skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This technology has been around for over a century. Remove wheel friction and air pressure as the primary barriers to speed with the pinnacle being maglev in a full vacuum (something that was proposed for 5000mph trains crossing the ocean on the seabed at one point). The Hyperloop concept has relaxed these constraints by allowing for some atmosphere, which also greatly reduces the top speed, but fundamentally it's the same thing. And it's all perfectly possible given enough engineering.

The only real problem is the financial viability of such a project.

Air travel is already very streamlined and inexpensive for crossing big distances and has the advantage of not requiring the infrastructure and real estate that a train needs. Just the land rights alone will quickly balloon the cost into 100s of billions for any sizable project between two major cities that people want to travel between - and until that gets figured out, this will never happen.

The recent news around a startup raising 80M is meaningless because they will waste all that money chasing tech without realizing that they will never be able to successfully lay track anywhere.
Nvidia 's GeForce GTX 1080 is a PC gamer's dream
The all writs act is 100% american and 100% constitutional, EVERYBODY SAYS SO
Coding is a pathway to IT literacy. Complaining about teaching code is analogous to complaining about teaching how to write.
See what investing in UX brings you in return
Seriously. When someone complains about callback hell its a good sign that their application is a poorly written mess.

I see it a lot from backend developers who never really knew JS that well and then moved on to the next shiny thing (right now Go, but Haskell, Rust, etc) without ever having a good grasp of WHY they has issues - instead they blame node/JS.

In a year or so I fully expect all these articles to switch to "why Go sucks" as the cycle repeats.
That is surprising. But it seems that the talking heads in the video have not gotten that memo. Come to us to make 3d games, AI and viruses would have been a killer slogan. And instant differentiation from all the others.
Both BBC quotes are in full agreement with the document at http://spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf . Page 12, "100 Pascals", that's roughly 99.9% of the air removed.

The distinction between "very low pressure" and "vacuum" that is implied by the "hyperloop is not a vactrain" camp is a fantasy.
Oh strstr() - that witchery... your foul black magic craft has been poisoning people's minds for 40 years...
We don't do much in the way of all-steel construction anymore: it wouldn't surprise me if the "rickety" steel approach would actually cost more than concrete in today's economy.

(Not that I think we'd look to build "rickety" new construction in any case.)
Unit testing is not the be all and end all of writing an application.
The classification looks good, congrats!. Where did you get the million labeled images to train your classifier?
Stanford quantifies the privacy-stripping power of metadata
variables declared with the var keyword are functionally scoped in JS so they are local to the function they are declared in and are lexically scoped to the closure of that function. So your local variables you can be fairly confident are not mutated anywhere else.

That being said you can totally have globals and whatnot that can be mutated anywhere (e.g. parameters passed to a function or literal globals installed in the global scope) or things declared at a lower scope that can still be modified by multiple functions.

Hope that clears it up
Exactly, unethical laws are always passed on emotions (supposedly to protect the women and children).
Think of how nazi germany started cracking down on jews - some of the very first laws were that german women couldn't work in jewish houses, and Hitler rolled the ball from there.

The new age model is to convict ten innocents than let one guilty suspect go.
Good point. That needs a legislative solution.
"plain and dated-looking"

Full on retro would be an interesting concept. Reusing box art from 1960, assuming its still in a vault somewhere, is cheaper and faster than trying to upgrade 2005 box art to 2016 current fads. And it would be kinda cool looking.

Two problems: Stealth inflation by shrinking package means the "one pound style" package will now be huge next to the current "one pound style" packages that are down to only 11 or so oz now. I suppose scaling in photoshop is pretty well understood. The other problem is the sports athlete on your 1961 Wheaties cereal box might have turned into a serial (cereal?) killer sometime in the last half century, need to research and censor some famous personalities.
I love that blog post, because then this makes sense: Promises are basically an inner-platform [1] that replicate all the control flow constructs of the given language, except as a different "color". Go simply is that inner platform. Go does not use promises because all of its code is already running in the promise color. You don't need anything special to "deal with" a for loop that may end up waiting for something to be read from a socket, because the for loop is already a "promise", and so forth. You can rearrange your code as much as you like, and you are not constantly juggling with stuff the compiler ought to deal with.

Manual promise transpilation is better than manual callback transpilation, but it's still manual transpilation. Why are you working so hard?

Sometimes I get mistaken as an advocate for Go. I'm not really. What I am an advocate for is using languages where you don't need an inner-platform of promises because the language is already that color. Go just happens to be the most familiar Algol-esque of the bunch right now. Don't want to learn Go? Go learn Erlang or Elixir. Or maybe if you're feeling saucy, Haskell. Or some of the other choices popping up lately. If you're writing network servers you will not be able to understood how you ever functioned without this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
If you click the 'no barcode' button to pull down a fatsecret nutrition record, there is a servings pulldown that is displayed. Its kinda hard to see. Working on the CSS
> New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority operates commuter trains that require higher staffing levels -- but as Smith wrote in another 2012 Bloomberg View piece, those higher staffing requirements are the result more of union rules than of necessity.

