skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of that route would be over the Pacific, so it would be fine, too (although ex-West Coast US).

It might be a fuel issue on distance, but probably not. Also potentially an ETOPS range issue.

However, there are three big issues with transpac: (not impossible issues, but strong reasons why NYC-LON is ideal as MVP)

1) Greater number of destination cities on each side; for transatlantic, NYC-LON really is the main market. LAX-NRT is probably the best first pass. but LAX/SFO/SEA/LAS/Texas/NY/DC could all make solid claims on being sources of traffic, and there are >10 cities in Asia which would be destinations and fairly far apart? I'd almost certainly prefer a nonstop NYC-PEK to a domestic NYC-LAX, switch to LAX-NRT supersonic, then another subsonic NRT-PEK.

2) A lot of the good cities are inland, so no supersonic for those parts of the flights. NYC-PEK or NYC-PVG (corrected) would be awesome, but there's a lot of inland there. So you're also stuck doing something suboptimal, either connecting flights or operating outside supersonic regime.

3) After a certain point, comfort is a priority over absolute speed. If it lets you accomplish a mission (meeting, etc.) in a single day, that's a new capability. if it means you get 5h of cramped sleep and then another 7h of cramped sleep on the way back, that's not really better for most missions than 8-10h of comfortable sleep in a full-sized suite for the same price. There clearly is a value in 1-4h flights from USA to China/India, but that requires more than Mach 2.2 -- maybe exoatmospheric.

Another option is probably "events"; special flights to follow F1 and stuff like that. Concorde did a lot of that toward the end.
> Considering Top Gear scripted it out to make the car seem shitty why would you be surprised that they tried to sue?

Top Gear is a scripted comedy show. Tesla thought (and you seem to think) that Top Gear is a serious car review program, it hasn't been that for at least twenty years.

Of course Top Gear are going to make a joke about an electric car running out of juice, that's the obvious go to joke to make. You cannot sue someone because you don't find them funny.

It just comes across as petty or out of touch on Tesla's part.

> Um, yeah, the review wasn't good from a review-standing-on-its-own standpoint. There was much back and forth but ultimately the review was inaccurate / imprecise in many areas[2].

There was a lot of back and forth, follow up articles, a rebuttal, a Tesla piece. But even after all of that a lot of the issues still remain. The way Tesla reacted to the article was completely over the top however, that was more the issue, they could have issued a rebuttal but instead they went nuclear right out of the gate.

> It didn't seem like a nice thing to do but I also don't care that much that Musk did it.

I don't care either, I just don't like what it represents. Tesla does something wrong (which even they admit they did), someone criticizes them, and they're banned from buying a Tesla.

You can argue there is more to the story, but Musk/Tesla never said there was and the blogger directly said there wasn't. They just said they got a call notifying them to the ban/cancellation out of the blue. Boom, done. Musk hasn't gone on record saying he was rude on the call, or whatever, people just make that up to justify why Tesla/Musk is right.
Not useful, but I agree completely. See also Fitts's law:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

I like the ability to slam the cursor to the top of the screen either for purposes of using a menu or finding a "null" place where I can click to abort drags, or just locate the damn cursor.

I'm also a caveman in thinking that multiple overlapping windows are ideal for programming and I hate the way Xcode has adopted the MDI style. I always end up using the "open quickly" dialog and typing the name of the document I want rather than any combination of hunting it down in a menu.
There's also a steep difference in the tolerances you can permit. A rocket -- especially one with any hope of reusability -- is something that can't be built without getting very very close to the maximum tolerances possible within the bounds of physics. Look at the temperature differentials in a rocket engine for example... it involves nearly instantaneous transitions from deep cryptogenic temperatures to ones far beyond the melting point of any known material that can only be sustained with constant active cooling. The fact that we can achieve any level of reliability with a device this insane is really a testament to human ingenuity, but it doesn't give you much margin for error. Screw up just a tiny bit and the rocket is going to do what the laws of thermodynamics really want it to do: explode in every direction instead of just downward.

An airliner, even a supersonic one, is more forgiving. Over-engineering goes a long way toward adding nines to your reliability. We've been doing supersonic flight with reusable craft since the 1950s, and there aren't a whole lot of unknowns remaining. That means it's mostly a manufacturing and operations optimization problem.
"Asian people" is a bias in itself. Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia which some people consider to be part of Asia, making Stalin one of the "Asian people".
Don't forget the Bulgaria, Cyprus, Iran, Syria, Russia and the Kurds.

Turkey is basically surrounded by enemies, there's almost no one they are on good terms with.
> I suggest you go back and look at it. It isn't as black and white as you seem to believe. Tesla muddied the water, in particular as few read the rebuttal or follow up, but ultimately the original article is still an interesting look at what owning a Tesla was like in 2013.

