skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you begin braking at the proper time there's very little to consider. If biking takes such a toll on your mental processes, I suggest to quit biking. If a car is able to safely stop - so can a bike. Unless you're travelling at an unsafe speed downhill.

For proper safety, practice tipping in the opposite direction of car traffic. Losing balance or misjudging your tip results with you falling onto a curb rather than in front of a car. I also question how often an experienced cyclist loses their balance when coming to a stop...

As a skateboarder, a single pebble that's impossible to see while in movement can get caught in my wheel and send me flying into traffic. Cyclists take for granted that a small pebble they can't see won't send them tumbling onto their faces and into traffic. Learning how to fall is extremely important and doesn't seem to be something practiced by cyclists.

Worse - a skateboarder doesn't have any practical way of stopping when going downhill or at high speeds. You can grind your heel onto the ground or jump off the board. This means you have to control your speed and make sure you're not going too fast, you don't always have the space needed to carve when you get speed wobbles. This is something many cyclists don't consider while they haul full-speed downhill: they're travelling at an unsafe speed and refuse to slow down until it's too late.
I don't get much "service" work for the relatives either, save for immediate family. Somehow it's more distant acquaintances (most of my close friends are in IT).

And yeah that conversation was quite out of blue: we were standing in slow grocery queue, think I was wearing my keycard and it came up.
In Virginia if a bike waits for 120 seconds[0] and no cars are there, it's totally legal to run the light. Bikes tend not to trigger the light change.

(I know this reads as "if no one sees you, it's ok". But it actually is on the books)

[0] http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-833 section B
Why Productivity Tricks Don't Matter
Have any of you seen this television ad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4GjGhAhCn8

Cox is the official sponsor of binge-watching.

Addiction sells (see Phillip Morris). The wonderful thing about selling Internet is that you don't create the content, you just provide access to it. As content gets larger and larger (320x240 -> 4K streams..) so do profits. It's bizarre to me how blatantly they want their users to be helplessly addicted.

I think the author is right about tangible things ("stuff") but could spend more time pointing out the intangible addictions: 1000+ RSS feed items to read, 100+ TV episodes to catch up on, 10+ news aggregators to check, 100+ new PNGs to arrow through, etc. These things don't pile up quite so visibly.
Thanks for the comment.
We feel that this problem is especially pertinent in the field of ecommerce - the folks who run small to midsized ecommerce stores on Shopify, Magento etc.

That's why we built Hits Analytics (http://hitsanalytics.com) specifically to tackle this problem. All you need to do is set the budget and pick a segment of product(s) you wish to promote, and we will automatically create and track Facebook ad campaigns for them (we do the "heavylifting" of optimizing the campaign behind the scenes based on the conversions we are tracking)
I second this.

I was diagnosed with a melanoma a couple of years ago.

Luckily early stage but had to deal with several hospitals and dermatologists who just doesn't talk with each other, add to that the complexity of insurance-agencies and the fact that I have more than a thousand of those little bastards and you begin to see the potential for mistakes and the stress that might incur on a lot of people.

Whoever could solve this would be someone I would pay money.
Right. In theory, given enough time, both the Moon and the Earth should end up tidally locked to each other. Currently, only the Moon is locked to the Earth.

In practice, it would take so long for the Earth to tidal-lock itself to the Moon, it's most likely some other major event will happen first (like the Sun expanding and swallowing the Earth).
_Alignof( ) and _Alignas( )?
EarthClass Mail does that.
perforce?
"exercises" is not hip enough.
It doesn't seem a big leap to have a small UPS at home ($42 gets you 37mins@20W) or even a rechargable battery in the router and mail server.

Further resilence could be handled by partering with another device at a trusted person's house, to act as a backup MX server.
I think I'll take his advice and not buy the book, cause I don't need more stuff(even digital stuff).
"If you ever run a company you'll know that job creators exist."

No they don't. There are people who want work done, and people who provide that work. That's it. You're not "creating jobs" simply because you feel like you want to create jobs. You have decided that getting the work done will benefit you more than not having it done. That's it.
SQL won't force you to respect flag columns in your application layer (unless your entire application is in SQL?).
>>> RE: collect credit card up front... This is one of the next tests we are going to set up in our on-boarding process. Right now we don't bill the cc (or ask for it) up front.

Please, pretty please, don't do that. I am really not sure if a few extra bucks are worth having a bunch of frustrated users.
"Bikes, on average, move much slower than cars. Therefore, the damage that they could potentially cause to innocent bystanders is much less pronounced than if they were driving a car."

Bicycles can kill pedestrians and don't make a whole lot of noise or provide the large visual indication they are coming like a car. Look up the disease code E826.0 [edit: I guess they are changing codes this year - I swear coding is a scam] for some stats.
If you have good personal connections and/or luck, you could possibly raise money at the stage you are at.

