skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it already has definition :

suffering - "the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship."

Introducing new definitions like yours is just an implicit attempt to advance anthropocentric exclusivity, pretty much the re-worded equivalent of that religious dogma of "only humans have soul"
A big problem with the DC to Boston Amtrak run is that it subsidizes the entire rest of the Amtrak network, which loses money hand over fist. The DC/Boston line is profitable. But it's neglected and starved.

If instead that money could used to revitalize that stretch, it could be much more useful. America rail went through each small town as it already existed and the track is too twisty to go very fast over a lot of the stretch.

And it's all so we can have trains that go from DC to Chicago in like 12 hours + 0-3 hours of delays. That route is unnecessary. A DC to Chicago flight is 1:45 hours and is cheap as fuck. Plus we have buses that use the highways.

Our rail sucks because we propping up useless routes.
I think the purpose of both the Millbrae and Burbank stops is to connect to airports.
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No, because OP is clearly delusional. He took what other people told him about what he should be making as gospel and then told his boss that he'd have to look for work elsewhere when an offer was made to him, because it was less than his "pie in the sky" number. Pay no attention to the fact that the guy has zero education and less than a year of work experience, or that his company clearly didn't value his production to the level of the other devs due to the fact that he didn't even have a company laptop.

Yeah, none of that matters. The only thing that matters is that he was fired. Because clearly, his boss is an evil mastermind who delights in the pain and suffering of uneducated people with overpopulated families and no prior work history.

Bottom line: he thinks he's worth 75K. Let's see him get it.
Thanks for the clarification. Makes a ton of sense.
I read about this years ago on http://www.damninteresting.com/superflous-brain/ which is one of the most accurate domain names on the Internet.

I wonder what'd happen with a similar experiment on Hans the Counting Horse?
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They are building the HSR into SF proper, and they're doing the obvious thing: using the existing Caltrain alignment from Millbrae into the city, terminating at the Transbay Transit Center (already under construction and build with this in mind).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/California_to...
You mean like pip, easy_install, `go get`, gem, or PPM? How about even Tarballs?

/s kids these days, Javascript this, node that...
it's sort of a thug life moment for javascript.
Crab is aimed specifically at the filesystem, rather than querying devices or processes.

For example wildcard matching on paths, combined with the exec function to run OS commands on the files you get back.
We're working on Windows, the query syntax and the functions are going to be the same.
Seems like a competitor for Vagrant as much as anything else. Given the ubiquity of Virtualbox and portability of its images, it seems like it will be the tool most compared.

That or docker toolbox.
In Common Lisp everything not NIL is true.
Your second paragraph is not true - paid sick leave is legally mandated in the state of California. Please see http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Paid_Sick_Leave.htm.
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Yes, probabilities are not statements about the world; they're statements about your knowledge of the world. As you gain knowledge, the probabilities (as far as you can compute) change. This is also how different people can compute different probabilities for the same event.
I'd heard rumors, so I was excited to get some work done on a bus from Hamburg to Berlin a couple months ago. Was disappointed when the wifi cut out after 10 minutes.
Maybe someone's been counting them this whole time and just got to the end.
That's what they tell us and their main model. I'd have to carefully read the ToS to be sure. And regularly.
Milbrae is a nexus point for various transportation options in the bay area. BART, Caltrain Bullet, SFO Airport & the 101 highway all meet there. It's also close to the san mateo bridge.

I would suggest putting the high speed train station in the same station that BART & Caltrain share. If I lived in SF and wanted to go to LA, I would just hop onto a BART for 20m and then catch the high speed train. I would also expand the BART parking tower to several more floors if possible.
There are successful examples of both models when building out high-speed rail. The Japanese system often puts the new stations on the outskirts of cities and lets people do the last-mile transfer via the local metro system. Many cities have both a station with the city's name, which is in the urban center and serves the old line, and a station named Shin-Cityname ("New-Cityname"), which is on the urban periphery and serves the Shinkansen line. In other cities they do roll all the way to the old station (e.g. Tokyo Station), but switching onto low-speed track for the final connection.

Europe mainly decided to route trains through city centers, sometimes by also taking the strategy of using older, low-speed track for the urban portion of the trip, and accelerating to high-speed once the train switches onto the new tracks. However even there sometimes the outskirts option was taken when geography makes it more convenient; examples include Gare de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (outside Tours, France) and Köln Messe/Deutz station (outside Cologne, Germany).
Yes. It does seem unnecessarily large inside.

