoyable place. You will be outnumbered 90-1. And once you've lived in a community that has a vibrant artistic community (that you partake in), it becomes very difficult to enjoy a city that just doesn't respect that (and doesn't feed that part of your life).

And I say this as someone who loves Oklahoma. But it's problems far outweigh the positives for me to ever move back. I'll take NY or LA along with the expense over a cheaper growing "town".

<edit> And having lived thru the oil bust in the 80s, and how much OKC is married to the wealth and growth of Devon, Chesapeake and the oil/gas industry, another bust or even long periods of negative growth will kill the OK economy. The state leaders won't have the will to counteract that force with investments in tech and renewable energy.
If you wish to know what 50-something suburban southwestern housewives care about, go out and spend time with 50-something suburban southwestern housewives.

When you have a community that is predominately creators, expect all well-known unsolved problems to require some great leap to be solved, because easier ones would be solved already. When you have a community that predominately isn't creators, those regular, common-day problems do go unsolved. So go talk to those housewives already!
Ask HN: What you use for task scheduling in Python + Flask?
Celery seems too heavy for doing causal scheduling like calling APIs every hour and doing some database based calculation.

How promising "Advanced Python Scheduler" is, have you used it?

Are there any good libraries available for Python + Flask?
Elon Musk is More Dangerous than AI
Unfortunately this program doesn't play legal chess. When I played the program it did not move its king out of attack when checked. And yes, I've played enough chess to know an illegal move when I see one.
Usually either or both: Calories In > Calories Out
>My point is that marketing for medicine is an almost 100% waste for society as a whole. It serves no useful purpose except to move market shares between functionally identical products.

If people could instantly know about which drugs are relevant to them, or doctors meticulously searched the literature for all available treatments for all patients, then alerting the world about the existence of your new drug would be a complete waste. But we don't live in that world.

If pharmas really are offering identical products, that's a problem of creating unnecessary drugs, not marketing per se, and would be exposed when the relevant people make the cost benefit calculation.
I hope you get punched in the face.
The Priceonomics article's main point is that raising speed limits doesn't (much) raise actual speed, so it's not inconsistent with papers (like the one you linked) that show that increased speed causes more and worse accidents.
Seamless and GrubHub operate like that, they just bring an online interface (and easy management) to the store's pre-existing delivery employees.
no it's true in any sense. for those committed to credentialism, why not increase the difficulty of the bar exam until is a sufficiently thorough mark of preparation for a legal career, and then do away with the jd altogether?

i'm really not sure it's possible to launch a robust defence of the three year JD, bearing in mind the goals of the average student (not a life of scholarship) and the cost of full time education.
Prototyping Apps for Bootstrap 3
Redis Queue: http://python-rq.org
https://github.com/mattupstate/flask-rq
Show HN: Made a URL shortener for fun
> in the South/Southwest, where water resources are more scarce?

As opposed to the SF Bay area, which has convenient fresh water resources... dependent on dwindling snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas.
It's 2014 guys, not 80s or something. No-one needs to be forced by the author to read black texts over white background. Using memes, which are the most popular way of expressing feelings nowadays, is a good way to keep reader focused on the content without boring them bunch of new or uncommon stuff.
If that was about php/mysql article, "adamors" might be right but this is a piece of information that we can call "priceless". So, enjoy and go try even if you fail.
> And yes, I've played enough chess to know an illegal move when I see one.

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.

Maybe I'm biased. I'm currently working on a toy chess engine myself.
Maybe they want the money right now? Why would anyone sell anything if it's worth something?
I have been in a number of driver at fault cycling collisions. Although I was never hit from behind I have had 3 near misses by cars going over 40 mph. It isn't a low likelihood event.
Virtual machine for Morris Mano's book
Thanks. However, there is still a possibility that mechanical vibration is coming to the video sensor through some path (floor+camera tripod), and affecting the video. After all mechanical vibration is affecting the potato chips. Why is it so impossible to affect video sensor? Especially in the sensitive high speed camera? Let the downvotes begin :)
That's not a refutation of the facts presented in the video though. There seem to be an equal number of people who support the status quo and don't want to look at facts that challenge what they want to hear.

The facts should speak for themselves regardless of what each of us wants.
Can you give some examples of searches which provide really good results? Or some idea of what use cases you would use the search for?
Given the large differences in standards, training, and attitudes about driving in the US vs. Germany. I would say calling American drivers as a whole, shittier, than German drivers is a not too far off assessment.
Pretty cool. I once wrote a C++ program to play me in chess. It was ~5000 lines of code! I can appreciation this script.

