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About hazard perception test part in DSA driving theory test 
Passing the driving test opens up a whole new world of freedom and independence.
But new drivers should remember that they are 'on probation' for the first 2 years. If they get 6 penalty points in this time, they lose their licence and can only get it back if they pass a re-test.

Statistics show that drivers are most at risk of having an accident in the first 2 years or so after they pass their test. One in five newly qualified drivers has a crash of some description within a year.

Around 16 per cent more drivers aged 16-19 are killed now compared with 15 years ago. Under the Road Traffic (New drivers) Act 1995, new drivers who clock up 6 or more penalty points during the first 2 years automatically lose their licence.
To continue driving, they have to reapply for a provisional licence and go back to being a learner - using 'L' plates and being supervised by a qualified driver until they pass the both the theory and practical driving test all over again.

Government want to reduce the number of people killed and injured on the roads. Young, newly qualified drivers are more at risk in the first 2 years or so after passing their test than at any other time in their motoring career. One in five will have an accident of some description in the first year alone.

All penalty points count, even those for Fixed Penalty Notices in the first 2 years after passing the driving test. It's the date of the offence that is important, not the date of the court hearing or the Fixed Penalty Notice.

Hazard perception element in DSA driving theory test -

The government is committed to reducing the numbers killed and seriously injured on Britain's roads by 40 per cent by 2010. The hazard perception element was introduced into the driving test in November 2002 as one of the measures that should help achieve this target by encouraging appropriate training in scanning the road, recognizing at the first opportunity from the clues that a potentially dangerous situation might arise and adopting a driving plan to reduce the risk.
About hazard perception test

New drivers are disproportionately involved in accidents, especially in the first months after passing a driving test. It has been proven that drivers who have taken hazard perception test training have much better hazard perception test skills.
So hazard perception test has been introduced in the driving theory test.
Are you preparing for the UK DSA driving theory test? Want to know more about hazard perception test - clips, scoring, tips etc
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According to the authors, this is a more realistic depiction of what Neanderthals probably looked like:

http://themandus.org/what_they_looked_like.html
No, it wanted to achieve conversations.
Constitutional freedom of speech != appropriate for Hacker News != worthy of respect

> the validity of god is irrelevant if the outcome is to ease the restless pain

...you are entitled to have no respect for the truth, but I am constitutionally entitled to openly disrespect your lack of respect. Is it Hacker News, though? Ah, there's the question...

Can we really be hearing that it is Hacker News to advocate for Jesus, but Not Hacker News to counterargue? Now that's religion!
The Wisdom of Crowds: Implementing a Smart Ranking Algorithm
2) Higher cab fares during night time so that drivers have incentives to operate during night, especially, on friday and saturday nights.

What? You're going to incentivize driving over taking a cab? At least in NYC, this is a huge mistake.

Incentivize biking for everyone and good public transit. If you're going to think about fixing transit, stop thinking about cars in the first place.
When you have the popularity for this question to matter, and the staff to answer it, you'll have enough money to buy whatever domain your research tells you that you need. This was the approach Dropbox took (getdropbox.com -> dropbox.com). Delicious did it as well (switching from del.icio.us to delicious.com). I know misspellings are a little different, but for now I say just build your business.
Yeah, the braces make it execute faster.
Judging from the overall satiric tone, it is dry on purpose. Especially considering that other Veblen stuff isn't as dry.
According to TechCrunch the most common mistake made when typing in domain names is to miss out the period between www and domain name. Hence you should own www.domainname.com and www.wwwdomainname.com

http://gregarius.dropcode.net/demo/TechCrunch/2009/10/07/WWW...

I don't think I've ever made that mistake so I hadn't even considered it but I suppose it makes sense.
Bandcamp look pretty brilliant, especially at a price point of FREE.
A twitter to email service, and when you unsubscribe to a twitter account giving notifications, it unsubscribes you from the underlying emails.

It can be a new service not built on Twitter, say on identi.ca or friendfeed.

There'd be an API, so parties sending out emails can build into the service with a pre-established userbase.

Do you want to build it?

(afterward ... with relationships established with businesses.. can follow through into my idea http://bit.ly/1MscB3)
I get your point, but I disagree with you. Users doesn't matter unless those users are seeing you. If you're a band, using MySpace to attract users doesn't work well; I can imagine a clever band using Facebook much more effectively than they'd ever use MySpace, because Facebook's designed for virality.

If I'm a band, I want two things: I want an easy way to distribute music, and I want networking. My point was that MySpace offered a bastardized version of each. Facebook offers networking better than anything else; if I'm looking for follower count and nothing else, Facebook's got everything beat. Its music system isn't terrible, but it's much easier to use Bandcamp to attract users. That means that you've got everything you need, unless you're deluded into thinking that people will randomly stumble upon you online and that Facebook doesn't work well for that; in that case, The Sixty One is the perfect solution. So it takes a little set-up, but you end up with a much stronger solution than you had with MySpace.
have you tried Ack in Project? shift+cmd+a (once you have it installed)... i do that many, many times a day
I agree with you. I did two years before moving to an apartment and I realized it was a big mistake. I should have moved out after freshman year.
I have to strongly disagree with #2 as it will discourage drunk people further from calling a cab instead of driving home.