They mention they have nice windows to get a good view of things. Might they be planning to use this capsule for space tourism? (i.e., send a few people up to do an orbit or two and give them a chance to get out of their seats and move about.)

http://www.zmescience.com/space/spacex-reusable-rocket-100-t...
Population density of whole countries tells us nothing.

China: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Populati...

USA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_populat...

People concentrate regardless of land size. Feel free to quote population density when you are a russian farmer in Siberia brewing vodka, but chances are the argument falls utterly flat.
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Wouldn't the hassle in coordinating things across multiple countries be much higher?

Not sure why anyone would make excuses for the US on trains. There are some great opportunities to get it right. Or ignore it and wait for automated bus services.
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Which is also the sensible thing--leaving aside other pro/con HSR arguments in general. It also doesn't seem to be what the article is arguing for.

That said, you start having lots of connections and the value of transit systems goes down. I was just looking last night and I'm told that the time to get from SFO to the Santa Clara Convention Center/Great America/Stadium is still about 2 hours which, while theoretically doable, isn't something I'm going to do.
Will you end up testing a Babelified es6 class and a "native" es6 class, or will you keep testing just the Babelified version for now?
I'm not sure what you're even arguing. It seems pretty clear that population density has a strong correlation to efficiency of public transit. If nobody lives there, don't run rail to it.
As someone from Germany I find the description in the first chapter a bit idealized.

The truth is: Trains in Germany are also notoriously late. And the Wifi quite often doesn't work as another commenter already mentioned.

(that doesn't change the fact that of course the German rail system is much better than the one in the US - but one shouldn't overidealize it, it has lots of problems itself)
You seem to have some UTF-8 issues. Lots of things like "itâ€™s" everywhere.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/lovefield-users/Xs97...
>It's possible trigger warnings might ultimately be unhelpful for PTSD sufferers. I don't know whether that's the case, as without further research I can't tell how selective these articles are.

I'll err to the side of caution and assume they are ultimately harmful to people and not use them. Which is what you are advocating in other forms of speech (particularly erring to the side of caution of gender normalization).

>I did think of that. I don't think there's a gender-neutral alternative to that fallacy's name.

Speech is fluid and always changing. If there isn't an alternative, you're free to create one. As long as it is understood by the person you are communicating with - language has done its job. This might cause some confusion or require further explanation, since the term won't be a common part of peoples' shared vocabulary, but it will get the job done.

The worst that could happen is people don't adopt the word, choose a different word, or re-purpose the word.

On a tangent, I'd like to tell a short story about a female leader of an all-female group. She begins speaking to the group with "Okay guys". I think any reasonable person would accept that the term "guys" has lost its masculinity over the years and is used as a gender-neutral. What the meaning once was is not the meaning it holds now. This is common in both words and symbols. To share an extreme example of both re-purposing and a changed definition, see Pink Triangle [0]

Ultimately - policing speech is a waste of effort. New words will always come into existence as euphemisms of the "wrong" words and knowing that speech is "bad" allows others to use it for power.

An insult is only ever as strong as you let it be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle
Python and Ruby come out with quite opposite results. There is absolutely no reason why those languages, on their own, should lead to wildly different error rates. Both dynamically typed, general purpose, very equivalent languages. So if this study seems intuitively like a fools-errand, that would be your smoking gun.

The study admits the effects are small. The one clear conclusion is an obvious one:

"Result 4: Defect types are strongly associated with languages; Some defect type like memory error, concurrency errors also depend on language primitives. Language matters more for specific categories than it does for defects overall."

Does Clojure have an inherently lower defect rate than C++? It's arguably an interesting question to ask, but looking at the Python and Ruby results makes it clear, to my anyway, that we'll have to stick to arguing about it over beers, rather than finding the answer in data.
Sorry to go offtopic, but what a cool looking site!
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Land area is only a constraint in CA because they have rejected density as a solution to the constraint. The city of San Jose could be home to 13M people at Manhattan levels of density, or 7M people at Brooklyn levels of density. Instead, it is home to 1M people, with freeways that are relatively overbuilt in relative comparison.
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Or, you could just go to the lowest common denominator, and use Make. It's not like that problem space hasn't been thoroughly explored for decades. For any problem you would have I imagine FreeBSD encountered and surpassed it in the ports system a long time ago.
there is an VFS layer in sqlite, I haven't used it, but it seems like you can override block I/O operations.
Not OP, but I imagine it's a couple things:
1) No clear mapping between file APIs that SQLite uses and browser file APIs.
2) SQLite uses blocking file I/O internally which is generally a big no-no for JavaScript due to it being single threaded.
Precise comparisons are aside the point, which is simply that the middle of the United States is incredibly population-sparse, in the same ballpark as Siberia. Which, coincidentally, is not exactly known for its convenient commuter rail network.
CL-USER 16 > (defparameter a 0)
A

