skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shift of responsibility from the motorist to the pedestrians. The car "belongs" in the street and the pedestrian doesn't. Cars are not required to look out for people, people have to look out for cars. That's a change that shifts the generally understood purpose of the whole infrastructure.

If you and I are walking on the sidewalk, we're equals. It's as much your responsibility not to run into me as it is my responsibility to run into you. According to the article, before cars the situation was the same in the street. Everyone was equal. With the advent of jaywalking laws, suddenly cars are prioritized above all other traffic. If a car hits someone who wasn't in the street at a designated spot, the car has no responsibility for the accident.
I didn't understand the Chinese wall reference in the pro automobile cartoon. Thought it was interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall
There are a few highly positive comments on this thread that read like advertisements or featured testimonials.

(This suspicion is primarily based on the average negativity and skepticism by the Hacker News community :)
Quite the opposite: it creates huge demand for local copies of foreign services that are unreachable from within it. It's the protectionist's dream.

Foreign websites are, as a rule, very badly reachable from within the country. I don't even want to use them personally, let alone build a business on them.
Today many many governments can create TLS certs for any website domain.

With DNSSEC, only the USA can, and other governments can only create TLS certs for a small and distinct subset of website domains. That's better.

(It would be even better if dns resolvers included certs for all TLDs they knew about, and did not rely on the root keys for those TLDs. Just like pinning TLS certs. Then, you can choose a TLD run by an organization you trust, and even the US won't be able to forge your certs.)
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The domain `.ac.be` should be treated similarly to `.co.uk` by HN (ac means academia). Here the domain that appears in parenthesis next to the link should be `vub.ac.be`.
I believe what you're describing is a panopticon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Per capita or per mile driven? This is a really important distinction that hugely changes the conclusions that can be drawn from the data.
Will it remain free? Otherwise how will it survive?
It is not true that we have two cameras in our eyes.

We do have visual sense. Completely different. The output of the system is a perception, an interpretation of reality.

Most of what you are seeing right now is going to be forgotten just in seconds. You only leave what holds your attention.

Cameras store the raw content of what they point to. That is gigabytes of information.

The speech information is barely kilobytes of information.
Wow. That's a blast from the past.

NetObjects Fusion had some interesting features and ideas. My first non-intern job was with a company that did e-Learning materials. Our products were basically self-contained websites, with video content and scripted subtitled text, distributed on CDs. This was 2002 or so, so it was super bleeding edge then.

Our entire infrastructure relied on the extensive scriptability and plugability of NetObjects Fusion. We had an entire authoring system and video production pipeline that would allow NetObjects to generate pages for the videos with templates, all things needed included. All you had to do was drag the video player into the page and set the right property, and our build system would handle everything else.

The process was so automated on the technical side that it allowed the task of actually assembling the sites themselves to be farmed out to University students with little technical training. Although, speaking as someone who was initially hired as one of those "production workers," we were paid very well relative to other traditional college jobs and the work, while sometimes tedious, was often interesting and fun. I got to learn so many random things - how tires are made, how the propellant for the Space Shuttle's SRBs was mixed, etc.

Even now, I can still, a bit fondly, remember the hierarchical layout of NetObjects, with it's little yellow and black shields representing pages.

It was also a great company to work for. The owner was a business professor full time and this was his side project. We were always small, and him and his wife always took an interest in all the students that worked for them. Getting a home-cooked meal and a night of poker once a week was a nice perk for a poor college student.

The cool thing, though, was there was no pressure to stay. They knew we were students, they knew we were going to graduate eventually and take jobs elsewhere. It was a mutually beneficial scenario where they got relatively cheap labor (at the time), and we got good experience before heading out into the world.

I ended up staying on there for another 3 months or so after I graduated before taking my first full-time programming job. A big part of me landing that first post-college job was due to experienced I gained working in that environment. First as a lowly production worker, then advancing to graphic design, administering the network and programming plugins and scripting for NetObjects.

So I suppose my career would probably look very different without NetObjects Fusion.
In urban Oregon and Washington autos are required by law to stop for pedestrians crossing the road. Visiting there, the odd thing to me was how seriously drivers take it... They actually stop if it appears pedestrians are preparing to cross, even. This is distinctly different from most of the US, where it's up to the pedestrians to cross at cross walks or dodge cars at their peril and stepping into the street is more likely to get you honked at than stopped for.
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8 mins. car, 20 mins bus/walk
The point is that they worked to establish the norm that pedestrians must defer to cars on city streets, instead of cars deferring to pedestrians. This makes it viable to actually get somewhere by driving a car in the city, but at the cost of dramatically reducing walkability and undermining incentives for public transit.
I would be far more willing to entrust a production DB to a jail than a docker container because it's been audited over the course of >a decade. Furthermore, aboutthebsds is a well-known linux polemicist blog.
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Companies want security through obscurity, in this case for internal-network servers. Makes CTOs feel better, and security consultants are in the business of making CTOs feel good, so they want it too.
> The first person to make that work is probably going to be a millionaire.

