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Even lengthening existing Amtrak trains can take years of time and bureaucratic approval. The design of the Acela trainsets is such that Amtrak could add four more business class cars, which would double the number of business class seats per trainset, while keeping the current power cars.

Transportation improvements over time tend to make some trips possible in much less time than was previously possible; this is true of the automobile, the Interstate highway system, the jet airplane, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Nobody has demonstrated a 150 MPH bus running on the existing Interstate highway network yet. High speed rail has the potential to increase the distance that can be covered in a 60-90 minute commute.
Most of the interesting projects on Github were written by professionals and are far better quality than the average "professional" day-job application because it is a developer's passion and not constrained by business development.

I do not believe open source solves all problems, but you dismiss the incredible value and quality of so much that I find it difficult to take the rest of the comment seriously.

It sounds more like "People with credentials (whether scientists or professional programmers) are the only people who can produce quality work. I have credentials. I'm part of the elite who can do quality work."
$50/hr seems quite reasonable. I doubt I'd need more than 100 hours a year of use, and even if I required several hundred hours, that's still readily affordable.
I discovered those essays back in 2006 when I was working for an airline, and tried to get them to adapt ITA's technology for that reason. ITA was the best on the market at that time, and the e/web-marketing guys loved them too. But the bean counters deemed them too expensive and ruled them out. I left sometime after, was tired of trying to turn chicken shit into chicken salad (there were other issues involved, not just the data supply).
I avoid it like the plague
Light, borderline voyeuristic, entertainment after I've read every post on HN. Twice.
Once in a while to pretend to keep in touch with second tier acquaintances
Fairly frequently -- it's a way to feign social interaction
I actually talk with close friends on social networking sites! And they are actually friends!
Social networking has replaced SMS and email for my daily communications with friends.
Poll: how do you use social networking?
I don't personally use social networking. Call me a Luddite, but I value personal interaction. Its not clear to me if others use them liberally, occasionally or not at all.
That's modern power creep speaking. You don't need the massive power of modern automobiles. That 7 second 0-60 on your mid-sized sedan? Faster than nearly all sports cars 30 years ago. Absolutely blistering compared to any car 50 years ago.

40hp is about what you use on the freeway, or at least it used to be before the average car came to weight 2 tons. You don't need a whole lot more than that. Hell, the MG Midget was offered with a 30HP engine once, IIRC.

I'm quite sure in a decade or two we're going to have people saying things like, "It's true you CAN make a car with only 200hp, but it's generally accepted you need at least 800hp for any car"...
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I have visited almost all states in India. And the current status is:

Kerala - c/o Gulf
Tamilnadu - c/o LTTE
Andhra Pradesh - Telangana
Karnataka - c/o Cauvery
Bihar,UP - Their weapons are sophisticated than Indian Army's
Bengal - c/o China.
Seven sister states - Instant death if you are non-Assamese.
Punjab - c/o Khalistan
Kashmir - Kidding?
Rajasthan - They call you 'Paradesi'.
Maharastra - c/o Vidarbha.
UP - Bundelkhand, Poorvanchal etc
Chattisgarh - c/o Maoism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_movem...
There were 500+ Princely States and India never existed till Portuguese/French/British arrived in 1505.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Indian_history
Managers want promises because execs need promises because the board is critiquing their job performance based on when they ship the next product.

The board wants promises because they want to know when they get paid.

If you find it stressful that people are turning your vague estimate into a promise, imagine having to make promises on other people's vague estimates.
But maybe an electric car needs a gasoline engine as much as a tablet computer needs a keyboard, and maybe we're several years away from seeing that in the electric car case, just as the belief that a tablet didn't need a keyboard didn't become widespread until the iPad.
Ask HN: Have PG's comments ever been downmodded to negative?
In my year and a half being here, I can never recall seeing that.

If not, why not? Fear ? Reverence? Love ?

If so, pics or it didn't happen ;)
They do: …and stay tuned for our forthcoming article on the typical American woman.
i should explain that i limited it to the seven people that share and appreciate my sense of humor...thus avoiding the avalanche of mundane douche-baggedry that most people are privy to posting.
From toy to joy :Gamification
A lesson learned while prototyping:
make a toy: Gameless,lifeless,dumb,ugly,handicap,
boring,stinking,complex,unsellable,but ,with a strong re-engineereability & long enough half life and is factor of some product.
Peel it to feel it.

Then cleanse/simplify it,gamifiy it,add limbs to it and make them work,Make a factor out of it and make it’s value count.