This is also true for construction. Anyone who's seen construction in progress in the US knows that there are usually 5 guys standing around for every one working. Everyone one of them is getting health care, a pension and a decent salary if they are standing around or not. And they are getting the best health care and pensions of just about any group in the US.
Nice work! Another big user group of stuff like this is diabetics who need carb estimates to adjust insulin doses.
Maybe this "feature" enables some kind of backdoor either within the task or corresponding library. It's strange that the task is functioning in a manner where the task is dependent upon a string (account) that contains the word "user."
Wordnet! Got a list of URLs from there and then hit flikr with some python.
In general, we do make the worst deals. I know this place hates Trump, but that statement is not false.

The major issue of having a business-driven economy is that the best (or most "tactical") businessmen are running businesses, not the government.

As it stands right now, there is very little incentive for US government officials to run things efficiently. Whether they're promoted for incompetence, applauded for employing so many government employees, or getting paid by dirty contractors, it all leads towards the corrupt situation at hand.

I don't know the solution, but true campaign finance reform, removing corporate money from politics, would be the best blanket to start with. Good luck with all that, though...

Take a look at how Hong Kong's rail system operates, that's the best model I've seen.
Don't you mean GTX 1080?
The opportunity cost of not working for three years is huge, maybe more than the tuition at a non-top end university.
Logic-Based Machine Learning (2000) [pdf]
So, a spec that doesn't describe the current state of the web at all and which hosts have found unworkable and over-constraining.
I earned my PhD in diabetes research at the Mayo clinic. My whole goal for this project is to cure that damned illness.

Aim high ...
> However I feel the most valuable thing a company can do for their employees is to provide them with an environment that lets them feel like they have ownership of the company’s mission and empower them to execute it.

I strongly disagree. The most valuable thing a company can do is provide good compensation (which may or may not include perks). What the author suggests is also important but hardly the most important.
It's really important to separate what someone thinks from what someone does. Having violent thoughts about people is very common, acting on them far less so.

Someone who reads sick fiction and or looks at man made images is hardly harming anyone. I mean Vorarephilia is also a thing, and they can get off watching monster movies. But, there are very few actual cannibals out there.

At best you could make a comment based on reproductive success in our culture. But, I have trouble going from there to paying to lock people up.
as being said above: this is probably a micro-benchmarking compiler optimization mistake. i.e.: don'tignore your result or the compiler will probably optimize it away.
Second that request, please
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Ah, right you are! Thanks for correcting my mistake :)
I think the difference maker here could be Elon Musk. He has the force of will to make believers out of all of the obstacles (technological and political) in the way.
Incedentally I also use Emacs for editing lisp. (emacs lisp and Clojure.) Learning the hotkeys/concepts behind structural editing of lisp code was life changing metamorphasis, but quite difficult overall. There's been some fantastic work done by the Parinfer [1] team to bring the awesomeness of structural editing of lisp to the masses. The basic idea is that your parenthesis should infer where they belong by way of your indentation.

I installed Parinfer it on my project: CLJSFiddle[2], and it's not what I'm used to and doesn't have everything but for a novice it is highly usable - check it out!

[1] https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
[2] http://cljsfiddle.com
Similar thing for "Price First" at Wal-Mart.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=price+first+walmart&FOR...
It depends heavily on the product.

Video games cost a certain amount to produce and then $0.25 to copy.

A track requires a certain amount of iron or other raw materials; these raw materials are already being produced at scale. A certain amount of economy-of-scale can be gained on the track-specific overhead (amortize the cost of the track-factory, amortize the management/sales overhead) but there is a certain floor on the minimum cost for a unit of track, and that floor is much higher (relative to its base cost) than the cost of a video game.
Spider Silk Inspires Creation of ‘Liquid Wire’
Ask HN: How many SMB SaaS companies are out there?
So Xavier Niel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Niel French entrepreneur, do not own any US interest) is committing millions from his personal fortune to open a FREE school to teach programming and computer science in the US to student regardless of their academic background and commenters critics the initiative because the school have an age limit.

