skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live a couple of blocks from this boondoggle, but some of the issues aren't strictly the streetcars fault. For instance, this very morning while walking my dogs, a DC tow truck sped past us all code 3. We rounded the corner onto H ST, and saw the tow truck using the wheel lift, fully extended, to push a car out of the way of the streetcar. And it wasn't like this car was just over the line, the driver had left its ass end hanging about a foot and a half out into the traffic lane. Whomever was driving that wrecker was masterful, blocking the entire street for only about 60 seconds while he rammed the car into place.

Any improvement in public transit is also going to require improvements in the quality of driving out there. People are selfish idiots when in their cars.
Completing this project isn't necessarily the right solution. In this case, based on the construction costs and operating costs versus prospective usefulness, this project needed someone on board sufficiently early with the awareness and authority to say "this is a bad idea, let's not do it".
I would definitely pay for this if it replaced physical junk mail with scans. I'd pay even more if it just went ahead and deleted all junk mail. I'd pay a similar amount to...unsubscribe from junk mail.
Your knowledge of my knowledge of history is quite terrible. I am quite well read, and could defend any of my sentences above. In government, it is quite often that the reality of power does not match the official language used to describe it. Rome, for instance, was officially a republic, long after in reality it had come to be ruled by an emperor.
> it would have been absolutely right.

Science fiction is not future prediction.
Galactagogues, presumably.
There's maybe 100 people in the world who have a good concept of what a good blockchain project is, and they are all in very, very high demand - and principally working on Bitcoin projects.

I don't think the BoE has this capacity, as demonstrated by the design of this landing page. I'd be willing to bet that the BoE thinks blockchains are for checksumming.
A great tool for cleaning up the bad TIGER data in OSM is http://osmlab.github.io/to-fix/#/task/tigerdelta
It really depends on whether the goal is simply to move people or to also spur reinvestment along the corridor. I won't debate whether or not the second goal is valid, but the second goal is why a streetcar can be preferable:

* Bus - Super flexible, cheapest, similar capacity to street car. However, because of its inherent flexibility, buses can be rerouted or cancelled. Therefore there is less incentive to invest in the corridor because a customer group can easily vanish.

* Buses with dedicated lanes - A good compromise between bus and street car, but drivers sitting in traffic will see the nearly empty bus lanes and complain why the road isn't being used.

* Street Car - Cheaper than subway, but because the tracks are laid, it's much less likely to be rerouted or cancelled, creating more incentive to invest in the corridor.

* Subway - Most expensive and least likely to be rerouted or cancelled; creates most incentive to invest in the corridor.
The Cat Fight, the Theft And
Who's "they"? Do you have links to "they"? Do you have proof that the one "they" is the same group as the other "they"?
Earlier article on semiconductor consolidation discusses rising costs & the difficulty of shrinking features are changing the dynamics of who buys IP, tools and chips

http://semiengineering.com/the-impact-of-consolidation/
Advice from a millionaire who operates 10 businesses
Why are we promoting job ads for banks?
Thank you for using Carousel
Sex, music, drugs.... oh wait
When Iran was supporting Shiite death squads in Iraq, I'm sure part of their plan was to destabilize the US backed unity government in order to further Shiite control of that government. Which looks like it pretty much worked. Destabilizing the Yemen government would allow the Shiite rebels to gain more power.

Discrediting the recognized government (can't really say legitimate to any government over there), is an old strategy intended to grant leverage and the eventual bargaining table.
This is a bummer. Despite how incredibly buggy Mailbox is on OS X, it was still my favorite client since Sparrow. I might give Nylas[0] a try.

[0] https://www.nylas.com/n1
> Globalization is a big political solution that favours only the ultra-wealthy.

Nonsense. Globalization is why Walmart can feed the hungry and clothe the naked with cheap food and clothing. Globalization is why Apple, Samsung, LG, OnePlus and other phone manufacturers can produce supercomputers that fit in our pockets.

