skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...about half the price and Amtrak is losing money?

>

> How is that even possible?

Amtrak runs routes across a very large area, they run more infrequently than European schedules, and their capital equipment is aging. Combine these with the factors the Economist article brought up that user totalZero wrote about, and you end up with a very messy, expensive, customer-inconvenient situation.

The American freight rail system is the envy of the world, but it comes at the cost of the passenger rail system, which doesn't access to nearly the same scale of subsidies that road and air transport networks enjoy in the US.

If you are traveling by yourself, can book well in advance, don't require access to a shower facility, have lots of flexibility with your timetable, and have your own means of an Internet connection, then Amtrak is a great, low-stress, inexpensive, energy-efficient travel option for this inter-city range to longer ranges.

Among some use cases where Amtrak doesn't fit as well are:

* If you worry about securing valuables while sleeping (cable lock alarms work as long as you fit the valuables into overhead space, of which there is always plenty, but if you have more than that to worry about, then ship ahead if you can).

* If you have a restrictive diet that Amtrak doesn't cater to (bring your own works well, freeze ahead of time and that will get you through a continuous 3-day itinerary).

* Traveling with children (the rooms with beds are more expensive than equivalent airfare for everyone in many cases).

* Must have continuous cell-based Internet access (big swathes of land in Western US have simply zero cell signal coverage, and a speeding steel tube isn't the best platform to pick up signals even in the best cell coverage areas, an observation car if you have one is the best, I'm trying a satellite phone next time I ride Amtrak into the Western US).
This is great! Thanks for your help.
Oh yes, server push animation. I checked it out a few years ago, and it seems to still work in Mobile Safari:

http://pronoiac.org/misc/2009/10/server-push-animation/
War crime evidence can also be extremist material. It is often repackaged as propaganda to rile up new troops.

Give evidence to the courts or police. Don't upload it to a video entertainment site and expect it to stay up, despite skirting their rules.
I play the GOG version with steam controller, but I'm a bit of an edge case. I play on linux, installed the GOG version through PlayOnLinux (thus playing it through wine), and I made a launcher in steam so that I can use the steam controller with it (anything you create a launcher for, even an emulator or nethack, gets steam controller support for free). Even if you're not on linux, you can do the same : just create a launcher ("add non steam game") to launch the GOG game.

Even then, though, it does not qualify as "proper support" if this means "native support". It's just like using steam controller for any game that has no controller support : you configure it to emulate keyboard and mouse (but it's still a good experience for NMS, once done).
On the other hand I was listening to a podcast when I popped into boots to buy lunch. Fairly busy so there was a queue, I drew the short straw and got directed to the legacy kiosk. This means having to pause what I was listening too, lose concentration, and switch into conversation mode for no benefit at all.

Ikea is simply far easier to self-scan. Back in the olden days you could scan your shopping in the supermarket as you put it into the trolley. Rather irellevent now when nobody does a "weekly shop" in person any more but far better than the "put into conveyor". Go back far enough and you used to have to ask someone for every item you wanted, no self picking.
I don't contest that. But you have a choice to frame your question in a way conducive to a valid answer. But someone who doesn't do that is likely unworthy of negative apples anyways. :)
No, that's not what I meant. That said, no instructor with morals is letting an uncertified diver go inside a wreck.
I assumed "make a game" as typed on a mobile device without autocorrect.
I'm guessing 'make a game'
Another hypothetical explanation could be the woman boycotting the sub and them fleeing the area

> he said that he had dropped the woman off Thursday evening near where they had departed from, around 10:30pm. But no one had been able to reach the woman or establish her whereabouts.

I said nothing, them. Different situation.
Well, wouldn't the not so distant goal be to switch to the mainnet once things are stable?
Here's some more Sims stuff:

http://donhopkins.com/home/TheSims

http://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments
There is more to it than just a single rail line. Who owns the rail that ÖBB Nightjet uses? Amtrak has to make payments to the owners of the rail that they ride on. They are incremental payments and not access fees but that is still a cost. Second, Amtrak has many more employees (including their own police force), which will add cost. Third, Amtrak also owns at least 2 train stations (Union Station in Chicago and Penn Station in NYC) which will add to their liabilities. Finally, the routes in the US are much longer (typically) than what would be in Europe. That means less riders in a given timeframe which would mean an increase in ticket prices.
Well, a lot of people also believe that most modern mathematics is more abstract theory and rarely applied outside of its own field. Her work seems very closely tied to physics. So I don't think explicitly mentioning that she did applied maths is bad, especially for lay people
The Civil War Is Here
Is there perf gain when comparing 2 immutable obj deeply with === ?
Biggest outlier is Uber, and they aren't even a Techstars company. They just invested in their seed round, never was part of the accelerator that is Techstars. YC probably comes out on top if you just remove Uber.
You can increase the percentage of women without discriminating in hires, i.e. still "hiring the best people for the job". By making your company more desirable for women and thus increasing the percentage of women candidates. You can achieve this with different means like running an recruitment advertisement campaign targeted at women or not tolerating sexist behaviour or with strong commitment to work-life balance and so on.

