skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a bit overly cynical. Most people that support public transport support the 'idea' of public transportation (I don't) and mass transit generally (I do). They do not support it on the basis that they'll have a clear road to drive their own cars; a few may, but most aren't even thinking of their next trip anywhere.

However once you need to go somewhere, the more immediate practical effects take over: reckoning with the inconvenience, inefficiency, and terrible service offered by most public transit organizations becomes the present concern and you take the best, fastest, and most efficient path for themselves in that moment.

I've seen a couple notes about the San Francisco Bay Area's BART. I actually take BART and might more often if it were closer. While I don't agree with how they exist, that they do and do a reasonable job makes them viable for me. Now there is a light rail/trolley thing run by San Francisco that stops directly outside my house. I won't take it. The service sucks. It's not worth it even compared to the horrible traffic in SF. If I have to take MUNI, I will walk a mile to BART, drive, or just not go.
Also keep in mind parasites and gut bacteria are far different to infectious diseases like polio and measles.

We are rapidly approaching an era of medical treatments where giving a treatment of "probiotics" to correct your newborn child's gut bacteria in order to prevent asthma much the way we give immunisations against diseases today. The hygiene hypothesis is getting some pretty compelling evidence and hopefully it will lead to us learning the "right" kind of things we should be exposing our children to in order to prevent these autoimmune conditions.
I live in Montreal so I might be an outlier, but if more people took the public transport system, you'd need way more buses at rush hours.
There was a great Canadian news article on lobster economics last year:

Amid an unprecendent glut, Larry the doomed lobster is followed from a Nova Scotia trap to a Toronto table...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/my-travels-with...
Agreed.. using mount/unmount is the exception to the rule.. I can imagine anything using charting libraries, or any third party rendering library would need to do this for performant controls... but it is definitely the exception to the rule.
People want door-to-door personal transportation (car), not fixed mass transit along select major routes (bus, rail), and they have ever since the car was invented.
After the collapse of Bell Labs and the inefficiencies at the University level, this is an effort that can truly impact change.

True fundamental innovation takes 15+years... stable ecosystems (govt policies, strong economies etc) are needed to foster this type innovation. YC is definitely a stable environment to foster fundamental inno.

Fundamental innovation also creates new methodologies in two or three areas, whether it be technology, market or implementation. Everything else is incremental innovation (new tech enhancing products in a known market), this can be achieved in 1 to 3 years. Kudos YC!
Google’s $30m race to the moon is ready for lift-off
I believe this was in Pakistan. And yea, it's pretty scummy.
i guess the number of orders was less than half of what it expected haha
> There's no other valid technical use of the word.

Now there is.
I totally agree. It all depends (1) where you live (2) how public transport is organised. I live in Melbourne, AU and to get to work (CBD) by car would cost my on an average 2.5 times more and take twice as long then sitting on the train (not including car purchase and maintenance costs).

It's a godsend compared to being stuck in the traffic (can work/play on laptop/tablet), sleep or talk to someone if I'm bored (usually same people travel regularly on the same line during the same time and in the same carriage). All in all I can have a good 1.5 hours of semi-productive time when using PT. The opposite is true if I were to use a car. Utter waste of time/money.

PT is the only way to go but this heavily relies on the infrastructure in place and how reliable the system can be. I used PT in Chicago and Boston for 3 years and hated it. By the same token living in Asia (Singapore for example) where timetables don't even exist on some lines because the trains run so often and regularly was fantastic. Melbourne falls somewhere in the middle, good services hampered by old infrastructure (some signal stations have been operational without an upgrade for the last 100 years!!!) and frequent air-conditioning breakdowns in hot weather.

The problem with PT is that most of us associate it with smelly, crowded, unreliable and expensive alternative to car ownership. But it does not have to be that way. Once you try a well designed and reliable PT solution there is no going back, trust me!

Also, IMHO buses are way worst then trains as a mean of transportation (may be why some many people hate PT). Every time there is maintenance work on my line and buses replace trains temporarily I prefer to work from home. Can't imaging a two hours bus commute (which heavily depends on the traffic conditions) with a shaky laptop on my lap.
Because everyone who rides the train makes my car commute easier.
Might not be defensible as a trademark.
Jet has been pretty great for me in San Francisco, but I hadn't thought it would be worth the membership fee unless you live in a bigger home with a family or roommates (I live in a studio). It's pretty great for household stuff, medicinal items, and name brand packaged food, not necessarily because it has cheaper unit prices than Amazon (I haven't actually checked), but because you can get smaller quantities of things than you usually can from Amazon Prime. I also found a few pretty good deals on other items.
Yes, I missed that. Good pickup.

Weirdly, the demo of the same software at http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/ doesn't make this mistake!