Globalization benefits us all.
Well this is just the image I have of Notch. He was just goofing around with mini-games. One became ultra famous. Lots of people got involved and it exploded from there, not really in his control.

Doesn't mean the game is not great, doesn't mean he's not skilled. Maybe I'm just sour about all his talk on 0x1c before giving up.
Yeah, the hostname's wrong.

Still bad that Mozilla managed to foul this up.
The greater public is not going to know that. However Tor does have obfsproxy:

> obfsproxy is a tool that attempts to circumvent censorship, by transforming the Tor traffic between the client and the bridge. This way, censors, who usually monitor traffic between the client and the bridge, will see innocent-looking transformed traffic instead of the actual Tor traffic.
Nice work Cyde. @retube seems to think blockchains are for notarizating messages between trusted parties, instead of value transfer between untrusted parties.
Well, 1950s SF did have a bit of trouble imagining the social changes that did actually occur. Even when they tried to be progressive by having a woman scientist or something they always made it seem strange like "I'm looking for Doctor Smith" "I'm Doctor Smith".
I've never seen blonde roast decaf available.
I tend to find it tedious when sci-fans preen about how they howl and fling books across rooms for some scientific error they're clever enough to notice (as opposed to the dozens of errors they don't react to), errors that have nothing to do with the quality of the writing. The Three Body Problem has flat-out ridiculous science; it's still pretty good.
I'd like to learn more, source/reference?
RedHat for one.

Varnish maybe?

Ansible (now RedHat!), Salt, Puppet likely

Citrix via Xen should be doing alright
So stupid, really! Carousel is the only Dropbox product I use and it works really great!
A multiquine does require you to give input in order to determine what language to output. Although it will output the current file if no input is giving. More info @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Multiquines
I use Airmail and I like it, though my usage doesn't require anything out of the ordinary, beyond having different mailboxes for different accounts.
No! Don't let one mistake get you down... this site is not much more than its participants (not the spectators), that's what makes it special.
The lessened flexibility is actually a big plus for a side effect of transit--private investment. It's much easier to develop adjacent to non-movable transit infrastructure like a streetcar or light rail than it is a bus route which can change in an instant. BRT is a decent compromise, but it's still quite expensive to do.
I left a comment suggesting a follow up article that might flesh out some of the aspects he wrote about (covered succinctly in the TLDR in the comments here). On its own, the article isn't all that helpful aside from confirming the general adage of "work hard".
Why I worry experimental social science is headed in the wrong direction
Thanks. That's what I meant exactly.
Gallonage? :)
There was also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

>The Paris massacre of 1961 was a massacre in Paris on 17 October 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62). Under orders from the head of the Parisian police, Maurice Papon, the French National Police attacked a demonstration of some 30,000 pro-National Liberation Front (FLN) Algerians.

>After 37 years of denial, in 1998 the French government acknowledged 40 deaths, although there are estimates of over 200.

>Many demonstrators died when they were violently herded by police into the River Seine, with some thrown from bridges after being beaten unconscious. Other demonstrators were killed within the courtyard of the Paris police headquarters after being arrested and delivered there in police buses.

Here's hoping history doesn't repeat itself.
Ugh. Yet another intriguing email startup being acquihired and killed off by a more-established tech company (see also: Sparrow). It's 2015 and I still bounce around email clients every couple months because all of the major options have substantial flaws.
I'm picky about the kinds of articles I read from HN. I admit that I responded in this thread because I figured the title itself insinuated a lot more than it should.

I tend to opt not to read or participate in threads based on that though.
General rules are: read the headline and the number of points for each item on the home page and the "new" page; if it's interesting pop it into a tab.
If the quality of the article is mediocre or bad then it just gets closed.

Then I don't come back for at least two hours.

Not sure this is a great general strategy, I'd be interested to see what other people do.
That is unfortunate. Mailbox was, and still is, (barring a few bugs) one of the better, Zero-inbox mail apps for IOS.

