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Are there earthquakes around NORAD (it has long underground tubes?) and the LHC? I really have no idea, and Google is failing me (and it's slow going, very bad internet connection at the moment). And I feel I should point out that the LHC doesn't cross major fault-lines like any trans-USA transportation system would have to do (or even SF to LA, which is explicitly used as an example, and presumably that's much easier than LA to NY (which also crosses the San Andreas fault line)).

Anyway, I'm questioning underground tubes in places where the earth moves at "about 33 to 37 millimeters (1.3 to 1.5 in) a year across California."[1]. While that's not much per year, it adds up, and presumably such a large project would be built to last more than a couple decades (or plan for fairly routine major construction work to keep things straight).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault#Plate_moveme...
I know JitBit said that their traffic actually decreased from Google Authorship, but sites that I've used it on don't seem to suffer at all. I'm not sure I believe the argument expressed by many on Hacker News that the picture automatically triggers a thought that it means an advertised link or that it will link to a social media post, because I've never had that thought or had that happen to me, ever.

The Authorship has actually been around for a couple of years now, so I'm not sure why people, not just engineers, would think twice about clicking on a SERP with a photo beside it.

I think JitBit suffered from using an uncomplimentary profile photo, and nothing more.
Strictly speaking, no. In Australia, businesses cannot pay suppliers unless they have an ABN, otherwise their payment will be subject to Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT). You can take money as an individual without ABN however. With PayPal this is already possible. You can run a small operation eg on ebay but as soon as you call it a business you should get an ABN, but then you also have to pay income tax on what you make.
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> Braintree require you get an NAB merchant account and, if you want to support USD then you have to also get the NAB foreign-currency accounts.

Which, to me, are not-insubstantial barriers. Pin might not be as competitive on price (barring the $9/m intro offer), but just being able to supply a regular account to handle their deposits is convenient.

On a somewhat related note, I'm currently forking Drone.io's go.stripe library[1] for Pin Payments, given the extreme similarity of the Stripe & Pin API's. If anyone is keen on helping, get in touch or send me a pull request: https://github.com/elithrar/go.pin

[1]: https://github.com/drone/go.stripe
Spend a little time in the DS9 universe, which arguably has more in common with B5 than the rest of the Treks. (Supposedly, the show's core concept was stolen from a pitch by Straczynski which was declined, with B5 following through shortly after on a different network.)
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Depends if you have the mineral rights or not. You could argue that digging the tunnel is just a very inefficient way of mining your minerals (if you were a property owner, with mineral rights, wishing to stall the project). If you didn't own the mineral rights, there isn't much you could do if the tunnelers took care not to damage your (above ground) property.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_rights
A previous HN discussion brought up the possibility of a Launch Loop and several descriptions of that proposal seem to fit very well.

A Launch Loop is an iron cable just 2 inches thick that runs inside of a sheath at tens of thousands of miles an hour. The sheath has electromagnets inside of it to accelerates the cable. The motion of the cable would cause the loop to curve and raise into the sky.

To outside observers, it would look like a giant version of the St. Louis arch with the peak nearly in low earth orbit, but only a few inches thick. The magic comes with the fact that the iron cable can be used for travel by using electromagnetic attraction to the iron cable through the sheath.

What's interesting is that while there are several engineering challenges, unlike a space elevator, this wouldn't require any materials technologies that don't already exist today. The iron cable could be made by existing forges that make the cabling for bridges, and the electromagnetic sheath could borrow a lot of existing technologies from the hard drive manufacturing industry.

It would also fit with his previous work on Space X and Solar Cities to some extent.

A launch loop can be used to transport cargo or passengers high enough that the energy required to get them into orbit is very inexpensive, which ties into his Space X work.

The external sheath of the Launch Loop could have solar panels on it to power the electromagnets that help keep the loop in motion, and even when the sun goes down, millions of tons of iron spinning like a flywheel has enough kinetic energy to keep going until the sun rises again.

I wouldn't be surprised if he ran across the concept when he was researching ways to get into space before he founded Space X, and it's his "Step 2".

Lastly, if you had a giant cable stretched across the sky that worked kind of like a bicycle brake cable in its sheath, but the cable was running through the system at 30k mph in a giant loop, what better name than Hyperloop? It also explains why a trip that he describes as being twice as fast as an airplane would take 30 minutes. It takes more time to go to LEO and back down

Keep an eye out for Musk buying any patents on electromagnetics or him buying a oceanic cable-laying ship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop
What are some of the startups that were chosen? I'm unfamiliar.
The right way to have handled this would have been to have founder vesting with your co-founder, so that if he checked out (as he seems to have) leaving you to do all the work, you would have stopped the clock on his getting additional stock.

In the absence of that, however, he should still be amenable to a negotiated price, perhaps leaving some upside in play for him. Similarly, your investor should be interested in setting up a favorable dynamic whereby you have enough stock to be incentivized to continue to help the company succeed.