You may say that "making your company more desirable for women" is discrimination as it makes a distinction in favor of women based on gender. Technically that would be correct. But this will not be discrimination in hiring. I.e. from the given candidate pool women will not be chosen over men because they are women.

This will not be hiring women intentionally. So the original statement in discussion may be correct.
Florida tends to be horribly humid. I blackout and faint in the summer heat there, and I grew up in Georgia.

You might look into Corpus Christi or some other part of Texas. Corpus Christi is incredibly windy, which keeps the humidity down. That part of the Gulf Coast is surprisingly temperate year round.

https://texas.jobing.com/jobs/javascript

I have lived in San Diego. You might look up the term "June Gloom" (a weather phenomenon there) before getting too excited about the place. Also, though there are things I love about California, one of its seasons is Fire Season, a less than appealing detail of the hot, very dry weather of some parts of the state.
Yeah so TIL that Ada Lovelace was NOT the first programmer.

That title belongs to Charles Babbage, who wrote dozens of programs for the Analytical Engine years before her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_...

So you can stop perpetuating the biggest lie in the history of computing any time now.
Such buses are quite common in India too. Many people prefer sleeper buses even though the prices are similar to flights. One reason is that they have to travel to the airport (city a) and then travel from the airport (city b).

A couple of interesting links:

http://www.indiatimes.com/boyz-toyz/cars-and-bikes/sleeper-a...

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/599348/scania-drive-1st-...
Your username is awesome
>There is no justice in mob justice.

you can't have it both ways. The other side refused to accept the form of the justice of the civilized society, ie. the court of law justice. Do you have any other form of justice in mind, other than the two already mentioned - the court of law and the mob ones? Please do tell if you do.
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A fundamental understanding that not everyone can get positions at those companies because those companies will always take the top 30% (or whatever) of people with skills they desire.

If everyone decides to take your approach companies will simply become more selective, not employ more people than they need too, no matter how good they are.
Looks cool!

Feature request: https
I'm not about "to be wrong". I'm more curious in next - there are so many services doing same things and earning money. Some earning more, some less. so we can make another copy w/ better UI / cheaper price and compete. no?
It's a common response even here on HN when companies behave contrary to the social good - "it's their job to make their investors profit while working within the law. Don't like it? Change the law." Well, don't be surprised when they do. Why complain now?
That transparency though... dammmmmn. Super cool.
1. They don't talk about it because it is not the primary cause of the warming we see. [0]
2. China and India have agreed to reduce emissions, as part of the Paris agreement. 45% of all solar installed worldwide in 2016 was installed in China. Every country needs to do its part. [1]

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country
This is what I do often, but with gnus in emacs and mbsync. I've seen more stuff lately on not much and plan to check it out.
My dad had an old book on technical analysis, published in the early 60s. The intro talked about how prices move, usually with top execs telling all their friends and family to buy, and then those people telling their network, and so on, ending with a press release. I'm sure there's still plenty of that going on, but I found it funny to see it just spelled out as the default mechanism 50+ years ago.
Does anyone know of equivalent studies done elsewhere? I’d like to think the percentages would be higher from my peers at graduation, but I suspect they’d be much lower than I’d hope.
I wholeheartedly share your "don't run to government" sentiment.

However, this sentiment bugs me:

> That completely doesn't compute. Google isn't in business to make things better for society.

If we're going to refrain from seeking the violence of state intervention when actors do things we don't like, don't we then have to count on business (and more generally, the market) to do things that we do like?

Yes, I want Google to be in business to make things better for society. I'll go even further: I want Google to position itself so that its profit depends on it doing good for society. I was proud of Google when it aligned things this way re: VP8 / webm.

If the violence inherent in the state is undesirable - and I agree that it is - then we need to build a society in which the free market selects for societal good.
It sounds Simlish, like "kaie a covfefe gake".
Just FYI ÖBB Nightjet is a train and not a plane. I looked it up to see comparisons but I had the same assumption as you based on the name.

