skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like how majority of Americans want universal healthcare and want more gun control and less war too. But they don't get it. We should just admit we live in an oligarchy and go from there.
> The point is that it's probably a mistake to treat him the same way you'd treat certain kinds of felons. Part of that is to give him an opportunity to contribute in a positive way to the world, like everyone else. If he's genuine, then isn't there some way to do that?

You could really make the same point for most felons, if you got to know them.

Crazy thing is, because I don't believe in punishment but prefer rehabilitation, I actually think that most felons deserve it more.

Remember that the USA is the land of the 98% free.
> No. Math is made of the universe.

Given that math can easily describe conditions that aren't realised in any obvious way in our universe, this seems like a proposition for whose meaningfulness it would be hard to argue. (Granted, the math we do is realised in the universe, but of course "the map is not the terrain".)
This is a practical deep learning library with applications for low power / low end hardware. I'm wondering why there is so little interest in discussing it.
Time to own up to the elephant in the room. Medicine so far has done a really good job of prolonging people's seventies and eighties. All the symptoms of advanced aging that used to be compressed into ages 70-82 or so, ending in death, now can be stretched out from ages 70 to 98.

Will this initiative double the amount of time that we've got the full capacity of our 20s and 30s? Or will it just allow people a prolonged, half-century tour of the twilight years, from 70 to 120?
A map that leaves out no details is, by definition, equivalent or 'isomorphic' to the territory.

Equivalence is a weird concept though. Is the factor group O(3)/SO(3) equivalent to Z/2Z? As a group, the answer is yes. As transformations of R^3, most definitely not.
Also Skype created pgpool to use Postgresql as a queue at massive scale. As much it is often called an 'anti-pattern', it is durable and can massively scale way beyond the likely size of most companies, unless they need more scale than Skype.
>The scammer used the word Bitcoin to attract victims but didn't actually have anything to do with Bitcoin.

This is precisely my point
I did! May as well plug it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14456203

To say I'm off-topic on a thread about bitcoin is a bit of a stretch. Not all of us have a blog and an HN army to upvote our weekly motivational posts to funnel views to our consulting business. You want me to wait until a blog post about exactly this topic comes up?

I addressed your abuse argument directly in my edit, which you saw, so this comment was probably the definition of bad faith writing. More amusing than annoying, actually. (Also, the accounts are at the exchanges, which can be closed. Of course, you know this, so I wonder why you're writing this way.)

But yeah, this is exactly why it's verboten to even mention downvotes on HN. I was trying to call attention to a more serious problem, which is that when the voting system loses value, what's the point in contributing? I don't mind this particular instance of it, but it's getting harder to ignore the trend. Nonetheless, with low-value comment chains like this one popping up every time someone even mentions it, it's best not to talk about it.
So it makes sense for "only" a third of the population, yeah, better to not talk about it.
Having just spent a couple weeks driving around Germany and Austria: it's hard, if you haven't done it before, to appreciate just how strong America's road system is until you drive in Europe.

German highways are excellent, of course; marginally better than our own (the worst traffic jam I've ever been in was 30 minutes outside of Munich, but, whatever). But the European highway network is sparser than the American network, and once you're off the highway, it's significantly worse (though more scenic, and much more "fun" to drive on.)
> Can we conceive of universe NOT made of math? Even in Harry Potter there's aritmancy...

But there is a difference between a universe in which math exists, and a universe that is made of math; and the latter is, I think, a much stronger requirement. (Unless, indeed, every conceivable universe is made of math, in which case the requirements have exactly the same strength. :-) )
Another option would be to, you know, not fire a gun at someone.
In environments where you don't control the whole stack, such as a plugin or library code.
- Database needs to be purchased

- Database needs to be distributed to your servers

- Database can become out of date easily

- Database lookup requires going to local disk and having a relatively fast access path/cache for lookups

- In general, a local database requires a large amount of effort compared to just running a curl in your PHP code.

If you are actually going to use a database, the proper solution does not look like "put it on your webservers" anyway, it looks like "put it on a separate service with a fast caching layer" etc etc. So in other words, the proper solution to decouple yourself from a 3rd party API is to... build a 1st party API.

In other words, not a 20 minute job. For small shops, a quick curl during the page load is a 20 minute job.
We already have an antique low speed rail network that covers most of the US population centers. That makes it even cheaper to upgrade to high speed rail, since most of the land has been bought.

Also, when people in the US say "high speed rail", they usually seem to mean 180mph. That does not qualify as high speed rail overseas.

Upgrading the current low speed system to medium speed 180mph rail would mean that taking the train would actually be faster than driving (and for short air routes, faster than airport+flying).

