skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true... and kind of weird I didn't think to mention that!

I wonder if that counts as genetics or environment.

For those unfamiliar, the 2013 Tour De France winner Chris Froome was born in Kenya to British parents. He races under a British license and does not appear to share many genetic similarities to top Kenyan marathon runners. He's fairly tall (184cm), with significantly different facial features and skin tone.

OTOH, he has a pretty amazing ability to produce constantly high levels of power on long (30 minute+) climbs.
> By the way, ...

Thanks, meanwhile I have realized that also :-)
> The title appears to have been editorialized by the submitter. We've reverted it. (Submitted title was "Are We Really Conscious? Brain Science Suggests We're Not".)

Submitter here --- the "Brain Science Suggests We're Not" was the subheading used in the squib on the front page of the NY Times Web site; it seemed to be helpful.
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Linus Torvalds Is Conflating Blunt Technical Criticism with Personal Abuse
Yep. Its worth noting that (american) football helmets are the same. They dont provide shake protection just prevent skull fractures.
For some reason, native speakers of Slavic languages who learn English as a second language, often omit some prepositions in English. It's 100% understandable, but I'm really curious what's the actual reason why this happens.
I chose my words carefully. The quote in the article is in turn a quote from http://trb.metapress.com/content/x7854w1160551331/ . The article links to that publication. The abstract of that publication says:

> This research investigated the relationship between lane width and safety for roadway segments and intersection approaches on urban and suburban arterials. The research found no general indication that the use of lanes narrower than 3.6 m (12 ft) on urban and suburban arterials increases crash frequencies. This finding suggests that geometric design policies should provide substantial flexibility for use of lane widths narrower than 3.6 m (12 ft). The inconsistent results suggested increased crash frequencies with narrower lanes in three specific design situations. Narrower lanes should be used cautiously in these three situations unless local experience indicates otherwise.

It it turn builds on, for example, results by Hauer, et al, Strathman et al. which appear.

You then raised another objection, which is, I believe, that a 10' lane causes people to use alternate routes because of decreased capacity on those lanes, so there are simply fewer people on the 10' lane roads to cause accidents.

This may well be. It's a subtle network effect that is hard to analyze, and not covered in this article. (The article does comment that capacity is unchanged, but I think its literature citations are weak. It quotes Petritsch who in turn quotes a summary of an unpublished literature search.)

However, your objection is not what was refutated. AnthonyMouse proposes that narrowing lanes lead to a higher accident rate since it "reduces the amount of space available to avoid an obstruction, the amount of reaction time available to avoid a collision, etc." While true for country roads, those above papers show that the same correlation can not be identified on city roads.

Now, what I know is only from this article, and it may be that the author cherry-picked the few papers which show that the 'reaction time' hypothesis is unsupported by the evidence. But "refute" means "to deny the accuracy or truth of", and certainly the article refuted that hypothesis.
Some of this debate is also going on in the motorcycle industry. "Softer" helmets provide better outcomes in slower crashes. "Harder" helmets provide better outcomes in faster, harder crashes. (To some extent, this is "DOT" approved helmets vs "SNELL" approved helmets.)

You can't really have both unless you make the helmet bigger, or use some more exotic and more expensive materials. Fact of the matter is that EPS is cheap and works really, really well. It's what helps you SURVIVE - not save you from a silly concussion. (silly, comparatively speaking.) That is the fundamental functionality of a helmet. Maybe someone will make a $1000 helmet that is slightly better in avoiding concussions in smaller accidents, but people do not think there is much market for such a product.

I couldn't muster to keep reading after the writer deemed 1-127 degrees F as "extreme conditions." 127F is what your helmet bakes in when you leave it in the car, for example, and there are plenty of regions around the world and US where it is easy to hit 127F by leaving the helmet in the wrong place. It's hardly "extreme."
The issue with this setup is that you can't define "services" from within Nix without NixOS. A service basically ties together a set of packages and configuration and puts them in systemd.

At the moment, you'd have to use an external configuration management system for actually defining your systemd services, etc.
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No, I don't. Also, my view of Azure pretty much comes from experience with it long ago and a year-old Gartner analysis [1]. I can easily accept that Azure is very different than it used to be. I can also easily accept that it's doing better against AWS than anyone else.

But I'd need hard numbers to refute that Gartner analysis. Spending 50% more than your competitor and having a market share less than 1/5 (probably a lot more, since the 1/5 is 15 providers combined), is something I struggle to call "success". I'd be less harsh if this didn't fit a pattern. And I know spending more and having less is the price that challengers face, but again, not being an incumbent (and failing to mount a real challenge) is a pattern we've seen before.

