skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if we throw out tunneled trains, something like Chicago's El will be miles more efficient in a dense urban core than trying to cram thousands more cars into streets that weren't designed for them.

Autonomous vehicles will help us get away from the idea that everyone has to own or lease their own car to be considered a full-fledged adult. Once cars are no longer used to travel arbitrarily from one parking lot to the next, the result will be more people getting to their actual destinations in fewer cars.

This is a perfect example of the point I've been making (and been modded down regularly for) -- people simply aren't thinking through the consequences of the technology that's coming. The coming changes in the personal transportation business will be vast and profound in both economic and social terms, and they definitely won't involve fixed rails.

It's OK for ordinary people to ignore or underestimate the progress being made in this direction. It's not OK for urban transit planners, who are paid to think 20-30 years out, to make the same mistake.
> And while I think that crypto->math->speech is clear

While I agree with this, I don't think the most important part of crypto == math is the connection to speech. The most important part is that math doesn't compromise. You can't make math kinda work...it either does or it doesn't. You can't make math work for some people and not others. Math is absolute, so this debate is absolute. The result is either secure applications or fundamentally insecure applications.

This is where the government's "we've got to find a compromise" rhetoric rings hollow, naive or disingenuous, depending on how much credit you're willing to give them when it comes to technical acumen. Compromise, when it comes to encryption, means compromised. When encryption is compromised, that encryption is fundamentally broken and dangerous. Crypto == math means there can be no compromise with the government's agenda. And it's not because we don't want to be reasonable, it's because math doesn't care about court orders, the law, the government's authority or good intentions.
Americans have no other chant to use. It's U-S-A or nothing.

Maybe we should get one, but for now, that's it.
Or not so much that, but the practice of putting terrible content up and funding it by selling someone else's soul to the advertising apparatus. And then demanding that you give up that soul, in order to fund "high quality content".
When you can count your lines of Python code on your fingers, it's probably faster to just write up a script than it is to search for existing software.
People will put money into their accounts on our site and have an online balance, that is a huge factor in stickyness imo (same as with online poker).

We haven't tested their backend logic which is a huge part of our competitive advantage to other platforms, and mainly assessed the thread by visually comparing the sites.
I find it hard to believe. iOS is not ready for prime time and Apple refuses to create a Surface like device and merging iOS with OSX.
Yes, I agree. We can estimate. Sometimes the estimates will be wrong, but that's life.
Indeed.

When I launched the replay of the live stream at whatever point it was, when I heard the wild cheering I knew they had finally landed a first-stage at sea before I even saw the footage of that supersonic toothpick landing.
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Fair enough; maybe the term isn't correct. My point is that a wildcart cert is technically no different than a 'regular' cert, and the CA incurs in no extra cost, unlike with EV certs. The price difference is purely based on the fact that buyers who need wildcart certs tend to have larger budgets.
Clojure code scales to multiple cores very nicely and I can make very good use of them in my work. That said, I do care about single-core performance too, the number of cores is secondary.
They have jacks that attach to the hold-down points; those jacks will probably be welded to the deck. Elon also mentioned the metal shoes over the legs some time ago, and they may also have those, but there's less evidence of those. (You can see the jacks on the deck of the barge in various photos and videos.)
It's worth noting that those high rise project style blocks in NYC, such as stuy town, are dramatically less dense than similar blocks with regular 4-6 story tenement style buildings.

They are tall but not dense, the latter being the thing that proponents of high rises and more development are actually in favor of.
So do you think we should boycott the Olympics? Should I give the North Korean regime same level of "support" as South Korean regime?
Chanting USA is pretty common in the US.
Well, this could be a case of fair use. You're using New York Times' trademark to discuss a certain aspect of the company (they wrote an article on this topic). That could fall under the "News Reporting" exception itself.
Note that Rust does do sibling call optimization, which covers TCO in most of the places where people want to use it.

However, bear in mind that TCO and not having a GC are, if not incompatible per se, severely at odds.
Now that the Supremes have ruled that the feds can force you to buy a product (health insurance), it's not such a large step to force people to perform work on their behalf.

One of the major gripes of the American revolution was the forced quartering of soldiers in people's homes.
Feels good to hear. Our site has equally large parts of logic on client / server side so I am unsure if they can really out-execute us. But the first mover advantage is there, and we currently can't cover Chinese language.

Working hard on bringing the other stuff on the road, so your advice bodes well. Thanks again!
I know several people who lack the skills to buy things online. For others it's a chore. Finally, what if by lowering the barriers for customers, you could increase sales 5%? 10%?
What would a German crowd have chanted or sang to celebrate something like this?
>"The fact that the back end's business logic layer didn't verify and authorize the request is hugely troubling from a big service like steam. What other dragons are lurking in there to exploit? Could I take ownership of someone else's game on the store? Get myself some free games by generating reviewer steam keys? All sorts of interesting activity is possible."

