skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CHP recommendations were: "It is not advisable to lane split when traffic flow is at 30 mph or faster" and "Travel at a speed that is no more than 10 MPH faster than other traffic" until "Land a State Job and Become an Instant Millionaire" scumbag Ken Mandler made a complaint to the California Office of Administrative Law: http://jalopnik.com/one-man-just-made-lane-splitting-infinit...

That's 40mph top speed recommendation for lane splitting. In practice I find I sometimes need to lane split at 50mph when traffic is tightly packed - drivers do not see motorcycles in their blind spots and side-view mirrors when you are riding alongside. I have had cars try to merge into me on multiple occasions when I'm taking the full lane and traveling at the speed of traffic.

When lane splitting, drivers either see me coming up on them in their side-view mirror (the angle of the side-view mirror works to your and the driver's advantage when you are between lanes), or I can see them prepare to make a lane change by signalling, turning their front wheels when stopped, or just pulling out without looking (which will usually happen ahead of you and give you time to brake - drivers do a much better job of not merging into cars in their blind spots, and that's what makes it safe to travel between two cars).
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I guess the real question is efficiency.
If you want to see a tiny version of libc, get the source for the original JOVE editor, Jonathan's Own Version of EMACS, written 1983 by Jonathan Payne while at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. He was able to cram EMACS into a PDP-11, and to make it fit, had to rewrite all the low-level libraries.
As a pedestrian, things like cyclists running red lights "when [they] think it's safe" cause a huge amount of consternation for me. Traffic rules are in place so that other people on the road - pedestrians included - can have reasonable expectations about the behavior of other actors. If I need to wait when I have a "walk" symbol because I don't know whether a cyclist is going to feel entitled to run the light or not, then a cyclist has no right to call me a "large moving meat pillar" because it's the cyclist's own disobedience of the law that is causing the disturbance in the first place. Cyclists, I know you hate dead stops, but don't be assholes to pedestrians who aren't being assholes to you.
I continue to gpg my files. I don't trust having them synced over any server.
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That's certainly an interesting read... and one I can't really argue with the anecdata of from my own experiences. So I'll add one:

After it was too late by that author's reckoning, the parent of Radio Shack tried another venture, a "big box" store called The Incredible Universe. When that failed and they wrote it off, it wiped out the entire profit of Radio Shack thousands of stores for that financial year.

I still think of it when I'm trying to understand the machinations of large companies.

And I, too hope that the folks I worked with at RS in the 20C found better jobs, especially the poor store managers.
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When I was near the end, I pressed backspace to clear my answer, and it wound up navigating me back to HN, wiping out my results.

(I hate backspace-to-go-back. It's the worst feature in a browser. Is there a way to turn it off?)

This mental math exercise is a cool and fun concept! Good execution.
... and FreeBSD 4 was the most stable, polished and mature release of FreeBSD, ever.
My favourite bit of this article is right at the end:

"Pigeons repeatedly exposed to the problem show that they rapidly learn always to switch, unlike humans (Herbranson and Schroeder, 2010)."

This just blows my mind and, as you might tell from my username, I'm a big fan of the bird that some denigrate as 'rats with wings'; I prefer to think of them as rat angels.
Ben's answers on this have always been deeply unsatisfactory:

1) a) the merge was accomplished trivially by another maintainer; the idea that there was "more work" required of ben is demonstrably false.

1) b) he undertook more work to revert the existing commit, also see 2)

2) a) at the time he reverted the commit, there was substantial explanation on the issue on why it was important.

2) b) because Ben failed to check with his own colleague, he was unaware the commit had in fact been signed off - there was no rule problem here, apart from "not telling Ben".

3) lots of people do nice things and are assholes in other circumstances.

Apart from the sarcastic tone of his post ("if this gets us scores of female contributors" indeed), the grapevine says he was pretty deeply offensive to Issac over the issue as well.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the whole article, so maybe it was mentioned there.

My idea: only allowing reviews from (primary) authors of already-published, peer-reviewed journals?

Bootstrapping wouldn't be a problem, because there are already quite many papers published, many of them containing the email address of the authors.

It would make it much harder to set up fake identities for peer reviews.
I really need someone to explain to me what they love so much about React.js. I tried it out and I absolutely hated the way components didn't understand their relation with other components. I had to chain a callback all the way down to my ListItem Component just so it could set which item was selected in the component and let other components know that. If you ever end up adding another parent component you have to rewrite all those top level components to pass that information down.
What single feature/change caused this to be a major release as opposed to a minor release?

In reading the OP link, nothing in particular stood out to me.