And do it before it is gone.
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http://www.aptera.com Prototype by the end of the year? I swear Aptera has been saying that for the last few... (Okay, they have prototypes but they're not on the market yet.)
It is quite easy to understand Indians and Indian society.
If you meet anybody from India, ask him "what is your caste?"
Camelot Season 1 Episode 3
Camelot Season 1 Episode 3 - Guinevere - the film is released April 15, 2011. He had two previous episodes of Camelot Season 1 to find an immediate success because it attracted the attention of the audience and their heart.
Don't buy a board yet. Grab a hold of a copy of Xilinx ISE (I think there are student editions out there as well). Learn verilog/vhdl a bit.

If you do not have a digital logic background, first spend a bit of time getting comfortable with that. One of the most common problems I have seen with programmers coding on FPGAs is related to that - even though verilog coding looks like its just software coding, like C with a weird syntax, it really isn't. Everything you write actually allocates additional physical hardware on the FPGA. Every piece of that hardware works all the time - in "parallel" so to say.

Once you are comfortable with ISE, and have used its built in simulator to make some basic designs, then think about buying one of the $100/$150 Spartan kits from Xilinx. Once again, before you plonk down any money, make sure you really want to do this - FPGAs sound really cool initially, but they are less useful in a computing sense than they initially appear to be. They are very useful as glue logic but thats not why most programmers get initially interested in them. FPGA vendors have been marketing FPGAs as general purpose computing devices, but except for some very specialized cases, you are almost always better off using an Intel CPU for example, or even a GPU.

When buying a board, keep a list of atleast 2-3 significant projects that you would want to implement on it - that way you can select a board with the right IO connections. The particular FPGA device on the board in less important that having the right IO connectors - these are very difficult to add later on if you are not a pro.

HTH.
A couple of years ago I opened up a basic "Trimline" style corded phone, and found that there was a decent sized chunk of cast iron in the base to weigh it down.
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The Unlikely Outlaw
What a coincidence, just got off an over night Megabus one hour ago. However here in the UK they do not seem to have Wi-fi which is a great shame. Also they are normally very cramped here, so much so sometimes people are left to sit on the stairs whilst going down motorways or they call a bloke in a car to drive down the one or two extras ( which happened on my trip today ).

But in the end the price really does make up for it, and also each trip always has some weird goings on which is always fun. For example one trip there was a man who could not speak english at all who proceeded to drink himself stupid, get off at a random service station on the M6, fall asleep on a bench and refuse to come back on the bus. What a horrible morning he must have had.
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Tried that in this round. No love. :(

Actually, it was a pretty sweet demo of the product. It would totally make the YC application process so much smoother from YC's side and (most importantly) allow YC to provide feedback to rejects (that feature alone would be amazing!).

Unfortunately, it looks like YC will (at best) only be a customer, instead of them being an investor.
Geeks? Smart guy/gals?

I couldn't tell you if the thing is real or not.

But, if such an engine, with two-three times(!!!) the efficiency of a standard gasoline engine with a lower power to weight ratio, were to be producible at 25kW, all the (hypothetical underpowering) problems could be solved by ...

... using ...

TWO engines!! (or three engines)

... jeesh ...

It's for hybrids. Each engine would just charge a battery.
Flours today are more refined and more likely to be bleached.

Extended with fillers and soaked in sweeteners is stated to be how "grains are typically available to us." Wonderbread is a fair example, and the "standard" muffin that typically has 30 or more grams of sugar is another. Oatmeal today, in its most common presentations, will have a great deal of sugar.
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This sort of thing can backfire of course. Some folks see <3 and think 'ass hat'. Others of course see line noise.

Not an issue for stack overflow but probably not something you would want to put at the end of your Bank's form letter notifying you of the commencement of foreclosure.

So the interesting question for HN is this; what level of casualness is your startup taking with its customers and how do you insure that it is appropriate?
"Looks? Probably. Feels? That's absolutely subjective."

Fair enough. Generally, though, you only get t-shirts in cotton. It's nice to wear linen, or the nicer cottons that you typically get with formal shirts.

"Why do you think I'm dressing casually at work to stick it to the man? I, and many of my coworkers, dress casual to be as comfortable as possible as work, which has the effect of improving my productivity."

I don't think that everyone does - but a non-negligible subset of people wearing t-shirts to work are doing it because of some misguided attempt to resemble the Big Lebowski.