Spark by Readdle has taken up slack there, and they look like they're building it in a way that will actually be monetizable.
I saw the woman in red.
“Thank you,” I said to her. “Thank you for staying.”

if you see the police talking to someone: whoever they are, however they are acting, and whatever they look like; and you have a minute to spare, please.. please, stick around and make it known you are watching

if you have a phone, record it, or just hold your phone as if you were recording it

people can feel the gaze of others and you will alter the behaviour of the officers for the better

just yesterday i was walking by an irate homeless person yelling at three officers, refusing to move

two officers were directing foot traffic to keep a distance and the third was prodding the homeless man with his toe asking him identifying questions and telling him he needed to get up and move

by my just standing there i could sense the officers sensing my presence, every so often they were send me a quick sideways glance

the officer using his foot to interact with the homeless man turned his head to see what his fellow officers kept looking at and saw me, standing there drinking a coffee, staring at him

he jerked his gaze back at the man lying on the ground and knelt down and just placed his hand on the homeless man's shoulder and talked to him calmly

the officer managed to get the man to sit up and answer his questions, eventually he got up and walked away and the officers gave me a look like, 'you happy?!' and got in their cars and drove off

i was happy with how the interaction turned out, the whole thing lasted less than a minute

i would like to think that my presence had little to do with it
It's a common mistake to think that "programming" is an activity that merely describes the act of writing code.

Yes, there are plenty of non-programmers (as in: people who are not identified as programmers by their job title or self-description) who program (including creating amazing monstrosities in VBA).

Describing what a programmer does as "writing code" is only accurate to the same extent that what an accountant does can be described as "putting numbers in spreadsheets". Yes it may be a part of a typical professional's daily work, but even if it is a necessary part (which can be argued), it's not sufficient.

Programming involves a lot more than just writing code -- and that's precisely the part you can't replace by creating a more approachable programming language and what I mean by "learning to program" being what non-programmers typically don't want to do. This is why "thinking like a programmer" is a thing that is separate from "learning programming language X".
> had assumed that a decade or two into the next millennium we'd live in neat little houses on suburban Earth, don suits to go to work in our (non-flying) car

But this is changing, it's not the 1950s any more. By a fifth of the way through the 21st century, it's quite common that

1) The business attire is often jeans and t-shirt

2) Women go to work almost as much as men

3) The couple in the "neat little houses" may not be married. Or may be the same gender and married. Or there may just be 1 person there.

4) Smoking is very uncommon

5) The work is sometimes from home, or your job might be moving to somewhere cheaper like a call-center in India or a factory in China.

7) The local mall is struggling due to online shopping.

8) people don't pre-plan their social engagements like they used to - they're always in contact with their friends so the era of "I'll meet you in the cinema lobby at 8" (or bust) is over. In fact the cinema might be netflix and chill at home.

9) The car might soon be self-driving.

These changes add up over time. This movie from 1981, supposedly set on Jupiter's moon Io in the late 21st century, has scenes that look very looks outdated to me, particularly a room full of men smoking: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082869/
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In time, under budget, delight users – Better Requirements
Here is more detail about Dropbox Paper: http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/15/dropbox-paper-team-collab...
Wow - feels bad for those folks that got acqui-hired and now see their product being "laid off"

RIP Mailbox, you were cool to play with for a few hours that one stormy day I decided to install you
I've been using Plottable recently and it's great. Hope it gets more widely used so there's more material out there about it - it's SUPER powerful but the documentation is hard to understand if you're really trying to extend it.
Correct. The specific innovation brought to us by blockchains is "objective truth" over subjective truth. We've had journaled, auditable, shared, and logged databases for years. Even PGP signed SMTP was a sufficient mechanism for transmitting shared data. The innovation of Blockchains are their proof of work mechanism by which truth is objectively determinable.