(Please don't take offense to my statement. The changes are all great. I'm just typically use to major releases to be when something foundational has changed and I'm just not seeing that here)
The most impressive things are often the hardest to appreciate because they seem so effortless and don't stand in the way of an overall experience.
I wish I was reading something other than HN! :)
>--the impact on the victim is identical.

Physical proximity matters. A remote person who seeks out and looks at the photos is probably at least an inconsiderate jerk. A person who trespasses onto your property and peeps into your windows is not merely an inconsiderate jerk, but represents a potential threat to one's physical safety.
Thanks for the explanation. I never thought about this before. It makes senses, but it is scary. I hope you're wrong. :)
Are you kidding me? Grow up.
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His employer did support him: http://strongloop.com/strongblog/collaboration-not-derision-...
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I got lower than you after you left this comment with default settings (only addition) and it also reported better than 100%.
Is this just the first offer in a bid to get police access to data for investigation purposes - like ask for the world and then asking just for a mountain sounds reasonable.

In this case it would be asking that service providers monitor everyone; but, the actual desire is to allow investigative authorities (police, MI5, ...) access to suspected terrorists online dealings via the service providers at the back end.

In the Lee Rigby case it seems that the exchange about murdering soldier would have been sufficient to push the suspect in to the camp of making terrorist threats and allowed for an arrest.

It's curious in some ways as Adebowale had been the focus of investigations and yet GCHQ clearly didn't have information on all his online exchanges (that could be tied to him), yet a company in the USA did have access. This suggests that the level of integration in to online communications that GCHQ has is far less than we've recently been led to believe. We're being told left-and-right that government spooks know our every move and whisper - this seems not to be true, not even for people associated with terrorism investigations.
Password Gorilla: https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki

Same code runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. There are also multiple Android phone apps. that work with the storage file format.

Having one application storing your passwords locally, provided you use a strong master password, is not, in and of itself, a tactically weak choice. You gain security by having local files because an attacker has to get your local file first before launching an attack. Using a "service" means that anyone (sys-admins, hackers) who can access the service can gain remote access to your password storage, from which an attack can be launched.

Using a "service" also means you have to simply take it on faith that they are storing your passwords securely. This is actually a tactically weak choice with "services", you have zero way to independently verify the secure storage they promise. Using a local open source app. means you can verify for yourself exactly how your passwords are being stored.
A DJI Phantom 2 with the Zenmuse H3-3D and a GoPro 3+ or 4 can take amazingly smooth and high quality footage (example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRC-8pCCCys ). There are also drones that can fly with DSLRs.
Reprocessing carbon to run in combustion, jet and turbine engines already in existence could be huge for the environment in the long run.

The two best alternatives we have right now are battery or hydrogen powered engines. Both have major hurdles still to cross. Both rely on centralized power, have density issues, and have huge R&D & consumer cost/acceptance issues.

Centralize power generation, use a smart grid to efficiently transfer energy to coastal towns, create efficient pipelines to distribute hydrocarbon fuel, use existing gasoline/diesel infrastructure in cities/towns to serve consumers using their existing vehicles.
My first computer running GNU/Linux: Single core, 66MHz, 8MiB RAM.

Galaxy S4 i9500: Octa-core, 1200/1600MHz, 2048MiB RAM.

That's an advancement of two orders of magnitude.

Getting rid of the GPL so the platform could be locked down is basically the only reason for Google/Android's NIH.

For all the techie mindshare, "open source" is worth about as much as Microsoft's "shared source" - essentially nothing when it comes to user freedom.

Thank goodness for the (thoroughly pwned GPL2) kernel putting slight pressure on manufacturers to be open.
And I forgot to mention that it is to pay a mortgage on the house, not renting it. (Renting would be a bit less expensive).
I crazy love how it auto submits your answers for you, super convenient! My dad made me do similar online mental math exercises when I was younger and I always hated how clicking "next" reduced my time. Does it take into account what your settings were when it reports your score relative to others?
got bored at 855 and let it run out, and it would seem I've bested 100% of you
Ask HN: Twitter/tumblr/etc “in a box” platform?
Hey HN- I am looking at building a service semi similar to a twitter/instagram/tumblr which basically involves people following other people to see their content and vice versa. For the sake of argument, imagine I wanted to build a twitter clone that was purely for cat pictures.

Is there a open source system out there which has most of the scaling/distribution issues solved for that type of setup? Im loathe to write my own follower/following system out of fear of the scaling issue.

Language agnostic but would prefer PHP or Node
I did a quick -Wall test with gcc 4.4.5 and it doesn't warn.
I'm genuinely curious why you think JavaScript is comfortably #1 within the domain of Python, Ruby and PHP. I've been writing (client side) JavaScript for a very long time, and I generally enjoy it, but I don't see myself abandoning Python on the server side for JavaScript anytime soon.