I really love 42, and I'm happy that they open a new school in US. Their curriculum is great and previous iteration have give us technical talents like the docker team.
Its been contested in a few papers now that overweight people can outlive normal weight, according to these BMI subcategories. But I am not surprised that things can be fuzzy, since ultimately its a continuum.
I was suspicious, I just could not put my finger on it :)

for i in 0..<iterations {
let result = flatuseStruct(outputData, start:i)
assert(result == 8644311666 + Int(i))
total2 = total2 + UInt64(result)
}

this results in around 42ms compared to C 25ms. I guess I should update my blog post :)

Thanks for your help.
> a hyperloop to be created with no tube, only a track

Don't we call that a “train?”
Building and launching a product for education
i expect it would be illegal in the US. no sure since its private.
"let alone how it was upvoted so highly.

The reason I upvoted this post was with the hope that comments like this would be made. I'm still solidifying my grasp of ML/math topics so when these posts come up I always hope there are commenters with more experience/education in these topics to further enlighten me.
That's a pretty bold allegation to make without support.
Well the leftpad disaster wasn't really a symptom of the # of modules. I think it's probably fair (and unsurprising) to say there are a lot more "significant" modules in the Node world than Go, even if we discount the 10-line basic function modules.
Adblockers: US growth could remove $12bn advertising by 2020
It is not a pathway - it is a side effect of it. Most self taught geeks have started from "wanting to do something" and "make a computer program to do it" as the solution. It is a nice skill, but I would never code something until I have exhausted the other (lazier) possibilities.
There's also an argument that a mandate to select the lowest bid massively increases cost overruns, even when everyone in government is sincere and not corrupt.

If you're selecting a crappy company that lied about their bid over a competent, accurate higher bidder, you tend to get massive cost overruns that outweigh the promised savings. Everything looks good up front ("we'll build a new railway for only $XXX,000,000!") but in practice it's a disaster.
Look into canarytokens. Plenty of file types that do not rely on JavaScript nor macros etc
I don't have any love for NYC construction unions and their ridiculous work rules, but the fact that France -- France! where strikes shutting down the whole country is a national pastime -- does better means that can't be the number one answer. Similarly we can rule out corruption because even Chicago is a piker compared to Shanghai. I think both unions and corruption play a part but not of the first rank.

The first candidate I'd propose for the top slot is diffusion of responsibility stemming from a US obsession with localism. An MTA project might well be paid for by: the federal government, NY state, NYC, and bonds to be paid back by a dedicated tax in 10 downstate counties. There are contracting rules imposed by each of those sources. And it is administered by the MTA board, a monstrosity with appointments from eight different sources. The buck stops nowhere.

The second candidate is, paradoxically, the progressive era procurement rules designed to rein in corruption. They leave too little discretion. In a two sided competitive game, if one side is hampered in by slow changing inflexible rules the other side is going to dominate. That's exactly what happens. Government contractors play the system like a fiddle and there's little the government negotiators even when they are supremely competent and diligent can do about it.
You can actually do it in either direction, going from the link function and reasoning back to the distribution it implies, or starting at the distribution and seeing what maximizes the likelihood.

The "logistic regression" has been invented / reinvented independently with different derivations 10 times or so.
>Trying to work out what is new here.

As with most very large scale projects, PR is the game changer. Elon Musk's backing of the concept and investment into competitive solutions for a hyperloop has created publicity and driven interest. The hyperloop doesn't need to be an innovative technological advancement to benefit society. It just needs to be safe, fast, and cost effective.
This page is worded like an advertisement.
Funnily enough, one of the reasons the terminator gene was created was because anti-gmo activist wanted assurances that artificially created genes wouldn't escape into the wild.

In addition, farmers who rotate crops also want terminator seeds because it reduces the number of volunteer plants in subsequent harvests.

Most of the anti terminator stuff I've read betrays a deep lack of understanding about how the underlying technology actually works.
At least one of their example URLs on the page still points (eventually) to the same content: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9814

Although they seem to have not learned anything, and are now using .jsp instead of .pl.
For what it's worth, art does not typically contribute meaningfully to cost. In Boston, a budgeted $2 billion dollar expansion of the Green Line is now projected to cost nearly $3 billion, and the response from the MBTA has been to cut $2 million worth of art installations.[0]

There are plenty of issues, but calling out public art as an example of waste is shortsighted given its minuscule costs.

[0]https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/11/19/mbta-suddenly-c...
Anyone at all concerned about the DOJ subpoena? Lending Club is being investigated by the DOJ.
I didn't realize some of the sounds were generated in such unique ways. Cases in point

* Caroline, No - upside-down water bottle for intro drums
* You Still Believe In Me - Avant-garde piano played directly on chords
The problem with solutions like this is that they break the abstraction of using algebraic notation for calculations. We're conditioned to expect calculations to be written in algebraic notation, and indeed one of the original selling points of C is that it lets you express calculations in that form. To undo that is a massive shame.

The calculation itself absolutely MUST look like this:

a + b

While maybe it's not too bad for simple addition, think of compound expressions with multiple terms.
> Have ten developers on staff, each with an HN account?