My guess is that many existing routes would then become financially viable.
Haha. You should try driving from Moscow to Vladivostok.
Maybe English is not your native language ? (it isn't mine BTW :) Catcalling has never been acceptable behavior, and, in my experience, does not increase anybody's chances of meeting new people. Catcalling is not flirting.

As to how to meet women (take this advise with a mountain of salt, was never a ladies man, have been married for 20 years and never cheated, so haven't flirted in 20 years :), play the odds; join groups that do stuff that interest you, get in a position to meet women, and meet them as people first, make friends and then relationships might develop; (and if not, you have more friends, and had fun doing whatever you were doing). That is, don't go to meetups (or pokemon tournaments, or the church choir, or ...) to hook up, go there because you want to be there, and, chances are, if you meet enough women you will find your match.
Yes, the French Levée and the Prussian general staff were modernizing shocks to the system, no question.

But the idea of a separate Navy and Army really go back to a pre-Enlightenment period when the Navy was centrally financed by the crown (and piracy) while the armies were raised territorially. Hence the Navy has aircraft and ground troops while the army has aircraft and watercraft. and, of course turf.

It's also a ridiculous abstraction when you try to build a single "cross-corps" aircraft (F35) and see each service claiming different service-specific requirements when really you do indeed have different mission requirements, some of which are common to multiple services.

I certainly understand the value of incrementalism but I consider it absurd that Cromwell would recognize the structure of today's US military even though its missions would be practically inconceivable to him.
I don't know who downvoted you or why, but yes - performance could be a problem as you pointed out. I prefer the React model simply because it is more programmer friendly. I would hope that performance is something that can be fixed, or at least the 80-20 rule will come to help.
Trains in LA have done well (buses not so much). This is despite the trains being crowded and not quite as on-time as they ought to be.

405 and 10 are a living hell; plenty of folks inching along them would rather not be.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-building-...
I don't think we can, but that may be because we're in a universe with math.
I often use:

curl curlmyip.org
> Well, it's even stronger than most religions in specifying how humans will behave, which of course includes should.

I think that the 'of course' here is not at all obvious. Economics, for example, seeks to describe how people will behave, but neither makes nor, I think, is perceived to offer any description of how they should behave (at least not in any moral sense).
A non-mathematical universe[1] may also be deterministic, but determinism is still not normative. A person may be predetermined to murder someone, but that does not necessarily imply (although it may relate to) the religious norms regarding murder. Some religions believe in predestination and determinism (fatalism) regardless of physics, and yet still make normative requirements.

As long as he doesn't say how people should behave, this isn't religion (even if it relates to how people will behave).

[1]: I.e., assuming a distinction between physical and mathematical
Keep dreaming and buying into whatever fantasy rich people keep selling. Hyperloop isn't even a thing and neither are driverless cars. Even if we get fully automated cars the roads will stay congested.
Still, the areas of the USA as dense as Europe should have the same HSR networks that Europe has.

Nobody is traveling from Paris to Rome by high speed train, flying is cheaper and faster. But Paris to Lyon, Lyon to Milan and Milan to Rome, train wins. Why not in the USA?
It'd be more accurate to leave off the "we" that you insist on using to artificially bolster your premise.

George W. Bush was elected on a platform of no more nation building (and secured his second term in an atmosphere of fear and war), as was Donald Trump. It's very clear that the majority of Americans do not want more war & nation building (the only ones that do, are a contingent of conservatives like McCain and even fewer similar hawks on the other side).

The globalists + military industrial complex go ahead and do what they want anyway, against the wishes of the American public. They've been doing so for a long, long time now. Vietnam was not a very popular war, they did it anyway. The notion of no longer blowing up the Middle East and treating Russia as a villain, was impossible for them to stomach re Trump, so the CIA & fellow globalists (aka the deep state, media, etc) immediately went on hyper attack (oh the consequences of going against the machine).
How YouTube ended up on the first iPhone
Like this [1]? These custom results are usually limited to some countries. Like when you search for "color picker" [2] and "bubble level" [3] on mobile. Google is known for testing these features in their services in specific locations so I wouldn't be surprised if people from other countries cannot see them.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/gVFAMhz.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/JGVNDMN.png

[3] http://i.imgur.com/As7Dp2p.png
There is: you can't easily turn a train into a weapon able to take down any large piece of infrastructure in sight. In fact since all high speed trains are electric, you probably can't get very far before the inevitable power cut.
What does the TSA have to do with me sitting on the tarmac for an hour at even secondary city airports waiting for departure?
> The alleged Haddow is intelligent and capable enough to raise 37 million

For one thing generally a portion of any 'success' is linked to either lies or illegal activities. It's quite easy to make money if you fabricate things.
$165 billion is about 4% of federal spending, so if people think it is so important they could cut everything except defense and easily come up with the money.
"though more scenic, and much more "fun" to drive on."

