skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I envy mainland Europe with its rail system. I wish my region of Canada would build a rail system. What we have is old and mainly was for transporting ore, steel, grain. Even just regular rail not even high speed any speed is preferable in a snowstorm.

My region is small and would be perfect for a light rail system mainly because it's got few people scattered over a wide area with no direct route.

Bombardier even makes rail cars for many countries so it's a home-grown resource we could use.

I think south eastern Canada and north eastern US could have a great interconnected rail system. I'm only 800 km (~500 miles) from Boston but I may as well be on the dark side of the moon.

Like NY city before its subway system people were crowded in the city but when rail was expanded people could live in the suburbs and work in the city. I think a US and Canadian rail system would open up travel and trade on the eastern coasts of each country. Day trips to cities you'd never even think of visiting now or not even capable doing so now in a day.
This reminds me of the popularity boost various nosql databases got because it allowed devs to sidestep bureaucracy that had built up around schema changes.
Google’s Triangle App Will Save Mobile Data by Blocking Individual App Usage
Why not just use a VPN?
There's 90kb worth of actual text. 1:9 text content to HTML ratio.

For NY Times, it's about 1:10.

Sankei.com, it's about 1:4.
There's no reason that high speed rail couldn't work for both, however
You could not be more wrong. This absolutely works for some people, and both participants enjoy it.
France has approximately the same population as the Northeast megalopolis (the Boston–Washington Corridor) but the French population is spread out over three times the area.
> Rail is not cheap. It's feasible when we have population density. It would make sense along the DC-Boston megalopolis and perhaps SF-San Diego, maybe some stretch of Texas. It makes little sense in the rest of the country.

As part of its HSR strategic plan, back in '09 the Obama admin identified over half a dozen regions well within HSR densities and distances (the existing north-east corridor, nothern new england linking to canada, southeast along the coast, the chicago area, the gulf coast, south-east central though Texas, the californian coast and the pacific northwest).
>It's slower than flying on a commuter airline, but the tickets cost nearly as much

That is a good indication there is demand.
Prices can only go down if trains are more frequent and available to all places.
> I have a dozen of functions in my bashrc that are basically a bit more sophisticated aliases.

Me too. Looking at them, they all start with something like

test $# -eq 2 || return

...since in sh/bash you cannot even name your function's arguments or indicate how many you expect to receive.

Speaking of primitiveness, in strict POSIX sh, there's no such thing as local variables in functions!!
I'm assuming it being better in TLS 1.3 follows from this provision?

> All handshake messages after the ServerHello are now encrypted.
So we have the following use cases for immortality:

• "Selfish" vanity, fear, etc. including accumulation of wealth, power, etc.

• A desire to remain with loved ones, including pets, and to keep loved ones around, including celebrities.

• A safeguard against unexpected "unfair" death, e.g. getting murdered, assassinated or dying in a freak accident, or terrorist attack etc.

• Carrying out long-term plans that take longer than human lifespans.

• Participating in projects that take longer than human lifespans and may not be easily restocked with new humans: e.g. traveling interstellar distances in confined spaceships.

- The aforementioned "plans" and "projects" may simply mean the preservation and protection of certain things, ideas, cultures, rituals and records that cannot be automated or archived.

• A desire to explore more of the universe than can be done in a mortal lifespan.

----

And the following possible ways where one or more of the above goals may be achieved:

• Cloning. You basically get a new person that may or may not be "as good" as the loved person/pet/celebrity you wanted to preserve.

• Mind/Memory archival/copying.

• Repairing/Rejuvenating one body for as long as you can.

• Separating the brain from the body and having it remotely control multiple "backup" bodies.

• Reincarnation. This of course assumes a "higher" plane of existence where our "true selves" actually live; e.g. this reality being a VR MMO that you can only play for as long as you paid for.
> custom execution module to translate a graphql request to a single sql query

If I have a schema like this:

users
projects (many per user)
blog_posts (many per user)

What SQL do you generate to handle a request for everything in a single query?
The northeast corridor is faster than flying. The trains stop in the downtown of each city which cuts out the travel time to and from the airport, and you don't have to arrive at the train station as early before boarding.

