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They're all separate issues unless you want better outcomes from helmets in crashes. In that case, any one particular issue could change a bit and there are better odds that you'd see things start moving in the right direction.

The existence of private safety standards doesn't mean that you're somehow exempt from the Federal ones.

"There are safety standards for most types of helmets. Bicycle and motorcycle helmets must comply with mandatory federal safety standards." http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Safety-Education/Safety-Guides/Sports...

I think it's a complicated issue and that there are a number of factors whose confluence is very unfortunate for cycling helmets at the current time. I do agree that this isn't the issue of our time or something that has great influence on the nation. But I tend to get very disappointed when there are federal regulations that are well-intended but end up giving people a false sense of security.

From the Bicycling Magazine article:

"Thompson sees his challenge as story and price. He has to convince customers that a MIPS-equipped helmet is safer, despite the fact that all helmets pass the same safety test. "If the customer can't digest that message," he says, "you're adding a system that nobody will care about.""

http://gearfinder.bicycling.com/senseless/index.html

"Most helmet designers and marketers are avid cyclists. The entry hall at the Dome is jammed with staffers' bikes. They ­value their brains and those of their customers. But their customers—from top pros to weekenders—haven't been clamoring­ for safer helmets, and the unchanging CPSC standards helped to ensure they were never offered one. And the industry's independent safety experts have for years insisted­ that no helmet can reduce concussion risk. Repeated often enough, that becomes accepted wisdom.

When the MIPS system appeared, those experts dismissed it. "That's not doing anything except taking up space," Dave ­Halstead told me. "It's a wonderful solution for a problem that does not exist."

Randy Swart, the ASTM helmet subcommittee's co-vice chairman, said he found the MIPS data "just not compelling." He called MIPS "an unproven technology. I think it just adds complexity—and could add to the thickness of the helmets."

In some cases, these assumptions were not true. The MIPS system doesn't make helmets larger or heavier. The idea that the only safer helmet is a bigger helmet has been accepted for so long that it's become an ingrained assumption."
That works in my head too, though I'd always add the caveat that you need both and should endeavour not to sacrifice one (even temporarily) in order to improve the other. Along that path (particularly compromising the health side in a pursuit of dramatic weight loss) fad diets and the like lie, and those things rarely work long term.

One important factor that I've noticed (warning: anecdotal evidence approaching, be prepared to engage critical thinking) is that while exercise increases my appetite it doesn't seem to increase it as much as the extra I'm burning off. The difference isn't large but it is noticeable when watching closely and it seems to be relatively consistent: yes my body wants me to eat more when I exercise more, but it seems content with getting less extra in than the extra it has put out so if I just listened to my hunger I'd still slowly lose weight. This doesn't seem to be the case in periods when I do little or no exercise beyond my daily routine (walking to/from work and such) - I don't stop feeling hungry before I've eaten the right amount to stay at a stable weight.
Why does it suck that they use Kickstarter? It's validating the idea, and helps to confirm that the market exists.

Despite Shenmue's critical acclaim, it's not certain that the market exists. For comparison , Yakuza 1 and 2 (Yakuza is basically a spiritual successor to Shenmue in many ways) only sold 30k and 50k in the US market.
Except that it requires New Relic which is not exactly free and open source :)
> Or to put it bluntly: it fucking sucks when studios use Kickstarter when they are in no need of crowdfunding.

Well, Kick Starter is now mainly a marketing tool anyway. It helps increase "engagement" with Brands. Nothing wrong with that. Other projects aren't going away. And there are still other crowd funding platforms.
Computer may have the same intelligence as human, but their fundamental inner drive will be completely different. Human like any other animal has a deep genetically programmed drive: survive and reproduce. Hunting as entertainment, for example, is actually practicing for survival - all hunting animals do that.
This deep drive is the result of evolution. AI on the other hand has a completely different evolution process - that is, us. We will ultimately decide that deep drive for AI.
In effect yes they are essentially the same thing. One of the (potentially annoying) things you'll see going through the literature is that the term has very broad meaning. Other times it'll be a very narrow term. The broadest is basically "random noise can be used to improve signal." Under that definition, dithering would be a form of stochastic resonance. This biology article actually touches on the definition issues.(http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...)

There's also a case to be made that the definition of SR should be narrowed, and a lot of what's called resonance isn't resonance at all.(http://www.nipslab.org/files/PRE1995-SR-and-dithering-p4691_...)
> Talking about meritocracy and the US sounds strange to me. If we agree with use the term "meritocracy" it should be noted the distinction in the meaning with today's.

> Today merit means working and generating value for others. In the past, specially in the US it meant killing other people and stealing what they had.