Would I invest?

No.

One issue is you are Google-dependent, and Google is a competitor in that they pay advertising revenue to content creators. If they decide to cut you off or make life hard for you, you are doomed.

The great startup failure story of 2014 in my mind was Gratipay,

https://gratipay.com/about/stats

formerly known as Gittip, and you see it was was growing exponentially when some top users defected over personal politics, and their payment provider shut down, etc.

You've got to have a good argument why you can succeed while your competitors have failed to thrive.
I think the author uses the term "we" when he should talk about himself.

He presents distraction as an insurmountable problem, and it is not. Society develops antibodies for everything, including novelties in the later century like propaganda and media mass control, advertisement and even TV.

As tools things like cinema, TV or Internet, or cell phones give us much more options that what is taken from us.

For example, going to the cinema for two hours made people understand places and people living far away much better than any book theater or picture could.

Now if you want to solve distraction finding people that have solved it and developed effective techniques is only a touch away, if you really want to solve it instead of ranting about "we sinners" on Internet.

Having said that "Man shall not live on bread alone". Some distraction in your life is necessary. People are not productivity machines. Curiosity is Ok. I "lost" time on HN, but I always "gain" from things I learn on it. I have cashed lots of money from this knowledge but hadn't I, I will continue reading it.

Using twitter or facebook for getting in touch with the people you love does not need to take so much time and could be very useful.
Trying to "gotcha" article authors by flinging out a oneliner about why they're a hypocrite has to be the longstanding most lazy, negative thing that's done on aggregator sites. Here's the key thought-technology[0]: just because we formulate one, doesn't mean it's worth posting. A private chuckle suffices.

[0] I love this term from the fantasticly earnest podcast: http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/
Anybody who can solve fully international import and export customs regulatory compliance will be an easy multi-billionaire.

The market size for international trade logistics is staggering...you have at least a hundred global logistics providers with market caps over $10B, and more than a handful of which are in the $>100B territory. And they have trillions in revenue combined. And they are in a capital intensive industry on low margins, and they dump tens of billions every year buying companies that can give them slightly better competitive advantages. And they ALL suck at regulatory compliance.

But here is the bigger secret: The direct monetary cost of compliance isn't the big pain. What these companies pay for is delay reduction. Customs delays can drastically affect end-to-end SLAs, have a huge impact on customer loyalty (If your shitty compliance led to my product being held in port for a month, I will never use you again), and they have massive impacts on capital utilization due to how difficult it is to plan in the face of seemingly random customs delays. For an industry that is judged on Wall Street almost purely based on capital utilization (return on capital), you can bet your ass that every single one of those companies will be throwing as much money at you as they can.
I want somebody to take on PTC and Rational and do for ALM what git did for VCS.

More than that ... I want somebody to make an open and hackable ALM platform that I can build my own tools on top of.

The product should be license-free (ideally but not necessarily FLOSS), so I can put it on my CI servers and VMs without worrying about license files and license administration. (Flat-fee site licenses would be OK, but anything that stops me from freely cloning VM build-machine images is a big no-no).

I want diff-able plain-text-backed requirements management, defect tracking, and project planning, with everything (or its hash) co-versioned alongside the source, so I can use my VCS to provide a coherent, branch-able, change-oriented view of project state and project history.

I want the text-based backing files to be a simple, accessible format like JSON or YAML, so I can write quick hack-tastic Python scripts to build my own development analytics and reporting tools.

I want all this because I am fed up with having to do it myself ... and because I would rather spend my time writing tools to analyze classifier performance and tune algorithm parameters without having to do so much book-keeping with difficult-to-automate requirements management and configuration management tools.
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I don't consider Southwest Airlines great at all. They are my least favorite airline to fly. I've experienced some pretty terrible customer service from them. I feel their boarding routine is the worst in the business.

What, in your opinion, makes them "great"?
This was my question as well.
How do you not notice 100's of qps from the same IP, and then go on to say, he was betting $8k/second.
server logs, and basic networking chomps seems like it would have found this much quicker.
So is NetBSD[0]... exciting times in *BSD-land...

[0] http://www.netbsd.org/~rmind/npf/
>>> Github

Well, it worked out for GitHub because:

1) they have a great product and everyone can see how great it is, without signing up;

2) because of the nature, the word spreads exponentially. One free user can spread the word to literally tens of thousands of potential paying users.

