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>Either the studies are not confounded as the author claims, or drivers giving cyclists less space is not the problem he thinks it is because those cyclists are actually safer cycl…

"I seriously didn't think it would work at all but to my surprise it did so I put my phone along side my $500 Valentine detector and they both went off same time" amazing

The thing that sets Jawbone apart from other health wearables companies is how much Jawbone has embraced the idea of providing insights to its customers. The next iteration of thes…

this is a likely side effect of selling user data to data brokers or data co-ops, where companies sell individual user data to a larger user database that's accessible to all compa…

I wonder when the productivity benefit to ATK employees will outweigh the $$ they spent paying you to make this. It actually would have been very interesting to poll employees and …

This is awesome. Great job.

Have you guys modeled what this would do to the airbnb economy as a function of how many users actively use your tool?

shamelessly promoting work by a colleague of mine that detects sarcasm in online product reviews: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~oren/papers/sarcasmAmazonICWSM10.p...

I use seafile as well - I host it on my digital ocean instance and it works very well and things sync very quickly. best part is that it does automatic, granular snapshots of my da…

I get furious at the types of comments that plague these submissions to hacker news. usually it starts when someone submits an article that in some way holds society at large accou…

>So everyone is mad cause they used their own approach to security No, that's not why people are upset at all. People are upset because whether or not someone has been able to brea…

>So here's my idea for a great emacs-based document editor: markdown with inline math previews coupled with a full live preview to the side. All the necessary modes for this alread…

a solipsist's life is far from an ethical one. you mention creating, but nowhere do you mention who one should create for. the ethical reason for creating a product is to better ot…

I didn't know this data was available! I wish we had the same breadth available through the MBTA. I'd be interested in using this data to: - plan travel directions based on past co…

This is great. I started working on something very similar to this a few weeks ago. Your project is much more mature, so I may end up contributing.

I definitely would. I've been searching for a way to write plaintext notes and have them available "in the cloud", or at least through a web interface. Evernote's appeal is how eas…

I think that whether or not technologists are arrogant does matter, regardless of perception. In Silicon Valley, arrogance is really about ambition. There are some who want to repl…

> So is lobbying the "subtler, wiser" way of thinking? If it is, I'm personally ready for something new. I'd argue that the 'maturity' rhetoric expresses something different. The p…

Totally on point. I don't think it's useful to compare the value of a successful PhD experience to some amount of money. This is especially true for the people who would be conside…