According to the NYT themselves they were imprecise and made mistakes[1]. Considering that I don't know why a flawed review from 2013 would be a good indicator of anything.

[1] http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/problems-wi...
The notion of capturing wave energy as the waves are being travelled through was what set off my skepticism.

My thinking was that energy thus "captured" would entail resistance that opposes the work to move the craft, thereby offsetting any energy "gained".
Failed startup: https://microco.sm/

Runs: https://www.lfgss.com/ http://forum.islington.cc/ forum.raphacycling.club http://forum.espruino.com/ and lots of other forums.

Basically an alternative to Discourse, phpBB, vBulletin, etc. With some differences to make it simpler, cleaner, mobile friendly, etc.
Yep, that headline is pretty much going to write itself.
I had a similar reaction. I like the joke the site is making, it's well done. I had a good laugh the first time I saw it, and I've shared it with friends. Jokes are often huge exaggerations though.

QR Codes definitely have valid use cases, and I'm wondering if they aren't also somewhat 'ahead of their time'. They are useful ways to transfer contexts in the physical world. VR, and especially AR (Augmented Reality), is about combining the physical world with the digital one.

I'm imagining a future where not very many people "see" QR codes, but rather have AR devices like we have cellphones now, and they simply see the relevant content in place over the QR code or similar. I think of use cases like glancing down the street at a bus stop, seeing live updates of a NCAA bracket on a poster on the wall, those sorts of things.

I think a lot of the problem with QR codes is simply the friction of using them. I could see them used much more if you could simply open a website by literally pointing a phone at them (e.g. without any setup, opening apps).

When we have persistent AR at all times, the friction could be non-existent, you already see the information in place.

There's also the possibility that location and motion tracking are good enough that they can always be virtual, but I feel like the real world reference and 'binding' cues are important. We'll see how things unfold.
Yeah they're pretty horrid for that. We found the same problems at Rackspace.

Also you're only allowed to have one contact on record and it has to be an actual person, so if that person for some reason forcibly leaves your organization or worse, gets hit by a truck, you have all kinds of crazy fucking hoops you'll have to jump through to change it.
Rspamd itself does not alter message in any way. However, it keeps all urls with their relative positions during scan. Moreover, it can resolve redirects for urls (e.g. for t.co or goo.gl) and provide 'real' links. But the second part of job: links analysis and rewriting is not provided by rspamd.
I see tons of QR codes. No one scans them, but I see them all the time.
You can always watch the StarCraft AI stream: http://sscaitournament.com/
I think it depends on your definition of industry?
Exactly, that's what I said. There are may across ocean routes but this means it limits its market and the routes it can run. It also makes less sense to have it as a single private jet.
>> - poker face -- does this person seem to be playing it close to the vest in the interview or otherwise have very low levels of openness?

By nature I am pretty open, and not especially competitive. While my credentials are not great, I have been praised by certain mentors for other desirable attributes in this list: open mindedness, humility, pragmatism, adaptability, willingness to collaborate, and “growth mindset.”

The problem with these attitudes is that they can work to your disadvantage around non-technical authority figures.

For example, a little while ago I was invited to meeting with possible collaborator in another department. After being introduced, I asked few general questions about his project. He probed for clarification until I finally said something he found technically wanting, and then made a great show of grandstanding at my expense in front of the group, but didn't answer the question. My (non-developer) boss was very impressed with him, but other employees that had to work with this guy were not as impressed. I wasn't invited back, although maybe that was good thing.

Obviously it's not good to seem evasive in interviews, but in general I have had to learn the hard way that not everyone at work wants to be my friend.

How do others here deal with this sort problem?

Edit:
I guess I'm not sure how far I have to go in the direction of measured answers before it might seem evasive in an interview. Because of these experiences, I'm probably inclined to give more measured or carefully considered answers in general to people I don't know well. I'm not sure what degree of this sort of behavior will seem evasive. My last boss told me once that I was generally "very careful." Maybe that's a hint?

So what I mean to ask is: how do others calibrate their degree of openess to a given situation, in an interview or otherwise?
You could also say "there will always be crime, but the harder we make it the less there will be."

Technically true but useless for evaluating the cost/benefit of any specific proposal. If the question is, is it worth pervasive mass surveillance, the answer is no.
And how is AWS _not_ filling this niche? With their generous free tier, you can practically launch and run a business for a year without paying anything. Even after that, AWS is great for small businesses. Sure, you actually have to pick a product and launch on it, but AWS handles the uptime, (most) security, etc.
I checked that too. It's supported on Chrome 30 and onwards, but not for Chrome on desktop OSes.
The parent's point was that obviously some rights (even on criminal matters) are obviously waivable in this manner.