Perhaps billionaire, unless the current startup bubble bursts first.

Let's see:

LinkedIn -- get an idea of income via job category
Tinder -- hmmm, someone "looking for love"
Uber "walk of shame" -- someone not just looking

I'll stop now. The possibilities are way too creepy for me. But there will be plenty of narcissistic hipsters who see nothing wrong with any of that.
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I can beat that. At one job, I had a person a couple cubicles to the left of me regularly call the person a couple cubicles to the right of me, and both would turn their speakers on. I could hear each half of the conversation coming at me from two different directions.
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What you describe as "walk in front of a moving vehicle" could just as well be described as "drive into a pedestrian." Your very phrasing assumes guilt for one party and innocence for the other, when there's no particular reason to assign it that way.
Rendering on the server has little actual value in 2015

There is life outside of Google, you know. There are other search engines, other crawlers that are not search engines, other programs people use on your website that are neither browsers nor crawlers.
Some people might find the example given of functional:

(map (comp (partial g a) f) x)

to be more readable as:

(-> g (partial a) (comp f) (map x))
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Not at all. It requires the ants to state what 'stepping on an ant' is, and ensuring that the AI knows to avoid it. The AI can plan its own steps, so long as they are not on ants.

Ants don't need to understand anything but ants. Surely a super powerful AI could understand ants as well. Otherwise, what's the point of calling it a 'general' intelligence?
There are people who use Jekyll for multilingual blogging without any special plugin. Since I don't, I'm not sure I can give you advice on the best technique. A bit of Googling and you'll be set.

If you find a workflow that works for you, post an issue on GitHub and maybe I can help automate parts of it. If it's just about adding YAML data, the new post templates feature of Octopress should take care of you there.
This would not work in Brazil, at least currently, where our 3G/4G are laughable... But it's a good start. The machine learning applicability could be awesome. Maybe one day we can have a smartphone guiding the blind without the need for an actual human to be on the other side.
What are the vast number of cars on the streets of Manhattan actually doing?
There are in fact organizations that scrupulously audit the certificates in all browsers/cert stores in their organization. One I know of is etsy.
It varies by city in the US:

* Seattle: Pedestrians don't even jaywalk on empty streets at 1AM

* Manhattan: Jaywalk at your own risk

* Boston: Everyone jaywalks all of the time, everywhere. Pedestrians cross streets anywhere at free random and do not acknowledge the existence of motor vehicles.
In my younger days I had a PVC potato gun which everyone referred to as a "fffoooooont cannon", due to the sound it made when you ignited the hairspray.

I imagine a hyperloop pod taking off down the tube will have a similar, but more awesome, sound.

I'd happily announce that I was about to fffoooooont across the country to visit someone.
Jaywalking is like a parking ticket in California. And mostly not even enforced in most of America.

The only place I ever lived that tried enforcing it was my college campus after like 3 students got KO'd by a Bus while listening to an Ipod and not looking while crossing the street.
Erlang processes are nothing at all like Unix processes. They are much, much smaller memory-wise as well as in terms of spawning/killing speed as they do not rely on system calls but rather the Erlang VM (which is highly tuned for these purposes).

Yes, there is a small overhead incurred when copying data between processes because the VM is truly copying the data[1], but the benefit gained is that you get per-process heap isolation (references can't cross process heap boundaries). This is important because in languages like Java or Go, one misbehaving bit of code that is causing a lot of GC to happen can "stop-the-world", and make your entire system pause (and it does happen[2]). This is not acceptable when writing soft real-time code, like say an auction system.

I'm not sure why you think an Erlang program is more heavyweight than Go. Is it due to Go programs being compiled to binary? Erlang can do that as well,[3] although it's not often done as Erlang requires a runtime, and it's often simpler to use a separate runtime. But you should know that Go also requires its own runtime to run Go programs[4], it's just that it is statically linked into your compiled code (which is what makes the resulting binaries so huge). But Erlang could do the same thing, it's just not really an industry practice.

[1]: http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.dk/2013/10/embrace-copying.h...

[2]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/S9goEGuoMRM/di...

