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> I love Solar City, Tesla, and SpaceX, but I just don't see Hyperloop/Boring Co as viable or useful.

This is one of those occasions where a Hacker News appears to think they've thought of something that someone who's been thinking about this stuff for a very long time, and has the money and track record to back it up, disagrees.

You seem to have a very narrow view of the technology being proposed - the announcement is about New York to Washington, USA - but presumably this is a proof of concept build with modest scope.

> Tokyo manages a population more than 10x that of L.A. ..

> ... makes building infrastructure cost 10x too much and take 10x too long.

One should be careful with throwing around orders of magnitude claims willy nilly.

Tokyo's population is is just shy of 10 million, Los Angeles about 4 million.
You are not representative of people on the whole.
What if the assassin discovers you lead a double life - and assassinates one of your lives - so you have one life? Then double lives would be only for assassins.
My take:

The author maybe thinks she might feel shame about some of her past sexual partners; maybe he feels shame about some of his and believes given enough time everyone has shame about a sexual partner or two, for whatever reason.

The other option is the author thinks that she believes the author will see her in a negative light for some of her past sexual partners, for whatever reason, so she will not mention the ones that show her in a bad light.
That last paragraph is a bit of a bummer.

After all the beer was mopped up, the company that owned the brewery did just fine. It "received a waiver from the British Parliament for excise taxes it had already paid on the thousands of barrels of beer it lost," writes History.com–meaning it didn't have to pay taxes on the equivalent amount of beer when it brewed in future. Jurors declared the beer flood an "unavoidable act of God," writes Tingle. Those whose houses were destroyed and whose loved ones were lost received nothing from the government or the company.

All is fair in beer and spillages.
A direct outcome of such a choice will be that biodiversity dies out. If produce in America is expensive to produce, your solution will let it go extinct. Extending this train of thought, as different areas of the world become wealthy, their flora will succumb to market pressures of the type you're envisioning.

In the end, everyone will be eating foods from the least developed area today.

I'm pretty certain you wouldn't want this outcome.

(Edit1 for clarity.)
For me, the details matter. HomeKit means that Siri can answer a question like "Are my lights on?" whereas the Amazon Echo can only send commands like "turn off" or "turn on" (with no knowledge of system state) to my lights. It's a very minor detail, but it makes me appreciate the HomeKit protocol that much more.
This is hilarious, and if these bots are fed actual user data, this means anti-communist feelings are much more prevalent than the Chinese government wants to let out. I.e. their censorship is not the brainwashing they wish it were, but only a curtain attempting to cover existing discontent.

So: funny, but also potentially good news.
I'm confused. Despite this line in the article:

At WWDC in May, Apple quietly announced that it planned to relax some of those restrictions. The biggest change was the introduction of software-based authentication. In other words, you won’t have to replace your stuff to make it Apple-compatible going forward, and you’ll get HomeKit’s lauded security thrown in for free — provided the device maker actually goes in and implements it.

The linked HomeKit FAQ says that software authentication is only for non-commercial devices, and that commercial/shipping products are still required to use the hardware authentication chip. So Apple's own docs clearly refute the notion that non-HomeKit hardware can receive a software update to become HomeKit compatible.

Ikea Tradfri is an exception here. They plan to add HomeKit support via a software update, but they do in fact already ship their hardware with an MFI HomeKit authentication chip.

It is possible to add a software authenticated device to a HomeKit network, though you get warned when doing so. This is not new (though official support for it is). But it still sounds like commercial products can't just add HomeKit compatibility via software without breaking Apple's terms.
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Many people say that clojure is the one that clicked for them, but I suspect it's really not due to clojure itself, just that it's more recent and likely not to be the first lisp people have tried to learn.

I think the exposure of trying to learn different lisps is the key, and when you get to a point where one clicks, run with it!
Agreed. I'm not sure how Hyperloop scales to population changes especially if it is below ground. Sounds like a very expensive infrastructure investment.
The claim that Tor hidden services use TLS in order to encrypt their communication seems incorrect to me.
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Gemini's identification process is a bit ridiculous imo. After sending them a copy of my drivers license to prove my identity, they emailed me back asking for copy of my most recent pay stub. Ah, no. That's farther than I'm willing to go.
A quick google search leads me to stories about Gemini calling employers after receiving paystubs...
Yes. The regen breaks will last a long time. There's also a lot less maintenance and parts. But they do weigh more.