So GitHub is in a rather unique position.
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I think I work for one of those 2 dozen companies. I have exactly the same problem at the moment.
Sure, you could even release a preview version of the AMI that makes it only available on a micro instance or something to allow people to test it. As I am assuming you would want to charge for the AMI. I think your barrier to entry is getting people to try it if you don't already have a following of people asking/wanting it and wanting it in AWS. However it is a perfectly easy thing to try and see what happens.

farawayea's comment is just not worth considering, not all software must be open source to provide value or have people use it. If it works, it does what you team says it does and there is a market for it people will pay for it, regardless of whether it is open or closed.

A question for you, I didn't see anything on your site (maybe because I skimmed it) but does using SuperTCP increase security at all, do nothing for security or ?
> In most areas the posted limit is the actual, statutory limit, and exceeding it by even 1mph is violating the law.

In most states, yes; OTOH, many of the exceptions are large (both geographically and by population) states like California and Texas, so "most areas" is a little bit less clear.
This emphasis on turning air travel into bus travel. How quickly can we turn a plane? How quickly can we board people? How many tickets can we oversell hoping/expecting some people won't show leading to stressed staff and passengers getting bumped? How many flights a day can we push with no wiggle room so that a single storm in Chicago means your San Diego to Houston flight is 2 hours late. That whole mentality that it's ok to run the business that way.
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Not such a great analogy. Yes, Leica's can be a vanity item or a status symbol but the fact is that their optics achieve things in a significantly smaller package at an amazing level of quality that is often unequaled by even top of the line Japanese systems. I don't own one and probably will never give my Nikons to get one but to compare it to a console that plays a couple of games is like apples to gyroscopes.
Can you go into more detail about the pain points? I imagine there are lots of readers who have been blessed to not have major medical issues on their own insurance yet and might not be familiar with the process. I know that when we had our last baby we received mountains of paperwork in the mail, but since my wife used to work as a claims adjuster she dealt with all of the issues. (We ended up getting overbilled by $3k.)
Recently I've been trying to find people to do IT tasks, but we're not at the full-time IT level, we're still a small business.

Stuff like:

- Setting up a RAID0 dev ubuntu box and transferring my data to it
- Setting up a VPN to EC2 for both our office (using our router that does VPN) and our personal machines (for when we're away from the office)
- Diagnosing office internet issues
From my experience the main reasons are habit and laziness.

I agree with the article -- It takes a lot more personal effort to get yourself moving than it does to step on a car's accelerator pedal. It takes even more effort when you come to a full stop on a bicycle. Once you get moving it's not as big a deal to keep accelerating until you get to your cruising speed, though, so there is more of an incentive to just slow down a bit and run stops/lights.

Ever since I got a ticket for running a stop as a kid I've been strict about coming to a full stop at all stop signs and red lights. It bugs me to see people blow through stops on bicycles, mostly because of safety reasons -- it's just asking to get hit by a car.

But I'm also super-paranoid when I'm on a bike. If I get in an accident I may have had the legal right to do whatever, but I'm still the one going to the hospital (if I'm lucky).
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At least around here in Chicago gears are totally uncool - fixed gear bike with no brakes is where it's at.
And that was the original model and configuration which was released, since then we have seen variations of model and configuration with up to 215 seats on a 737 according to wikipedia.
Famed Security Researcher Mudge Leaves Google for White House Gig
I get recruiter spam pitches for ad-tech companies trying to build what you're describing every single day. they all go out of business within a year. I don't think anybody actually wants this product. I think it just sounds good (to VC's anyway) on paper.
There is a place for ethnography, fieldwork, and other gonzo social science. So much of anthropology, history, literary criticism, etc. has beeen buried in critical-theoretical cruft that many practitioners have made careers from writing only referentially inside a circle of theorists, almost to the point of the absurdity Tom Wolfe observed in contemporary art: "without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting." [1]

http://www.tomwolfe.com/PaintedWordExcerpt.html
I heard that when he was writing and editing ANKOS, he rejected a picture of a panther that was to be used to illustrate reaction-diffusion textures in nature, because he didn't like the expression on its face. ;)
Does everyone realize that this came out years ago? And to date, it's still one of the most beautiful webgl demos out there. Most examples since have hardly been as cool. Let's hear it for genius!
It’s all about containers ODS keynote
Thats because you can both have fun and become successful at the same time.
>Yet if a driver of automobile obeys all the laws and hits this person, they get sued.

Is this really true? and if it has happened, who won the court case?
"work" to change velocity is proportional to the square of the change in velocity, proportional to mass, and independent of gearing.
There are some real subtleties involved here.

GitHub have clearly benefited from the network effects of being the de-facto platform for open source. Their free tier doesn't include any private repos, so it won't cannibalise sales of paid tiers. I think that their free tier is effectively a trial on steroids - you're free to contribute to open source projects, engage with the user community and learn the platform, but you have to start paying from day one if you intend to use GitHub for commercial projects.