Also, Amtrak doesn't maintain the track that is up to the track owner to do the maintenance. Amtrak does pay money to each track owner to use their tracks but it isn't an access fee and it is incremental.
I've always found it funny that piracy still totally exists on youtube, but the pirates just add obfuscation techniques to prevent immediate takedowns.

Then you watch the "Important Videos" playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7XlqX4npddfrdpMCxBnN...) and half the videos are taken down because the account had too many strikes. It's really sad.
Something about this program reminds me of the text-mode BASIC games that used to be published in books and magazines in the 1980s.

I remember typing the programs and simultaneously trying to imagine how the simple logic I was entering might build up to something awesome that could be lurking there, just out of my sight between the numbered lines. Most of the time it was a disappointment, but a few of those games did manage to elevate themselves to some kind of unexpected, exciting life that I couldn't have known from just reading the program.

(Of course my standard for excitement was very low.)
> We get paid ok but most of us barely have one home.

If the average 'tech' worker is 28 and single, that's normal, not a sign of 'squeezing'.
I've used notmuch with the emacs plugin as my primary email system for years. It's the best thing I've ever used and I really feel hobbled using anything else. Gmail isn't bad for a web interface, but its searching is inferior.
The Nixon/Kennedy debate anecdote is a common misconception. In reality most radio listeners were older and lived in rural areas, making them more likely to lean towards Nixon anyways. [1]

People have always interpreted things the way they want to, whether it's radio or TV.

[1] https://www.paleycenter.org/p-the-nixon-kennedy-debates-a-lo...
Proposing a legal change isn't appealing to government authority. It's asserting that we should formalize a social attitude into a rule. Complaining about government as paternalistic intervenor ignores the right of people to shape government to work on their behalf, which is the reason they are instituted to begin with.

So what that society 'allows' you to start up your own business? The economic and logistical barriers to doing so in competition with a monopolistic are significant, and overcoming anticompetitive tactics of incumbents is horrifically wasteful. People have every right to set general standards for how they want business to be conducted and promulgate those standards by law.

Rather than warding off government as some remote and malign force, we should be seeking to make the process of governance more responsive to the public interest. The stability and consistency that allows markets to operate is government's primary product.
This article mentions the theoretical "hyperloop" but not normal, actually-existent high speed rail as a solution for trips of this distance?
The article says $230, but https://www.ridecabin.com/ says $115. Am I missing something? This makes quite a difference.
That assumes an ordered ranking of people and of employers, a premise I reject.

Google is one of several thousand employers that are both hiring and pay reasonably well. Most of the other ones will also fly you out and pay for relocation if they want you. At the same time I was interviewing with Google, there was even a 3-person startup that was willing to fly me out to SF to interview, except that I didn't really care about their business. If you don't get into Google, there's still Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Stripe, AirBnB, Square, Twitter, Netflix, Tesla, Lyft, Dropbox, Cisco, Intel, Juniper, NVidia, EBay, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Ericsson, JP Morgan Chase, and many other companies. Most of those are perfectly acceptable employers; they may not have the prestige of Google, but you can make a good living and possibly even end up wealthier than at Google.
Service is far better at somewhere where I can order and pay from an iPad at the table or a kiosk, sometimes humans meet the levels of service I get from the robot - i.e immediate service without having to attract attention, not getting the wrong thing, but it's not universal.
Aww, I'll slow it down, and add a button to pause it? Would that help? I like it's animation...

Or a way to hide the sidebar?
> storing audio recordings when the app is used to tag TV shows.

And if they were truly not storing audio recordings but rather building a spectrogram of the audio and uploading that then their lawyers would argue that they were telling the truth. Even though the effect is the same.
May I also suggest mpsyt(mps-youtube). GPL cli YouTube interface that will open your player of choice. I hardly use the web interface anymore.

I wish goblin would take off.
Greg Egan has recently released another novel, Dichronauts, which features another universe where the laws of physics are changed due to a sign change. (The first one is the Clockwork Rocket trilogy.)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30351492-dichronauts?fro...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9756310-the-clockwork-ro...
There is going to be a lot of sex in those pods. I'm not sure I want to be next in one after.
It seems that we really need to find a new distributed/decentralised censorship-resistant way to distribute videos.
The Terrifying, Ongoing Mystery of Suffocating Fighter Pilots
I thought it was average at best. I've taken long-distance sleeper trains all my life, but the Caledonian Sleeper has rubbish breakfast, poor bedding, and you have to exit the train right after it arrives.

I mean, one of these three is fine, but all three and it was worthless for its objective. It costs a hundred quid and this is what you get? I could take Virgin for half the price and be there in 5 hours and actually sleep in my own bed instead. It's what I'll do next time.