Curb weight of a Nissan Versa is about 2400 lbs.
Curb weight of a Nissan Leaf is about 3350 lbs.
> typically both the buyer and seller can be prosecuted

"typical" to which legal system?
I would love to use Clojure (it's probably the only language I would consider moving to right now) but the JVM just doesn't work for me. Clojure-native that offered all of Clojure and was realistic - there was one that indirectly used Gambit Scheme at one time, and an incomplete Python version - would be awesome. Clojure that requires you to use the current Java approaches to interfacing with C is not of interest.
I'm surprised it hasn't been said yet on this thread, but Fentanyl is what killed the musician Prince (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)#Illness_and_...).
Bury your bathroom floor in 10' of dry dirt, and it will last almost forever.
Don't be so pessimistic! Our prisons will probably survive.
They really need to use a CDN for their assets. Just the docs-app.js file alone is 5mb and it takes forever to load.
True, but keep in mind that just because these hidden services' true identities aren't known, doesn't mean they can't have a reputation.

If this search engine becomes popular among Tor users for example, and you follow a few news sites which focus on stories related to the dark web, you'll end up in basically the same situation as you are now with Google. (With the search engine losing the trust of its users if it starts behaving maliciously.) Same goes for other hidden services.
Isn't that already done, if not at the biological level but at an ideological level via propaganda.
They didn't use grout in their mosaics, which breaks down over time. Also, most bathrooms today are built on a wood subfloor which would not survive millenia.
This is similar to a group text in iOS/iPhone. It drives me crazy!
What I hear you saying is that people see the value in maintaining business/professional relationships but don't have the time to so do. Maybe people would use this tool if it could help decrease time spent maintaining a network?
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1. Start with Heroku or similar
2. Get customers
3. Profit???
4. Hire people to help migrate to Kubernetes or similar

Stick with what you are good at and pay for everything else.
I wondered how many scams there could be, then opened the data.yaml file on Github... wow over 2 thousand!
>It looks "old" and out of style

You mean the default theme for 3? Eh, ok, make your own. I've never used the default theme.

>browsers support a lot of cool css features which a lot of times makes these frameworks useless

BS4 integrates these technolgies? I could write all my components using flexbox from scratch, but why would I when BS4 already has them?

>Bootstrap is the jQuery of CSS

The mixins, functions, helpers and utilities?! What have you replaced them with?
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Another frustration is stuff like PowerShell where it's entirely luck of the draw whether they answer your question or redirect it to SuperUser (where nobody is likely to be able to answer certain classes of question anyway).
If you're an above-average HN reader who knows something about security, then absolutely you should hold your own coins.

But for the average person the chances are much higher that they will get hacked or lose their keys than losing their coins on Coinbase.
As jogjayr pointed out, the Hawala system has existed before and after formal regulations. Crypto alone might not represent a viable mainstream alternative, but it does have potential as one piece of a composite solution.
Modern construction, even when it uses good materials, is shit-tier, (I think) because labor's so expensive.

For a while we lived in an upper-middle-class house (at the time it was built) constructed around the time of WWI. National historic registry, the whole thing, but little reno or updating. The hardwood floors were intact but in terrible shape. Siding probably needed to be replaced. No air conditioning (Iowa, so summers hot enough for at least a month or so that you really want AC) inadequate gas heating, no insulation, etc. Point being that, even when occupied, the house experienced swings between ~55f in the winter and ~100f in the summer.

The remarkable thing? It had incredible woodwork, just... everywhere. Bannisters, fireplaces, big wooden pillars with accompanying massive trim between rooms, everywhere. The doors were all custom built, paneled, and solid wood—they'd be considered top-end luxury today. It'd cost a fortune in material to do that now, the lumber was so good, but the really crazy part? The intricate joins and such were so tight you couldn't fit a piece of paper between them. I mean perfect, despite ~100 years of temperature swings like that. Good freakin' luck finding anyone who can do that today, and if you manage it, good luck finding enough money to pay them to custom-trim an entire house that way. It'd be off-the-charts expensive.
I see where you are coming from (you want your software to be used by as many people as possible), but this really isn't the pragmatic approach to this type of software.

For certain products, this approach makes sense. Generally, this approach works for "any software where more adoption means a better experience for an individual user". Examples: a messaging app, anything with its own format (like a word processor), because it makes sharing easier, or anything which I need to work with as part of a team (version control).

This is not that. File listing programs are local and isolated. My experience using some file listing program does not improve if more people use the one that I am using. In this case, it makes more sense to have exa or ls or whatever be the software that addresses 99% of use cases for the average user. Then, for the portions of the population with particular needs, you make software that is particularly tooled towards them.I am not colorblind, so having support for colorblindness just makes software more bloated.

tl;dr - I agree with your sentiment when it comes to programs that need/want "universality". This is not one of those programs and doesn't need to be.
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I suppose, but you obviously decrease the average speed that way. It could be pretty significant too, if you want to reach bullet-train speed for your maneuvers you have to slow down to around ~300km/h from your 1000+km/h cruising speed.

