skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone who's lived through the opposite experience (grew up seeing the wrong thing not believing, found the right thing and believed), I think it comes from the repeated dissonance between reading/being taught one thing, and then not seeing that thing actually lived out. Turns out that when you actually see people practicing what they preach on a large scale, things can turn out quite different!

I can only imagine people don't try and affect change for the same reasons they don't try and affect change in politics at large, namely that the issue seems so large that they can't see themselves making any headway against a seemingly advancing tide.
Give me an insurance rate reduction and I'll bite.
But the project could actually be how easy it is to manipulate the media
To Engineer Is Human – A Film for the National Academy of Engineering
Is this anything like how phased-array radar works?
> BS in psychology

Ah yes. Do you also give philosophical advice by any chance?

Displays like this are standard on a lot of high end performance vehicles. The teams who worked on stuff like this can run circles around your BS in psychology.

I drove cars with this technology and it's actually better since you don't have to look down at the wheel or at the awkwardly mounted portable GPS/phone that usually falls off the mount every other day.

http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newvehicles/mseries/m5sedan/2013/s...
Forgot to add coffee and chocolate as the top evil foods of the past.
While I agree with a majority of the posts, I have some reservations - uploading to CPAN and PrePan is not as simple as a git push. Registering through PAUSE and then properly uploading to CPAN with a zip file through their UI or through FTP.

I think CPAN and co could use an infrastructure update.
>and even run Java

A very limited subset of Java, like Java Card. No garbage collection, no arbitrary objects, limited numeric types, etc.
They would say it's a bold new move.
PRT has a checkered image. Transit planners dislike PRT and its advocates for a number of reasons. The big one is that in principle, modality isn't key to providing mobility - you can get it from a car, a bus, or a rail system as long as each of those things reach destinations you're interested in with appropriate frequency and capacity; the sustainability of the system is a measure of how the system is planned, as much as it is the modalities it encompasses. If your city is such that everyone commutes in big morning and evening rush hours to known "downtown" destinations, you can already plan the capacity and routes around that with adjustments to bus and train schedules. In turn this intersects with other urban planning goals around how to develop the city as a whole - transit guides zoning and zoning guides transit, and those things aren't easily separated.

So when PRT boosters come in and proclaim a silver bullet by switching modality, skepticism is natural. I think the technology is worthy myself(and I was more strongly for it once upon a time) but it has to be a fit for the overall policy, and this explains why its foothold has been in airports, where a very easy case can be made for 24/7 on-demand capacity. A PRT-centric policy at the city level would imply that everyone wants to go to arbitrary destinations at any time of day, which is purely a win for any individual rider, and probably is ideal for cities in general, but rings false for a planner dealing with the here-and-now.
Reminds me of the time in grade 3 my music teacher told me about Mozart and how he was arrested as a kid for transcribing a song he heard because people thought he "stole" it. I thought no way adults are this stupid.
Isis video claims to show beheading of British hostage David Haines
This is the knee-jerk reaction de jure of our age.

New York has made it a very serious moving violation (5 points, equivalent to speeding 40 mph over the limit) to have any electronic device in your hand. It's ok to use devices affixed to the dashboard, including GPS devices. If your a teenaged driver, you automatically get a 60 day suspension.

Using technical controls to govern behavior is bad policy. There's a reason why jamming radio signals is a serious crime -- it's too easy to make unanticipated mistakes.
Because bars and restaurants are private property?
In some terrain, rear suspension is advantageous both in climbing and descending. When descending, it keeps wheel planted on the ground for better control and braking. When climbing rough terrain, it similarly can keep the back wheel planted for better traction.

Some folks also get bikes with rear suspension because it limits stress on the torso and knees when hitting bumps.
Do cops really type things into a computer and read the results while in motion?
I discourage anyone wanting to understand the physics of beamforming antennae from reading this article. The author has a very poor grasp of the concepts.
Because a sufficiently large percentage of the population is shitbags.
Monads aren't really imperative, though the syntax sugar sometimes looks like it, but in any case that's too fine a point. You know what I meant. Pseudocode usually looks like this:

x := 1
while (x < 100)
stuff(x)
x := x + 1

etc, etc. Typical Haskell doesn't look like this. The example didn't look like this. Clojure won't look like this, either (in fact, it's likely to look even weirder than the Haskell example). That's neither good nor bad; I don't think programming languages should be judged by how much they resemble C/Pascal/Python/pseudocode.
It's more basic than just talking. Feynman has a great lecture on just making sure you have 'left' and 'right' correct.

http://www2.lbl.gov/abc/wallchart/teachersguide/pdf/Chap05.p...
I hate some bands, but at least I understand why they are popular (e.g. Cyrus or Bieber). With U2 I don't even understand the latter. Is it the constant charity-pushing or some amplifying recursive effect of their networking?
> The thing is, jet fighter pilots use HUDs. If those work for them, I'm pretty sure it's ok for a car too.