[3]: http://erlang.org/doc/man/compile.html

[4]: http://golang.org/doc/faq#Why_is_my_trivial_program_such_a_l...
Sounds like a prime candidate for Amazon's Mechanical Turks. Vet & train a core group, and pay them to narrate pictures/video. Not hard work, not high pay, but (as a friend has found) there are competent people willing to do such work for humble pay.
The 2015 maker market is tiny compared to the 1985 one.

In the the UK the 1985 market was big enough to keep a handful of magazines in comfortable five digit sales, and an area of London - Edgware Road - had a component store ghetto where you could almost any part you wanted. (The tiny selection of components sold by RadioShack at ludicrous prices compared, to the epic lists offered by the ghetto shops, made RS a bit of a bad joke in the UK, even back then.)

There was almost no difference between 1985 product tech and 1985 hobby tech. In theory you could build almost any product you could buy out of standard parts, so there was always the incentive - or at least an excuse - that DIY would save you money. (Some people built amazing things to save money.)

In 2015, there's no way you can build an iPhone, a laptop, a games console or an MP3 player from scratch with a soldering iron and a bag of parts.

(If you look at Elektor, one of the surviving hobby mags, you'll see it's full of complicated, difficult hobby projects by full-time engineers. You need a lot more than a soldering iron and a cheap meter to build them.)

Bottom line is that the Arduino/Pi/Beagle/etc microcontroller market is nowhere near the size needed to keep a huge chain like RadioShack profitable.

And there's enough competition in consumer electronic sales to make it almost impossible to offer any other USP.

Add toxic management to the mix, and I'm amazed the company lasted as long as it did.

I won't miss RadioShack. I hope some smaller mom&pop enthusiast stores take over some of the same space - and that they treat customers and staff with much more respect and affection than RS ever did.
> The entire country would be completely unworkable if you could only cross at a "cross-walk." Some villages literally don't have any.

Austria does not have a jaywalking law but it has a law that requires any participant in traffic to adhere to light signals. Neither cars, nor bikes nor pedestrians are allowed to ignore red lights and if they do, they can be (and will be) fined.
"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." - Peter Drucker
I don't think there was anything fundamentally unethical about Silk Road (other than the owner very likely attempting to have several people murdered, of course), but the defense is clearly grasping at straws here.
This is a non-issue.

As an example, the rest of the world hasn't mass-adopted Baidu and isn't going to. The same has and will go for most of China's services.

Baidu is heavily shielded from external competition due to both nationalism and government controls (censorship etc). A protectionist's dream? No, a trapped nightmare, they can never compete properly with Google on a global scale. Seeing as China represents about 10-12% of global GDP, Baidu will never derive a meaningful business from perhaps 3/4 of the global economy accordingly.

Live by censorship, die by censorship.
Nice job! I wonder how this compares to kite, which is likely a superset:

https://github.com/koding/kite
I am almost universally opposed to the position that you would do something great, but are too afraid of terrorists, so I agree with your sentiment. That said, the faster you are going the harder it is to stop. I would much rather be in a conventional train heading towards a break in the tracks than in a hyperloop heading towards a break.
And I was thinking using Plone for my blog was overkill...

Wel... "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing".
> In urban Oregon and Washington autos are required by law to stop for pedestrians crossing the road.

Actually, it's required everywhere—even on the freeway. Of course, it's illegal for pedestrians to be walking on the freeway.... But pedestrians ALWAYS have right of way.
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My main use of Docker is for making application deployment less painful. I've heard of a few people who say they're running their prod DBs under docker but I cannot begin to imagine how fucktarded you'd need to be to do this (unless they have some requirement to spin up lots and lots of short-lived dbs, and those dbs have very, very low storage performance requirements...)

Would you do that? Why?
The real Dread Pirate Roberts has been retired for fifteen years and is living like a king in Patagonia.

EDIT: Downvote all you want, my friends. I'll take an awesome and timely Princess Bride joke over HN karma any day.
And holy crap, just in from Twitter:

https://twitter.com/kari_paul/status/555820627907846144

"Defense in Silk Road trial arguing Mark Karpeles, CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was the real mastermind behind Silk Road."

What the shitting Christ.

EDIT: Daily Dot has a court report: http://www.dailydot.com/crime/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-mark-k... The DHS seriously considered it likely Karpeles was involved in Silk Road.
Wow. That’s hardcore.
The private cloud is not the same thing as a data center
It's increasingly obvious to me that in the future we won't have flying cars. Transportation will be below ground and the people will take back the streets.

Examples of this trend include: boston big dig, atlanta beltway.
This is a great article for us marketers whose primary goal is shares and pageviews.