Oh - and of the thousands of blockchains out there, only one is worth a damn. The others are barely burning more than $10k per day in anchoring their objective truth.
I've been a Dropbox user for--I don't know how long. A long time. I would say since...maybe 2009?

I do not know what those products are for sure. By their names I'm guessing something with photos and something with email. I feel like an old evangelist like myself would have known more about those products. Thus, I wonder if this was a marketing failure as much as a product-market-fit failure.
Here's a very interesting article about this orbit insertion, how the main rocket engine was destroyed in flight, and how JAXA hacked together a solution using only RCS thrusters:

The Akatsuki story is particularly interesting for two
reasons. First, because the failure was documented in
exceptional detail, with telemetry from the propulsion and
attitude control system available to reconstruct, like the
“black box” on an airliner, the events leading up to the
anomaly. JAXA is to be commended on its openness: in the
challenges of space we can all learn from others, and some
western agencies are not always as forthcoming with
technical details of anomalies. And second, because the
Akatsuki story may yet have a happy ending.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2015/1204-akatsuk...
What do you not like about Outlook or Gmail (I think the market leaders)?
One of the better ways I've seen of dealing with this, generally used in SQL which is one of the less lenient languages I've seen, is to prefix new lines of the list with commas. That is, when constructing a list using multiple lines (which is where the trailing comma is most problematic), the first line is not prefixed with a comma, and all subsequent lines are.

E.g.

var foo = [
"aa"
, "bb"
, "cc"
];

The usefulness of this may not be readily apparent in this simplistic example, but when the term is complex or spans multiple lines, it becomes useful both as an indicator of a new term starting, and in that identifying the end of a large term often isn't nearly as easy as identifying that start.

E.g.

var foo = {
attr1: "foo"
, attr2: "bar"
, method1: function() {
}
, method2: function() {
}
};

I'll admit I don't often use this technique. Most commonly it is with large custom SQL queries, which themselves are fairly uncommon for me. That said, SQL often lacks the mitigating techniques that make this less useful in common programming languages (such as computing complex terms ahead of time and assigning the result, gradual building of data structures, etc.).
We still don't have a set of robots whose lifetime will be measured in days, not hours. Really, if the atmosphere was fixed a bit then most of what you said would become possible, but it's unclear just how that's going to happen, especially at first.
Is the distinction between conspiracy and symbiosis really that significant?
You, dear person, win the internet today.
Hey people, I have a file on GrumpyBen, can someone please lock him up as he is deemed a threat to public safety?

Joking aside, if activists committed any crime, you follow the legal procedures and challenge them in a court of law before a judge and let the defendants present their case in a free trial and see if any of the charges you brought against them sticks, otherwise shut up and leave them alone because if you start allowing police to hand out sentences without legal recourse to challenge these arbitrary punishments, you'll descend slowly into a police state and horrific society to live within.
Selenian Boondocks had a great series of posts on living on Venus a while ago. The short of it is that there's lots of useful stuff in the Venusian atmosphere, and it's much easier to harvest things from the medium you're floating in than to mine it. I'm not going to speculate on terraforming since that takes so long but there's plenty of reason to go to Venus.

http://selenianboondocks.com/category/venus/
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None of those IP voice services interoperate either, it's the same issue just at another layer with a different set of greedy corporations.
That sucks, I really like Mailbox. I guess outlook it is on iOS.
I haven't used Mailbox, but I'm glad to see Carousel being rolled back into the main Dropbox app. It's already good for photos, and didn't warrant a separate app.
I'd argue that's a design problem.

A lot of cities have built street cars in the middle of the road, or they place concrete edge between parking and the street car's lane to stop exactly that from happening. Why didn't DC?

This seems incredibly dangerous and poorly thought out:

http://i.imgur.com/WbWrf9l.jpg

I understand that civil engineers are sometimes handcuffed with what they can do. But the city really needs to decide how seriously it is about this project, and either design the city around the streetcars or just eliminate them completely.