I really hope you're being sarcastic and just forgot about Poe's law here.
Ask HN: What can be some really unconventional use cases of Apple Watch
We are entering a new era of computing. But sometimes it is difficult to think of a use case which can not be solved by conventional smart phone or tablet app. Health seems to be popular area. What else?
The other day, I saw an associate who has money problems and kids at home buying shampoo for $10 at CVS... The same shampoo is $5 at Wal-Mart.

How do we stop parents from starving resources from their kids by buying overpriced stuff?
Very trivial, but there's a typo in the FAQ: "We’re running a 30 day pre-oder campaign"

Looks like an awesome product!
I was speaking more the misconception that a masters degree automatically punches your ticket :-)
I'd be willing to bet no auto manufacturer will ever integrate twitter in their HUDs.
I agree with you. I just don't get why the distinction between physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia is such a big deal. And there seems to be evidence that assisted suicide reduces involuntary euthanasia, which is what we should care about:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1377611/
*lose.
I suspect most people don't use Tor. Today at least this would be fairly easy to enforce.
> It's odd that they promote their product by saying that phone use while driving is unsafe.

That part of a video is basically a slap in the face. The video says that when you use a phone while driving, bad things happen. What are those bad things? A police car stopping you. What the hell. They definitely should stop you. And take away your driving license. And your car. And maybe your offspring.

Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself. Basically, police stopping you for texting while driving is the least bad possible consequence.
Thanks for the reference, I hadn't seen it previously. In males, the variation appeared to be more toward decreased color perception, except for one variation associated with increased red sensitivity.

It does raise the interesting but perhaps unanswerable question of the similarity or difference of the effect of the molecular variation vs. tetrachromacy on color perception.

Would greater red sensitivity of L cones in effect produce equivalent visual experience as having a fourth type of cone?

Since the visual system computes color on the basis of differential response in M and L cones at time t, having a greater separation of M and L spectra would be sufficient information to compute a larger range of intermediate colors vs. the normal L-M difference. The presence of another node L' between L and M could just be redundant input and not necessarily adding information to the color computation.

A question that arises here is if S M L L' females have better color perception is it because of having L and L' or would it reflect L' being more distant from M than the typical single L of female trichromats.

That may be significant in light of lack of clear findings of direct benefit to female color perception in those having L L' retinal mosaics.

EDIT: Actually, to my way of thinking, the issue is more precisely color discrimination, which is fairly directly measurable vs color perception, a less tractable concept.
You're right about register_globals.

However, the others require users to actually read the documentation, which unfortunately many do not. A new user of PHP reading a tutorial does not necessarily know these functions are unsafe. They type the functions into their program and they still work, even on the latest versions of PHP. They don't see a visible deprecation warning on the page.
That was surprisingly entertaining. Any recommendations for other academic papers in that vein?
Why? You can't help your downvoting urges? I think a lot of you should learn to respect and tolerate other people's opinions! Definitely your overreactive aggressive mentality is not gonna help you with your lifespan!
> That's what I was talking about in my former post. This does use resources: the folder "tempdir" takes up additional space (it is in addition to the file's content, inode and the other paths).

See what I did again. I'm only creating /tempdir/$inodenumber if the hard-link count is >1 and once the destination hard-link count reaches the same count as the source it gets moved. So if there aren't any hard-links outside sourcedir this doesn't use more resources than you're going to use anyway at the end of the copy.

> That's why I suggest to use a different algorithm. See my post about "megacopy". That should already be usable by now

If I'm reading it right it requires doing a sort of the full file list. This means you need to use enough space to list all the files and their inode number even if there are no hardlinks. Your disk usage is O(total files) whereas mine is O(inodes with hardlinks) and thus is always lower.
Associating this product with blood money is highly offensive and it's disappointing that this is the top comment. The team behind this has put a lot of sweat and tears into making this a reality, as is always the case when starting a business of any complexity, and especially true in tech when operating in uncharted waters.

The important tech is heads up display projected rendering on glass in a car. As long as that works well there will be good applications beyond reading twitter. safety information, car and dashboard alerts, and gps map information all come to mind. Anyone who has ever played a video game should be familiar with HUDs that help you and aren't distracting.
Can you elaborate? Without some kind of analysis of the mistakes in the article, we don't really have a way to judge if we should belief your statement about the author, nor can we improve our understanding.

A more descriptive listing of some of the issues with the article, or links to better resources, would rock.
IMHO it is the best book by Lem (but not the most typical one).