Normally, I can't take your stuff or enter your property, but if you make a contract granting me the right to take (specific things among) your stuff or enter your property in specific cases, that's enforceable.

Can you similarly sign away your right not to be murdered similarly? To be impersonated? Maybe not, but it depends on the circumstances, and isn't simply a matter of "that's illegal so you can't sign it away".
Sounds like some people were miffed that they missed out on Clinkle and overcorrected a bit too much.
$100M would be a steal! FYI the Dreamliner was estimated to cost more than $12B to develop.
Aha! I sort of like that, then. Assuming of course that it actually does work.

Back when things were simpler, we had a multiple guess questionnaire that did the similar. For onsites, we then looked for evidence of rigor and thoroughness, the ability to estimate how much communication was required, had they deployed real systems?

You understand that it sounds like you "fixed" hiring, and so we're all sorta skeptical, right? If you could bottle that, there's your billion.
At the company I work at when we interview we tend to ask tougher and tougher questions until the candidate either starts spouting BS or replies that they don't know. BS is a no-hire.
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That's correct. We're starting with overwater supersonic because there's no regulatory barrier to launching service. You can make a much quieter sonic boom than Concorde, and eventually supersonic overland will be allowed.
Absolutely worth it. We live in the future. If you can fly half way around the world to watch an opera and be home by midnight, do it.

Riding your bicycle to work isn't going to save the planet, neither is reconsidering a flight.

Environmental concerns should be that of multi-national corporations and governments. The 1% flying around the world isn't killing the planet. It's industrial output from cattle and energy production for electricity (coal, nat gas, oil) and fossil fuels burned for industrial use.

I'm tired of the misplaced moral imperatives. Change needs to happen on a global, industrial scale, not in your decision to eat a locally-grown kale salad.

Wake up people.
TEB + JATO + Boom = Profit? (TEB-LCY would actually be an interesting market for all-business-class STOL transatlantic)
That's odd, I am nearly as tall as you and had no problem fitting in a Tesla (the fact it didn't cross my mind probably means there was plenty of buffer space left).
This is called Lean Design and saves millions http://www.leanconstruction.org/about-us/what-is-lean-constr...
I also use a tiling window manager on Linux, but I think Google's decision here is based on the general public - who probably aren't ready to learn a new window management scheme. For window management, overlapping floating and resizable windows are the norm, and I think will be for some time.
Yep, NeXTSTEP 3.3 had and Intel version (as well as versions for other hardware). I had the NeXTSTEP 3.3 and 4.x on an Intel 90MHz Pentium with a SCSI drive (Microway was the company I bought it from). NeXTSTEP was smooth, and Windows was a tad bit cranky.
Our of curiosity, does AngelList have a chief privacy officer, or even a privacy manager or subject matter expert embedded with the engineers? (Until this moment I wasn't familiar with the service - I mostly get jobs through friends and former coworkers.)

I understand some companies are not large enough to have a dedicated privacy professional, but as someone who knows quite a bit about it, it's really frustrating when the response to something like this is "whoops! here are the steps we are taking to correct this".

Don't get me wrong Dave: This is a great response and you sound like you truly want to avoid incidents in the futures. Kudos for that - many companies would simply quote their privacy policy and offer up a feeble "Sorry you're sorry."

But this is more than a one time bug to be quashed. IMHO all companies (even small startups) should endeavor to move beyond reactive solutions like this, and put processes and controls in place so that these incidents never happen to begin with.

If you or anyone reading this is on the fence, think of it as marketing. Marketing in the sense of providing a quality product that fulfills a need, and makes other people want to buy your product because it's solid and good.
There is a bit of evolution going on in batteries for RVs (caravans) and boats at the moment. Everyone wants to move to LiFePo batteries but most of the charging systems onboard are designed for traditional lead acids. Most lead acid chargers use a complex 3-4 stage charger. Lithium-ion is much simpler, 3.6V/cell until full. But actually getting a charger that will do this simple job has proved to be quite difficult.

People are starting to learn and there are still a lot of hold outs who believe charging Lithium-ions will burn your boat/RV/car down unless you are super, extra cautious.
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http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/17/brain-memory-implants/#gref
A major step towards transferring a person's mind to an AI and thus extending life somewhat. Personally, life is more than a collection of information, spirit is beyond fast manipulation of 0's and 1's, heart, now, we can build artificial hearts, but when we say a person has heart or courage it transcends knowledge and physicality. The question becomes when does shear processing power make feelings less important in an increasing connected information driven world?
Short version: NYC-LON in 3.4 hours.
Cardboard mock-ups are extraordinarily helpful in making real the space that will define the product (as opposed to CAD drawings). They are regularly used in rapid prototyping.