There's an idea - Bar Van, free rides home from the bar, completely funded by advertising from area businesses that want to support "don't drink and drive" initiatives.
Writing great documentation: you need an editor
Is there a site like this for video games?
Final Fantasy XIV unveils two new characters
If the entrepreneur route is in your cards, and you anticipate leaving your job for a change, I highly recommend you find a business partner. Someone with complimentary skills (not identical) that can help motivate you and drive you is essential to success.

I've worked solo for 5 years, and it has been a mistake. I'm currently seeking a partner, and I couldn't be happier about it.
Meditation, Qi Gong, Yoga, Enlightenment - try to realize God within yourself within this lifetime.
Or for a pizza place: buy a pizza, free ride home.
Depends what you mean by 'password-protected'. There's at least three different kinds of password-protection supported in the .zip format: the old obfuscation system that dates back to the MS-DOS days and pkzip 2.04g, the AES-based system introduced with WinZip 11, and the similar-but-incompatible AES-based system introduced by PKWare at about the same time.

So far as I know, pretty much every .zip tool supports the old obfuscation system which can be brute-forced fairly easily (especially on modern hardware). I believe only the latest Windows versions of WinZip and PKZip support their respective versions of AES-encryption, and probably not each others'.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/http-ng-scp.html had some similar ideas which when combined with http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc998.html gives you this SPDY.

But how do you gain adoption of such a tech across clients and servers (which was the problem with pipelining) will be an interesting question to see
San Francisco, at least, has banned plastic bags. Individual stores try to incentivize reusable bags by charging some nominal fee for using in-store bags (usually $0.01-$0.05 if you don't bring your own bag).
Where is the monospace font feature? It can be done with GreaseMonkey: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43538 but I want it always on, from wherever I use gmail.
World's Most Powerful People Of 2009
The 67 heads of state, criminals, financiers and philanthropists who really run the world.
I think you're looking at this backwards. Instead of an API, to start you allow users to send or forward their notification emails to some unique email address that's their feed. RSS notifications are handled similarly by the user subscribing to their feeds within the app. Tie into the existing notification mechanisms instead of asking the world to change just for you.

Given the amount of reaction this comment thread got, I'm considering hacking out a prototype and seeing if it helps alleviate the problem. That being said, I've already got far too much on my plate. I don't think you'd ever come up with this idea if you were the kind of person who had time to kill checking their notifications.
Bar Van, free rides home from the bar, completely funded by advertising from area businesses that want to support "don't drink and drive" initiatives.

The idea is well intentioned, but what kind of liability do you think private companies would get from putting a bunch of drunk people in a crowded van at 2AM on a weekend? I think it would have to be a state sponsored thing for it to work.
Apple patent filing hints at tablet computer
Thank you for all the advice. This is very helpful. I think I will likely ask for larger % (probably 2-4%). I will also ask for renegotiations at each round of funding until my salary is brought up to market rate.
The reason they're drawn scary is to support the theory of Neanderthal as cannibal.

I'm not saying Neanderthal's didn't eat and rape humans, I'm just pointing out that the authors would be unlikely to include pictures of cuddly Neanderthals juxtaposed with paragraphs of rape.

Sometimes I look scary. Sometimes I look friendly. My skull shape does not change in either state. I suppose when humans were fighting Neanderthals, their facial expressions were equally fierce and scary.
I got one for mine, since I always misspelled it myself.
Google makes ungodly amounts of money off scams.

One of the main Videolan project devs told me recently that their update tool stats show that 15% of all VLC builds downloaded are from scam sites--sites that charge money for VLC or include spyware in the installation, and promote themselves using Google Ads. Google refuses to stop serving ads on the keyword and it's impossible to go after the sites legally (they're all based in Russia or whatnot, whack-a-mole and all that).

Now consider the fact that there were 80 million VLC downloads in the period after the 1.0 release. And OpenOffice apparently has the problem even worse.

It's really quite sickening the way that AdSense profits off these sorts of scams.
how about creating a password-protected rar archive ?
I think the point is to redirect to the correct spelling.
Duh. You discouraged girls from attending parties. Correct or not, that's the last thing the world needs. I was in a hotel bar in Santa Clara last night with 60+ men and 0 women.
"for the nostalgia of the old stuff"

I don't care for new TV shows, but I sometimes wonder about cutting kids off from a source of pop-culture for their generation. It may not seem like it to us, but for them, the crap that's on now will be the stuff they watch on Cartoon Network in 20 years and laugh about or turn into surreal parodies.

