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> The whole point is that it is tunnels underneath the modern city.

And I suspect part of the point the author is making is that this is the problem. Look at the East Side Access project in New York. Building a tunnel underneath a modern city is an extremely difficult project - and largely for political and legal reasons, not technological ones. Hyperloop wouldn't solve a single one of those problems.

We have enough transportation problems with known solutions that are underfunded. Why would we spend government money on a risky Hyperloop bet rather than invest in technology we already know works well? The article isn't really about the technology being used in Hyperloop (hence, I suspect, the inaccuracies you point out. I don't see how the detract from the point being made, though), it's about our desire to always chase the new shiny thing at any cost rather than spend money on the boring, functional stuff.

Maybe we have lost sight of the marvels we can achieve with grand projects. Or maybe people are arguing we should fix the sewers before we make our gleaming tower in the sky.
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Why commute ? Remote working is a thing and everything the topic comes up, something that a significant part of HN is already enjoying. No need to pour billions in public transport.

Also companies have proven that they are more than willing to outsource everywhere, hiring people anywhere. There are reason they still hire in very expensive place like SF. You bet that it is a problem that will go away at some point, and very likely a significant part of HN readership is working hard solving it.

You need to realise that moving commuter to the city centre is a race to the bottom. Stuff like hyperloop are a perfectly fine way to spend private investment money, but as far as public money is concerned, that would be better to invest it in area that look beyond a world where physical location is an employee primary competitive advantage.
It would be interesting if not only EMT training was required, but also some number of years as an active EMT. Having to respond to various scenes involving law enforcement, but not being blessed as law enforcement would provide an interesting perspective on police response.
Releasing movies keeps him in the public eye which probably doesn't hurt his speaking fees any.

It seems his other activities have been more beneficial though, he made a lot of money selling Current TV and also lots of money sitting on the board of Apple.
What're your preferred earplugs? I'd like to use them more often, but I've yet to find a pair that's comfortable enough to wear for long periods of time.
The quality and consistency of firmware/functionality/hidden stuff on the various 8266's I have leads me to avoid them. I had a pair that phoned home to some Chinese domain and registered all via HTTP, and a quick Wireshark yielded it phoned home for commands. Not on my network...
You can pick them up cheaper on ebay, as well.
The main reason we haven't done this is because we had hoped to get Postage renamed PGAdmin5. Unfortunately, that outcome seems ever more unlikely. There seems to be some political reason why the PGA4 team continues to get official support while in ongoing trainwreck mode for a year now.
> 2. We live in a world where private space companies build profitable space transportation systems that can land themselves after orbiting the Earth.

yeah, but mainly with public money.
>"By destroying books and furniture, screaming loudly when people are trying to read and becoming violent, among other things"

Really are all homeless people acting that way? I have seen plenty of suburban teenagers in libraries do some of those same things. Why is it different if it's homeless?

By the way your "next question" comment is quite a display of arrogance. Seriously who goes around saying that?
It's good to have skeptics push back and ensure that the most valid ideas move forward. Otherwise every wacky idea would get funded
Dropping off microdrones, at low cost and easily stacked
Open source remains an important force of continuity for technology professionals,
as even though SoundCloud is failing, they brought us a very important piece of infrastructure that will carry on: http://Prometheus.io

It has been catching on like wildfire everywhere I look, even big conservative companies. It feels like the new Nagios (in a good way).
Resolving CSS Gridlock
I made an open source lib for Cordova (eventually ported to React Native and others). I found I'd gained a number of users with few contributing back, so I forked my own project, closed the source into compiled and encrypted binaries. Now I sell licenses and support, generating ~$20k/month. Innovation has skyrocketed since I've been able to dedicate 100% of my time to the products for the last 2.5 years.
I wonder whether another way of approaching the problem would be to have to two commenting sections for a site. One would be moderated algorithmically and the other wouldn't. People could choose according to their tolerance.
Using something like Jekyll to create a static blog lets you put it on AWS S3. For all but the highest traffic sites the bandwidth cost is trivial and you totally remove all the issues with uptime and securing a server.
The idea of metered connections for internet makes me shiver. They're likely going to become more popular in the coming years because they're too lucrative not to, but I will be resisting with all my power and pocketbook.
It reminds me of the built-in DocTest. https://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html
Isn't the hyperloop scaling tunneling? Making it faster and cheaper and smaller diameter? Subways have been around for a VERY long time...
Well, OK, sure, but that just bolsters the point, doesn't it? It doesn't seem like talking about climate change is the most lucrative activity he's involved in.
Comparing different versions of Java source code to find refactoring changes
Isn't the hyperloop focused on fast city-center-to-city-center transportation between major commercial districts? I don't see how making it fast to go nonstop between Manhattan and D.C. (the current proposal) helps the working class with affordable housing.
Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say "at the expense of the taxpayer"?
The lady did not know where the WiFi icon is or where the proxy settings widget is. The latter is understandable the first just shows utter and complete uselessness.
It's incredible, the Chinese are making windmills and solar panels, exporting them, meanwhile in the USA it's "Coal jerbs!".
Same applies to GitHub pages.
> We’re a nation that built the interstate highway system