The ticket prices are high because Amtrak is subsidizing the non-profitable routes with the North East Corridor. If it was run as a business they would cut all the trains in the middle of the country and re-invest the profit in the NEC, or lower fares. If it was run as a public good, then there would be more of a subsidy. Right now Amtrak in this place where it's restricted by being beholden to politics but not enjoying the benefit of full throated government support.
Consolidation in Cloud Management Platform Space?
Aren't most cities more expensive to live in than the cost of owning a car in the suburbs?
I think the great thing that might have come out of hyper loop is new solutions to problems that were never existed before. Like with any never built before project there would have been a ton of cool new little innovations that would never been possible otherwise but would naturally come along the way during hyperloop assembly. To start thinking outside the box you should start doing something that nobody else tried to do before.
> YES, MANY OF US DO CARE

But this story will still be flagged off the HN front page in 5, 4, 3...

The amount that we care is greater than it appears.

EDIT: Called it.
There is relatively little economic incentive to make high speed rail work for cargo. Cargo that's large enough to go by rail tends to go for the lowest price per ton that can be found, it competes with long haul trucks, barges and oceangoing ships. It does not compete with air cargo (which tends to focus on high value and light stuff).
1. I have concerns over this institute.

2. I don't have the expertise to question anything they do.

3. That said, it sometimes looks like just a playground for a few bored scientists. Or, a place rich kids play with worms--"will look great on my college application?"

4. The history of the Buck Institute. A very nice lady, who lived in Ross, left her estate to Marin County. It was suspose to go to the poor, suffering, and Artists. Since her bequeath, it seems like so much of the money was spend on dubious endeavors. The Buck Institution was lavishly built with her money, and gets a huge stipend yearly. Money is spend on everything, but she really wanted it to go to?

My problem with the Institute is it doesn't seem to do much. Every once in awhile, I hear something they might have discovered with their Nematodes, but they could say they anything, and those at the trust would still just continuing the lavish funding.

I think it really bothers me because I looked at the original Trust, and I'm stepping over Marin Homeless(people who were born here). Money this trust was suspose to eliminate.

I don't want to debate, but this place needs outside scrutiny. Completely impartial scrutiny, but then again how do you prove they are Not helping in the long term? It's aging. It's like proving the existence of God. If it's actually doing something--fine. If it's just a waste of her money, shut it down, or retool the Institute.

And no--I'm not impressed with the Institute so far, but I'm a nobody. Just someone who knows I would never give so much to a county, without a iron clad Trust. The Trust seemed straight foreward to me, but Lawyers just tore it apart, and those that dole out the money do not do it in the spirit she wanted.
I'm employing a similar strategy for my library https://github.com/joelgriffith/navalia as I couldn't find any solution to manage headless chrome (plus the API for that protocol is pretty heavy).

Building for what folks want, even developers, is so obvious that I think we often forget about it. It's also not as glamorous as self driving cars or rockets, so gets discredited easily.

Sound points though
so because every other country is subsidizing the shit out of stuff so should we? Economics drives our country not pipe dreams of people who want to get the taxpayers to foot the bill for their new hotness
There are other costs associated with living in the suburbs than just the cost of a car. There is also commute time, which - if your time isn't valuable to you - need not be a problem but for many people this wasted time is a real issue.
I'd love to disagree but my experience tells me otherwise. Several of my mentors are opposed to rail for these exact reasons, although not as bluntly. Rolling coal is a real thing.
Why not .io ?
Aha, I knew there was a name for that!
Stay away from the internet then. I hear it's chock full of Russian hackers.
That train's as expensive as it is because 54% of people doing rail-or-fly trips between Boston and NYC take the train. It's value pricing.
The misconception is that privilege is something people have to answer for, rather than something they simply need to be aware of.
I'm baffled why anyone would use this, when you can import data in a database and run it on your own server?

I mean, you might spend 20 minutes more to set it up, but you are safe from having to rely on 3rd party service.

Anyway, kudos to coderholic for creating this and sharing the story.
Woman accidentally kills her boyfriend in attempt to achieve YouTube stardom
"I don't often write immediate reactions to recent news."

This is a peculiar statement to start with. Was this "news" because it only now came to his attention via this particular article. Was the head of the largest social network dedicated to the "world's professionals to make them more productive and successful" ignorant to the reality that half of them were facing in HIS industry for so long or was it simply not an issue to him until it was reported (for the umpteenth time) in this news article?

While I'm glad he's at least now publicly acknowledging the problem, I think it'd be great for the men who want to solve this problem for women to be a bit more humble, sit down, and listen to how women would like their human rights acknowledged and respected.
No, but it will take you door to door, departing instantly when you're ready and not before, and it won't stop in between unless you want it to.
Someone call the internet police, I think we just witnessed a straight-up murder here :-)
Philosophy of Computation at Berkeley
Google gives you your IPv6, but ipinfo only supports IPv4 – which can be useful sometimes.
A self-driving car with 1-2 passengers takes up significantly more space than existing public transportation technologies, such as trains and buses. This isn't a problem outside of densely populated places. However, as the density of a place increases, point-to-point transportation become increasingly ineffective.