In any case, for me it was more cognitive/philosophical: about trying to reach/understand the reality, after passing (yet another) layer of illusion.
Everything that is old is new again. Natural product research was the big thing before the 1990s. It fell out of favor for other techniques (target design), but now it's coming back!
The hardware is pretty!

Would love it even more if they could use IR to measure BPM and body temperature, especially for the baby monitor application. Kinect 2.0 is doing it already.
It's not about saving the wheel, it's about keeping the rider fresh. Mountain biking on rough terrain is hard on the body. Look at elite level races - most of them switch between hard-tail and full-suspension, depending on the terrain. And for those of us who just play at racing, a full-suspension bike can take the edge off a long day of riding.
Douglas E. Smith, creator of classic platformer Lode Runner, has died
With due respect, shouldn't a developer with >15 years of experience be making in the high 6 figures? (>$150k)

Is it really hard to live on that, even with a family?
Yes.

Deputy who killed former Napster COO after drifting into the bike lane while distracted by his laptop will not face charges because he was answering a work-related email

- Milton Olin Jr, 65, was fatally struck by a Los Angeles county sheriff's patrol car December 8, 2013, as he rode in the bike lane in Calabasas

- Deputy Anthony Wood was returning from a fire call when he took his eyes off the road to type a work-related message on an electronic device

- Olin was director of operations for Napster between 2000 and 2002 and was a prominent entertainment lawyer

- The victim's wife and sons have filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming Wood was negligent

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2736376/Deputy-kille...
Right when weighting the benefits the big one is the fact most people use GPS navigation, having it via HUD is a significant safety boost. I'd say the same for speedometers.

Other situations are still not super useful and probably won't get used. Can you meaningful respond to text messages with voice? Not quite, yet at least. Can you skim read them? Yes. That is not super distracting but still enough of a distraction in some cases. But I can't think of many use-cases that are any worse than a bluetooth headset voice conversation.
You don't need to do a study when you're treating something as basic as gluten sensitivity.
This article seems seriously confused about how Tor works ("only the ISP used along with it can ascertain what activity takes place on Tor"), such that I don't trust the rest of what it's saying. There is probably no story here.
How does that grant the carriers the right to deny you service that you are paying them to have? The property rights of bars and restaurants in no way overrides your contract.

If the bars don't like mobile phones they can ban them, or even (assuming it's legal) install Faraday cages.
emts get to deal with this all the time too. People get sick in nursing homes -- they are cesspools -- and have to be transported to a hospital. Unfortunately, they have no idea what's going on, and they're being strapped down in a van and manhandled by strangers. You can imagine how they react. After a while they get notes in their medical records saying they have to be physically restrained during transport, which terrifies them even more.

I would much much rather be dead.
A Gadget That Detects Gluten? With $4M, This Startup Is Working on It
I think Solaristics is basically a metaphor for religion or God. How people would be able to communicate with God or a super-being if we get the chance to experience it directly. Solaris keeps cloning the psychic/memories of the visiting scientists. It can’t communicate with people, but it digs through memories to understand, what are the most important thing to each scientist. But this is freaking them out. Memories are the DNA of the individuality. Without memories people would like a bulb of collective consciousness, like Solaris itself. I think Tarkovsky avoided the religion subplot because the Soviet Union's restriction to discuss religoin. Highly recommended read or watch.

funny note: it seems no one reads posted articles on hacker news... people just talk about other stuff related to the topic of the article..
http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/

That was published just about a month or two after Go was first released, it contains syntax errors (like the placements of curly braces), and Go has moved on significantly since then.
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I think its cool, I never got the chance to go into depth in algorithms because my university never offered the course (what a shame). Thanks for making this.
Will This Ring Revolutionize Wearable Technology?
People detained in a hospital against their will - something that happens to people with advanced dementia - cannot just "smoke weed all day".
I can't believe I'm "defending" Comcast, but this sounds made-up.

Why would Comcast care about Tor and if they wanted to discourage use why would they confront customers using it?
No; They're comparing across different points in time. Unless the portion of older families that are married has increased, the gap would not change with time due to that factor.
No, this is only partly true. Driving is primarily a visual activity. If your eyes are not on the road, then your chances of an accident increase. If you are looking down at your mobile, then the chances of an accident increase markedly.

Yes, looking at a HUD increases your risk of an accident. The best option is to have 100% attention focused on the road and your surroundings. If I had to choose between mobile or HUD, HUD would win every single time. If I had to choose between HUD and nothing distracting, then obviously the later is better. Yeah, just put the freaking phone away when you are driving.
Official HAARP website is down
>A Comcast agent named Jeremy allegedly called Tor an “illegal service.”