I think that's what HN calls a "voting ring" and attempts to detect and counteract.
How Uber for Business Engineering Verifies Your Ride in Real Time
You realize that you didn't need to wait for PAM? That you could read NSS
`shadow' table from LDAP in the same way as `passwd' is?
I come from a dying factory town. I understand the pain, the grief, the suffering of having your livelihood vanish in a puff of machine-shaped smoke. It destroys people - whole identities get hung on one occupation. It destroys communities - whole towns depend on one factory or one trucking line.

So bear that in mind with what I say next.

Suck it up. The rest of us have changed our lives, reshaped our minds, and left behind the communities we knew. It's painful. It can be emotionally excruciating. But it's far from impossible. If we can do it, so can you.
Someone said that 30% of the images on Docker Registry contain vulnerabilities
Learn Web Development and Earn Your Black Belt
Is there a writeup about how you approached this? All I see are a couple of app store links.
I forgot my previous master password a month or two after I changed it.

But the point is, after many months (eg 7) plus stress... many people would. Not everyone, but enough people that I don't think you can blanket say "you surely know it, hand it over".
Does it say triple mirroring or triple redundancy? Take a look at the article from Backblaze for an overview of the math. In their case it might be called quadruple redundancy. 20 shards hold 17 shards of data with triple parity. Events destroying hard drives containing information about your data could happen three times, and you still wouldn't lose anything.
Yep, that's true. I got around 5000 page views from Reddit over 2 days, but then the traffic died off.
Google launches art preservation project with gigapixel camera
According to Beatles producer George Martin, "Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper never would have happened....Pepper was an attempt to equal Pet Sounds."
Static analysis tools for Java landscape in 2016
Employers Struggle to Find Workers Who Can Pass a Drug Test
Perhaps the NYC subway is a special case in the cost-per-kilometer club but how about something more run-of-the-mill like the MA green line extension [0] which is $2-$3B for 4.3 miles of above ground track? [1]

They recently had to go back and try to slash the budget since the Fed and State have pledged $1B each and no more. Some of the reasons given for rthe explosion from $2N -> $3B were poor oversight over the bidding process [2].

To cut cost they scaled back the station designs (apparently people were complaining after some stations became little more than a platform without even shelter from the weather), kept some bridges they originally planned to replace, and shortened a walk/bike path.

Nowhere in the news do I see anyone talking about labor rates, unions, health insurance / pension, or eminent domain issues causing the cost overruns.

I've been on the board of a small condo (27 units) which did a major residing project a few years ago. The process of spec'ing, bidding, overseeing the construction was hugely involved for the huge for us but relatively tiny project. The contractor bids, which were against a very detailed 3rd party specification, had a huge spread. During the project there were significant work items which were outside the spec and ended up being negotiated to control costs. The takeaway for me is that these projects are insanely complicated and cities just don't have the expertise and dedication to tightly manage them and wring out the cost savings. The experts outmaneuver the municipality and we end up paying far too much.

What's interesting about the Green Line Extension is the nature of the funding means the first $2B is almost like free funny money but every dollar thereafter is like spilling blood because it comes from the locals. So at least the funding structure is trying to impose some limits. And lo-and-behold if the choice is for a city to cough up the extra cash versus cutting costs, they cut the cost by 1/3rd.

I think the biggest problem is cultural. The people overseeing the project are not spending every dollar like it's their own. If the cost isn't "real" to the people running the project, it completely changes how the project is run. Human nature.

[0] - http://greenlineextension.eot.state.ma.us/docs_about.html

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Line_Extension

[2] - http://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2016/01/15/report-gree...
> Node.js has been around the block longer it boasts more than double the modules

Yes, Node.js has more third-party packages available, but the quality of Go's packages is usually higher. Also, you can do a lot with built-in packages in Go compared to Node.js.
it's almost as though congressmen undergo some kind of selection process which attempts to find responsible, non-criminal members of society
Browser are for whatever browsers can be made to be for.

There are things it's optimal for but luckily we don't live in a world were people only do what things were originally meant for.

I am using gmail in the browser. I am discussing this with you. I am transferring money between accounts, playing games, filling out surveys, controlling projects, looking up routes on map, enjoying streaming music, video etc.

It's all good.
Luckily turns out it isn't 1995 anymore. Browsers let you do stuff, pretty cool stuff last time I checked, sometimes it's play video, sometimes it's read a document, other times it is to create tangible things.
Ive been meaning to make a blog for some time now, since my nonprofit also has some preliminary research results with the genetic basis of obesity. Just havent had the time really. It will happen though. These neural networks are amazing and worth sharing.
Great work! I'd love to chat with you to help feed your data set outside of wordnet. I've been collecting my own data set where I breakdown the macros in images for anyone who sends me their meals.