See my rant about the config of CoreNLP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10350090
There are only about 5 walkable cities in the US. Boston would have been the other possibility for the computer industry. It might have worked but doesn't have that much better odds than San Francisco for making room for everyone.
Isn't there a restaurant in NYC that specifically advertises that they only take credit cards and no cash?
Paradoxically this is also why transit is slow.
Multiple selection does seem to be quite a powerful feature. I've never actually used it myself, so I'm not completely clear on all the possible workflows, but it's something that I know the Sublime people I work with miss in vim.

Speaking of token aware editing, smalltalk had an AST aware "editor" called a "refactoring browser". It could even infer the type of a variable by running tests and seeing what type the variable held in the running code. This is where you can get some crazy utility happening with automatic refactoring. Unfortunately most languages these days are needlessly complicated to parse (ahem... ruby).

I am toying with the idea of writing an Evil like mode in Emacs that gives the utility of vim, but without some of the cruft from vi. I think Emacs is a good platform to do it in since it gives you a lot for free (especially a nice lisp interpreter to implement features in ;-) ). However, I have far too many things on the go as it stands :-(
We're working on it in the states.
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Costco has 81M members or so, at $50/yr that is around $4B/yr total in membership revenue. Their profit in the last year was $2.3B. Thus you are correct, Costco would lose money if they didn't charge membership fees.

Costco's profit is actually really low. $115B in sales with $2.3B in net income, so ~2% profit margin. I guess they really do have low prices.

Walmart for comparison has a 3.3% profit margin in the last year on $445B in sales. Amazon has a -0.3% profit margin on $88B of sales.
DE Shaw gave away his hedge fund empire to start DE Shaw Research. He similarly used his own money to start a privately funded research lab. He is their Chief Scientist.
People who drive in cars are far, far, far more likely to perish in "random violence" than are people who ride the bus.
And Scott Hanselman did a good interview with Rachel Reese from Jet about it just a couple of shows ago as well: http://hanselminutes.com/494/jetcom-scales-with-azure-f-and-...
In fact, studies have long shown that 98% of US commuters favor transit, but rather fewer are willing to use it.[0]

[0]http://www.theonion.com/article/report-98-percent-of-us-comm...
Financial benefits of security as a service for systems integrators
> 1. Performance. Back in the 1990s, Perl hit a sweet spot
> of being quick for development while still being fast
> enough for a wide variety of tasks. It still performs
> reasonably well versus other scripting language. Every
> time I looked at Perl 6 it failed to be fast enough for
> anything interesting to me.

Yeah, performance sucks for Perl 6. Simple reason - first make it work, then make it fast. It's just been announced like yesterday that there's gonna be beta releases before the first stable release.

My money is performance will get better between now and Perl 6, v1.
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I think that's a consequence of its success. Every little library that anyone thought of building is up there.
It's sad that instead of talking about what works best and how to solve problems, ideology is injected into the discussion by attempting to make it an issue of 'social-engineering' / 'environmental cause' vs. 'freedom'.

I always thought any ideology was dangerous, something to be shunned. It's a primary cause of wars and suffering, and of paralysis like the what we see in the US Congress now. Like anger, often part of current ideologies, it innoculates humans from thinking rationally by ruling out any discussion or thought, and thus it enables people to do dangerous, irrational, and bad things. (Often those effects are the intent of the ideological leaders, to manipulate their followers.) Once upon a time I thought we all learned that in school; if we did, many seem to have forgotten.
MSR has published lots of great papers but it has not yet replicated the success of PARC or Bell Labs by any means. I am not sure why this has happened, but it has been pretty obvious to everyone in the research community. Google, which came in with a research agenda pretty late, has more or less single handedly pushed the boundaries of industrial research in the last decade.
Keep in mind, BART is about ten times better than what usually passes for public transit.

-- Someone who was stuck on SF Muni's pathetic impersonation of a subway today for 30 minutes while next to a not good-smelling guy who was tripping out on something.
For the first example, I think the sellers put this condition in the contract. They (sellers) do not want to publicize low prices. The second example is a valid point. Though I personally keep my social networks in their own box. In the third example, they have a phone number! I think most tech companies avoid displaying/having a phone number to contact.

Can't comment much on if they don't look hungry. The founder has already sold one company to Amazon.
> Each individual knew bits and pieces, and made assumptions on how the rest of the process worked.

There are at least two ways that can come about:

1. laziness/apathy/incompetence

2. Someone in a more senior position culling anyone who knows too much or works too hard

I've seen a lot of both.
"Hi, Welcome to JohnnyCab!" headswivel

... can't wait.
Wow.. In the article he seemed very confident. I can see this ending in a lot of tears unfortunately.
I want some evidence that you're actually a PhD student at MIT before I start believing that the education system there is broken.
If he could have proven the theorem in a week despite its having a counterexample, that is impressive.
Your Word2Vec comments are interesting. I've had pretty good success with that original trained dataset the original Word2Vec implementation shipped with. That's a big dataset of course, but one of the strengths of the model is that if your training dataset is big enough you don't really need a lot of specialized training.