I think you mean this as a positive example, but a lot of people would disagree. It was an enormous public subsidy for a lot of behaviors that now don't look so good, including increased energy dependence, destruction of natural habitat, and a significant increase in racial segregation.

History is what it is, but I hope we can learn some lessons about the downsides of uncritical techno-utopianism.
essentially that same thing that I'm saying.
Sorry for the snark in the last comment. Going back to school at any time can be very rewarding. Lot's of big companies have programs to help you do it too.
I suppose you can make some variant of this argument about the modern economy, but I don't see why you're singling out Musk for this. Is it because transport infrastructure tends to be subsidized? If so, could we not make the same argument for roads, trains & such?
As I wrote when this showed up on proggit,

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I would be very skeptical about using NASA as a good example for much of anything, but especially software development.

My bonifides: I'm 49; have spent roughly 25 years as a systems programmer, systems administrator, and general bit wrangler; and I worked for 8 years at the Marshall Space Flight Center, specifically the NASA Enterprise Application Competency Center.^1 (And yes, that's a thing. Started as IFMP (Integrated(?) Financial Management(?) Program), and was IEMP (Integrated(?) Enterprise Management(?) Program) when I started.) If you're a NASA employee, you might recognize STaRs (I worked on the rewrite, post Perl 1 and Monster.com), NPROP/Equipment, or DSPL/Disposal. And IdMAX, which I noped out of shortly after moving to the project.^2

NASA itself is a massively disfunctional organization, in my experience, and a failure to "cut through the bullshit" is a major reason why. For software development specifically, while I didn't do anything with "man-rated" development or the other important bits, I have strong doubts that they are any better than other avionics, automotive, or other embedded development organizations.

There was no mentoring. People tried, it didn't go over well, usually with the mentees.

You have to trust each other's potential, because there is no damn chance of getting any two projects to agree on anything. What goes on in that other silo is their business, not yours.

I did say, "I don't understand." A lot. Frequently pronounced "WTF?"

The list of "unreliable sources of knowledge" looks rather like a checklist of how things got done.

^1 NEACC is also the acronym for the North-East Alabama Community College, which I find ironic for no good reason.

^2 Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of me looking arrogant. Sorry.
We don't have a national (or contintent wide) high speed rail network because North Americans by and large don't believe in community efforts and social investment (except for military). There is absolutely incredible private wealth and an incredible poverty of public wealth.

And so we are beholden to private visionaries like Musk.
>I don't think anyone who has a problem with Electron is going to rejoice at the option of a browser window instead.

I'm not going to jump around in happiness but I sure as hell prefer it as it's more resource efficient.
The Dolphin project always has amazing writeups for complicated technical problems. Really love these. Amazing work from that whole team
"In China, open source licenses don't have any legal effect," seems to me, to be synonymous with "China is famously awful at upholding IP laws"
Guide to Fetching and displaying GitHub repositories with Kea (react and redux)
Huh, I was responsing to ransom that he agreed with you but attacked a stawman.
They already are engineering highly addictive drugs to sell legally, they just need to thinly market them as treating a condition.
Oh, absolutely, cost is a huge factor. I’m sure Californians are well aware of the cost of a rail project these days.

I do hope part of the cos analysis is likely rent / housing costs paid by the commuters as a result of the build. I tend to think an extended range from higher speeds would decrease total housing costs but I too would want to see figures.
Ok, we'll revert the title to the original. (Submitted title was "Air-gapped data exfiltration via cloud AV sandboxes".)

Submitters: please read the HN guidelines, which ask you to use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
But, most congress people are already wealthy: the average senator has a net worth of $14 million, and the average representative in the house has a net worth of nearly $7 million [0]. There are of course outliers, with some having hundreds of millions and some having negative net worth.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_United_States_Senators_...
I think most people like variety. Yes, some people always listen to the same 50 songs, and some people never listen to the same song twice. But most people don't go their whole lives without expanding their musical tastes.

While iTunes and Google Play gave chart toppers the spotlight, SoundCloud turned amateurs into professionals. "Nobodies" could put their music on soundcloud and get them streamed millions of times, and that recognition could eventually get them a chance to sign on a dotted line
If it really is beneficial, then Elon Musk and the share holders, should use their same influence they have on the government, on the financial institutions that exist to acquire low interest loans.