This feels to me like saying "I can just walk into a big box store, take something off the shelf and walk out".

Yes, you can. And people do. And yet, outside of extreme circumstances there isn't much these stores do to stop you. Loss prevention is a leaky sieve and can cost more than the loss did.

Heck just steal the steam key from a boxed set in a store. The key itself doesn't have protection. Take a picture of it. Whatever.

Stealing isn't hard, but still we don't do too much of it...
Well, equip that pencil with computers and propulsion and steering systems, and it might be possible ;)
We actually use that in German too. We don't have computer science at university, we call it Informatik. Checking out Wikipedia it seems you [borrowed](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatique#.C3.89tymologie) this mot-valise. ;)
I have 150% scaling on Windows 10 and I haven't noticed anything strange.
This is intentional. I think the plans are that SpaceX would be directing the first stage to de-orbit and enter the atmosphere with an "incorrect" trajectory, so that if the landing burn fails the rocket will be safely sent out to sea. Part of the landing burn is a redirect maneuver, so that the rocket will always have a crazy angle when it comes in, but will also keep land/people safe.
I am French and I've lived both in "province" (means not in Paris...) and in Paris, and I don't think that's particulary accurate to say that people are much friendlier in province. I've met friendly people both in Paris and in "province" as well as unfriendly ones...

In my opinion, it's just a way of reenforcing this dichotomy between Paris and "province" (and this word is also part of that scheme).
The reason why I don't live in seattle is because the only big employer HQs you have a choice of is MSFT and Amazon, both a negative in their own way. In the SFBA you have far more choice
Very good point. We will have a look at that. They only joined two days ago and all their events are password locked, which makes it hard to gauge real activity.

If they do for-money events then they most likely send around money through some payment apps which is hard to track for us.

We don't have very many Chinese users at hand but I will ask in the team to get more info on their marketing activities.
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SF killed it by not giving them parking permits: http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/10/05/drivenow-to-suspend-operat...

> The company says the decision was influenced by the lack of parking permit regulations necessary for one-way car sharing. “Until the current regulations are amended, we must suspend service in the San Francisco Bay Area,” DriveNow reads in a statement. “We fully expect to return once the city reforms its parking policies to allow for one-way car sharing. We will continue to work with the city of San Francisco toward achieving that goal.”
Unfortunately, UNIQUE is not enough to prevent the kind of errors I am talking about. They are only easily prevented if the PRIMARY KEY is a natural key.

I have seen many cases where concepts that are UNIQUE NOT NULL for a given business case are ignored as natural keys and surrogate keys are used instead. This results in "duplicated" records (from a business logic perspective) that often end up being manually cleaned, resulting in costs in the orders of 10s of thousands. Not funny.

The idea of a primary key is that you are guaranteed 0 or 1 results, but in the absence of UNIQUE and NOT NULL you may get more than one. That's a powerful abstraction. If your business logic determine that a given attribute or combination of attributes satisfies that condition, that deserves to be the row key.

If you rather use a surrogate key:

a) either you also have to enforce UNIQUE and specially NOT NULL on those attributes (apart from the PK) which is definitely not free lunch (extra indexes, more expensive joins, not benefiting from index-only scans)

b) or often someone forgets either the UNIQUE or NOT NULL on the attribute(s) that have to be constrained as such and data integrity is compromised.

Both cases are bad enough. What's the justification to systematically use surrogate keys then?
Wait, what? No Podcasting in France? Go start a Podcast ;)
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there's no human interaction on support either:
http://pastebin.com/raw/KNLeB6Aq
Just decryption. It isn't government only just mandated by them ANYONE can use it.
> It seems purely like a calculated move to undermine iOS as much as possible

I really don't see how this is the case; do you consider Microsoft's Project Islandwood[1] to be a move to undermine iOS? Both seem like an attempt to offer developers more choice and a reason to work on the platform. If this is to undermine anything, I think it would be the various 'hybrid'-webapp solutions as writing a Swift app seems like a better way to "write once, run anywhere" than a JavaScript hybrid solution.

> And it's not like Google have commit rights or control over Swift. It's sad how they haven't really learned from the Oracle case.

I don't see how not having commit rights is an issue. The licensing terms of Java are/were very different from Swift. Getting behind an Apache-licensed open-source language does not necessarily mean Google is not free to control their own version of the language (why would they?). I don't see the copyrightable API issue coming up with Apple and Swift because of how the open source Foundation has been encouraged (and I really think Apple wouldn't mind / will encourage open-source ports of other Frameworks).