The point of wearing something smart should not be to suck up to your boss! They're supposed to make you look and feel good. The most important person about this is you - having specific outfits that you associate with work can be a useful psychological trick to get 'in the zone'. If formal clothes are uncomfortable, you're probably wearing the wrong clothes - they either don't fit or are made of inappropriate materials. You need to spend a bit more to get that comfortable fit but once you do, formal clothes become as comfy as pyjamas. Except ties. I hate ties. So I don't wear them often.
bribe grad students at MIT/Stanford/Caltech with some pizza

there's always a way
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Data Storage is Facebook's Next Initiative
This article reminds me of something that I would read while waiting for my copies at Kinkos. It's generally vague and would contain very little substance.
It is robbery. There are a bunch of holier than thou tard on this site who will do anything to play devils advocate to defend their ego and world view. However Admob clearly lied to publishers and deleted them when no click-fraud was involved. They do not have the right to promise payout and then revoke their payments just because they feel like it. They may have a bs clause in their contracts but they are acting in bad faith and have violated basic human courtesy. They are scum.
https://convore.com/yc-s11-apps/yc-rejects-hangout/
This is a project I wrote the weekend of the Japan earthquake. http://tensecondstotokyo.com/

I wanted to see what was happening in Japan live from the people who live there.

I used node and socket.io to provide a realtime view of photos posted to Twitpic on Twitter. The server stores the last 100 photos found, so that's the max that are ever seen. Just a stream of photos.

Other than a few friends at work and some folks at a node.js talk I gave a few weeks ago, no one else has seen this. Well, I did show it to Mikey from Instagram when I ran into him at a coffee shop.

I'm also working on integrating Instagram's photos too, but haven't finished that yet.

Couple of notes:

1) There's never been more than a handful of people accessing the site at a time, so I have no idea how well it will scale. There's almost no load, so I suspect it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

2) My url parsing regex fu needs some work. If you watch the stream with dev tools enabled, you'll see a number of 404s from Twitpic where non-existent photos are being accessed. Don't worry, these don't show up visually on the site though.

Would love people's feedback, suggestions, and complaints. Especially from design-type folks. I'd like to give it a better look.

Conact info: @geuis or geuis.teses@gmail.com
But, Android (except for the kernel) isn't free software, it's mainly Apache and BSD licensed, neither of these licenses requires source to distributed for compliance.

Google is doing something bad, but it is not against the license.
SECD or CEK? Does any C implementation exists?
I have implemented a toy scheme interpreter in C. I want to take it to next level by implementing a virtual machine. I googled and found SECD and CEK are defacto for scheme. But couldn't find a single implementation in C for either of them. Help and advice needed. Thanks in advance.
What exactly are you referring to by the "drug game"?
Women and men are not equal and never will be, period, anyone disputing that is ignorant. There is no problem with treating two genders differently to a certain point. Scott Adam was right, but he was overwhelmed by the zealots and had no choice.

In my opinion: anything you write about this topic will offend an army of people, so just don't do it, there are too many zealots out there who can't stand people who have different opinions.
What does "curbside pickup" mean in this context?

And I've often wished for an LA->LV option that wasn't either shady or as expensive as the cost of a Southwest ticket.
Fair enough, although in that case I would wear linen trousers and a short-sleeved linen shirt. That combo works in Spain, Italy and North Africa in summer. Short-sleeved linen shirts feel really cool in hot weather, really nice.

You absolutely shouldn't wear clothes you don't feel comfortable in. However, wearing a t-shirt because it's an act of rebellion doesn't work for me at all. If you're wearing t-shirts because you want to, then fine.

Wearing smart clothes is not something I do, or my colleagues do, to fit in. I work in a university and often we are the only people (6?) in a department of 200 people under the age of 60 in formal clothes. They feel comfy and they look good. People also find them intimidating, which can be funny.

So long as you dress how you want, that's cool. I just find the idea of wearing free, logo-infested clothes a bit unappealing. I come across an attitude of 'I wear t-shirts because I don't have to wear a suit!' pretty regularly; I find it sad because it's being constrained in your dress by those standards in the opposite way to the suits but not even acknowledging it! Wear what you want!
Gefr: WSGI on Jython
A UNSCEAR report places the total confirmed deaths from radiation at 64 as of 2008
Yeah, and unfortunately the losers at HN are deleting comments because they think Google is ubergod and can do no wrong. What are they so afraid of?
The Due Diligence Process
It's extremely rare that I need to see video of some impersonal event on the web "live". Probably the only situation where that might be useful is for some super critical political or disaster event (9/11, announcement from alien battleship in sky, etc.), and even that is pushing it. Pretty much everything can be canned, "tape delayed", edited, cached, etc. and then time-and-device shifted to fit my schedule and preferences.

For live personal video needs, there's always Skype video calls.
I'm not sure how mobile could "die out," unless you mean web apps will replace native apps. That hasn't happened on the desktop and it won't happen in mobile; they'll continue to live side by side into the far future.