CRFSuite

I've never used this, but it's not really a ready-to-use NLP toolkit is it? Isn't it more a tool for building NLP tools with?
"Maybe a better question would be about why the hell you can't get there from here when so much money is apparently being thrown at the problem."

Very often the people who make decisions about where the transit goes have different agendas from the people who will be riding it.

For instance, the city where I currently live has expanded southward in a big way. What used to be the city center 60 years ago is now on the northern edge. Yet, for decades, just about any bus trip that required you to change buses involved traveling all the way north to the old downtown area, even if you were going from (say) the southeast side to the southwest side.

Yes, it was political. The downtown merchants had a lot of clout.

This has improved a lot in recent years, with transfer stations opening up in several other areas of town.

Another example would be the alleged manipulation of the Chicago transit system and locations of public housing projects by Mayor Daley (the original one) so that minorities would have a difficult time traveling to the "nice" parts of town.
I ordered a new wifi router from Jet.com yesterday. It was cheaper than Amazon, then there was a coupon on the site for another $15 off the order. It shipped free and arrived this morning. Based on the packaging, it appears they bought it from a Newegg marketplace seller and had them ship it to me. I have to doubt they made any money on that order, but from the consumer side I got a great deal and will be checking jet.com alongside amazon.com any time I shop online.
What is the most unlimited vacation a person has ever taken?
"People want door-to-door personal transportation... and they have ever since the car was invented."

Really?! Byzantines didn't want door-to-door personal transportation? Spanish conquistadors? Ancient Greeks? The Han Dynasty?

It is and has always been simply too expensive in personal and social costs for everyone to have personal door-to-door transportation.
Many of the comments on here are pretty negative.

I'm pretty sure it is partly because most startups are started in some Garage without 250 million in runway. That doesn't mean this won't work. The fact that they are in New York/New Jersey and not in San Francisco might be another reason but that also does not mean this won't work.

Just because you can't understand it does not mean it won't work, in fact it probably means it's more likely to work.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/11/a-month-after-launch-discou...

They already passed some big names in this space.

They are clearly doing something right. The near 100% growth month over month they quoted today on some of these articles is also pretty good indication that things are probably working, the fact that they had a reported million dollars in sales in their first day of opening the site is probably another good indication that they might be onto something.

http://recode.net/2015/07/22/jet-the-new-amazon-competitor-h...

It's too hard to tell with these kinds of things but this is a smart decision to not lock themselves into a Prime/Costco only model and certainly not an indication that things aren't going to work.

They have only actually launched and been live for two or three months their trial memberships were probably not even up yet considering they gave everyone like six months or a year free.
> Who "adds two strings"?

$timeText = $systemHours . ':' . $systemMinutes;

vs

$durationTimer = $userInputHours + 1;

There ya go.
I'd be willing to be far more people (even proportionally) die driving than from muggings on public transit.
I'm amazed you would walk an hour to work for any significant time, and not buy a bicycle. You would have been at work in fifteen minutes, no hitchhiking necessary.
@Volaski, I suppose. But how did they raise that massive amount of money without a single customer? I am curious to know how much everyone employed there is making.
Identity doesn't have to be part of the message. Sometimes people want to send a message stripped of identity. This is a good and necessary thing.

It doesn't break the message to lack identity. It forces you to consider the message on its own, stripped of whatever cultural context or baggage you might attach to it.
For the backend, perhaps, but frontend is all Angular with Mustache for templating
I find this fear of city denizens exists almost exclusively in people in rural areas, who spend little time in cities. People in cities generally are pretty cool about any risk and used to rubbing shoulders with all types. Also, having spent a lot of time with those people, they know the risk is very small. (Of course both groups are self-selected to an extent.)

To go off on a tangent, but it's ironic that gun control is the same way: People in much safer rural areas insist guns are necessary for self-defense; people in higher-crime cities generally favor gun control.
Geostationary Satellites in a Night Sky Time-Lapse
>At some point, I hope we just sit down and try to maintain the community we've got (turning it into a society), rather than thinking that rebuilding it with slightly different rules but the same microcosm of people will help.

I think this is accomplished with the ability to create new Subreddits. To my mind, the best way to separate the nasty parts of Reddit with the profitable ones is heavy moderation for the defaults, free reign for the non-defaults, and charge money for access to private subreddits. If a particular subreddit draws too much controversy, force it private.
I'd be interested to learn more about this, I've never heard of anyone importing XML into Excel before - typically "flat files" or SQL datasets are imported into an Excel table, upon which you can quickly build a pivot table, etc. Are you pulling in nested data?
One of the aspects rarely mentioned is: navigating public transit is hard.