That's a delta-v of at least 700km/h or about 200m/s. At a deceleration of 1g it'll take about 20 seconds, and an other 20 seconds to get back to speed after that. And 1g sounds like a lot for public transportation, especially for so long. Maybe they could rotate the seats to keep the acceleration downwards from the point of view of the passengers?

And obviously it'll take a lot of energy to re-accelerate the car, so you might want to store the braking energy to reuse it but I'm not sure if it's practical to store such a huge amount of energy so quickly.
I don't follow. I just tested with my Google Home and it correctly told me my Coffee Maker was "off". Is this just a limitation of Echo?
Don't really like the article. Like it's written by manager, for some upper manager.

As many of people said here in the comments:
1. cloud is expensive as hell. Its much faster and cheaper to rent some dedicated server. Sure, it can fail since there's no failover/scaleout, but startups should fail fast, right? With good backup and acceptable downtime in case of failed hardware, dedicated hw is good enough for this stage of company development, imho

2. article assumes that building distributed system takes equal amount of time and knowledge as building one monolithic app.

3. you replaced one sys admin with dev ops. Sure, dev is dev ops, as I was dev and sys admin before, so don't see any difference there.

4. vendor lock in. Looks like at the end of the day, only AWS profits here (gold rush and seller of shovels 100+ y ago, anyone?)

5. let me just add this one; unpredictable cloud behaviour. Basically cloud providers forces you to scale out from beginning, since services can go down anytime, network can drop, etc. So instead of delivering features you're deep in aws metrics and logs, trying to understand why DynamoDb lost some random writes.

With right team, amount of money and resources, cloud makes sense. Same like running on your own rented dedicated/vm machines makes sense.
> nothing from the 20 + century will survive

Several nuclear waste containment structures are planned with that kind of lifetime. They have to be.
Thanks for recommending Bulma, looks like something I could really use over Bootstrap has some nice design qualities and components..I'm more of a backend guy myself, but looks easy enough to grep and use on some side projects I build.
The homepage looks great! Nice start. One note - the 'Get Started' button in the nav takes me to the bottom of the page, but the only signup button on the page is at the top of the page.
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More opportunities in terms of getting hired / new job / ...? Or more opportunities in terms of use cases, ...? :)
I prefer https://send-anywhere.com/ they have a 4GB limit.
I think you hit it on the head. Usability. I'm an IT guy and run a headless linux distro with GPU's, mining one of the currencies. I have Accounts on on Kraken and Coinbase along with my Jaxx wallet and local wallet, that I have to use CLI to send with. I have difficulty using Kraken and if my Jaxx wallet doesn't have the currencies I want as part of the ShapeShift application I have to shift to the web app ShapeShift. Bottom line, it can be a pain in the ass to use all of the different platforms to buy/sell and transfer.

I do like the Jaxx interface and if they can adapt more currency wallets and integrate them with ShapeShift, that would go along way to more widespread adoption.
Proper Media appears to be a Turkish company - that would explain why they've got no clue about American law.
Anyone remember Microsoft's Tae chatbot experiment? 4chan got it to start spewing hate speech and 9/11 conspiracy theories on Twitter in no time.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/tay-micro...

It just goes to show that chatbots are easy to manipulate. Since the Chinese bot said something we agree with we think that it's somehow showing us a deeper level of truth. Perhaps that deeper level of truth is that humans are easily fooled by confirmation bias?

You'll know that AI is about to take over the world when it can use our cognitive biases to convince us of something so strongly that it would take a human a much longer time to convince us that what the AI made us believe was not in fact true. Maybe this is what Elon Musk was referring to when he warns us about AI that is "deep intelligence in the network".
> Is it really the spirit of the tax code that $1 in profits earned by a business should really yield $0.48 to the federal government?

But it's profits and not revenues. It's the government that defines what those profits are with their tax deductions, etc. So I think it's pretty fair.

A big hint is up North in Canada where the corporate tax rate is lower: corporations aren't magically more profitable. Canadian dividend recipients even get a 50% deduction on dividend income to account for the corporate income tax already paid. Yet you don't see American dividend investors flocking to Canadian equities do you?
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Watch out for those out of office notifications replying to group messages and causing flood of out of office replies.
The point of a device key is that you can revoke such a key in the event it gets lost and not have people accidentally use it to send you secrets (assuming they use keybase online / are up to date )
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Depends on the business.
If the seal on the hyperloop is ever broken (anywhere along the loop), the tube will fill with air and the train/pod will naturally come to a stop due to air resistance.
Sounds kinda dead then.
How do well feel about this?
Probably a new entry for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis#Attempted_p... but one can always hope an attempted proof will withstand scrutiny.
Villi Iltchev @ August Capital just posted on twitter:

"Over the past year I have had several seed investors tell me "I can't tell you to do this deal. I would not do it."