Right, and I don't mean to claim that the US was equitable by any means. But in the US, if you had money, that money gave you a certain amount of power over your own destiny. In Europe, being wealthy was not enough; you had to be born into the right family, or be wealthy enough to marry the daughter of a lesser noble family that had fallen on hard times so that maybe your children would have access to some form of power. But there was no social mobility; for the most part, you would die in the same social station you were born into.

> The British were not nervous. They knew that Napoleon could not be trusted if left alive, because he could go back to France in order to take the power, like he actually did.

Yeah, this much is true. But IMO Napoleon gets too much credit -- these ideas had been stewing in the populace since the beginning of the Reformation, and they needed to come to a head before the Industrial Revolution could really take off. The British never really addressed this underlying issue either before or after deposing Napoleon, and IMO this led to a century of war in Europe culminating in WW2 -- where the ghosts of the old kingdoms of Europe were finally laid to rest.

> While proclaiming himself emperor and putting all his family in charge as the new nobility, including his son as his heir ...

Yeah, there is no doubt that he was a dictator. I would argue that he couldn't bring law and order to France without declaring himself Emperor, simply because European political culture was structured around a single ruler. He was able to use his simple origins to build a cult of personality around himself. He saw himself as a self-made man -- and he believed he would be a better emperor because he seized the position for himself. While he predates Nietzsche, he is the perfect embodiment of the "ubermensch" that Nietzsche espouses in "The Will to Power".

His goal may have been to merely "reset" the European monarchy with men of quality who rose to power through their own abilities. There is no doubt he did this within his military officer corps. The main key to his success in Europe was that his officers were smart, motivated and well-trained -- which he ensured by promoting men based off their actions rather than their heritage. His officers (and their men) were literally fighting for a better life for themselves and their families; which motivates a little better than fighting for king and country. But there's little doubt that the core of his motivation in conquering Europe was to destroy the peerage system as it existed in Europe at the time.
If people become aware enough of this, the answer is almost certainly that cars will choose the life of their passengers in any situation, unless manufacturers will agree not to compete on this.
Trust is a very interesting problem to solve. I say that I would really like the ability to "bond" together various filtered news sources and ideally have the ability group stories by topic ("all snowden coverage", "all TPP coverage", etc). I know you can half-accomplish this with RSS feeds but right now the amount of work required to maintain that list would be quite an undertaking. Also a lot of the time I want to "trust" certain sub-blogs or specific authors instead of the entire site and that's not always easy to do. Then there are times I want to be able to compare what I'd consider non-trustworthy sources to what I'm reading. It's a hard problem and I have no clue how to solve it but if you make any progress make sure to Show HN!
They spied on unencrypted data as it was transferred between data-centers. They can't decrypt or MITM anything because they don't have google's keys, and chrome using HSTS cert-pinning means that the cert is fixed and can't be faked with one for google from another top-level CA.
Oh, how very Swiftian. Brilliant.
This startup shares his Marketing Tricks
Nobody said kickstarter is the only funding.

Sony is paying something for the exclusivity, I imagine. They might also be matching 2:1 or something. Who knows?

The kickstarter is only a day old, this amount of press will grow that $2M.

Plus they're using UE4, saving a lot vs the custom engine of Shenmue I.

We only have one piece of the financial puzzle, here.
How is this the only post that mentions the chalkboard screeching? That noise was the bane of my existence in school. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to it than most, but it would make my skin crawl for the rest of the class, and if there were someone inexperienced using the board and producing considerable squeals, I couldn't focus on anything and had to restrain myself from just getting up and leaving the room.

If for no other reason, this makes whiteboards a godsend.
> “I don’t know how many lives will be saved, but probably in the thousands per year when all the companies are in compliance,”

I doubt it. People are going to continue to eat way to much of things they shouldn't, or too much of things that should be only eaten in moderation. It's not like Trans-Fats are the only thing people are eating too much of that is killing them.
you meant "killing accidentally" hopefully? :)
I agree. Another side note. From the article:

> Note that we are making the simplifying assumptions that the Earth is a perfect sphere, and that the distance is a simple Euclidean distance, instead of a driving distance. Although one can certainly plug in a different distance metric and follow the same procedure outlined here.

I think that the deformation of the Earths surface are not important, and just change the values but not the metric properties.

But the driving distance (or driving time) are not long a metric, in particular the driving distance between A and B is not equal to the driving distance between B an A. Anyway, the superchargers are so far away that the polynomial algorithm will give the correct result (probably).
Review != security audit.
I agree with you. I don't think it makes sense except for very large companies.
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it seems to suck that the page is deleted out-right. I would rather that the page altered to reveal that it was all a hoax, but still describe the ficticious person, and perhaps also describe how the hoax was perpetrated. Those tidbits are rather interesting, and would be a shame to have all been lost in the next few decades.
It is written in LaTeX. It even says so in the first few pages.
Yeah, but if we ever get driverless cars, you can bet on it that the log files will be detailed enough for really fine accident reconstruction. In other words, a "replay" could expose such hacking.
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tech is larger now
> I don't mean that I think the professor's a racist, but that he's offering this as a weak excuse for a poorly-thought-out publicity grab.