[1]: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/ios
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I do like the way you are looking at the problem, but as high overview it's all down to supermarket to provide this information (if they got it and easy to share).

I was hoping to find kinda open data date for grocery food but still looking for.

Hope get more people interested on the idea so it gives me a push to explore more paths to solve the problem.
> I know of no other language that invented new words when computers came to the market (ordinateur)

Norwegian: datamaskin. Until the mid 80's it was widely debated what name to use, with datamaskin, data, komputer og dator (from Swedish) as common alternatives.

Icelandic apparently uses "tölva" - basically "prophetess of numbers" (from "tala" and "völva").

Swedish: dator (can be precisely dated to 1968). You can also use "datamaskin" in Swedish as well, but it is dated.
It's the crypto equivalent of the TSA-approved locks.
This comment strikes me as nonsensical. The entire article is a longform first person account by someone who grew up in that neighborhood.

He is the voice of the person on the inside trying to make things better.
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> it sounds like French, flowing from sentence to sentence with the typical melody.

I've heard this described as stress-timed (English) vs syllable-timed (French) languages. Stress-timed meaning the time between stressed syllables is roughly equal, whereas syllable-timed means each syllable is roughly equal length.
A "significant tax on goods from China" is actually precisely what Trump is saying.

> Wouldn't that just mean less cheap useless crap being purchased by people who can't afford it anyway?

More likely it would just cause a price hike on goods and reduce interest, forcing companies to find alternative places to source those goods, like Mexico.
IMHO As one of the top DriveNow customers i'm pretty upset that they shot themselves in the foot here in SF by attempting to get 100's of on street parking permits for ELECTRIC cars which need to be constantly charged. I really don't understand who thought that would be a great idea for a parking constrained city like San Francisco.

I do miss DriveNow, at least weekly. Having an ActiveE or later, an i3 to run errands or take friends around town was really really great, and the pricing was insane ($60 for 24 hours, all inclusive! It started at $30 when they first launched. I was renting cars for a month at a time because it was cheaper than owning/leasing when you consider that parking at my office building was $700/month).
That sounds more like Paris than France as a whole; it's certainly not my experience of many childhood visits to Normandy.

My French never improved while over there, because they'd never give me an opportunity to use it - I'd open my mouth once and it would become immediately clear to them that their English surpassed my French!
> Most people don't realize that a language's accent is a physical thing. Your throat, nose, tongue behave differently when speaking different languages. If you're French, you can't speak English while keeping the same physical arrangement of your mouth and throat than when you speak French.

Interesting theory but as a counterexample in Switzerland in the western side of the country people speak French natively and generally their English accent is way better than the English accent in French people. I think it has a lot to do with the culture of the country; for example the protection of the language is not considered as important in Switzerland as it is in France. In France radio stations have minimun quota for French music, something unthinkable in Switzerland.
Thanks for offering your help! We ditched our translations because i18n takes so much time and we learned that most players apart from Russians and Chinese don't really need it. Also, the implementation using i18n-next was a huge PITA.

It'd be great if I could ping you in the next days if we decide to move into that direction again.
This is awe inspiring.
Late 2012 i7 Mac Mini with 10gb RAM and manually replaced SSD is a very powerful machine.

I hope Apple will release a better one this year because 2014 model lacks i7 option.
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> today can’t epxect to put out mostly junk filler

I wonder if that's a litmus test to see if people finish reading. Great article, perfect sentiment, last paragraph has the only typo in the entire thing.

And I totally agree. There are shitloads of people on the internet making money from content. Hell, I make some sometimes. If you build a real audience, listen to them, then solve their problems. Then content isn't dead.

If you're trying to be mass media that appeals to everybody and nobody at the same time. Then content is dead.

I mean, shit, look at someone like GaryVee or Casey Neistat, or even Kim Kardashian. They all make shitloads of money from content.

And if you're looking for examples closer to HN home. Look at Amy Hoy, Brennan Dunn, or even Ramit Sethi. They might not make tens of millions, but they def print millions of dollars with their content businesses.
What do you mean "deleting data from storage doesn't speed up computers?" Deleting old files certainly makes file searches faster.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456907
> This is where the government's "we've got to find a compromise" rhetoric rings hollow, naive or disingenuous, depending on how much credit you're willing to give them when it comes to technical acumen.

The government is not one uniform thing. I think there's elements of the government who feel like the compromise is appropriate and don't realize that Key Escrow is the only possible compromise and don't realize why it's already been reviewed and rejected. They might mistakenly think that the objections are somehow needlessly idealized or dogmatic. I don't think they're naive at all. They're just mistaken. On the other side, there's other elements of government who are totally aware and willing to exploit the fear of the electorate and legislators in order to achieve their goals. That group is definitely disingenuous.
I think you missed the sarcasm indicator (/s).