Replacing public transportation with point-to-point self-driving technology in a place like Manhattan, would require building out a ridiculously massive amount of road capacity.
> It's slower than flying on a commuter airline

When the flight says it's 40 minutes - it's not really 40 minutes, add time for tsa, baggage, landing etc and you get at least 2-3 hours wasted of your day
They need to be fought viciously

it's extremely important to ... fight that fight,

"Going to war to preserve the peace is like fucking to preserve virginity."

Business connections don't happen by being aggressive, ugly and fighty. They are based on hard won trust. In a nutshell, the problem women face is that when men trust them and like them, their first, middle, last and only thought is often "I'd hit that!"

I'm having my own horrendous crisis today and not really up to trying to do this dance with you. I don't believe that rising literacy rates globally has anything at all to do with "throwing money at the problem." I don't think you and I are likely to reach any kind of agreement and, given my state of mind today, continuing this discussion with you is unlikely to go anyplace good at all.

Adieu.
Corruption is probably a thing too
Thank you for your support! :)
This "Texas-Europe Size Comparison" fails to include half of Europe.
Or the super easy to remember http://ip4.me (ip6.me is a thing too)
How to Build a Homemade Chess Robot
Thanks! And yes, no exact figures to give here but our profit margin is around 20-30%. It used to be somewhat higher when we were smaller but we are now investing in yet to be launched "things" ;-)
Yes, it's profitable. See https://ipinfo.io/pricing for details of our paid plans.
Mensch – Creating a thriving economy in emerging and frontier markets
"purely" is pretty strong. I give you the population density of Earth per ㎢:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density#/media/File...

(Or if you prefer something more recent, have a look at: http://www.newgeography.com/content/002808-world-urban-areas...)

Pretty obvious which areas are ripe for HSR. Except for the mid-Atlantic corridor and arguably coastal California, nothing in the US really is.

It's the same thing when people go abroad then come back and complain how backwards cell phone service is here. People really don't appreciate how underpopulated the U.S. is relative to the rest of the world. (Conversely, it's also why we could accommodate practically an unlimited # of refugees compared to Europe, if we really cared to.)
This is the new war on drugs. And it's not going away until something worse replaces it.

Something like an implanted thought-veto-filter, that replaces seven ounces of your brain with nanotechnology to govern approved thoughts (...or detonate a subcranial kill squib).
Sort of. If it steps anywhere near religion, it would be closer to theology - the idea that a complete mathematical description of reality is not merely possible but the foundation of reality echoes Plato's theory of forms, as well as Descartes idea of an ens realissimum, Spinoza's monism and Kant's concept of an omnitudo realitatis. But all of these are very stripped down in comparison to actual religion. I don't think any of these guys thought God had a beard, let alone physical form or personality. So anything like turtles is off the table too.

Plus, the faithful themselves were very skeptical of them, and lots of people were charged with impiety for expounding this kind of stuff. Specially so in the case of Spinoza and Kant.
> It's slower than flying on a commuter airline, but the tickets cost nearly as much, and it's also enormously expensive to build

High-speed rail in many non-US countries is vastly cheaper to construct and much faster and reliable than USian high-speed rail.

> You're limited to putting people in a few train cars, as opposed to a continuous stream of people on a freeway.

With off-the-shelf railcars and a well-tested train control system rail can get far higher throughput than freeways. If you do the USian thing and have to get extremely customised/bespoke rolling stock and try to make your own bespoke train control system, well, you indeed do get the disaster you're describing.

> My perception is that it's a huge money pit for something that's quite frankly inferior to our current infrastructure. We would be much better off improving our current insterstate system.

US rail indeed sucks and it needs to be unfucked before more money is dumped into it. None of the suckiness (slowness, high construction cost per mile, high ticket prices) is inherent to high-speed rail, though.
Have you ever actually traveled on high speed rail?
take a look at PostgREST https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest

simplified example query https://pastebin.com/7J2ZswRC
So... a bunch of school girls in Africa being kidnapped and raped and forced into marriages can't be considered a violation of their human rights because those responsible didn't do the same to little school boys, too?
Any example of the pharma lobby caring? I haven't seen anything.
Came here for the hacker news but all I got lately is some people desperate need for virtue signaling.

Seriously, at least allows the ones of us that come here for the actual "Hacker News" to filter out titles containing some words. And then, everyone has peace, simple.