Of course that is what it is but that isn't the same thing as something we should censor as a society. It was pretty clear he wasn't trying to actively intimidate people.

> Consider a paralell situation: I gather a vast number of texts condemning Nazism and fascism, and fashion them into the shape of a giant Swastika, which I then install across the street from a Synagogue. The small-scale content (the individual anti-fascist textual works that pattern the surface) are not going to deliver anything like the same impact as the large overall shape, which (like the figure of the Klansman) is still a potent historical symbol of oppression and intimidation. Making a large thing that is guaranteed to elicit a fearful reaction and then complaining that people should have approached the fearful thing for a closer look before complaining about it doesn't strike me as a very effective way to communicate.

Simply because it wasn't effective isn't the same thing as it should be censored.

The core problem with your argument is you are escalating in both parallel situations. Colleges are intended to be places of learning and for such "social artists" [no matter how shitty they are at it] to put things on display. He didn't go and seek out a Church that primarily services the African American community and put it across the street.

> Or an even simpler parallel: if I run at you brandishing a knife

Once again, you are comparing apples to oranges by escalating.
I strongly agree with this. Cherry browns don't have very much tactility to them. Cherry clears add tactility, but IMO the springs are too heavy; the Matias ones sit right in between these two. Matias also has a higher actuation point, which I prefer.

The difference between Matias and Cherry isn't as pronounced with their clicky switches, but for the quiet ones I prefer Matias.

(Disclaimer: I sell keyboard kits for a living and am in the process of transitioning my product away from Cherry to Matias.)
How to catch errors quickly
Ok, but I'd tend to call those "classes" or "supervisions"/"tutorials" if in small groups.

That essay seems to focus on how copying from the blackboard can go wrong, without covering the experience since 1986 of how powerpoint and handouts go even more wrong.

This isn't to say I totally disagree. I didn't bother with many lectures in undergrad, and most of my learning happened in classes/supervisions, which I guess are equivalent to what that guy calls the "Gutenberg method". It's just that I found when the lecture was copying from a blackboard, it tended to be worthwhile going - especially since it forces a slower pace and forces you to read the material exactly.
While there's "almost no third party adoption", there are two pretty significant uses: The Flash player and the PDF viewer. Browsers that rely on NPAPI for these get all of Adobe's security bugs on top of their own. You may say that Flash and PDF doesn't exist in your view of the web, but it definitely does for many people.
Being overweight is unhealthy, it can't be done in a healthy way; not in the long term.

While it is possible for an overweight person to not have any of the common health problems associated with being overweight, that is temporary. If you are overweight, you will develop those health problems, it's just a matter of time.

It's basically like smoking and cancer; not all smokers have cancer or get cancer, but there is no such thing as smoking in a healthy way, and if you do it, then the best way to get healthier and to prevent developing health problems in the future is to stop doing it.

Some people can be overweight without developing health problems for a long time, even for a decade or two, but it's just a matter of time. Reducing your bodyweight is easily the best way to improve your health, and to make sure you don't develop health problems in the future.

And, vice versa, many of the things we associate with bad health don't become health problems at all for people who stay lean. Food that we know to have strong correlations with bad health, like eating red meat, sodium, cholesterol, etc, are only really problematic if you also over eat.

Exercise is great, it's terrific, but not over eating is much more important. The saying is true, "you can't outrun a bad diet".
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Thanks, that wasn't the point. What I was trying to say is that if you use those helpers you're looking up stuff in a man page anyway, so knowing shell scripting isn't enough any longer.

My personal opinion is that having a simple, INI-derived language is better than keeping the weirdness of the shell language just to assign a couple of variables (and you can still launch shell scripts from units anyway).
The idea of steak sandwhich is just crazy. In the Netherlands something like that probably not even exists. Or it is exceptionally rare. Come on, if you want a steak. Sit down at at home or at a proper restaurant and have it on a plate. And not on the go. Pay attention to what you eat and actually taste it. If somebody would actually taste the flavor of a snickers he would probably not finish it. Same for a steak on a sandwhich. Steak is not the problem. Having it on the go/in front of the tv/computer is.

(Nothing wrong with a bar of good chocolate though. Might be a bit more expensive though)
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi...

Wikipedia claims Yuri's page lasted for "3 years,
7 months"
I thought one world was something new it turns out that it's actually been announced since February this year.

My main question is how fast is it going to be? Can I expect 10Mbps to each terminal / user?
Useful. There are some things that can be improved, like a nice padding around the boxes, which looks weird right now.