There is of no reason, that the tax payers should be forced to support the risk or even a project that few people under the upper-middle class will benefit from. There is no reason that Elon Musk should be subsidized to create a private monopoly of transportation––quite contrary, he should be paying the government for the externality caused by being privileged to the exclusive right of the vast common land underneath the states; a common land that other tax payers are now deprived from.

Most citizens of the USA don't even live in the city, especially the ones who you claim would benefit from it. They already live in cheap housing in New Jersey 30 minutes away.
Anybody know of any projects out there that attempt to circumvent the great firewall - I'm guessing those are the ones.
Ah sorry, it came off to me like a dig at conservatives. Pushing back at progressives is a feature, not a bug
Robots would do the work.

The future may not need many human robot operators either.

If the world only needs a couple hundred thousand people to run the robots, maybe there will be enough of them who are willing to do it just because it is fun to run the robots and provide for the world.

People do charity all the time today and the world of the future would need much less charity.

Obviously most people would not be interested in doing this work for free. But fortunately we might only need. 0.001% of the population to be willing to do it for free.

I expect that at least 0.001% of the population in the future will be charitable enough that they will be willing to do work for free in order to provide for the entire world, by running the robots.
Agreed. The idea of the "pneumatic train" (http://nycsubway.org.s3.amazonaws.com/images/articles/beach-...) has been around for at least 100 years, so why does everyone with high-speed ground transportation go rail?

Existing lines and infrastructure? Perhaps. But we too have existing lines and infrastructure (train stations on those lines).

Or is it perhaps that building and maintaining miles and miles of rails, vs. tubes, is just way, way more cost effective?
> The same tax payers who know if they get sick, they won't be able to pay for it.

You've made a grave mistake in your appeal.

The top 40% of income tax payers are paying more than 100% of the total income tax base. The people that specifically do pay a massive share of the tax base, can overwhelmingly afford great health coverage. They're why we still have the health system we have, precisely because the system works well for them (short wait times, great coverage, and they can afford the cost of the insurance, most of which is paid for by their employers as part of their total compensation).

The bottom 25% have their health needs paid for by that top 40% income block, via Medicaid and other assistance programs. It's in fact the slightly sub middle block of 35% that are struggling greatly with health costs, and they barely pay any income taxes (they do pay FICA related taxes, which they get back in theory via late life entitlement programs).

Here's the actual fact of the matter: if your premise is the tax payers are getting ripped off, what you're talking about is the top 1/3 of US income earners getting ripped off. That top 1/3 is extraordinarily well off, in fact they're among the best off people on the planet in nearly every possible regard (average income, median income, net wealth, unemployment, health coverage, education, etc), and they pay modest tax rates compared to most developed nations.
And that is a situation where license alone wouldn't have helped, since even if you went and threw it under the AGPL most of the private servers operate outside US copyright jurisdiction so they can advertise themselves as private WoW servers in the first place.

The community itself bashes a ton on private servers for taking GPL code, adding a bunch to it, and then never releasing changes even after they go under.

It probably relates back to the general disinterest / apathy / ignorance of software freedom in gaming / hobbyist scenes in general, though. If you have never written a line of code in your life you probably have no idea how the world operates in regards to licensing. You don't distinguish VLC from Windows Media Player besides the visuals you see in front of you.
As an aside, is JPL really NASA? Whatever happened with the lawsuit about HSPD-12 badges?
How do you get to Windows in that case? AWS doesn't let you get to GRUB or similar, does it? Chain loading NTLDR is a pain in the best circumstances.
That's a good (and presumably unintentional) demonstration of the problem - the European Union is a hugely complex, very political beast and the right answer to that question depends heavily on your political frame of reference and priorities. Even just the free trade-related aspects can be accurately described either as giving up control of our own laws and regulations to a centralized bureaucracy or enabling trade by removing non-tariff barriers depending on how you want to frame them - since almost all non-tariff barriers other than differences in regulations are banned by WTO rules they're the same thing, one description just emphasises the benefits and the other the downsides. (I've even seen a certain FT writer who insists he's not pro-EU use both framings - the positive one when discussing the EU and the negative one when discussing post-Brexit trade deals outside the EU.)
Page 10. A description of a linked list, and the memory structures required to intermingle them.