[1] http://readwrite.com/2013/08/21/gartner-aws-now-5-times-the-...
Being from Australia I can't fathom not wearing a helmet. Its like wearing a seat belt in the car, just something you don't notice doing anymore.

Anyone who is discouraged from cycling due to having to wear a helmet would more than likely also be discouraged by many other reasons - bad drivers, bad weather, flat tire, etc.
Leased provides the same protections as ownership afaik, just because you have leased a car doesn't mean the police can search it with impunity.
I use Bitcoin. Don't have a bank account.
It looks pretty speculative to me. Directly from this article: "The most controversial revelation in Sentry Eagle might be a fleeting reference to the NSA infiltrating clandestine agents into “commercial entities.”", "It is not clear whether these “commercial entities” are American or foreign or both." and "The document makes no other reference to NSA agents working under cover. It is not clear whether they might be working as full-time employees at the “commercial entities,” or whether they are visiting commercial facilities under false pretenses."

The author is also picking quotes from different programs and mashing them together to come up with their speculation. Note how the commercial entities are discussed under the "Sentry Owl" program on page 7, but the "covert or under cover" quote comes from the "Sentry Osprey" section on the last page, which appears to be talking about the NSA working with the CIA. If NSA employees were working with the CIA on anything outside the US, it would make sense that they'd be undercover. Maybe they are infiltrating companies, but the source document doesn't support that assertion.

Schneier isn't name-dropped at all in the article. I find it odd that they would quote Matt Green and Chris Soghoian by name, but mix in the opinions of someone as well-known as Bruce Schneier without mentioning his name anywhere.
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Don't you mean articles instead of prepositions? If so, take into consideration that most of all Slavic languages don't feature articles at all.
Unfortunately these suggestions don't work also. Could the problem be in psty.py? Or is my Python 2.7 obsolete? There is a strange error message in psty:

EXCEPT timestamp out of range for platform time_t
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "psty.py", line 404, in send_head
self.send_header("Last-Modified", self.date_time_string(entry["mtime"]))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 468, in date_time_string
year, month, day, hh, mm, ss, wd, y, z = time.gmtime(timestamp)
ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t
I'm unsure if your response is to my ideas around helmet laws or something else? For context, I'm from Australia, where helmets are mandatory for all bike riders. Making them non-mandatory is a change that some think will increase cycling uptake.

Anyway, if it was to me, then

a) I'm a cyclist (over 6000km and 115,000 vertical meters this year. That's further than I drove).

b) Of course pedestrians deserve space. I'd prefer to change the laws to allow non-helmeted riding on separated bike paths only, but that would be useless as where I live most separated bike paths don't link up which means people must either ride on the road or (illegally) on the footpath to get between them. In a world where not everywhere is Copenhagen or Amsterdam I'd prefer to see children ride to school with their parents on footpaths than not ride. I'd prefer to see people who worry about helmet hair ride to work on footpaths and separated bike paths than not ride. Where I live both these things are currently illegal.

c) Yes. Riding on roads needs to be made safe. That does not preclude encouraging more diverse transport choices by making other changes too.

I find too many cycling advocates come from entrenched pro or anti-helmet positions and aren't prepared to look for compromises. That isn't helpful overall.
No, some chemical reactions fail early and loudly.

For absolutely no explosive lulz at all you could try for an exciting career in organic mercury compounds. (But first, I'd recommend checking out the wikipedia entry for Karen Wetterhahn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn )

Or, did I say "no explosive lulz"? Apparently at one point the USAF considered using dimethyl mercury as a rocket fuel. (Source: buried in "Ignition: an informal history of liquid rocket propellants" by John D. Clarke, which can be found here: http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf )
You can't have ever had a difficult time finding a particular image, or sometimes any image of a particular thing before. In the case of footage, I've spent years trying to find footage that I knew existed at some point (based on somebody's writing, or from stills in a book), but short of getting access to some archive and flying (internationally) there to search through boxes, I not only can't find it, but can't even verify that it still exists.

Just because a thing can be duplicated doesn't mean it has been, and just because something was once available doesn't mean you'll have any luck finding it today.
And then people will just have a second phone (or camera) and take a 'photo' of the original screen itself.
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Ask HN: Retraining into data science?
How can someone with statistics and science knowledge retrain into data science? A close friend of mine has an MSc degree in plant ecology but found she enjoyed working with statistics, and has heard there are more jobs available in data science than biology.
I don't wear a helmet and I ride in downtown Toronto. Helmets save lives, but they also make motorist treat you differently. Also, they don't really save that many lives. Cycling without a helmet is safer than walking (kilometer for kilometer) and safer than being in the passenger seat while a new driver is driving.
Yes, and I'm talking about the bicycle helmets. The only crash I had in my 25+ years of cycling was when I had a helmet - for the first time.
It sounds like you're using OneDrive for Business (aka SkyDrive Pro), which is something like a hosted SharePoint solution. Regular OneDrive is comparable to Dropbox, will sync any files you want, doesn't add metadata to Office documents, etc. The naming is incredibly confusing since OneDrive for Business is just about nothing like OneDrive.
"Imagine in the physical world if you were not able to open the locked door of a home if you had a suspicion that there were weapons or drugs inside... we would never accept this."