CL-USER 17 > (if (foo) (foo) (foo))
T

CL-USER 18 > a
4

CL-USER 19 > (defparameter a 0)
A

CL-USER 20 > (_if (->altboolean (foo)) (foo) (foo))
T

CL-USER 21 > a
5

Given that foo is defined as:

(defmacro foo () (incf a) '(progn (incf a) t))

4 vs. 5

Does not look like a true replacement for IF in Common Lisp...
We looked at Log Parser before building Crab. The syntax was far from standard SQL, it didn't have joins etc.

It didn't use string matching to identify subsets of files to query.

And maybe the most important thing, it doesn't have the exec function to run operating system commands on the files you get back in your query results.
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Investors, maybe?
Millbrae resident here.

Millbrae is the largest 'intermodal' station west of the Mississippi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbrae_Intermodal_Terminal). It is the closest station to the largest airport in the Bay Area (SFO). If you're flying into SFO and want to connect to the high-speed rail, Millbrae is the _most_ accessible station, and one of the few (only?) stations in the region which allows you connect to most of the Bay Area.

'Poor parking near the bart station' - BART says there are 2900 spaces available. I don't know what would be expected, but I wouldn't describe that as 'poor parking'.

Also, perhaps less relevant, Millbrae is the last stop on the existing rail corridor still allowing relatively flat (and straight) tracks. North of that, tunneling or large bends around hills may be required.
The main title of the article is The Book No One Read and this is what the OP meant, I suppose.
There is a complete sqlite rewrite to C# - https://code.google.com/p/csharp-sqlite/
Python was my main point of comparison actually. Better across board aside from performance which I'd have to test more. While PHP was easily smashed, Coverity consistently reported a low defect rate for Python.

Other alternatives included about any safe, systems or apps language of the time. Ada, Pascal, industrial BASIC, Smalltalk, Common LISP, Ocaml, Eiffel, and so on. Even subsets of C++ and Java using simpler frameworks were better for some although I didn't try that haha. REBOL might have had something then, too. Didn't get around go trying it, though.
Yes, and international trains are not where the European network shines. It's getting better, but it has historically been hard to even figure out how to buy a ticket involving multiple countries. Deutsche Bahn is one of the better ones. If you originate or terminate in Germany, their booking engine can figure out how to get you to a neighboring country (and they actually have these countries' timetables in their system, too). But if you want to go through Germany, say from France to Poland, good luck getting that booked, unless you split it into two tickets, each terminating in Germany.

Specific through services make it easier a few routes, such as the CityNightLine sleeper services, since there is one train and one operator for the whole route.
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Increases. It shows the beginning of some external validation: it's not just you who thinks you have a great idea, others agree with their money. It's not as good as having customers, but it's still a signal.
And Burbank will eventually be connected to L.A.'s Metro system. Probably by dedicated busway, an extension of the existing Orange Line. Possibly by subway, a Red Line extension. Maybe.

It's already sorta-kinda connected to Union Station by MetroLink (regional commuter rail).
Does not recognise .xz? It's the first thing I tried, ffs.

It looks like it does not recognise other usual things such as .gz alone or .tgz: https://github.com/Mawalu/extract-it/blob/gh-pages/main.js
This is a pretty good and underused idea -- places like Crunchbase conveniently have a list of Twitter accounts tied to companies -- and of course, the funding activity of those companies in a joinable table. Startups may not always have a super active account or following, but most of them are savvy enough to use Twitter/FB/etc efficiently to post news releases and updates. If you poll a bunch of Twitter startup profiles, do a quick calculation of tweets/day over account lifetime versus tweets/day in the past two or four weeks, and make a simple score, when possible, that includes time since last funding...wouldn't that provide a decent amount of signal vs. noise?
>he didn't stumble upon the right answer, Many Worlds.

i hope you're joking. Many Worlds to treat the alleged indeterminisity is like cutting the head off to treat an acne.
Nor is Karma the universal force of cause and effect commonly called "karma," but somehow we all get by with npm install karma.
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I don't know what industry you are in. But a good way to do it is;

A)Work with a recruiter (But make sure they understand your background and don't waste your time with the wrong jobs)

B)Select the companies you want to work for and look for hiring managers on LinkedIn and be ready to email them coldly as LinkedIn charges to email...