How is it worse, though? I have always been very happy with the continent's motorways but that's always been in the context of going on holidays.

I also found German highways to be _profoundly_ superior to those in the US. They:
1) Are far, far better paved
2) Are populated with people who know how to signal, and tha the left lane is for passing
3) Are not shoved through the middle of towns, and instead go around them so as not to destroy them, as towns in the US have been destroyed.
But didn't you hear, salaries for programmers and bankers are much higher than in Europe. And GDP per capita!! That's all that matters of course /s
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Right, but the claim that mathematical isomorphism is the same thing as physical equivalence is a non-obvious claim at all.
It's not all about what people want either. Even with a rail system, you still need all the roads. Maybe not as many lanes, but American cities are pretty spread out. You will need a ton of last mile transportation.
You can't even compare the population density of France with Germany, hence why always apply the "high speed rail" idea to the US? Image a high speed rail system between large cities but people still have to own and use a car, drive 200miles to/from the next station. Also either the train stops at every small town or it will be an express train that leaves the rural areas behind.

IMHO a high speed railway network is not the start but an evolution of an existing regional rail system/public transportation system that acts as a feeder and communter infrastructure.

The US lacks those public transpotation systems even in mid-size towns. That's a bigger problem IMHO.
When you end a sentence with a quotation you put the punctuation within the quote.
I wouldn't copy binaries between arbitrary systems (specific systems is fine), but copying configs is pretty easy with SSH as-is:

#!/bin/bash -x
HOST=$1
scp -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=30 ~/.vimrc $HOST:~/.vimrc
ssh -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=30 $HOST

With the above, you will only create one SSH connection, and you will only authenticate once.
If you have yet to read Tegmarks book, I highly recommend it. It has a very layperson style of writing
> If there's something more "socialistic" than being crammed cheek-to-jowl with other people in the back of an airplane, I don't know what it is.

Well, there's still the "people who can afford exorbitant prices can get much more legroom and service and be separated from those who can't" thing going on there
I'd be ok with investing in 200mph rail if we went ahead and bought enough ROW to add faster adjacent rail when the funds/will is there.
The point is you and I don't have a say either way. Jim, congrats on being a VP but you and I are just pawns. We have no leverage.

If you don't believe me, try bringing this up in a board meeting and see how far it flies. Employers benefit tremendously from the I formation assymetry which to me is a much bigger crime than some idiots who can't keep their junk in their pants.

I'm just an idiot on the Internet and you've actually made it. I'd like to apologize if this sounds condescending because it is absolutely not (in part because I'm so far below you that it is physically impossible but regardless of my fortune it is not meant to be). Mind you, i have no original thoughts and this is something i stole from buffer. I think buffer is a great example on how to do things. I wish all the sjw's in silicon valley would direct their attention to something that actually benefits the world for a change.

https://open.buffer.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffer-...

I encourage you to keep an open mind about this.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely yours,
This topic comes up routinely on Hacker News, and it's no surprise why: there are a lot of Europeans interacting with a lot of Americans here, and European high speed rail is an enviable asset for the continent.

But last time we talked about this, it seemed to me that if you looked into the details, it was clear why we don't have HSR in the US. Even assuming we built a network that operated at Shanghai Maglev speeds, at the distances the network would need to operate, air travel would remain significantly more economical.

In a thread 3 years ago, I made a list of the top US cities by GDP, and then broke out the crow-flies ground distances between them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8713324

Of the 55 edges on this graph, only 6 were 700 miles apart or less. Several of those are already served by the Acela.

There's a definite advantage to rail over air, in that rail can deposit you right in the middle of the city you're heading to. But that advantage can't make up for the fact that no train is going to compete with a plane for trips between the largest US cities.
And the same time spent in a train can be productive. In a car, it's just a complete waste.
Ironically, that's one place where it's still going to be illegal since those lands are all federal lands and patrolled by federal forces.
> And no, people can't troll others by sending them mixed coins.

I've often wondered if anyone has set someone up by depositing cash into their bank account (account number easy enough to find) and then created or leaked a back story to get them into some kind of trouble.
If this is a criticism (not sure what it is actually), is it really fair to criticize any nation for the diversity of its immigrants?

Urban Missouri and urban Virginia are essentially identical culturally, and the rural areas of each state are very similar. I haven't been an immigrant from abroad in either state, but I'd expect the experiences of those once arrived in USA to be fairly similar as well.
> Trains less than 300mph are useless in the US.

That's complete nonsense. HSR is comfortably competitive with plane up to ~750 miles and can probably be stretched to ~900mi. That gives you a lot of interesting regions in the US.