(That doesn't mean it was particularly funny, though)
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456907
Yes, I think 2008 was a very hard year for Elon. The issue with Tesla was that something like 200 Roadsters were manufactured incorrectly and all had to be fixed at immense cost and time delay. He was also going through a divorce at the time. And all SpaceX launches had exploded off the Pacific island that they were forced to use since their competitors successfully lobbied for it to be illegal for SpaceX to launch from the USA. Rough year.
It's just another implementation of the same idea as Meerkat or Periscope, that's all. Before freaking out about how this is going to imprison you in Facebook or whatever, I recommend watching one. They can be really fun and interesting, sometimes celebrities or other internet personalities just take questions, sometimes it's a person who is doing something interesting or visiting an interesting place. It'll be alright.
The only thing the Chinese respect is constant execution. You have to out execute them every day and constantly beat them in the market, in order to achieve a position of strength from which you can structure the deals you want. Despite what some other users have posted here, there's almost 0 respect for trademark or copyright law especially if you're a foreign company.
ESA and Roscosmos launches are fairly sedate (almost fell asleep watching an Ariane 5 launch), but since the beginning launches managed by NASA have been pretty heavy with theatrics. Someone else mentioned JPL/Curiosity, which is one good example. Let's also not forget the massive cheering crowds at every Shuttle launch: https://youtu.be/OnoNITE-CLc?t=1m24s

The SpaceX hype is just a logical continuation of that, IMO.
The problem is that you'll still need some kind of unique "domain space", i.e. you can't have just <ip>.vendor.direct (or whatever the TLD would be), because then multiple users could get a signed certificate for the same FQDN, which would allow interesting MitM scenarios (that was one of the main motivations behind the decision to forbid CAs from issuing certificates for internal names).

Anyway, I think that the public DNS solution + DHCP hostname mapping + manual DNS configuration as a last resort would be good enough for almost every scenario I can think of.
Couldn't they make the landing pad a bit more forgiving? Like have two big ring-halves pop-up around it when it lands and "catch" it if it tips. I know they'd want to eventually master landing without it, but not having the whole thing explode seems like a good way to quickly run new flights.
My understanding is that the USPS is effectively overfunding its pension and healthcare and required to continue doing so. The USPS claims as much: https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...

But it's hard to get neutral information on this because most of the people putting forth information seem extremely partisan.

I will say it's pretty bizarre to regulate USPS revenues downward while simultaneously regulating their obligations upward.
You're suggesting the author expands the list at least from 28 to 280 logos (or maybe 2800?). What exactly are you expecting to get for free?
Comparing the Economist to an iPhone to Android switch article is not a fair comparison.

The Wired iPhone2Android article is and was never designed to be content. You shouldn't expect it to be either honestly.

Apple has great content on the subject for free https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201196

The 3rd party link bloat however is spot on
The restaurants name is Le Colbert. I suspect the place is under new ownership now. I visited in '76 and my parent's in '88. This link references a female, not a male owner:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187234-d20819...
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This feels like one of those cases where the ticket is so big and so many are lined up to pay (because it is so much cheaper), that they just slap the price on it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11457234
I am not going to tell you what to do and what not do, I meant what I wrote quite literally, I felt irritated by those chants because that would never happen here and probably be considered inappropriate. I really can't think of many things that could, would or should cause a similar reaction over here. If half of Germany would work together to single-handedly stop the climate change or something like that, then I would say it is time to pad our shoulders, but besides that I can't think of much. And even if we shout »Germany!« when we win a soccer match, we - or at least that is the case for me - mean the team, not the country as a whole.
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It's not that offensive, but it did have a bit of a jarring effect. I was all happy with the success and saw it as a human achievement. [1] The cheering was wonderful. But then the USA chants made me feel left out, because I'm not a US citizen. I guess I just wished these people would share my view of it being a human achievement and not limited to USA with its 4% of humans. It's likely plenty of them do think that, but the USA chanting sure sends a different emotional signal and diminishes the moment a bit.

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[1] I probably wouldn't think much of a USA chant during a Facebook or Google product launch. While these companies do plenty of wonderful things, I view space travel as several tiers of importance higher.
Oh you might be right about it being slang. My Chinese isn't great. I just like to pretend it is on the internet haha! Their website uses the characters 好哥哥 (haogege) and I don't see 比赛 (bisai) written anywhere. Maybe they changed it after getting the domain.
I waited a week or so for my SSD to be delivered from America to the UK and fitted it myself. It was trivial.