C)Go to Google and use this method to find email formats of the companies you are interested in thus "*@company.com" and email the hiring managers.

D)Highlight your accomplishment on the resume and what you bring to the table.

All the best-
Thanks. I just looked at your situation, and you're right, that was our mistake. I took action and replied to your ticket with details; hope that helps.
Maybe I should take the Empire Builder and/or the California Zephyr while there's still time. To be sure, there are a lot of subsidies built into a lot of transportation options and, if you eliminate Amtrak outside of the Northeast, a lot of those passengers need to get from A to B somehow (which may well be sub-segments of the long haul routes).

But, yeah, from a utilitarian perspective I've never found inter-city Amtrak travel to make a lot of sense in the US outside of the Northeast (nor, in many cases, Europe for that matter).
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Over the last 2 years as OpenStack services started getting more production ready we took a hard look at various deployment architectures and realized that almost every deployment architecture was picked right out of a traditional management system playbook. Thats kinda doing injustice to the OpenStack services that are pretty well designed. We also wanted to offer a complete private cloud solution. That led us to build ZeroStack.

ZeroStack is a 2 part solution:

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Voters. Ultimately the money for all this is coming from taxpayers, so PR is a good investment.
Actually, I admit to hanging out with that crowd on the internet sometimes, and while right-wingers are louder on the official "community blog", a lot of people among the community are explicitly anticapitalist. Hence the "capitalism == paper-clip monster" blog post yesterday.

What it amounts to is that if you ask what the loudest pet cause in the entire community is, you'll get "Friendly AI" and "the Singularity", the impending doom of the human race, and probably something about overbearing political correctness. If you conduct a statistically significant poll, you'll find that our opinions are largely just sampled from the tech sector as a whole, so we're actually very concerned about inequality and global warming.

Nobody gives a mic to the people who sound relatively normal and give answers to "interesting" questions that just aren't very entertaining because they're too damned simple and realistic.
AFAIK the SQLite API is rather tight. You mostly pass in and get back strings (SQL and rows of tuples, respectively).
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Why does this use npm instead of a tarball?
I think they should have had a button labeled "Recline Seat" in between those two...
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What discredits trigger warnings is studies showing that trigger warnings do more harm than good.

You're misrepresenting the research. There's no problem with trigger warnings. The problem comes when people use the warning to then totally avoid that topic. What they should be doin is using the warning to prepare to engage withthe topic in a way that's safe for them.
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There cannot possibly enough friction between an end-user and the video player they just downloaded from a porn site. There is absolutely no reason for every piece of software you run to have access to your entire filesystem except that we didn't know better 30 years ago.

As long as there's a sensible override system that lets users make informed decisions about trust, I can't wait for OSX to converge on the iOS sandboxing model

FWIW, FileVault has been getting better, and recent versions have come with other security fixes like defeating Thunderbolt DMA attacks.
Borrowing trouble from the future is a combination of procrastination and territorialism - by the latter I mean that if I expend enough effort publicly worrying about the Gray Goo nanotechnology disaster scenario, I'll eventually get regular shout-outs in any stories on the subject, and the more often my utterances are cited, the the higher the speaking fees I can command or parlay into think-tank residencies etc.

This isn't inherently bad - as a highly imaginative person I enjoy juggling hypotheticals, and since technological externalities are an economic fact there is no shortage of potential dooms available - but let's not kid ourselves about the economics of punditocracy either.
I fully support this.
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Note that those particular cores are also doing SIMT like GPUs are, so the problem is different from cache coherence on general purpose cores.
I'm not affiliated with YC so I can only speculate. But I imagine, all things being equal, that the investment would increase your chances of getting in, provided the terms and valuation are not substantially worse than usual. It's a vote of confidence, which has value. (Although substantially less since it's a govt fund.)

You really shouldn't be basing important business decisions like this on their impact on your snowball's chance of getting into the highly competitive YC though. Unless you were really close to getting in last time. (Like, you went and interviewed and they said that you were really close.) The fact that you are bodes poorly for your chances.
>Python and Ruby come out with quite opposite results. There is absolutely no reason why those languages, on their own, should lead to wildly different error rates. Both dynamically typed, general purpose, very equivalent languages. So if this study seems intuitively like a fools-errand, that would be your smoking gun.

I'm not saying this is necessarily the case, but your analysis doesn't leave room for the possibility that the demographics of organizations or users of different languages may vary greatly.