Did the customer mention it was started by the US Navy and continues to received a lot of funding from them?
I think my favorite is the Aeropress "ritual" video. http://vimeo.com/40980282
Good point -- it would be very easy for Comcast to disable entries on to the Tor network if they wanted to (as China does), since their IP addresses are public.
Beer has its benefits, too, unless it gets abused, too, or is totally adulterated like most modern beer. Is it the alcohol or the phytochemicals in the alcoholic beverages - I really don't care. Vilifying alcohol in general is what I care about. Tylenol is the leading cause of liver failure in the States, yet, doctors still prescribe it and it's OTC. Why not ban something that's proven to be harmful? I won't even mention Lipitor and similar!
The problem is these custom apps and web services are usually pretty poor compared to things like pidgin.

For some of us if it's not FOSS it's not going to be used.
Some claim that this is part of a broader trend of "generational theft" from the young to the old and have some interesting slides to demonstrate their thesis:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732348570...

http://vimeo.com/65731171#t=11m55s
Spandex isn't fashion, it's comfort. The stuff is really really comfortable to ride in.
Developing on Linux
Video game HUDs are pretty distracting, though. I think the farthest I've driven a car in a video game without hitting something is about a mile.
Show HN: TinyCert – Certificates as a service
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8294240
Unfortunately it is also one of the least favourite things about riding a motorcycle - always having to look out for car drivers who are not paying full attention to the road.
Great news regarding the ZEEF dev team
Just imagine the road safety if cars had this feature specially integrated.
Agreed, this doesn't sound like anything an ISP would actually do.

Comcast isn't run by the brightest people though so I'd be interested to see if anyone provides evidence that these phone calls actually took place.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230

It's "just" an RFC, but the notion that has some momentum built up already.
How Jack Ma Runs Alibaba
Or they could challenge an antirubyst that they can do that, and if they accomplish it, he would have to pay them the money for a good course on a new language and framework.
Strangely everybody is good at talking bad about Ruby, but would you take the risk to take the challenge? Otherwise you are just being incoherent at affirming Ruby is not good. And if you are, it means you can't be a good developer.
Just because the founders put effort into something doesn't make it ethically good. The advertised use is still messaging and communication, and I'm sure if they open it up to developers there will only be more distractions like flappy birds on a car. The point is a powerful technology with smart people and good intentions behind it can always result in poor unintended consequences. In this case I can see a lot more potential consequences than advantages.
By itself it might not be great but Microsoft may be planning to acquire several small companies and together they may get enough exclusive software to get them to a tipping point. Once past it, the customers and developers will follow.

10 companies @ 2 billion each isn't much money. Microsoft is cash rich.
Asking for references while not providing any youref is curious.
I think you're reading too much into the conspiracy theories here.

The quantitative easing (QE) programs are designed to decrease long-term rates, in other words, flatten the yield curve, which have been more-or-less successful. In the US this program is drawing to a close.

The EU is really a different story and a lot of what is going on there has to do with the fact that they failed to tackle their banking crisis in 2009-2010. The US was able to swallow the medicine more quickly.

The EU did put in place other programs, including the long term refinance operation, which has never has used explicitly.

The economic cycle is just that. Always expect the next downturn. The question is will there by another financial crisis in the next few years, or will the crisis come later?
Is that due to the HUD or because of factors like:

- imperfect/unrealistic physics

- reduced vision

- less/incorrect physical feedback
This must be a joke...have you met the average driver? Compared to fighter pilots, who are the best of the best and have years of specialized training plus millions of dollars of military-grade hardware devoted to giving them situational awareness of all possible threats?
>If you don't have a statistically significant sample size and a control group, you are conducting bad science.

I would argue that a sample of 1 with no control is not worthy of being called science.
What a joke! Minecraft is not game, it's an ecosystem, a lifestyle. My kids are crazy about it! Given the fact that Microsoft is/was working on something similar (Project Spark), it makes total sense for them. But, hey, it's Microsoft and all Microsoft does is crap unlike Apple, which shit even smells like roses (excuse my French, I couldn't help it).
I'm glad to see people encouraging cyclists, but I am struggling not to get angry that you call five thousand dollars "reasonably priced" with a straight face.

You can get a solid entry-level mountain bike for $400. It is probably not suited for professional racing, but it's a perfectly good machine. If you check out used bike stores, you can find some excellent machines in good shape for less than that.

I know you mean well, but linking these absurd prices out of context turns people off of cycling who might have really enjoyed it.
The article implied, but didn't make clear, that the customers were using Tor to browse the internet (as opposed to being a Tor endpoint). I could see comcast having an issue with customers who are endpoints, but, I'm not really sure why they would care / how they would know that someone was was using Tor.