(edited for clarification)
My favorite large regex for testing sites like this (Regulex link was very long, so here's a tinyurl):

http://tinyurl.com/ovmvphg

Original paper: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html
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It sounds pretty similar to most large organisations. In particular:

"Now instead of getting work done, people will dedicate their time to internal politics and jostling for group position"

Internal politics and jostling for group position happens in every large organisation I have worked at.

"unresolved because nobody could assume the role of dictator and push through needed work prioritization schedules"

Again, at every large company I have worked for the "dictators" of successful projects were rarely the people with official ownership of the projects or people high up in the org chart. So I'm not sure why nobody could assume the role of dictator.
It's a massive privacy issue - you can change in very personal, significant ways without Google etc updating the person they present you as being - your political beliefs, your gender and sexuality, controversial opinions etc. There are many contexts where these and outdated versions of you shouldn't be the most-available, most-presented information about you.
This feels like a lot more than 10 seconds. You tricked me.
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Does it speed up or end eventually? I stored up 150 seconds left before I decided to quit (score of 2529).
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You are doing a disservice to the article by veering away from the thoughtful parts of the article. There is some discussion about "Warrior Gita" and Hindu-right, but nothing to imply about Gujarat riots. I would be more than willing to debate about the whole episode, especially about the initial part where 50 Hindu pilgrims were burnt alive in a train by Muslims, but I am fully aware this is not the forum for that.
To bad it doesn't work on my phone :(
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Old article, it supports mips, mips64, arm64 now too, and there have been lots of bug fixes, and maybe some additional support. But if you want a BSD licensed libc, Musl is much nicer.
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A major source of the oceanic CO2 is the atmosphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification. It's not perfect but could be much better than burning dinosaurs.
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> The good health insurance can be nice and that 401k matching is powerful

Indeed the 401k matching seems pretty great. But part of me wonders if retirement investment really just comes down to being smarter with setting aside the income I'm currently earning.

> It can be nice to work with others and have proper design and product management support and if you can seek out the best managers you can learn a lot from them

Honestly I've found this to be true with my agency work as a freelancer too. Great project managers and some other devs who are badasses and mentors.

Thanks for sharing!
I'd take HAMMER over HFS+
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Here is the US Sentencing Commission staff paper regarding Chapter3 PartD (Multiple Counts):

http://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research/working...

Excerpt: "The Commission created the multiple count rules upon recognizing two important things. First, the Commission acknowledged that an offender who commits five offenses, for example, deserves more punishment than if he commits one, but not necessarily five times the otherwise applicable penalty. Consequently, the guidelines had to provide a mechanism for calculating incremental increases in punishment for multiple offenses. Second, if the guidelines based punishment on the number of offenses of which an offender was convicted, the Commission realized that formal charging decisions could have a tremendous impact on the resulting sentence. Consequently, the Commission had to create guidelines to limit the significance of formal charging decisions to ensure that similar defendants who engage in similar offense behavior will receive similar sentences."

In short, it supports both our positions, that multiple counts are taken into consideration for purposes of sentencing, but that the sentencing is stepped so that enhancement is not a 1 to 1 multiple. That said I did not mean to imply multiple counts enhance sentences, but that where there is discretion, multiple counts would be used as a aggravating factor.
It's dangerous - check your IP agreements before you do any outside-work stuff at work.
The fundamental issue with the current peer review system is that most academic research is "valueless" to those involved in the system.

I use the term "valueless" in a very careful and specific meaning. It does not mean the work is without merit or doesn't have large impact or benefits to society, rather it simply means the quality of the work has no value to the peer reviewers or to the journal itself.

* The peer reviewers are donating their time and generally getting nothing in return from reading the work other than seeing what other developments are going in in the field.

* The journal gets nothing from work itself. They are solely in the business of collecting author fees and fees from library.

In this context, I think it is accurate to describe most work as "valueless" to those involved in the system. This naturally leads to sloppy peer review and publishing practices.

What I would like to see is a system that makes all players have skin in the game for the quality of the work.

How to do this? One way would be a new kind of journal where everything published has to be patentable. The journal would pay for the patenting costs and the split any potential licensing fees with the authors/funding institutions in some way. Peer reviewers would be paid and/or get a small cut of the patent.