Maybe moderation is a better solution?
What about UserVoice weren't you a fan of?

- Rich@UserVoice
And what's wrong with classicist modeling and inheritance? They were invented for a reason.
The answer is yes. Texas Governor Rick Perry is actively obstructing justice so that he is not personally responsible for the end of the death penalty in America.

As Supreme Court Justice Scalia said, there has not been “a single case–not one–in which it is clear that a person was executed for a crime he did not commit. If such an event had occurred in recent years, we would not have to hunt for it; the innocent’s name would be shouted from the rooftops.”

It is time to start shouting.
Yeah, I guess I need to offset those steps by one, and insert Step One: Become Dictator.
My 100ms Story:

100ms. Perceptually, the time it takes for a newline. I was really struck by that. I've felt that waiting for 5 seconds for an ant/java compile was too long (use time ant, like Rob - ant under-reports) but thought I was just being impatient. I mean, it's not enough time to even start a sword-fight. However, hearing Rob Pike (who, by the way, looks way too young to be the C/unix legend from the beginning of time that he is) say 100ms was their target for compiles in this talk made me take it seriously.

So, I hacked together a "javac server", that accepts filenames and compiles them. It doesn't exit between compiles, so it only pays the java-start-up cost once (about 2.5 seconds), and then it drops to about 0.5 a second or so. And then, after a few executions, JIT kicks in, and gradually gets even faster - typically between 100ms and 200ms for a compile (though quite often below the magical 100ms barrier).

Bonus 1: In unix, I used rlwrap, which gives you bash-editing features (from readline) to your own programs, and I discovered that the "-c" option enables tab-filename-completion! It becomes almost as easy to use as the shell. This made me so happy, I had to clap for joy, rlwrap is amazing. The only lack is no * , ?, [], {a,b} etc.

Bonus 2: I made it also run the code. A problem I found was that in Java, a class is only loaded once, so if you recompile the source, and reload it... you still have the first one. The only way to overcome this I found was to create a new classloader each time, that hadn't already loaded that class (a gotcha: be careful that this new classloader does not delegate to classloader that already has loaded that class).

Including bonus 2, this gave a combined compile-and-run time average <200ms (about 190ms). Basically negligible. In fact, the first few times I used it, it felt like nothing had happened, and I had to carefully check by deleting the .class file etc... that it really was compiling in that eye-blink. It was amazing. I'll stress this: it is actually faster than just running the code. I found java takes 450ms on average, and now it's running and compiling in 190ms (it's because java also has that startup cost).
That is, it's now twice as fast to both compile and run as just running it.

The magic I discovered is that there's now no need to have separate text files for input, and the infrastructure of parsing, reading directories, etc. You can play with your code by writing snippets of code, and it feels instant. It feels as responsive as an interpreted language like Python or lisp in a REPL.

Going from 5 seconds to <200ms has really made me happy - not just the figures, but the feel of it - and brought more joy into coding. I guess x20 faster is going to have an impact.

10ren
1 - back in 1964 I wrote a utility for the operations staff at the stock brokerage I was interning at that copied a deck of punched cards which fit on a single card, and I wrote it at the keypunch machine.
My feeling is that most customers copy/paste links rather than typing them, but I can't substantiate them with data.

I suggest people use the Japanese idiom for giving out web addresses which have to be recopied: a text box with your search phrase and a button labeled search with a cursor over it. (I have a set of bilingual business cards which use my name in a search form as their only content. 50% edgy marketing, 50% "a design so simple even I couldn't screw it up.")
I think that it is difficult to know what constitutes a 'fair benchmark' for Clojure. Are we talking unadorned Clojure, Clojure with type annotations, Clojure using Java structures, or Clojure calling Java code? Clojure calling Java is as fast as Java (obviously). And what if I had 60 cores as opposed to just 4 or 8? Parallel naive Clojure would then be 4 times faster than the Java version. The parallel clever version in Clojure would most likely be much faster. And barring a breakthrough in quantum computing, you will some day have 60+ CPUs in your desktop.

Most of the benchmarks that I have seen that were legitimately 10x the time of Java were using unadorned Clojure on Clojure data structures... of course it is slower, the machine is doing a lot more for you.

And it is well and good that this is the case, because the purpose of Clojure is not to make that tight loop really fast; it is to get the logic of your program correct and avoid a lot of the subtle bugs that can happen. Concurrency has many advantages above and beyond parallelism.

As far as getting along without macros and lazy evaluation and heterogeneous immutable data structures, I will say that for a long time we got along 'just fine' without garbage collection; but now it is a feature of a large subset of languages (to the extent that Google has now added it to C).
Usually it annoys me that I edit my blog post with narrow (editing HTML) margins, then see it at full width after I hit "post".