Incredibly simple, powerful, and to my eyes, beautiful.
Well... observable trends atm is that physical location still matters. Remote work is more common, but at the same time major centres for tech industries (SF famously, but also others around the world) are pulling in more residents who are going there for work

Getting people to workplaces is a thing we need in 2017, and I expect in 2027. Beyond that, who knows.
Well I suppose it would open up job opportunities assuming the price to go city-to-city is comparable to say, driving multiple hours each way in order to get to work. Of course that assumes you live near one city in order to get to another. Wouldn't help rural folks I'm afraid but there really isn't a transportation solution that can function on sparsely populated areas. Even the trains in London, for example, go through suburban areas that are still relatively densely populated.
How is it "not even vacuum sealed"? If you look at their white paper, then it obviously isn't space-equivalent vacuum - but it is so far from one atmosphere how could it not be sealed?
Roads aren't a speculative technology, they are proven to work, and are not owned by a private enterprise. Elon Musk is being subsidized to create a monopoly of transportation on commonly owned land. But yes, this isn't just a problem with Elon Musk, the political-industrial complex is a newer but persistent problem thats become exacerbated with age. Elon Musk is just a master at exploiting this hole.
I don't know if this was taken into account, but in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, "terminus" was very much a proper noun, being the name of the very planet where most of the plot takes place.

I wonder if he named it that because he liked the word so much, or if the word became his "favourite" after using it that way? It would be cool to see how author's usages of these words changed over time.
Applying statistics to works of fiction is mildly interesting, much as applying geometry to paintings. But after you tell me all about your statistical analysis of Faulkner's prose or how the Golden Mean is distorted in Van Gogh's paintings, you still haven't touched the thing that makes the works of Faulkner and Van Gogh much more interesting than those of their less-known contemporaries. That's why it is called "art" and not "science."
> You're argument is basically, we can't trust either, so we should just throw our hands up and ignore them all?

No. I didn't even suggest some immediate action for the current situation. There is probably no way to fix it.

The scientific method cannot solve everything. Maybe it can prove global warming. But the human factor can still corrupt any facts established. That is why I said we need strong ethics. We need to accept the truth, even if it is inconvenient.
Excuse me, but I'm willing to pay for the kind of advances to society Musk is attempting. Musk using tax credits is not why we don't have a good healthcare or education system. Blame defense spending an lobbying for that one. But don't try this false dichotomy crap, where our choices are either 'food and healthcare' or 'subsidizing earnest technological advancements'
I think you're ignoring payroll tax and public subsidy of private sector by allowing them to hire people at below subsistence (because medicaid and food stamps are a subsidy to Walmart)
This is exactly how we publish our content. We are currently experimenting with Gatsby as well. We will see how it turns out.

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby
How about improving public transport by investing in existing technologies that work for other cities? I'd consider that a more sensible approach than pouring public funds into an experimental technology which may or may not solve LA's transportation woes in 20 years.
Reading comprehension skills, bro. He wrote "possibly". There aren't citable sources for possibilities.
If that were true then MP3.com would have been a stunning success 18 years ago.
IPXE only supports one WiFi chips and many laptops have a whitelist of USB Ethernet adaptors they'll PXE boot from.
Ask HN: Should sysadmins give developers local admin rights to their laptops?
Explain how the Concorde (an example in the article) benefited the poor more than the rich.
National high speed rail network sounds like something that requires a political consensus (and public money). Probably not feasible to try to build something like that as private company.

For me Elon's ideas feel more like something private company could take.
Similar feeling here. I released something open source, others started contributing to it (which is rare! so that's awesome!) but their commits started breaking things for others. That meant I'd get the complaints, and I had to spend a lot of unpaid time fixing their bugs. There were ongoing debates as well from contributors (and non-contributors!), and that's how I learned what the word "bikeshedding" means :)

Instead of giving something for free to the world, I'd accidentally created an unpaid job & ongoing drama for myself (ie a net-negative for me personally, instead of at least being a neutral / zero).

With my commercial software, I'm being paid by customers to help them, and the better I make the software, the more likely people are to buy it. The incentives align. Those paying customers are mostly nicer to me as well, some wonderful compliments. And none of them have ever debated GPL vs BSD vs MIT with me - they just want the software to work, work well, and be beautiful & easy to use.
Her peers could be the type to use the like button as a form of basically saying "Yes, I have seen this"?
Any idea why Monero as such low usage traction?
Is it not possible to make a browser extension or app to "wrap" youtube and turn it into a soundcloud like service? Seems to me they could transition a lot of their users over to it and possibly save money.
I don't know. Since I see "hyperloop" as more akin to a pipe-dream, dangling this "cool" idea in front of people is destructive if a) it never gets done (probably because it's not cost-feasible, not from alack of imagination on the part of the public) and thus b) money to fund systems that actually do work and need funding (Amtrak) get short shrift.
Port forwarding for your games
Seems like you just need to run the package-nix.sh or package-windows.bat scripts, which compile and package it as an electron app.