skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Closer to 25l[0], which at 6l/100km (UK average for new cars in 2012 is 5.8l/100km[1]) gives you 416km, at 110kmph (68mph) is 3.7 hours.

Still not quite 10 hours, but well past the 2 hours.

[0] http://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight using 'petrol', which is going to be different to what airlines use, but it's the closest i can find

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
The maglev station at Shanghai airport tells you clearly when the fast ones are going.

The experience of going so fast so close to the ground is quite maginficent. I was wondering why the cars 'stop' on the nearby motorway.
Perl in 1998. When the purpose is not the program, but the result of the execution of the program, it is important to code fast. With perl, you code like you think. Autovivification keeps your code concise and easy to write. The syntax invites you to check for errors.
There are lots of strange abbreviations - BUT - Caution very much needed. Only a few pages in, but how extremely fascinating and interesting! Thanks a lot!
Despite having used HN for several years now, I've never really understood [dead] etc. The FAQ says it's anything that has been flagged as such by mods or the software itself. So does the original author of the comment see "[dead]"? Does it happen automatically if the author is banned/shadow banned? Why/how are so many 'New' submissions 'DOA'? Is there anywhere that explains this so I never have to ask these questions - and others - again?
> So as long as people are happy with the current situation and the outlook, the economy could actually profit from the vote in the short term.

We'll see over Christmas, as the Christmas shopping is now the first time that people will really feel the rising prices. Given that more Leave voters regret their vote than Remain voters already, it'll be interesting to see polls in Jan/Feb as well.

> (£200mln a week for the NHS). Not being part of the government makes it easier to ignore those promises.

They're now faced with a letter from 40 MPs asking them to either honour the 350m/week (not 200) or explain why several Tory cabinet members misled the public during the campaign. Of course they'll do neither but that isn't the purpose either - the purpose is press. But given that a number of Leave campaigners are part of the goverment you can expect the next two years to consist of a constant stream of attempts to embarrass them over those claims...

> As Conservatives are already in favour of a hard Brexit

Some are. At least on the surface. May has a small enough majority that it is very possible she'd face rebellion over that. But then again, May presided over the Home Office for 6 years and talked up being tough on immigration and achieved pretty much nothing - quite possibly on purpose - so I'm not so convinced that she actually wants hard Brexit, but is using the same tactics of talking up how hardline she'll be to the public and pursue a softer line. Of course the problem with that this time is that her counterparts in Europe are hearing all of this too.
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So, Britain has a trade deficit - so a revaluation at a lower level should be a corrective. In many ways, it's been a long time coming.

But I'm not so positive on the effects as you are. Britain's manufacturing output, the thing it's most likely able to export when it leaves the EU, has a large imported component in other materials, and the transaction costs there will be higher not just because of lower sterling.

Since Britain hasn't been able to compete effectively in manufacturing with Germany while in the EU, I find it hard to believe they'll be able to compete with China when they're out in the same seas. So I don't see a resurgence in manufacturing. Honestly, when you buy something, is British a sign of quality? For me, not in food, not in durable goods, not in almost anything.

And Britain's main export is services, which it doesn't have much in the way of trade agreements by default. So that gets screwed by Brexit too.

Personally, if Brexit goes through, I'll be leaving the country. I'm Irish living in London, and while I'll probably have working rights grandfathered in (the same way I can vote in national elections, from the history of our two countries), my 3 year plan is geared towards leaving. I'm still only 60% sure Brexit means Brexit, though.
As I understand it, of of Apple's big competitive advantages was that they contracted for essentially the entire output of 1.8 inch hard drives so no-one else could use them.
Technically speaking, Creative Labs did that. You just needed a slightly larger pocket :-)
A Falcon 9 returning from past the Karman line at near hypersonic speed, flipping around, balancing itself like a pencil on a fingertip, and landing back at the launch pad isn't futuristic?

We are living in a second golden age of aerospace innovation.

https://youtu.be/1B6oiLNyKKI

Fun fact: the Falcon 9 cannot throttle its engines low enough to hover. That means it lands at >1g, cutting thrust the moment it touches the pad to avoid taking off again.
Re. Farage - George Costanza: "Leave on a high note."
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It depends what do you mean by that. I don't think you can actually learn something just by watching other people doing it, but online courses are a good start. I started to learn programming from an online Ruby on Rails course, then I created my first website (something like 9gag) and landed my first job after a couple of months. It happend to be a small company that has later created a mobile app that we managed to scale from 0 to over 100M users. I was even a main backend guy in there for some time. So yeah, watching videos might definitely be a good start, but I'd say the actual "learning" is a long process and requires lots of attention.
Unfortunately I can't and I don't remember.