Slippery, slippery slope.
Have you considered making the website / documentation source available in github? That would make it very easy for others to contribute suggestions.
You can see more of my performance data visualizations (like PerfMap) in a recent talk I gave at Velocity NY. http://speedcurve.com/blog/velocity-a-better-waterfall-chart...
It's just article-dropping; get to know a few Eastern Europeans well and you might start doing it yourself.

One of my old bosses was Bosnian Croat, dropped articles like crazy, and added them in the wrong places. She would run her important emails by me for article-fixing before sending them. She was still smarter than me and better at her job than I was. Turns out that mastery of the arbitrary rules of English article placement and choice isn't a very good indicator of intelligence or competence.
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Perhaps they should have called the product family "TwoDrive".
Never mind, I stopped at "white people".
If Snapchat is serious about its users' private messages, it should be implementing the Axolotl protocol for end-to-end encryption (what TextSecure uses, too). But Snapchat isn't serious about it, as we've seen in several securiy/privacy scandals involving the company so far, so I'm not going to hold my breath for this.

https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/

Pro tip for future chat app start-ups promising "security" or "privacy" or as the latest trend goes, "anonymity" for their users. If you can't really hold your end of the bargain, don't do it! Promise cute emoticons or whatever, instead. Hopefully there will be some class action lawsuits against companies like Snapchat, soon. They need to learn their lesson.
Even after reading that, I'm still not convinced it's any worse than something like btrfs+non-ECC memory. The most convincing part is the 'there are less tools' to recover from corruption angle.
I have similar feelings about this line of argument as I do about the Ontological Argument ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument )

I have an immediate intuitive grasp that it is a flawed argument and - putting to one side for the moment whether I can move beyond intuition to construct a solid rebuttal - I find it hard to understand that someone could hold this belief in good faith.

(It's subtly different to my feelings about Solipsism where I have an intuitive feeling that it's incorrect but I actually concede that it's a logically sound position to take.)

To be slightly whimsical for a moment - I wonder if this is proof that philosophical zombies exist. They could maintain this belief coherently whilst Descartes and I can dismiss it without further consideration...
It's just an observation of fact. Facts are known to be biased. If there are studies that show the benefits of bicycle helmet wearing, I'd be interested in seeing them.
As a quibble, "not statistically significant" means "cannot tell if there was an effect, either positive or negative, because it's smaller than the noise." The only difference is that one can't use it to argue that it 'theoretically [caused] a (small) net increase in safety'.

You use the phrase "intentional danger". The flip side is that "illusory safety." A 12' lane may feel safer even though it actually isn't. But it feels like you stress the "intentional danger" part when the label is irrelevant - the questions are the number and severity of crashes, of human injury, of overall traffic capacity, etc. How one labels the emotional aspect of the driver's internal state isn't relevant to the outcomes.

Also, as secabeen pointed out, driver vigilance isn't the only concern. To add another one 12' of road surface is simply more expensive to repair, clean, and replace than 10' of surface.

Regarding self-driving cars - sure, but how does that change anything in the next 10-20 years of road design? The underlying factors won't change unless a large percentage of vehicles are self-driving. You might as well argue that enforcing a 10mph speed limit would be safer as well, as another example of a solution which, even though correct should it occur, won't affect anyone's planning now.
Snively estimated that a naked head struck the surface with a force more than 1,000 times greater than gravity, or 1,000g, which is lethal.

I assume it meant "the acceleration of a naked head upon hitting the surface is estimated as 1000g", as I can't make sense of it otherwise. It would also help to say what height he dropped it from or the impact speed.
Come on, it's been 13 years now of this "grave damage to national security" talk. They claim it for everything.

I'm reasonably sure every thinking person has started, in their mind, to replace any invocation of "national security" with "covering up either incompetence, negligence or breaches of law". Theres zero reasons we should be paying any attention to that label.

(I like to remind people of the case of Ibrahim vs. DHS, where the government spent all its time invoking various secrets related laws and privileges, citing national security, even having Holder sign a declaration to that purpose, and what for? To cover up the clerical error of some lowly FBI agent, who checked a wrong box.)
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It probably has something to do with out languages having more grammatical cases than English (which, arguably, has two, though it's possible to only use one).
None of the vaguely famous underground/above-ground roads in Chicago, notably Wacker, Congress, and Michigan Ave, are pedestrian only above ground. It would also be pretty much lying to define those three roads as "large parts". There's probably 10-15 miles of drivable underground road in downtown (maybe less), most of which is used as not much more than service roads for garbage pickup and loading docks for the high rises above these.