The fact that they aren't waiting before having a final metal frame before testing for instrumentation fit is a plus in my book.
This is what a scrappy airplane startup looks like in the early days. The wooden mockups validate sizing and ergonomics before you lay down expensive carbon fiber.
My startup now has about 25 coders doing what 2-3 of us did for a few years. I'm still not sure what everyone does. We are actually moving quite a bit slower these days.
Supersonic flight is banned over populated areas. I'm not sure if it's from shattering windows or not.
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There's an ongoing pattern of behaviour. Tesla gets criticised and Tesla attacks the critics instead of the argument.

That has happened more than once, yes.
They use HTTP Live Streaming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming) which is Apple's own protocol and hasn't been adopted by anyone but Microsoft.

To be fair, when they first implemented it MPEG DASH was a long way off.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I can see some challenges with this, but the basic principle seems strikingly similar.

Not sure what's more impressive: your memory or how easy it is to access relatively obscure information from well over a half-century ago.
They're better lumped together as "elite" schools to avoid "that's not Ivy" arguments.
Alternative theories:

1) They have a limited streaming capacity.

2) They gave up on expanding their user base.
If they could make it quiet enough to go over land, transcontinental US flights would be great; LA/NY in 2.5 hours would likely have a pretty high demand.

[edit] As someone who flies LA/DC fairly regularly I do have to mention my favorite record of the SR-71 doing that flight in under 65 minutes.
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"When I started programming, I heard a lot about how programmers are down to earth, not like those elitist folks who have uniforms involving suits and ties. You can even wear t-shirts to work! But if you think programmers aren’t elitist, try wearing a suit and tie to an interview sometime. You’ll have to go above and beyond to prove that you’re not a bad cultural fit. We like to think that we’re different from all those industries that judge people based on appearance, but we do the same thing, only instead of saying that people are a bad fit because they don’t wear ties, we say they’re a bad fit because they do, and instead of saying people aren’t smart enough because they don’t have the right pedigree… wait, that’s exactly the same." --- that's his conclusion and that pretty much sums it up for me as a black junior developer from MidWest University who's looking for work now.
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I wouldn't trust GoDaddy to host the most trivial of websites. This is a non-starter.
Wow, and on top of everything else, sparkpost just upgraded their free tier from 10k/mo to 100k/mo sends. That's pretty huge, as 100k/month gets you a lot of runway before you need to really start paying for things. Plus, the CEO promises to keep honoring the 100k threshold for anybody who signs up under that plan, even if they have to lower it again in the future. [0]. I'll have to check them out.

Of course my real problem at this moment is Mandrill just plain works already, and I'm not sure if it is worth spending engineering time shifting to a different provider instead of just paying the premium. TBH, the biggest issue is the feeling of Impending Doom I get from the mandrill discussion. [1] seems to indicate that the transactional email of mandrill really just doesn't fit in the corporate culture of mailchimp. So it's not just the change in pricing that worries me, I'm concerned about a future where there's a lack of innovation and support in the product itself, and I'm still locked in to paying more for less because I don't want to spend the time moving providers. Sunk costs and all that.

0: https://www.sparkpost.com/blog/my-promise-to-developers-spar...
1: http://blog.mailchimp.com/important-changes-to-mandrill/
The Concorde is the most uncomfortably small aircraft that I've ever been aboard.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone over 5'9"/180lbs...though I guess that's a non-issue now (except for as a museum attraction).
GitHub down?
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London on New York are two of the top finance industry cities in the world. There are few other city pairs that are close enough that Mach 2.2 makes the difference between comfortably being able to pop over for a business meeting and return the same day vs. getting a really long and tiring day, and that has such a large population of people where their salaries are high enough that paying $5k to cut a few hours of a trip is cheaper than hiring more people.

On top of that, unless their planes revolutionise supersonic flights, sonic booms is a major limiting factor - they need city pairs where very little of the flight goes over land that anyone cares about, because otherwise permits becomes a major problem.
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Exactly. Already, this is way more affordable than private jets or Concorde. We'll keep innovating on fuel efficiency, so prices can keep coming down.
Yup.

Edit: nope.
GitHub is 503
GitHub is 503 again...
Yep, down for me as well.
Yep, even the status page is down: https://status.github.com/ (Edit: Looks like it's back up.)

No updates yet on their Twitter status account: https://twitter.com/@githubstatus

Edit: 10:21 PDT Error rates are subsiding. (And github.com no longer showing unicorn for me.)