No, high-speed train is not useful for linking NYC and LA, but nobody ever suggested that.
Think of Kafka as a replayable append-only log. It's tuned for ingestion of enormous quantities of data; it's best at buffering big data, or perhaps as an infinitely growing log of everything that happens in a system, than simply communication in a distributed system. It doesn't have back pressure and its namespacing is primitive (ie DIY with prefixes, and avoid Confluent libraries that assume they're the only client in the system).
I wonder how many innocent people we've already condemned with this attitude.
>I don't really care if any men get hung high here. What I really care about is how in the hell do women get more opportunities?

Oh, give me a break.

You lose all credibility when your solution to sexism is more sexism.

Get off your fucking high horse. Why aren't you out meeting with investors to start a fund aimed at women entrepreuers? Oh because ou want the karma of talking the talk but don't want to get off your fucking ass and do anything.
In cities with the worst traffic problems, sure.

In smaller cities, it takes less time to get downtown from the suburbs than it does to get across downtown on foot or even a bike. (Buses there move at walking speed in the average case, or bicycle speed in the best case, but only come every half hour or so).
How much money does Amtrak in the US Northeast Corridor make each year, in ballpark, round numbers? $100 million? $1 million? $1?
I disagree. should is only relevant when there is a choice. Under the MUH, it's like saying 1+1 should = 3, which is fairly meaningless. Basically, the MUH answers the should question which is why it qualifies as religion. It's answer is "it's irrelevant".
hotwire tried it too. it's been dead for awhile though. https://code.google.com/archive/p/hotwire-shell/wikis
Here on HN, we try not to invoke the wrath of Betteridge.
> HSR is more of a more efficient airplane - spacious & can walk around & get a drink.

Much as I love HSR and curse its absence when in the USA the economics are not quite as clear. Air routes are more flexible than rail routes.

Of course that flexibility isn't necessarily desired by all; the stations on a rail network provide hysteresis which can keep otherwise unprofitable cities alive and even vibrant. New York beat out Boston because the Hudson was more navigable than the Charles, Boston Harbor's benefits notwithstanding. Chicago grew because it was at a confluence (literally!) of cheap transshipment points near farmland. Both cities do well even though their original reasons for existing are lost (neither are major freight hubs but have a lot of other transit links).

And rail, even underground rail, can be abandoned.
Virtually all roads between towns in the US, even in rural areas, are divided 2 lane roads. Even in Germany and Austria, which have the best roads in Europe, that's not even routinely true. We stayed for a week just outside of Amstetten, Austria, and I drove into Styria and around lower Austria, and even on long-distance runs, I found myself routinely on roads marked 100km/h that couldn't safely accommodate two cars.

Of your 3 arguments in favor of German highways --- which, again, I agree are better than those of the US --- 2 have nothing intrinsically to do with the roads. The one point you do make about German roads is that they're better maintained. Well, that's probably true on the average --- but that's because the US has far more highways than Germany does; the US highway network is denser. If you confined your analysis to the N best-maintained US highways, that might not remain true anymore.
how about those volvo systems that line up auto cars behind each-other?
I disagree. Trains on high speed rail networks can travel between 150 and 200 miles per hour. It's highly unlikely that we will see self-driving cars hitting those speeds routinely for a long time as it requires every other car on the highway to be self-driving as well and for cars to be in constant communication with each other. Both systems should exist and they should compliment each other.
On which systems is it the norm for train commuters to get seats? Or can they be productive in standing room somehow?
>But the natives were very clearly and very well documented NOT coerced (like you are trying to claim), they just continued doing what they already did for at least 15 centuries before.

Again, you're looking at things too directly. If they refused, the offer would go out to their rivals. So unless every group of people refused, you were facing slavery or death if you refused.

You keep mentioning Africa's ancient slave legacy, ignoring your own source saying that it isn't clear chattel slavery was practiced in the area, and that war slaves were a common feature in Europe until the eighteenth century.

>validate my point about LISBON.

Yet you ignored the parts that didn't, like the ten percent of the population part.
> One of the big problems of value types in C++ is that you have to be a language lawyer to not accidentally make wasteful copies of everything...

Not always. The C++ standard has allowed copy elision for some time [1]. Guaranteed copy elision for certain forms of copy has been proposed for C++17 [2].

[1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/copy_elision

[2] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p013...
They believe in individualism much more, small government, less solidarity. Which is great for the rich and really bad for the poor.

The best of the best in any subject are likely to be on the rich side of the divide, and they flock to the US.
This is quite the catch-22. Domestic wealth inequality within the US has widened. Global wealth inequality has narrowed (dramatically). These two trends are very connected.