I work in mobile games and we're desperate for good devs.
That would be of little comfort I'd imagine if you had a lot of custom stuff running through the API. At least they opened the thing up recently to add customers, that's a step in the right direction. (Although that could also be the cause of instability, they did have years to prepare for it though.)
Mobile Web Application Development
Web development industry has grown tremendously over the years because of increased dependence of people on Internet for their daily activities. The launch of iPhone in 2007 and Apple apps store, a year later, added new dimension to web world. Nowadays people use smart phones like iPhone, Android, Blackberry, etc to connect with web world, while on move.
Regarding "Attracting Luck": it sounds like a value-free bromide, but it really does work. I'm not a social butterfly by nature, but I force myself to go out and network. It blows my mind how effective that is, because there exists someone with the ability to give you what you want just by saying "Yeah, sure" and that is 1000000000x more likely to happen after you have asked him for it in person versus happening spontaneously. (Ditto hearing, e.g., "You do SEO consulting? What a coincidence, we need that. Send us a proposal." , "You made what? That's interesting. I have someone you should get a coffee with.", etc)
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Looking Good Doesn't Count, SEO Counts
Why do I need SEE when I have a nicely built website? It is a common question that comes into a website owners mind. Let me make it simpler for you. Suppose you have a beautiful dress, now how on earth will anybody come to know about this if you don't flaunt it?
Wish I could downvote this. Single cases, no matter how tragic, do not make a sweeping condemnation. Do we stop selling cars because a million people a year get in car accidents and die messily? No. Should we stop building nuclear power plants because, thirty years ago, some idiots built a really, really terrible one and a few thousand people died messily? No.

And, yes, I know that I'm going to get flamed for this. Go ahead. It needs to be said. If we want our species to survive the next hundred years, we need to get our heads out of our emotional rear ends.
Requires Java, for those on mobile.
> Search engines are for finding content, not for apps

I agree, and one of the points that I forgot to write above is that the article seems to focus too much on apps. A lot of web development isn't about apps.
Probably because they would not know where to start if they had to count genetic deformaties, cancer, and other psychological and physical defects. It is a mess all around.
I loved placekitten.com, can we have one that does Star Wars images? :P
Thanks for the input, that is our next step. Working on marketing it properly. We have updated the site to reflect more to what Kinspir is exactly.
It's not uncommon, I've seen it more than once. Usually he gets upvoted back into the black though.
"We"?
I don't have a source, but when I worked construction during the summers, I would get fatter while also gaining muscle mass. I always felt hungry after working during the day and would consume massive amounts of calories.
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I don't disagree, and I wasn't trying to imply that we shouldn't use nuclear power by submitting this link. But, I think we should take a hard look in the mirror and ask ourselves how much energy we waste. Most of us treat electricity like it's free and infinite, and what I want to take away from this is that we should really be more responsible with our energy use because there are consequences.
I understand your logic, but just remember, "all machines do eventually break down."
why cherry pick one report?
Wish I could downvote this. Just because we need nuclear energy to survive, doesn't mean you need to demote this massive and tragic accident to a statistical blip made up of "single cases".
Best of the Week - 9 Aprile 2011
Saturday morning is arrived so it's time to give you my selection of the best security articles of the week.

Here's my listing. Enjoy it.

Greetings, Matteo

@SCADAhacker Ralph Langner on Cracking Stuxnet
Never heard of blurts, but that color palette totally gave me a Vonage vibe.

> My co founder can father a small child just by looking at a woman

Hilarious! I'm going to have to remember this.
What Scott Adams doesn't mention is that while you can learn entrepreneurship on the fly, learning about the classics, literature and art is a social experience. I've met lots of successful individuals who seek out high-culture trophies of validation (expensive art, season tickets to the met) -- many times only as overcompensation for their lack of understanding of the liberal arts in general.
I see no claims nor indications that Michael Niedermayer sent legal threats.
Very interesting. I wonder why Chrome wasn't mentioned at all in the survey.

I would love to find some tools, like a Chrome extension, that could display an accessibility score for a web page and provide guidance on solving problems. For those of us not using screen readers, it's easy to overlook errors without realizing it.
Who told you "we" need nuclear energy to survive?
To add some perspective http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

This is not to belittle Chernobyl. But to provoke thought and discussion on why a disaster of this scale has such a negligible mind-share.
Inspiring hacks for social good
Key word there is confirmed. Don't forget this happened in Soviet Ukraine, and the USSR collapsed shortly thereafter, undoubtedly destroying large amounts of records with it.

Besides, this essay seems to focus on the debilitating effect of life after radiation, not necessarily deaths that can be directly attributed to the Chernobyl event.
The case against f-commerce: faddish, foolish and “far-fetched"
Relevant conversation on a previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374194
The survey I linked to is the 2009 version there's also a follow up with more info. My guess is that after a year Chromes market share was so small as to be not worth discussing. The newer survey, which I should have linked initially, still doesn't mention but does show improvement over the time span between surveys.

http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/

There's a few addons for firefox that focus on section 508 compliance but many of them are poorly maintained. You might want to look into this one, which I have not used myself however.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/qompliance/