I suppose the one plus is you get to use the lounge at the station, which is about the one place that Waverly Station has plug points for a charger.
From the linked comment:

> You're right that we could have 'vouch' show up even if an article is merely [flagged] rather than [dead].

There's the problem right now that flagging articles can drop them so low on the new articles feed (3rd or 4th page) that they are effectively dead. Some discussion may continue for a while from people who were already participating in discussions or are dropping in via the comments link. But typically this will be a very small number of people. So even if an article is not, strictly speaking, dead, it is effectively zombie-ified.

Allowing a "vouch" on a flagged article which actually works to offset a single flag might be a good compromise.
What a good way to sabotage a project. Not only destroy the product but also the reputation of the owner.

Why did the journalist lie about writing for Wired again?

Could it be someone other than the journalist who got onboard with Madsen? How would we verify?

Could we determine that the tank failure was not a sabotage?

Is it possible we eventually find the body of journalist neither in the ocean nor in the submarine?
Curious why this resonates with the HN crowd?

Reqiescat in pace.
Well whilst a directive "check that the address is exact" to the people providing assistance for issues at Amazon would be fine and cost very little, revolutionize the whole way packets are sent, courier/postal service procedures, etc. to have the "MD5 for packets" seems too much.

I mean, it's not like the number of this kind of frauds is that large, probably somewhere there is an Amazon report stating that they have a fulfillment rate with full satisfaction of customers of 99,9999%, the whole issue (not only Amazon's of course, most "remote" or "call center based" assistance is terrible) is about how poorly this (minimal) 0,0001%is managed.

If the numbers are so small, I believe these large firms could well put in charge of these cases someone with some more capabilities than the "standard" call center guy/gal just reading a script and incapable of solving (or not allowed to solve) these cases.
The eastside rail corridor is one. It stretches from Renton to Bothell.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bellevue,+WA/@47.5681081,-...

Look on the west side of 405, there's a faint grey line. That's it. It used to be labeled on Google maps as "Eastside Rail Corridor", but that has been erased.

Given the total silence about it during the Seattle Transit debate, the Seattle Times never ever mentioning it in any of their articles about light rail in King County, and the gradual removal of it from maps, would almost suggest there's a conspiracy.

Converting it to light rail would double the trackage of Seattle Transit at minimal cost, and would connect the entire east side to Seattle and the airport.
YouTube start to be dead. People move to use different platforms!

Google, you really start to suck more than my socks!
You know there are overnight busses in Europe, right? With barely a seat belt.
The Same is true of hotel beds and that's generally not a problem.
Unfortunately, the outrage of people about some issue is usually inversely proportional to its importance. This seems to be a general fact about humans.
Ask HN: Which YC startups from the past 4 years are making a profit?
Or at least breaking even.

To clarify that would be the period between 2013 and 2017/now

I would also be interested to know which are already defunct.
I think we're a bit too late for radio silence. Even if our comms are indistinguishable from noise at that distance, I bet our previously detonated nukes would have sent distinctive pulses across the near cosmos.

I wonder, does SETI look for signs of alien nuclear wars?
I find the evidence for Elixir adoption unconvincing as it invariably focuses on Bleacher Report. It's the same with Elixir app examples which are invariably chat apps, painting Elixir as a one-trick pony. Indeed.com offers little evidence for Elixir/Phoenix coming anywhere near the adoption of Ruby/Rails.
The problem is that YouTube is a monopoly in online video. We wouldn't even be having this discussion if there were other viable providers for online video hosting. However, there aren't. So we're down to either complaining about YouTube blocking videos where it shouldn't or defending YouTube on the grounds that they're a private corporation and they have the right to host or not host whatever they please.

Moreover, I've noticed a certain ideological favoritism on Hacker News towards Google, Facebook, etc. I strongly suspect that if it weren't YouTube, but rather Comcast that was filtering these videos, the community's reaction would be different.
I don't think I'd have the patience to go all the way from San Francisco to Chicago. But I've definitely had my sights on doing the San Francisco to Denver leg (or vice versa) at some point if the travel stars even lined up in a way that made sense. I've also thought about the Empire Builder route as part of a trip to Glacier.
Earth has had CO2 levels far higher than currently in the geologically recent past. We will run out of fossil fuels well before we destroy the planet.

The biggest effect of global warming so far is arguably positive. Plants are making good use of higher CO2 levels and it's estimated that farming yields have increased 30% in the last century from this faster plant growth.
I'm wondering why airports don't try to monopolize airport taxi business. It's the logical extension of traveling from point A to B end-to-end.
I really like this idea.

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