Have you ever tried to read a bus schedule? They are not the most user friendly documents and require some effort to parse correctly. Its certainly not something you stroll up and engage easily.

I suspect that "not user friendly" and "publicly funded" are correlated.
For me having different subs with different moderation policies, etc., satisfies both sides of people's needs.

People who want to be civil and interact with other civil people have their subreddits, people who want to engage in uncivility also have their subreddits. I don't see the problem.

Here is what I have noticed. I like forums where people can voice opposing opinions even be unkind but not vile. But I accept that some forums do harbor people who like being vile, either as a persona or their true selves. I avoid those forums/groups/subreddits.

Also, at times some of the offensive people do have great knowledge in their area of expertise, but otherwise can be very offputting and vile. Despite that, I want to be able to have those voices. Certainly I don't want to have them sprinkled all over. So, for as long as they can exist in predictable places and can be sought out or avoided, I'm for that. If push came to shove, I'd have to allow it all over and just have to dig through the noise.

The reason is I don't want proscribed forums. The problems are group-think, shaming, socio-forming, brainwashing. And you can bring out examples of things we want to eradicate, say ideas about terrorism (killing and raping other people indiscriminately or discriminately, as it were) but the thing is there are slippery slopes, grey areas and social movements of the day. Ideas and preferences change over time. I want to allow all those voices, no matter how offensive to be expressed --I don't have to like those ideas. I'm sure I would have a very visceral reaction to most the monsters on hateful forums, but yet, I think there is value in not shutting that off.

That said, reddit has the authority, obviously, to do whatever they like with their platform.
You're assuming that high population density is a desirable thing.

Most Americans disagree.
> People believe transit has collective benefits that don't require their personal usage

People with cars still want to live close to the subway station so they can use it on Sunday afternoons when there's no parking 5 kilometers up the road. When new subway lines and stations open, the property developers build apartment complexes over them with 2 carparks per apartment and sell them to the rich. The people without cars have to catch a bus to the subway station.
I'm excited for Jai, and if it ever makes it out into the world I look forward to building some games with it.

However, I just see C++ continuing to get better and better for games programming. The recent appearance of the Core Guidelines [1] (and the eventual codified form for compilers) will be a huge leap. I wish we had full #run-type control over the compile phase, but full constexpr support is a step of the way there.

1. https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC...
You are probably not going to get decent response times with PHP, especially if you're using a framework. If you've already taken care of the basics (opcache, PHP7 or HHVM, WP-specific caching plugins, etc) you would have to settle for techniques such as nginx microcaching [1], which can drop your responses to around 10ms.

[1]: https://thelastcicada.com/microcaching-with-nginx-for-wordpr...
Personally its not the slowness that I mind so much. I spent a week in Japan and was never bothered by their train system times and whatnot.

The thing that really grinds my gears about BART is that every freaking time in their time table is +/- 5 minutes. I can't plan any sort of schedule around it to save my life, and thus I personally feel that I waste a ton of time waiting around for the next train. I never felt that in Japan. Every transfer and connection was exactly on time and there were plenty of trains where I was never sitting around waiting 20 minutes because I just missed the BART.
Well I am actually different in that I am jealous of the future but wonder how much better things can actually get?

Think about the pyramid of human needs from food and shelter to travel and entertainment.. How much better can food get, how much more enjoyable can a TV show get after breaking bad? haha

I hope I am wrong but I feel we have achieved 90% in each of the 'categories'. The last 10% will probably take 90% of the time it too to get here.
Maybe I'm weird.

I take BART quite a bit in the bay area (California). I find it timely and reliable - I've never been inconvenienced by the few moments where operators strike. It's just happened that I didn't need to ride BART that day.

My best experience was when I got on the wrong BART train (to Richmond) and had to double-back to a transfer station to go to Livermore. I was only late by 10 minutes. I got off the from-Richmond train and transferred to the train I wanted and it was off in literally less than 15 seconds. BART is incredibly efficient (imo).

That said - it would be a much better experience if it were cleaner, people could eat on it (and not be dicks with their garbage), and if we had a guard in every car to keep aspiring artists from performing and then asking you for money for their impromptu show.

I guess I have perfected my resting bitch face - I don't get asked for donations that often. :-)

In college I also rode the RTD buses out of Stockton. Now that was a poor experience. Frequently late drivers, and I witnessed 3 homeless men stand up and urinate on the floor - on separate days over the same semester. Oh and the bus they usually sent was too small for the neighboring town I'd get picked up at - I'd often have to stand for the hour-long ride on that route. (think short-bus for special education - standing + no room)