I think a more interesting problem now is to create computer algorithms that can be "taught" the rules of a board game --- a problem that falls squarely in the domain of supervised learning. In the studies I've found, the algorithms were provided with a lot of prior knowledge about the specific board game, so there may be a lot of room for progress.
Because O'Reilly paid what its value was. It seems like O'Reilly started regretting having Pearson as a partner and just wanted to buy it back so they could do what they really want.
> I just passed it off as a typical Hollywood trope

I often wonder what makes people to pass off things like that as "typical tropes", where they are obviously realistic and doable.
Wrote my masters thesis in transportation planning on traffic calming. Peer review or it didn't happen. Not that peer review is perfect, but a viral video with an obvious agenda doesn't do it for me.
> driving slow in the left lane, passing on the right

Is this two problems or one?
This is the definitive guide:

http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/rate/
Thanks for the write-up. What's the climate like? Does it feel weird not being able to drive to a beach/ocean easily? How did you decide on OKC? I've always imaged Boulder would be nice if I ever moved inland?
The original purveyors of flat design were well intentioned. They based their designs on sound principles (simplicity, authenticity, mobile-first). They didn't intend to have their designs turn into a rigid style.

Other designers started to notice. People started blogging about the "flat design movement" (which didn't yet exist, but nevertheless made for a great headline). Some designers agreed with the sentiment and copied the style.

Then, nobody could deny the impact of flat design. It was everywhere.

But for every designer out there, there are hundreds of imitators. They call themselves designers, but all they know how to do is clone a certain look. They are like the skilled painters who make forgeries of famous paintings, but can't paint originals. They started copying the flat design they saw everywhere. Except they didn't understand the principles behind flat design. They used it where it was not appropriate. They took it to absurd extremes. They disregarded readability, usability, and originality in pursuit of a certain look.

So now you have the same bad design everywhere.

Design fads exist because most most web designers are really imitators. They don't tailor a solution to fit the problems. They are just good at imitating other people's solutions. And since most founders / bosses / HR people aren't designers either, the imitators get hired.
I already have PostgreSQL, so having Redis would be additional pain. But, thanks, will check it out.
We do use ExitIntent on our site. Please click on "See it in action" link below. We kept it like this so that if user wants to see the demo multiple times , they can see it working. The actual exitintent wouldn't work if user wanted to see it multiple times, as popups are shown only once per user per site
Great example, it now clicks. We lifted b all the way up because it needs to be consumed by the caller, might as well lift a as well, as types with free variables, like b in "forall a.a -> b", are useless. Which looks a lot like let-polymorphism :)
Ask HN: YC: 10-year equity term for equity from YC companies?
Per Sam Altman's blog post[0], are new options grants from some if not all YC companies already using 10-year terms regardless of employment status?

[0] http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
Hybrids and electric cars should broadcast their position.
> like PhotoStation, CloudStation, WebDAV,

There are secure ways to run things and insecure ways to run things. It's very possible to setup a postfix or exim smtp server as an insecure open relay running on port 25. It's also possible to have either running securely on port 25... And an open port is meaningless by itself. It's the security options applied by the system and application running a service on the port that matter.

The examples you give are just applications that run over http or https... https requires an SSL cert from a trusted CA, and http is a very bad idea for anything that you log into, or that has free access to your home network from the Internet.

I imagine most users skip this step...
http://docs.qnap.com/nas/4.0/en/security.htm?zoom_highlights...

Note, the SSL certificate instructions...
You can upload a secure certificate issued by a trusted provider. After uploading a secure certificate, users can connect to the administration interface of the NAS by SSL connection and there will not be any alert or error message.

...

The error message referred to here is the web browser message indicating that the SSL certificate doesn't match a trusted CA, and therefore your "secure" NAS connection might be Man-In-The-Middle attacked... And if you don't upload an SSL cert - and connect via http externally - it means that the most amateur of "bad guys" already has your 30 character username and your 45 digit/character/special character password...
The world may not need another url shortener, but I was looking for a fun little project and this fit the bill. An api is in the works, and then I'll add stats and user accounts to manage links etc.
Cloud API for interesting facts about numbers
I just use a Trello board for my personal todo lists, it's simple and I know it won't be going away anytime soon. You can add attachments, due dates and all sorts of nice little things in a card.
I use it to manage projects with collaborators too so everything is in one place which is nice for me.
Shameless plug, my side-project: http://flisti.com/ -- Flisti, a free poll creator without signing up.
How to Build an Entity Component System Game in JavaScript
Show HN: A CLI for the Pirate Bay
I use safari books a lot. There is a lot of information in all those books which is either not found online at all, or is very difficult to uncover/assemble. If google doesn't have my answer, safari most of the time does.

I hope they don't change it too much, as I quite like the service as it is.
Tough to quantify "obsolete." You can put caching layer upon caching layer upon caching layer, but diminishing returns kick in almost immediately.

Ideally you have one caching model to rule them all, unless you're doing a lot of module-specific caching (ie, this element should be cached longer than this element, etc.)
> Shit happens.

This is not the case where you can use 'shit happens' and write this off like it's not a big deal.

When you work mostly for options (which is already pretty much a scam) and receive little to no pay, this is not 'shit happens' this is 'I need to feed my self and my family' type of situation.
Md5 anything on DuckDuckGo
My favorite of these: I've worked with a few people who used "huh" for the coffeescript `?` operator.
Might be time to start looking into more diverse news sources.
Snowden latest: NSA targets Gaza, pumps intelligence to Israel