Chicago is also somewhat of an exceptional city in this regard in that it was to an extent demolished and rebuilt twice, and the city was further built up from water level to accommodate underground plumbing and (IIRC) to reduce the swampiness of the land.
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Thanks for the Esquire link. Very entertaining.
Great visual effect, great typesetting, very inspiring layout.. but is that guy really smoking a cigarette at the gas pump? I can't believe that's legal there..
When someone asks "Is blue blue?" they implicitly mean "What is blue?" or equivalently "Does blue mean what we think it does?" Blue has both an objective and subjective meaning, which today we see has different (i.e. electromagnetic spectra vs psychovisual perception). The question raised in the article is basically, "Is human consciousness special?"

When Copernicus questioned the Earth's special place at the center of the Universe, it upset people immensely. Similarly, Darwin's ideas upset massive numbers of people to this day by suggesting that we are the product of relatively mundane forces. Human beings naturally tend to believe that they are special and that mere mechanisms cannot match their extraordinary attributes.

It's clearly upsetting to people to suggest that people are not "conscious," but in fact the spirit of the question is useful and sobering. "Consciousness" and "awareness" are loaded terms, often tinged with connotations bordering on mysticism. "Attention" is generally a more mundane word. We have no qualms recognizing engineered attention systems, while most would balk at describing them as "self-aware", or "conscious." If we define consciousness as a system with reflexive attention, then human are conscious but so are certain computer systems. What's in dispute is the quasi-mystical, highly anthropomorphic conception of consciousness, by whatever name, verses a more mundane and objective notion of sensing and modeling external and internal events.
There are so many possible uses cases. For instance,

- Web development toolchain.

- (Multiple) Server administration.

- Control embedded systems. No need for special GUIs there. For instance, simply psty on a Raspberry Pi would be sufficient to present collected data in a nice web graphics on your PC. However for embedded systems I would recommend a reimplementation of psty in a compiled language like C or Nimrod.
More oft repeated history apart from the later part of the article which discusses the present and the future direction.

"The holy grail for Microsoft would be getting developers to write new software for Windows again ", this necessarily isn't true. The developer go where users and money are. And users not necessarily go to devices which have lot of apps. This might sound like a chicken and egg problem, but look at amazon, if developers are writing software for its devices, Amazon is bootstrapping its devices with software. I take out the other devices, the desktop and servers, might not have as much impact as it may sound.

Second, Xbox, Bing, may sound looser, but they may be interesting in the next round of battle. The smart phone battle is more or less is over and it is not going to make much difference, but the future of the smart device fields will be another story, if only MS can concentrate on the future in coherent way.
This sounds really nice. I've been using apt as a deployment mechanism not unlike the use-cases describe. While the whole thing's been rock solid, the repo management could do with a cleaner interface. Looking forward to giving it a go!
Who upvotes this? Who cares?

I thought the topic jumped the shark with Lennart Poettering complaining about people being mean.
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There is also another benefit of a helmet, it changes how people treat you. They apparently respect cyclists more when they wear a helmet.

I was in a collision a two months ago. The driver hit me on purpose, because I had call him a wanker, he became self defining in this, by swiping me with the rear of his car, thankfully the relative speed difference would have been at most 10mph, so I only had minor injury (three fractures).

The police, who have a job to collect evidence, were not remotely accepting that I was not doing anything wrong. My arm was injured, my head obviously not, so before the ambulance arrived someone had helped me remove it, and clip it to the holder on my bag. Immediately the police were questioning me, asking why I wasn't wearing my helmet when the accident happened.

My head never came close to hitting the ground during the impact.

The fact is that people are very judgemental. Cyclists who wear helmets tend not to be the ones who cycle straight through junctions at red lights whilst smoking a spliff such as the space cadet I saw this Monday the 6th, 9:30am, Highgate.

It was interesting, that despite the obvious location of the collision, A lane that the car should not have been in, the Police were been told off by the paramedics for been hard on me, taking me off gas+air (mild anesthetic) so I could be breathalised for signs of alcohol consumption would be one good example of how I feal they acted poorly. Only after they found my pilots license did the police start to treat me with any dignity or respect, it was frankly shameful, as the other party had already admitted he used his car to injure me to a witness. Best of all, the driver isn't even been charged with assault.
You're the first person I ever heard suggest the possibility that Silk Road was used to distribute child pornography (which was probably among the many things covered by SR's TOS ban of things harmful for others)

Do you have anything substantiating your claim?

PS: nevermind, I just found out your other comment further below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441338
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