PS: Barcelona fan/supporter?
Yeah, scope is important. It's like child vs adult, tool vs AI. You don't want to be in between, having too much control without understanding the consequences.
How about... "when" it'll happen again then. ;)
"I'm a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me" is a good companion piece to this one: https://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afrai... . Laura Kipnis wrote a follow-up essay about a Title IX witch hunt, but it's behind a firewall: http://chronicle.com/article/My-Title-IX-Inquisition/230489/ .

In 2000 Francine Prose wrote a hilarious and sometimes sad novel called Blue Angel (http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Angel-Novel-Francine-Prose/dp/006...), which is worth reading both for its own sake and because its story and themes are compatible with Kipnis's. Decades of academic satires seem to have had near zero effect on campus politics.

(I taught as a grad student at the University of Arizona and have been teaching as an adjunct at Marymount Manhattan College.)
I (perhaps somewhat naively) assumed that a self-driving car would be programmed to prioritise the occupants of the vehicle (as that most closely emulates the likely reactions of a human driver in that situation).

Self-driving cars are likely to be safer than human drivers anyway, so one has to consider how much risk there is of a situation like the Trolley Problem arising - i.e. not much.
Cool website and cool product! It will be even more cool, if you add a ssl certificate to it :-) (https://happyapps.io)
I won't say "it doesn't matter" because it does matter a rather great deal, but not in the way your question assumes it does. You see the thing is that effort regarding the company name and the perfect domain feel like work but they are not. Work is those things that are harder like making something people will pay for and getting them to pay for it. "What a great name" does not produce checks.

Microsoft isn't in microcomputers. AirBnB doesn't rent air-mattresses Justin wasn't on JustinTV, and Reddit.com is Reddit.com not Redd.it.

Good luck.
By "tied to chrome's inner workings" I meant the implementation itself which can't be lifted off of Chrome because of that. So PPAPI would need to be re-implemented by other browsers which is difficult as it's very much a moving target without an official standards process.

Basically what happens is that their flash plugin or some internal chrome app needs feature X at which point they extend PPAPI to have feature X. Trying to play catch-up with this kind of development is frustrating and difficult.

And aside of that, browser vendors don't like the fact that PPAPI is more or less re-implementing other existing web technologies. Here's a writeup by Robert O'Callahan from 2010 that goes into this reasoning: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/plugin-futures/2010-April...
Very few things in food are categorically bad for you. Even stuff like fat & sodium, which people generally think of as "not good for you" are required for your body. If you tried to make a list of foods that actively harm you or that cannot be made a part of a healthy diet then your list would be very small.

Transfats are one of the few things that the above does not apply to. They are actively bad for you and there are no known redeeming qualities.
Oh ok. So it would be more open source if the upstream vendor contributed less.
Apple's documentation [0] says to use black:

> You can set the icon that the user sees when they pin your site by providing a vector image. Use 100% black for all vectors with a transparent background in SVG format

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releaseno... (ctrl+f pinned tabs)
Here's an interesting approach to tabs

https://vimeo.com/9019483

Watching the video makes a lot more sense than my explanation!

Along with the usage of tabs, you have the concept of "sessions"
A session is a collection of any tabs opened before starting a new session, by using ctrl+t.
Using this will naturally result in collections of related tabs... You can then switch between sessions in a tree-style-tabs kind of way.

Watching the video makes a lot more sense than my explanation!
Better make sure they're above the law then.
Concorde produces a provably optimal tour, but it follows the TSPLIB input format and requires that all distances be integers. There will thus be rounding error in converting the geodesic distances to integers. To obtain greater precision, the geodesic distances should be scaled to meters rather than kilometers.
No matter how fast they break or swerve, it's not improbable that they might be in a situation where the computer has a choice - hit someone standing on the side of the road, or don't hit them,but potentially kill everyone on board of the vehicle. What should it do? Would anyone of us want to be the programmer who writes that code? Because I know that I definitely wouldn't want to be in charge of that.
Tesla should have a contest, visit all 200 chargers and take a photo of yourself and get a model X
Docker meets the IDE
I'm sorry, but please, please, PLEASE, do not hijack scrolling. There is no reason for it, it's distracting, often fucks up mobiles. I mean no disrespect, just don't do it. Cool product!
Thank goodness. This will finally put an end to companies including trans fat in their products but labeling 0 grams of trans fat due to serving size and other stupid tricks. I think consumers as a whole can get over pie crust not feeling the same for a little bit, as well as a slightly different texture for frosting.
> “I don’t know how many lives will be saved, but probably in the thousands per year when all the companies are in compliance,” said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Ironic since CSPI is one of the major reasons that we are using trans-fats today.