The German Wikipedia says that there are two 45 minute slots a day, but not when exactly. Maybe their web site tells it? I could find the information after a cursory look.
> Regarding your last point: A depreciation of the currency is generally positive for a country. Expensive imports give incentive to use local products (e.g. food), at the same time exports become more competitive.

This is true, however a problem is when you cannot substitute expensive imports with local products. Two obvious examples: Cars and computers.

Many computers are priced in USD, so after Brexit many IT departments found they could only buy 9 servers with a budget that was supposed to cover 10 (this happened to us).

> However, people voted for Brexit and a lot of them are happy with the result. So this uncertainty won't necessarily lead to less consumption.

A lot of them are also very unhappy, it being so close and all. Completely anecdotal, but out of an office of ~60, 2 senior and 2 junior programmers decided to leave the UK post-Brexit. I think brain-drain and it's effects is much harder to predict, but quite damaging in the long run.
> Can someone explain this part of Brexit. Nigel Farage resigns in July 2016 after he wins the vote. Why? Says he did "his job" and didn't want to be a career politician (according to Wiki)

UKIP is a single-issue party. It rarely happens for single issue parties, but, well, they won - not "to within a reasonable approximation" or whatever copout one might come up with, they won flat out. The dog caught the tail. Nobody knows what's next; this part was never in the script. There's a chance UKIP will morph into conservatives-in-the-north (where, for context, the Conservative party hasn't really been competitive for a couple of decades mostly because of the Thatcher legacy, but UKIP actually is), but I honestly wouldn't bet on it. They're simply not wired for being a 'real' party.
I remember this lifestyle pretty well, for me it was rice with various homemade sauces, a big bag of rice was $5 and that could last me a couple of weeks if it was all I ate.

One benefit is that I was an overweight child, being too poor to eat properly brought me to a "perfect" BMI for my age.
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They struggled to get them in and out of regional airports.

Can't remember runway minima etc, but I remember watching one leave Leeds-Bradford that also ran some charters near end of life.

Right to the end of the runway, then full short takeoff tactics. Spin up engines and fire reheat on the brakes, then release. Noise and smoke as you'd expect - engines were in the power and on reheat before it even moves. One thing afterburners can never be is environmental.

Still managed to look like it used most of the runway before unsticking!
One can be passionate about multiple things at the same time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12694004
Anyone remember hell.com ?

There are many snapshots on https://web.archive.org but no actual content. Because it was only available to approved guests. Except for some enigmatic abuse, and pushing hell.com addresses. So it goes.
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Yes, the conservatives were in before Brexit.

These things are still:

>"candidates for the UK's biggest problem"
> A right winger would not want to expand an already bloated government to direct even more of the economy, that just doesn't make sense.

Bismarck, who was right wing under the original definition - as a monarchist, and loyal servant of of the Prussian crown - massively expanded the German government by creating the first part-public welfare state, so clearly it's not that clear cut.

Meanwhile the Tories under Theresa May are doing her best to tear down the UK welfare sector. I don't know from where you got the idea she wants to expand government.
You're unlikely to escape until you reach the end, and it's probably longer than when I found it some years ago. :p
That reminds me. I know the National Media Museum[1] in Bradford, UK are looking for a good-condition generation 1 iPod to acquire. If anyone has one that they want to put into a national museum collection, I'm sure they'd be interested in hearing from you.

[1] http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/
For me it was JavaScript.

I learned C and C++ in university. It was all either procedural or object-oriented.

JavaScript made things a lot simpler, especially first class functions and higher order functions. It delighted me that you can just pass the function like it's a variable instead of messing with pointers. It's also delightful that a normal function can return an object. No constructors, instantiation, hierarchies, complications. Just spit out the object. It's simple!

Lodash's "chain" was my gateway into functional programming. I am avoiding getting too deep into that because it feels kinda cultish the way adherents claim its superiority, but it has nevertheless impacted the way I approach problems.
You always have a lot to lose, especially if you're poor.
More importantly, how secure will the monitor be, and how flexible the monitor system will be? Will Chrome be hard-coded to only trust Google monitors, forcing the whole trust chain to be held at ransom by a single private entity?
I've been on a 10-day vacation this summer in Switzerland and while I was there I was always asking myself how do the Swiss export-oriented companies manage to stay afloat.
Logically yes, but in practical psychology people tend to hold on tighter when they have less.
An excellent long-form thesis on this topic:

http://aaaan.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/archiving-the-di...

