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5h··on Car turns driver in for hit-and-run
I hadn't heard of this, their glossary says "evaluates steering wheel movements" - do you have any better explanation of it's detection mechanism?

I'm guessing it looks for sudden adjustments to stay in lane after micro-sleeps.

5h··on Ask HN: Do you like code pairing interviews? I hate them
As an Interviewer I had a similar experience a while ago, there was a large language barrier with the candidate that was utterly obliterated once collaborating on code.
5h··on Evidence That Bike Helmet Laws Don't Help Rider Safety
Statistical significance or not, I have exactly 1 head/brain that has been saved from significant injury thanks to wearing a helmet.

Happy to ride my anecdotal evidence all the way to the bank.

5h··on Ask HN: Three jobs in eight months...am I justified?
I feel you are justified, but I also suspect you could do yourself a favour by remembering that the interview process is a two-way street.

Are you asking enough, or good enough questions before accepting offers? For the right company be up-front about your reason for leaving, as long as both parties know the role is sufficiently rewarding I doubt you would be classed a flight risk.

5h··on Time series database Graphite seems to be falling into disfavor
> What does a modern metrics stack look like? There are so many words... Graphfana, Kibana, StatsD, Graphite, Prometheus etc. Which bits should I choose and attach together?
5h··on Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon
> Let me guess: "I could care less about it".

Did you mean "couldn't care less"?

> Did I summarize it well?

no

> You know when you see Linus piss on security so easily, you start to wonder - maybe that joke about allowing the NSA backdoor in the kernel was actually true?

Are you referring to the article you didn't read here?

Actual takeaway:

> "The only real solution to security is to admit that bugs happen," Torvalds said, "and then mitigate them by having multiple layers, so if you have a hole in one component, the next layer will catch the issue."

5h··on How Carders Can Use EBay as a Virtual ATM
True, it shows a prompt specified by the user at registration ... presumably that might be to establish trust? (it's been a long time since i registered mine & can't remember off hand) ... if so that's probably security theatre

I think the reset process requires postcode & DOB (in the UK anyway) which would high a good probability of being available in the data-dump type scenario.

5h··on How Carders Can Use EBay as a Virtual ATM
I think it's more due to the volume of ancient systems out there that do not & will not support added security measures.

Visa 3d secure is popular now though.

5h··on Details of UK website visits 'to be stored for year'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34715872

^ fixed link

5h··on China to begin two-child policy
Lots of people alive now will likely live on a 10 billion person earth

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=world+population+1900+t...

5h··on Ask HN: What are some hard coding projects I could create?
A system that auto-generates requests for hard coding projects perhaps?
5h··on How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?
In in my early 30's & on a knife edge, balancing between management and development (from a development background) - I'm now in a quite senior role for a product at a medium sized software company.

I'm finding it incredibly fun - being be effective on both sides - I really do feel it is a false dichotomy.

5h··on How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
Being london, fried chicken shops attract late night drunken folk wandering around doing what late night drunken folk will do.
5h··on Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
yes, exactly that, drag an xml file into excel, choose "generate a schema", then you can drag and drop fields from your nested structure,

parent records will be repeated intelligently for nested sub-records.

5h··on Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS
Excel also has a pretty easy to understand xml import,

At my a new gig I've just avoided having to write add 'just one more report' to the fragile homebrew report designer by letting people pull out structured data and make their own reports. Code required was trivial & the risk was super low as we could just use existing API methods to get the XML out.

This has caught my eye though, so I'll have a tinker in the morning.

5h··on Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engineers
I wonder how differently the reaction here would be if the title/article didn't call them Engineers.
5h··on You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day
Of course, I understand the parent post's point & the hazards of quoting out of context, it's just an amusing fragment.

Talking of context though, I think any individual is capable of thinking for themselves when it comes to how much water a day to drink.

5h··on You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day
> "Thinking for yourself is untenable"

Well, that's the best thing I've read all day.

5h··on Ask HN: What do you think of modular smart phones?
Dead end. I suspect a widely varied yet cross-compatible & long lived set of modules & interfaces would leave us with a gigantic / expensive / ugly device.
5h··on Reinventing Performance Management
I wonder, will four questions will grow into six, eight, twelve whatever, which will then require a form or series of forms to be completed & some sort of redundant moderation to ensure they aren't dealing with individual perceptions again etc etc, eventually evolving into what they have just done away with.
5h··on Nokia’s Here Maps Sold for $3B to Audi, BMW and Mercedes
osmand does a good enough job for me, used it recently on a cross-european motorcycle trip.

edit: i should have been clearer, osmand isn't just "good enough" - it is brilliant.

5h··on The Fastest Blog in the World
if you care about bytes, you could minimise the css & html also
5h··on SEO hidden text and AJAX
We also can't be sure that "literal searches in quotes" are considered the same way for SERP ranking etc, which I guess would be the motive for hiding text.
5h··on What F1 Cars Would Look Like if F1 Got Its Act Together
> Van Overbeeke makes other practical changes to his cars: They’re stripped down, free of many of the aerodynamic doodads that add cost and complication to car design.

Just because you have skills in one field, don't assume they transfer to another.

Those "doodads" have been through a metric fuck-tonne of windtunnel testing & modelling.

5h··on Ask HN: Are there any examples of profitable Google Chrome extensions?
That website popped up another one of those "Subscribe to get our newsletter" things that are infuriatingly common nowadays.

I always enter some variation of "nobody-likes-popups@digitaltrends.com" with the domain changed to suit in the vain hope it tips the balance in a discussion someday.

5h··on MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump [video]
I really like that this happens on HN.

A crap gif and half a paragraph add nothing to the video imho.

5h··on Ask HN: When are you no longer a “junior” developer?
To add to the other answers,

Any given team has information flowing between members (be it business or technical knowledge) - some members give out more information than they consume - they are usually the senior ones.

5h··on Ask HN: When are you no longer a “junior” developer?
Django wasn't the problem there, and I hope you don't associate it with difficult to complete projects!
5h··on Reddit launches harassment crackdown
Not quite by my reckoning - but I think the tinder box is close to being lit, large parts of the community already takes a poor view of its CEO.
5h··on Why I’m breaking up with Google Chrome
Hi Boris,

Props for replying - communicating in the face of adversity isn't fun I know, so thank you for that!

I'll try to put my thoughts together in an email for you, but just incase I don't get around to it here's a seat-of-my-pants synopsis before I get into work.

Make the back-to-article functionality discoverable, tell your uses they need to hover over the article / press c / whatever to close the ad, tell people the content is over ----> there.

Techie audiences like here are more likely to not have their hands on a mouse, If I have to take my hands off the keyboard to click on the ad it's annoying also.

Think of you power users, I open a bunch of tabs then flick through them a bit later - This meant I missed the transition where it goes off to one side. I thought your website was a pop-under type exploit - not so hot! use the windows focus & blur events to activate your ad

Seeing the article for a second, then watching it fuck-off to never-never land is really annoying, It's like someone switching the TV off just after kick-off in a game of football.

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