Think about it, some groups get to push their agenda and the ones here for the interesting stuff get to use the site in peacefully, something their are barred to do for a long time now. Everyone get's to be happy that way and the flame wars basically end.
You're not from the US (originally), are you :) Polarising is a cultural thing there. "You're either with us or against us".

(I guess it's a cultural thing from their two-party system or something)
West Virginia hospital replaces computers after Petya cyberattack
Very neat. How successful have you been with this?
> Semantically, everything is bad for you. Fruits are high in sugar, the sun gives you cancer.

Generally life is bad for you, because all life ends at some point.
This is what I wrote earlier in reaction to this piece, then decided to not post for REASONS, but given how this is going, I am going to throw it out there now:

Oh, give me a break.

This piece posits that we need to punish male VCs who sexually harass female applicants.

First of all, this approach (of doing things like basically boycotting them) is so ridiculous and impractical that it amounts to saying "I want you to think I am a highly ethical person, but I don't actually want to do anything about the problem. I just want to say things that sound good so I will look good."

Second, it gives zero remedy to the women who were seeking funds from VCs.

A much, much better answer would be to find a solution that involves getting money into the hands of the female entrepreneurs who not only had to put up with this shit, but also (in most cases) did NOT get funding from these men who see them as nothing but sex objects.

Failing to find a means to get more funding into the hands of female entrepreneurs also de facto reinforces the current status quo. Advocating some kind of punishment for the men who assaulted them while doing nothing to remedy the material harm done to their career aspirations makes you part of the problem, not part of the solution.

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? And everyone is so focused on being angry and outraged and also outraged at the presumed lack of outrage that no one can be bothered to do anything about this critical piece of the puzzle. Yet, it is the single most important thing here and it is the one thing I never see anyone talk about at all.

Why is no one starting a fund to get monies into the hands of female entrepreneurs in the face of this problem? I am not seeing that piece happen.

Am I wrong? If I am wrong, please link me to the fund that someone has started to get money into the hands of women in the face of this.
To quote a thread about that (cultural ideas around automobiles vs rail) I saw on twitter:

"Americans tend to think that there's no way everyone would use trains unless forced to by lack of alternatives. This is projection because their experience with cars is exactly that: forced to by lack of alternatives. Do you think nobody in Japan drives? The country that gave us Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, etc etc, isn't without a domestic market lmao" (https://twitter.com/380kmh/status/879463196284858369)
Hey, your opinion is quite popular, and wrong.

How do people figure out how to get from airports to their final destinations?

How many people can put put in trains? China is going to get 32,000 people per hour in their low-speed maglev:

http://gbtimes.com/china/beijing-launch-first-maglev-line-20...

The throughput is higher in rail than cars. Also, you are trying to make HSR fit as a solution where cars would be better. No one said that trains are best in every situation. And absolutely no one said that we should remove all of our high-ways and replace them with rail.

However, between cities over several hundred thousand people, and within 500-7600 miles, they work out well.
Can we conceive of universe NOT made of math? Even in Harry Potter there's aritmancy...
No, obviously not. All cows are animals not all animals are cows kind of difference.

Really, is it that hard? There are no specific Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs, there are only Human rights of all Humans including Women Entrepreneurs.

That women entrepreneurs have human rights need not be stated because they are humans too.

Which by the way the article uses as a hook but then totally fails to expand on.
De Grey is still actively seeking funding btw. (Since we're on YC land..)
FWIW, automated cars make passenger rail less appealing.
Congrats. I m not sure but ipinfo could be very interesting to startups and programmers. So a good idea could be writing attractive articles and posting them on HN and Reddit programming and some other subreddits. That would bring more customers with zero marketing.

See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ipinfo.io
What science and what politics? Why are they bad or deleterious? Why are they naively toxic? Can you provide any examples? I'd be happy with just one because even an isolated incident can be learned from and used to improve the community.

You can't claim to agree with their egalitarian aims and then absolutely refuse to provide constructive feedback or even any evidence of your claims that their behavior is naive, myopic, counter-productive, etc. It's the logical equivalent of "I'm not racist but..." followed with a comment about how other races have smaller brains as if its a statement of fact with no evidence to back it up.

Don't tell us, show us.
Neat, congratulations! I know a few people that were active in that space and none of them managed to make it profitable and they all faded out again. It's important that services like these exist and even more important that they are viable businesses otherwise you are building on quicksand.
Security? I would love to see whole classes of bug eradicated (stack overflow, use after free, memory leaks,...)