With links to https://www.incca.org/articles/aktivearchive
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Like many others, my productivity has suffered since Wikipedia became a thing. You may consider me a wiki-binger. I even made a simple webapp to curb my addiction: http://www.wikibinge.com/
Still haven't come out of the rabbit hole.
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These were my thoughts exactly. Companies can jump on Brexit and hike prices, that's fine, they will be selling less for more, which will bring them the same revenues.

We use full stack OSS too, not a penny spent on licences.

Have fun with your 22% M$.
> BA's service had a greater number of passengers who booked a flight and then failed to appear than any other aircraft in their fleet.

All Concorde tickets were first class; first class tickets on flag carriers are fully exchangable without rebooking fees, and the carriers will honour each others tickets -- if you have a first-class ticket on Air France and the flight's cancelled they'll ensure that some other (any other) airline with a free first class seat will carry you instead.

So first-class tickets are popular with people who really need flexibility, and if you were flying JFK-LHR you might as well book a Concorde seat because if you missed the speedbird you could just waltz aboard the next departing 747.
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Dupe ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775974
This is a nihilistic approach which only works in theory - especially when you have a family to support.

And nobody has nothing to lose - I mean even poor people have a flat - but risking to lose the roof over your head would be plain stupid.

End of story - if you know papa and mama will transfer some cash if you are in need - then taking risks is easy.
I don't want to be too mean, but what exactly is Britain exporting? I imagine they're exporting services, especially financial ones. But what else? I honestly don't know.
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A VPN private-network, is definitely an internet process that allows products to gain access to a personal network over even the web or a network. It creates a place-to-point software right from your own system that frequently contains security and stops in the location. The mixture of the “tunnel” and security implies that hackers, spyware and censors won’t have the ability to observe your link, much-less your articles, of course if they by-chance can they won’t have the ability to study it without likely to such excessive measures deciphering it won’t be worth the work. Along with these functions, leading companies like Le VPN have VPN machines situated all over the world and certainly will course your traffic through any you select successfully skipping geo-limitations.
The typical average person might believe the situation is isn’ted by that although it is overkill to utilize a VPN. The requirement for web protection reaches everybody and each people and this need develops as the community of issues becomes more linked. Every system you entry and every site collects, gives and shops your info. This can be as checking practices as easy, however it might simply be for purpose. Consider for example Facebook should you don’t trust me browse the conditions useful of ANY site or system
One option to reduce the risk of bots or otherwise false data would be to request people to submit picture of the camera.
> For example she could continuously lower corporate taxes for foreign investment

The UK already has very low corporate taxes. If corporate tax rates was sufficient, we should have a steady stream of companies moving from the US, which has nearly twice as high corporation tax, for example.

But as it happens, low corporation tax is not sufficient.

And certainly not while uncertainty over Brexit terms is wreaking havoc on confidence, and many companies are already planning to move.
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I have a generation 2 in perfect working order. It cost me £420 (approximately) in mid-late 2002 and was used daily for years.

edit: I found the donation page and may fill it in later. I'm quite emotionally attached to it, unfortunately

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/collection/donateanobj...
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Interesting - is an airplane something that can be reasonably done by a startup? My perception was always that it takes the major manufacturers decades to get a new model out into production, and that changes and improvements are very incremental from existing models. Building a new passenger airplane from scratch in startup dimensions looks like an impossible challenge at first glance.
The noise on takeoff was insane. In another aircraft on the taxiway (sadly the closest I every got) at Heathrow you could barely hear your own engines, or even those of nearby 747s taking off, but when Concorde fired up the reheat and went down the runway, you knew all about it! Lovely to watch, and hear. I also regret not getting a flight on it, the cheapest ex-Paris tickets were actually closer to business class prices than first, so it wasn't as expensive people believe at all.
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Friendly reminder to all Hacker News readers that Wikileaks leaked emails of Podesta, chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Please read them to be informed about influencing the press, bribery, racism, hypocrisy and outright lying by Hillary and her team. Here's a compilation of 500-something interesting emails you might want to read:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgwLHAC5mk9Ghblc6O7A...