Heroku's free tier is again a sort of supercharged free trial, in that the free tier is too limited to use in production. The free tier offers very little value to users who have no intention of ever upgrading to a paid tier.

AWS's free tier is just a very generous free trial - after twelve months, you have to start paying.

I think in all cases, the key factor is whether there's a concrete plan for how the free tier feeds into your business. If your product has high switching costs and requires a big investment in learning to use effectively, then it may make sense to have a free tier specifically aimed at letting people learn the platform. Network effects are the obvious case where free users have real business value. I think that the mistake comes from the presumption that there ought to be a free tier, regardless of whether there's a compelling business case for it.

As regards you contention that almost every big SAAS product offers a free tier, I think there are at least as many counterexamples - Salesforce, SAP, Citrix, Blackboard, Basecamp, Moz, Kissmetrics.
"From the people that know it well, they all love it. But I don't seem to have the required knowledge to understand it. I feel somehow dumb by that."

When I get this feeling, it's often because I haven't yet experienced the problems the new thing is trying to solve. Is it possible Om is an attempt to solve problems you haven't encountered?

I have no personal experience with Clojurescript (love Clojure, though), so this is just a generic comment.
Da basics.... You know, separate content from presentation. Content being the HTML page, and presentation being the styling. Semantically right HTML should be the primary goal when writing HTML. You can than style it 40 different ways using CSS.
Integrated settlement / closing software for Title companies.

The market leaders right now are God awful. Market leaders include Adeptive (Resware software), ISGN (Gators software), and Ramquest (Closing Market software).

Their platforms usually include a desktop app (not really necessary), in most corporations accessed via Citrix, or installed locally (host of issues with versioning), and an accompanying database and web application. The web app usually offers a very limited view into orders, and some limited ability to place orders and is customer facing. The desktop app is usually internal to the title company.

The amount of money spent supporting these applications is staggering. In one company I know, it's ~$3mil a year in application support alone. That cost alone would make a strong case for switching to something more intuitive. The worst part, however, is that they're also extremely glitchy. When someone misses a closing because of this software, it's a huge deal. That's somebody in a hotel somewhere, and a very unhappy bank.

Some of them suffer from insanely limited UI's, application design that is prone to database blocks, and various bugs such as accounting data updates not being wrapped in transactions and failing to update 2 tables when needed (so you get 'half' of a payment and your ledgers are out of sync).

In practice, here's all these boil down to: It's a task list (provides user with a list of tasks to complete) that has some attached functionality to help you do the task, and is customizable. The reason most are desktop apps is because the most used functionality is document preparation, which seems to be universally done in Microsoft word using templates by all these companies. They're also horribly dated.

If this could be a web app, work well, and port data over from the current market leaders into your schema, you would not have to work hard to convince title companies to switch.
The author here.

Sorry guys if I completely missed the points regarding the security. I just wanted to create a cool tool for me, and I didn't think too much about storing passwords or having enough entropy or whatever.

I've build this because I store all my passwords with VIM instead of the popular 1Password and I need to generate passwords most of the time.

I'll update the tool to make it client-side only.
There's certainly no shortage of companies advertising it as a service, and I'm pretty sure my friend's pretty standard micro web agency has used them before. I certainly doubt Matsano would have had much problem factoring their invoices had it made financial sense to do so

Randomly-selected examples:
http://www.fastarfunding.com/internet-consulting-factoring/
http://www.comcapfactoring.com/blog/factoring-financing-for-...
http://www.factoring-invoices.com/consulting/
A nod to ruby koans (which was probably a nod to another language): https://github.com/neo/ruby_koans
> anything Java-based had also massively, massively failed.

What was the error in Java?
man, no-one is going to jump on this bandwagon if it requires a several-hundred dollar outlay. Considering the massive volume required for spamning to be a worthwhile venture, wouldn't 50 bucks suffice?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Tabletop Simulator only about physical simulation? VASSAL seems much closer to what parent is looking for (but there's still very little on the rules verification front there).
Hey, friend just sent me a link to your comment. So two things: 1. we (Prime) are still in beta but happy to extend an invite your way if it helps—it'd allow you to connect all your patient portals and have the data synced in one place; 2. maybe more relevant to OP and HN at large, we released a new tool this morning called Patient Portal Finder: http://useprime.com/blog/2015/06/29/introducing-the-patient-... (sounds like you probably don't need this but just in case)

I'll stick around the comments too but email me tyler@useprime.com anytime if I can help with this madness. Been through it way too many times myself.
Exactly. Places like TripAdvisor simply isn't going to cut it. I have a friend who tried to tackle the problem a couple of times but still haven't succeeded.

My guess is that the solution is something simple, something that isn't algorithmic but rather a platform for travel agents who can listen to and understand the individual needs.