Unfortunately, it's sad to think that this is the state of journalism. <sigh>
From reporter https://twitter.com/sarahjeong

Trial adjourned. There's a lot going on. DHS agent was pursuing Karpeles as late as August 2013. Ulbricht was arrested Oct 2013. Like I wrote in my last article, he went after Ulbricht based on a tip off from an IRS agent in September 2013. Whiplash! Amazing moment later today: in affadavit, DHS agent referred to @a_greenberg's interview of DPR and said it sounded like Mark Karpeles. Recall, this is the same guy who was on a 6 person team to arrest Ulbricht. In Aug '13 he said he had probable cause to suspect Karpeles.
We have plenty here in the US. I live in a town of population 70K and we have at least a dozen charity shops and probably as many consignment stores. Any place in the US I've spent significant time I've found at least one nearby charity shop for the rare occasions I needed a suit or peice of furniture.

I don't know who told you we haven't adopted that system. Tell them to look for a Salvation Army, they're like the Star Buck's of charity shops around here, there's one on every corner.
Interesting concept! But surely it should be "astrovore", no? :)
Oh what happens if a serial killer uses it to lure blind people in?
And the CA that issues the cert will be flamed and possibly removed from Chrome/Firefox.

(Edit: If they are caught.)
>when I'm in the US one of my biggest fear is to spend the remaining days of my life in a US prision for a stupid thing like jaywalking

Maybe we should have an IQ test for entry into the U.S.
I'm curious about how you crowd funded your bootcamp fees. I mean, I'm aware of sites like GoFundMe, but that seems to be mostly used by people in serious need of help for things like medical bills and legal fees. How do you convince other people to pay for your education? What's in it for them?
This headline seems unbelievable, but if all the evidence in the article it is actually real, it does cast some reasonable doubt.

An alternative which hasn't been discussed yet is that maybe Karpeles was the Dread Pirate Roberts and then Ulbricht was. It has long been theorized that, like the original name from The Princess Bride, the title "Dread Pirate Roberts" was passed from person to person. DerYeghiayan seems to have had some reason to believe that Karpeles was DPR, while the prosecution seems to have reason to believe that Ulbricht is DPR. Why not both?
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In Hot Springs, AR, it is much the same.

The police actively patrol main crosswalks and ticket offending cars, at least downtown and near the horse track.

It least to (most) cars being very aware of people about to cross, and nearly everyone stopping to allow safe crossings.

FWIW, many of these crosswalks are not at intersections, or at least not intersections with lights or stop signs.
Here is a reference well worth reading about how they approach security: http://www.slideshare.net/zanelackey/attackdriven-defense
Ask HN: What courses or resources will help me to conquer professional web dev?
Currently I work in web development with around 1 years' experience, but I'm looking to further my skill set (MVC, OOPHP, CodeIgniter, MySQL, Linux to name but a few).

I would appreciate any guidance relating to suggested courses or resources with particular focus on industry practices/relevance.

As a starting point I was thinking along the lines of design pattern books or particular courses that strengthen core web development skills used in industry with examples.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Yours is the first comment mentioning the TRS-80. Currently it's halfway down the page.

I find this a bit surprising as the TRS-80 had a huge impact on the PC industry. It was the first PC that was easy to buy since Radio Shack stores were widespread.

Although derided as the "Trash-80," it was enormously popular for a time: "Still forecasting 3,000 sales a year, the company sold over 10,000 TRS-80s Model Is in its first one and a half months of sales…" [1]

According to the Wiki entry, it was released with two bundles, the bare unit at $399 and $599 with monitor and tape storage unit. Adjusted for inflation, that's $1,555 and $2,334.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#History
It's a shame you're getting downvoted for this, because it is a real and fairly popular sentiment in the climbing community.

The concept of "fair means" is based on the idea of setting limits on the artificial aids that a climber uses to reach the top. For example, pretty much every climber agrees that taking a helicopter to the top is not fair means.

It's context-specific, too. On El Cap, taking the hiking trail up the back to reach the top is not considered a "climb" on par with ascending the cliff. But on Mount Rainier, hiking the top counts as a climb even if you take the easiest way up (basically because the easiest way up is still not easy).

Free climbing itself is actually a form of fair means--ascending the rock using only what the rock itself gives you for progress. All gear does is provide a safety net.

Climbing without bolts and pitons--known as climbing "clean"--is also a form of fair means. It takes as its guiding principle to leave the rock as you found it. Under this approach, climbers will indeed leave blank faces unclimbed. Those bold enough to climb such faces with minimal protection are respected as having shown great commitment to their ideals.
In jaywalking arrests, cops may also press additional charges resisting arrest, assault on police officer, obstruction of justice, endangering public safety etc.