"They lost me as an investor, but the trust and goodwill they created enormous. You would do anything for people that care about you."
I go back and forth on this idea. It sounds very convenient, but then I also think about the crap I keep in my own vehicle that I like having close at hand: a serious first aid kit, some food and water, a cheap picnic style blanket, flash light, multitool. Stuff that I'm probably not going to carry on me but that I want nearby in case there's an accident or someone gets hurt or if I get stuck somewhere for a few hours without warning.
Look at 4chan's successful "attacks" on chatbots: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/03...

You'll be hard pressed to find a single fact that would be considered so by the entire human population. There are people who are seriously disputing that the earth is round.
> This is one of those occasions where a Hacker News appears to think

I would say this is the only occasion that I read people telling others they shouldn't write their critical thinking about an issue because of the person who is behind.
Thanks! We spent a ton of time nailing down perf to ensure it ran fast even on lower end CPU's :)
The laws by which they retain their cash are different yes, but is the result? Not to mention the order of magnitude is larger.
"These days it's non sensical and I heard about an effort to symlink either of it to the other and consolidate the binaries."

Yeah, Fedora wants to move everything to /usr, last I heard. I personally think it's a stupid idea (/usr is just a vestige of Unix's early development and was never meant to be a permanent part of the Unix filesystem layout) and would prefer everything to be under /, but whatever.

"Not sure how people differentiate against /usr/local though."

/usr/local is typically reserved for stuff built from source. OpenBSD also uses it for things installed via the package manager.

/opt is a lot more freeform. Yeah, you can create an /opt/bin or /opt/lib or what have you, but the way I've seen it used (and the way I personally use it) is something closer to Program Files (so I'll have /opt/firefox or /opt/julia or whatever). A lot of commercial software packages will install to /opt in a similar manner.
Both your problems (bad driving, buying a car) seems to completely ignore the 'autonomous' and 'club' parts of the idea.
I worked on a large-ish clojure project with ~15 (people left and joined) person team for years and I haven't experienced any of your points. Sounds more like an new project with a group of people not quite familiar with the language yet, which would have the problems you listed in any language.
Good points. Though I think the inflation from foreign rental/investment property ownership is semi-temporary - you can bet Montreal is going to pass similar laws soon just as Vancouver and then Toronto did.
Thy also wrote "use .ONION" domain names instead, right?
One trick is to append a period after the TLD.

So for the link above, it'd be

http://www.independent.co.uk./news/world/americas/i-fell-in-...

Notice the period after ".co.uk" and before the "/"

E.g. "Example.com./"

Having a period after TLD is a valid URL. But rarely seen.
There's still some part of me which wonders if the "Rolling Roads" vision of Heinlein's wouldn't be a better long-term solution (even if requiring much more in terms of space and materials) over rails, the Hyperloop, etc.

The concept is effectively a series of moving sidewalk (like you see in airports) loops scaled up to run at 100+ mph, with its own ecosystem of shops, restaurants, inns, etc. They would replace the highways, and be powered by solar panels on the enclosure of the road. Getting on and off is handled by a series of parallel belts which go progressively slower at reasonable increments.

No need for "stops" where the entire system must come to a halt to disgorge passengers, no need for negative pressure systems, it could power itself (and surrounding communities)... But the impact of the roads "stopping" would be pretty major and widespread (if mitigable via multiple smaller loops).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
Yes that's for sure, I'm just stating all the causes of the proliferation of this problem.
I like the simpler annotation UI, you can get more of your team active with annotation in a Mechanical Turk fashion.
Does anyone have information as to how the party leadership in China manages to pass off what's happening in China as "Communism"? I don't understand how the leadership which calls itself Communist while encouraging wage labour, private property, money and capitalist organisations can pretend to be in any way defending Communism, using chatbots or not.

So how is it done? Do they say "Socialism is what's happening in China, full stop" (which is false and ahistorical) or do they say "China is not yet a Socialist society, full stop" (which would seem to contradict their goal of being a Communist leadership)?
I don't see what Hyperloop has to do with LA. It's a whole new transit technology for long distance. And it's funny you mention Japan, since they're working on developing new transit tech in the form of mag lev to link their biggest cities [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCMaglev#Japan
Enterprises are already moving in this direction.
We had a few of these in college. My favorite was when someone replied "you know, you can just press M in gmail to mute the conversation." What followed were hundreds of messages saying just, "M". College kids really are the greatest trolls.