As he points out here, even a little trick like that does make it easier to edit. And I do manage to find a lot of my flaws very quickly. So I guess I'm benefiting from this trick.
I'm not looking for anything. I think Mixergy is terrific and was sticking up for the interviews against what I thought was unfair criticism.
I assure you, Hacker News is not the most effective way to discourage girls from attending parties.
Can't he just check his weblogs then? Have a look at how many people actually come in on those already registered domains and keep them if it's anything significant.
This is exactly why one should always be mindful of what one says here about software one uses. Many of those software developers are lurking here in the shadows and might take offense - Or at least be curious and want to help or correct a mistake.
I have never ever had this happen to me in 5+ years on Verizon and sometimes I hit the web button accidentally. What could be different about my account?
Found the PDF. Thanks for giving that clue :-)
This link is fairly illuminating of clojure's performance: http://gnuvince.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/clojure-performance.... A guy writes some Java code, writes some clojure code, and notices that the clojure code is ridiculously slower, about 100 times or more, even slower than his Python implementation! After some serious profiling and help from the clojure mailing list he gets it down to 6 times as slow. What if he decided to try to optimize the Java code even further? He might be even be able to push the gap to 10x.

As far as all computers having 60 cores some day, if your clojure code is 10 times slower than my Java code, I only have to use 6 of my 60 cores to be as fast as your clojure program, which would be bringing my 60 core system to it's knees. It's not like you can't parallelize in Java! It's going to be decades indeed before a 5-10x reduction in performance doesn't matter because of ubiquitous core availability.
Betterzip supports 256-bit AES (Winzip Compatible) Encryption. However, it is not exactly cheap ($19.99 for a license).
http://www.goozex.com
How to Crack PDF Password
There are sometimes reasonable reasons to unlock or crack a password protected PDF files. You have the legal right to open the protected PDF document but forgot the password or something. Sometimes it is critical, so you need to know how to crack PDF Password.
Order a pizza delivery while at the store, and you get to ride along!
I honestly don't get what the point of Go is. Why not D? Why not Modula3? There is nothing at all compelling in the feature set. Just look at the crap they put in for the built-in concurrency primitives:

http://golang.org/doc/go_mem.html

So we're back to CSP. Welcome to the 1960s.
It is a very small company of 3 founders and myself. Two founders and myself are technical. I am in charge of all things web related. Including public site, client portal, admin portal, web services, REST API, database design, and fun things like that.

It is a big leap for me because I am currently employed, and jumping into a startup company, taking large pay cut, is quite a risk.
The "Iterate Fast and Release Often" Philosophy of Entrepreneurship
Yakuza Crime Boss Jumps Infront of 4yr Line for Liver Transplant in US.
Statistically, I'd assume so.
Why? If this is successful, everyone should use it, and the whole web would be faster with default server configuration.
A mostly agree with your point of view. I would like to add that I think the author confuses generics with templates. The former is done using casting and RTTI, while the later is done by generating new code / new classes.
1960s?

C. A. R. Hoare, ``Communicating Sequential Processes,'' Communications of the ACM 21(8) (August 1978), 666-677.
A web browser, actually. Plus that whole Internet thing.
Here's a datapoint for you:

There is a movie that starts with "the", let's call it "The Prince of Darkness". I noticed that www.theprinceofdarkness.com was the official movie site, but www.princeofdarkness.com was unregistered. So I registered www.princeofdarkness.com solely for the purpose of measuring how much traffic it would get. I slapped on some Google Analytics and here is the result:

http://i.imgur.com/Q803d.png

So www.princeofdarkness.com has gotten 68 visits. Using http://www.trafficestimate.com, I determined that the original site, www.theprinceofdarkness.com, got 67,600 visits in the past month. Assuming that the estimate is correct, then that means my nearby website attracted 0.1% of the traffic.

I would gladly tell you the real name of the movie, but then you guys would visit my web site and throw the experiment off. :)

EDIT: www.domaintools.com reports the original site's traffic at around 17,000 visitors a month.
SCHOOL GAVE KIDS VACCINE SHOT AGAINST PARENTS WISHES
DO YOU THINK THAT THIS IS FOR THE CHILDRENS OWN GOOD, OR JUST MORE POWER BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM PARENTS?
Currently it seems impossible for me to make any projections like that. I know they are self-funded and are paying me out of pocket. They do not yet have a complete product which is what I am helping them build. The software we have developed so far is looking very promising and I'm sure it is likely to crush the current competition, but it is hard to guess what the company is valued at or what it will be valued at.

I am thinking of putting in my contract that my salary would be renegotiated every time they take on funding or after the company has become profitable until my salary reaches a pre-agreed on market rate for my position.
If the Zwinky toolbar is "malware and spam" then IAC should be more worried than Zynga.
NNDB (http://www.nndb.com/) may be relevant to #3.