Also a friendly reminder that there have been undercover videos of Hillary's team directly incriminating her for vote rigging, defamation and inciting violence at Trump their rallies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY (1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDc8PVCvfKs (2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEQvsK5w-jY (3)

Also watch this video in which it becomes evident the mainstream media is a direct extension of Hillary her campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpLAzAZXi2A

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Note that this is not a Trump endorsement. Rather a friendly reminder that you should be informed about who you are voting for. Hillary's wrongdoings are barely covered in the press. Inform yourself. Please on't be that person who adheres to CNN their Orwellian world view; "everything you learn about this (podesta emails leaks), you are learning from us" (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X16_KzX1vE)
Another little-known fact: prior to 2000, the three organizations in the world racking up the highest number of supersonic flight hours each year were, in descending order:

1) British Airways
2) Air France
3) The United States Air Force

Military jets don't go supersonic very often or for very l0ng, and virtually never cruise at Mach 2+. (The striking exception being the SR-71, which -- like Concorde -- is now retired.)
And this one a liitle more: http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=com3
"inflation at current exchange rates is forecasted to go to ~3%"

I don't understand how they are calculating it to only be around 3%.

We are already noticing things to be running at around 10% in imports, and sometimes more across various things.

We import a lot in the UK; energy, food, goods.

I personally think it will be way above 3% possibly reaching double figures.
They have been led to believe they can have some kind of fantasy deal that would be even better for them (no payments to Europe so the NHS can get more, control over immigration, but all the pros of the EU unchanged), but forget completely that that would not be "win-win" from the viewpoint of the EU and thus won't happen.

They're not revising their agreement, they're kicking it out entirely (work that took decades) and want to re-start on their own terms.

People can make choices and there's nothing "wrong" about that, but some choices are smarter and less damaging for everyone involved than others.
Exporting goods where price is less important once you have people convinced that they want your product: luxury goods, weapons, specialized high-tech devices, medicine (bunch pharma companies are swiss, I don't know how much they produce locally)
The study also doesn't mention anything about what percent of rich kids dropout of HIGH SCHOOL vs what percent of poor kids finish COLLEGE.
Before this inevitable spills into a Hillary versus Trump debate, let me post a bunch of stuff completely irrelevant to the article.
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Concorde did actually fly over land - Braniff Airways operated it between Washington DC and Dallas Fort Worth under a short-lived, strange 'tag flight' arrangement (where the aircraft would continue on from Washington to London / Paris under BA / AF crews).

This segment was sub-sonic, though.
> Also worth remembering that Britain is still de facto in the EU for a few more years.

I'd argue Britain is de facto out of the EU already. Anybody planning for the future is operating under this assumption. A few concrete examples: Scientific collaborations, corporate growth plans, and policy-making has all been impacted AFAIK.
So much focus on all the potential problems, ignoring all the potential benefits. This is why the world is the way it is.
OTOH The number of people capable of understanding latin or greek is rather small.

Language can go extinct in a way that nobody can learn them anymore
There's a long-distance maglev train line under construction in Japan from Tokyo to Osaka, scheduled to be partially complete (Tokyo-Nagoya) in 2027 and fully complete in 2045 (if you're lucky and win the chance to buy a ticket, you can ride the bit of track that is complete already):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen
They had "freelook" but it was horrible: http://zdoom.org/wiki/Y-shearing
When USA and Soviet Union were building more impressive fighters and bombers to threaten each other, Britain and France collaborated on a craft that in some ways was so much better than anything else, and it was for peaceful purposes.

I think the most fascinating part was making it really operational and reliable. That's a very hard problem. AFAIK it has more supersonic time collected than all the other aircraft combined. And if you look at military jets, they have a mind boggling amount of maintenance hours for every flight hour.
> How is this trait acquired?

It is acquired socially. The UK has a formalised class system dating back to the "divine right of kings". The "ruling elite" are rather literal as the membership of the upper house (House of Lords) is limited to hereditary peerage.
Remember. When writing about 'stuff' on the internet, never on any account provide links within the article, to any of the topics you're discussing. Having to hunt them down himself, makes it so much more fun for the reader!
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Couldn't agree more to the "uncomfortable seats with little room for legs" part. I always envy people who aren't as tall as me and seem to be able to actually get some sleep in.

That said, after having done Europe<->Australia and North America<->Australia a couple of times, the prospect of a 12 hour flight doesn't really sound that bad any more ("Only 12 hours? Sweet!").
It says it is early and linux support is coming soon. It is open source, so you can help speed up the linux support.
One use case might be the backend of a logic engine a la Drools. I imagine that needs a well defined, serializable subset of a full programming language.