This would make everyone in the process have "skin in the game" in the value and quality of the work being published. I don't know if the economics of such a model would work, but I think it would be a fascinating experiment.
sometimes yes, like the new procctl(2)
The number limit should be more granular, or even it would be nice to be able to "pin" one number... i'm thinking of studying times tables for my children! other than that, very nice
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Agreed - I loved 4.11! Though I have been really happy with 10.x so far.
I hate it when that happens too, but I don't think this is will happen in FbStart's case. We're a program partner and companies who get accepted get a code they can redeem on our site for 6 or 12 months free, depending on the track. No credit card is required (at least for our service, not sure about other partners), so if they decide not to subscribe at the end of the program, they can just go.
Is that a problem with the company or with your friend? A lot of people really just seem to want the power to boss others around.
You can in Firefox: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
I like that it's short.
The only thing I have found so far is pump.io but unsure of activity or how scalable it will be
Depends on the company. At some of the better ones, don't underestimate the opportunity to work with really smart peers. Even some of the not-so-hot ones like IBM or Yahoo have really smart engineers locked up inside them.
Agreed, great tool, would love to be able to set for my kids to focus on certain times tables. Really cool.
>The downside of Node's approach is callback hell.

Have you used Async.JS? In my experience, it has always solved my deep callback problems.
Whoa, you had a nice analysis and then went off the rails with the patenting idea.

Maybe a simpler solution to having some skin in the game is to pay the reviewer and/or have a way to view a reviewer's history.
I applied to work at a Radio Shack when I was 16. I didn't get a job there. The guy interviewing me spent most of the time making sure I knew the difference between being paid hourly, and being paid on commission, and making sure I really knew what a spiff was. In retrospect it was kind of weird. It was kind of weird at the time, too.

Reading these, I don't feel like I missed out on too much.
> the product of the maximum sentence of each count

Maybe you meant the sum and not the "product"?
Or does the legal system have its own version of
arithmetic?
Dropping i386 can be considered a big feature.
Thanks for this.

Lots of great sequences from the 80s presented there along with on my of my all-time favorite openings - Ghost in the Shell [0].

I've always felt failing to put together a compelling opening is a missed opportunity, particularly for a series. It's a hook, a primer to put the audience in mind of the best eras and episodes every time.

0: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/ghost-in-the-shell/
Wikipedians take it on faith that their website is better, more useful, more ethical, more informative, etc., than other websites. Thus they are able to believe that it is right that their website should receive special (non-neutral) treatment from ISPs.

The problem is, most website operators feel this way. I'm sure Google's executives believe that everyone would be better off if they had more access to Google; and Facebook folks think that about Facebook; Apple folks about iCloud; etc.

So, this is not actually a consistent framework for how ISPs should treat traffic. What if some team develops a better source of information than Wikipedia? They'll be hamstrung from the beginning because Wikipedia is "free" and they are not.

It takes the decision-making out of the hands of the consumer, and puts it into the hands of big ISPs and websites. Whether the website is run by a non-profit or not doesn't matter much...either way it is like the foxes guarding the hen house.
Talk about a blast from the past! Watcom C/C++ with external amber debugging display was the best.
Would it be ok to run a tor exit relay on something like this? I recently decided to contribute to the project, but have been realizing that finding an Exit-node friendly host is basically impossible.

Would love to run one here if it's allowed!
I was expecting something like the Paul McCartney Jaunt VR app, but still cool
As someone that's recently started working with Clojure (and soon ClojureScript), I wonder the same thing. My first guess is that people are unfortunately and unjustly turned off by its Lisp pedigree.

I've been using and enjoying React and am excited to learn more about Reagent. It seems like Clojure + Reagent will make development quicker and more enjoyable.
I remember flipping through the Radio Shack catalogue as a kid in the late 70s, early 80s, and making my virtual xmas shopping list (I almost never got the things I actually wanted). radio-controlled cars, walkie-talkies, metal detectors, tape recorders, electronics kits.

I also remember being able to walk into a Radio Shack in my local mall and stroll over to the electronics section and pick out just the right resistor that I needed to complete my circuit project at home. I think I was 12 at the time.
In Chrome I think you can only do this with an extension. I use BackStop.
I loved Borland's tools. But they got Microsofted just like dozens of other apps, one by one over the years (word proc, spreadsheet, browser, etc.)
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The DRM code itself as well as most of the drm drivers is under a MIT/X11 license.
It was only integrated in Linux in 2008 (not 100% sure of the date) and was maintained in a separate tree before that. It also had to be compatible with X11, hence the choice of license.
The right thing to do in this situation is refrain from commenting in the thread at all.

Whoever "cloudscale" is, I'm sure it's a big deal to get on the front page of HN and having a competitor sneak in their promo codes in the comment thread to snipe potential customers probably puts a damper on things.

Classy.