It just looks like they tried to half-arse it and it blow up in their face.

Honestly Salt Lake City is a map of where the US needs to go, not DC. Cycling lanes everywhere and streetcars with dedicated space and priority. It isn't perfect (cycling lanes need more protection, like Copenhagen, actual concrete to stop cars driving or parking in them) but it is darn good by the US's standard.
Mailbox and Sunrise, two productivity apps that I liked, got acquired (Dropbox 2013, Microsoft 2015), and discontinued in 2015.
I'm assuming he believes the "correct" size for a flat white is 165ml, and Starbucks doesn't offer that size... AFAIK.
Another one bites the dust...

I still remember the discussion when the acquisition was announced:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381572

I hope it was really not going anywhere.
The Serverless Start-Up – Down with Servers
> But of course, you'll need to understand the context in which Jesus is teaching to understand all of what he's saying in Matthew 5 and during his whole ministry.

The problem right here : context. If the teachings of the Bible (or the Quran) are bound to a specific context then they shouldn't be worshiped like some universal and perfect teachings. Following these teachings then means following moral values that were only valid 2000 or 1300 years ago, in a specific context. Obviously one cannot live in a modern society while following the Bible or the Koran to the letter. While (most) Christians acknowledge that fact, irregardless of their beliefs in a creator, that's not the case of every religious group.

That's basically my problem with religion. It's a travesty, it exploits the need for spirituality every man has by trying to impose some random moral values dictated by a "superior being" nobody but a prophet has access to, without even trying to satisfy that need for spirituality at first place (since we know nothing about that being except the fact that he is "our creator"). And since men are not omniscient of course these moral values are bound to the context in which they were chosen. Religion is not faith in (a) god, but more like faith in the teachings of a man that says he has seen god.
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Okay great give my Urban District designated funds for iPads.
Loop holes don't break rules - by definition.
print "(2a, 2('2459093414108622880,2821560280312525352,3180149544576887847,1684956475', a))",2459093414108622880,2821560280312525352,3180149544576887847,1684956475;end
I would have guessed Mailbox could have been sold instead of shuttered. Maybe MAU has slid lately, but I thought they had a lot of happy users.

On the other hand, it's amusing to note the Valley inflation that has happened since Mailbox was acquired in early 2013. It was for ~$100M which seems like chump change in the Age of The Unicorn that we now find ourselves in.
Countries have long histories of bloody conflicts, regardless of ideology.
I'm very much a Clojure enthusiast and run the local Clojure user group.

But, as a non-engineer, I don't think it really affects you enough to factor into the equation.

1) Will Clojure provide a competitive advantage in terms of cost savings and productivity?

Maybe. If they're experienced at Clojure and are good engineers to begin with. But its not likely enough to base your decision on.

(I argue and hope that it does provide productivity advantages for a variety of reasons, but I wouldn't be confident enough of this to base your decision on)

2) Will Clojure provide a hiring advantage because engineers are excited to work with it?

Maybe. Are there excited Clojure enthusiasts in your area who want to work on it? In my own experience, this may very well be true - I interact with a lot of enthusiastic programmers hoping for a job using Clojure in the user group. But, again, I'm not sure this is proven enough to base your decision on. Again, in my experience, the global Clojure community is exceptionally skilled and talented and have good sensibilities about what makes good, understandable, solid code and all Clojure developers I have spoken to are very happy writing Clojure. So if you can tap into these people, then that is definitely a positive for the company, but I'm not sure it will make or break the company.

Bottom-line is that Clojure is unlikely to be a top 3 contributing cause for success or failure, so, as a non-engineer who doesn't get any personal satisfaction from the language, I don't think it should be a major factor in your decision.
Mailbox/Orchestra was not an acquihire for pennies; it was a normal acquisition for $100 million: http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/mailbox-cost-dropbox-around...