A typical way to do this if the co-founder is unwilling to sell all or part of his stake outright is for the new investor to dilute everyone, and then "re-up" the key players (ie you). You will need voting control of the company you can effect this.
An appeal to authority is not an argumentative fallacy if the authority is, umm, actually qualified to talk about whatever they're saying. There are at most a couple dozen people more qualified and able to talk about the upsides and downsides of programming languages who, moreover, have seen them in action in the course of several decades of computing history (much of which was directly due to this man's actions).

Really, if you have a language, compiler, and operating systems designer of the caliber of Rob Pike saying that generics introduce a lot of issues, I'm going to need some damned good evidence to the contrary.
If we remove morals from the debate, then the whole F/LOSS movement is meaningless. By ending the statement "...until the movie industry learns what the music industry learned the hard way." implies a moral lesson and as such is an appeal to morals. The value being proffered, that DRM is fundamentally wrong and shouldn't be allowed as it affects the end users rights (a moral issue if ever there was one) is lost when work is taken without consent to teach that lesson. My point stands, irrespective of whether a trite fallacy is relied upon. So no, I didn't bring moral into the discussion. The discussion is fundamentally a moral issue. So please, drop the faux indignation and lecturing, it's not appreciated
Out of 56 projects backed over the past two years, so far, yes. Nobody has outright "taken the money and run" (yet), and even on the long-delayed projects, semi-regular updates kept people satisfied.

My biggest complaint is the lack of a better way to browse projects. There's no way to say "Show me all the projects in the Technology category that have not yet completed funding or are not over yet". I have to open up two tabs, one for Technology Staff Picks, and one for More in Technology, and browse through both of those to see what's currently active.
First of all a note. I've made a substantial fraction of my living over the last decade from my understanding of statistics. When I look at a projected statistical range of 1.0-3.0 that later got refined to 0.9-2.0 I see that as a fit. Sure, the bottom end of the new range moved out of the bottom end of the old range. But if you watch an A/B test run, you'll see that this is entirely expected. But the median prediction of the new range - the most likely outcome - is 1.55 which is (assuming that the original range was a 95% confidence interval) is inside of 1 standard deviation of the prediction.

Secondly when you say that the warming is insufficient to create the run-away warming predicted in climate models you're in disagreement with the vast majority of people who have actually tried to run the numbers. Having just seen you draw an incorrect "not a fit to the statistics" from something that I know very well looks exactly in line with what I'd expect a fit to look like, I'm going to trust that scientists understand their own numbers better than you understand them.

Thirdly your claim that the new historical record has 10-20 years of no statistically significant warming is just plain false. The article this discussion started about finds that if you just use data from the last decade and project that forward you get an average projection of increasing 1.55C in a period that previous models had said would increase 1-3C. That doesn't look to me like you're not warming.

And finally I'm glad that scientists don't let their models sit still for decades. It is a fact that the models have huge error bars. I want them to improve the models, to bring them down. And the fact that the new models are in good statistical agreement with the old is confirmation that the old models were reasonable (if less accurate than desired). Until we see a statistical lack of fit between old and new data (which has yet to happen) - there is no statistical reason to doubt the science.

In the meantime I'm concerned that the 10 years with the least arctic ice in the summer all happened in the last 10 years. You may dismiss that data point. But in all of the discussions about newly available oil drilling locations and transport routes, it is worth noting that it is a very visible sign of a major global phenomena.

BTW if you want to dig farther, I recommend http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011GL048794/abst... for a detailed energy budget of where heat appears to be going right now.
Sending an identity card (including social security number), proof or residence, and lots of personal details was not enough yet? Didn't have to do any of this on Bitcoin-central, that's why I don't use gox anymore.
And sometimes an address that references a box number is both the "where they get mail" and the "where they live" address.

I grew up at the address of "Route 1, Box 78, City, State ZIP". That was the rural mail delivery route, but it was the only actual address there was, unless you wanted "last house on county road 601 before you go over the top of the mountain" sorts of things. (The mailbox in question was on a post at the end of our driveway, and said "78" on it.) UPS and FedEx would deliver there, though sometimes we had to point out to a new UPS driver that no, we weren't box 79; they were two miles away on the next bit of the mail route.

This also points out the changeability of addresses. Before I was old enough to remember, it was Route 1 Box 150A. And then ten or fifteen years ago, they went through and named all the streets and numbered all the houses, so it became "420 Streetname, City, State ZIP". The postman still knew that when my grandfather sent mail to Box 150A it should come to us, though.

My current house is a duplex. The normal scheme would be something like "100 Streetname, unit A" or something, but somehow we ended up with "100A Streetname" instead. For added confusion, the actual doors aren't labeled, just the mailboxes.
Yeah, it's a little off-the-cuff. They definitely sound more interested in launching satellites (an interesting system for doing so, to be sure). I'm biasing it towards people-oriented since this is all anchored by a hyperloop article.
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Note that Japan's Chuo Shinkansen is to be approximately 60% underground (much of that "deep underground").

... and it's real-world, actually-being-built, long-distance (about 300km for the first phase), safety-critical (transports passengers at high-speed), market-financed project in a highly seismically active area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen
I do, all the time. And I'm not even old. Some pages are just unreadable.
Signed up even though I don't have an immediate requirement for this service.
Great to see some local innovation in the financial space.
I fail to see any support for your "bottom line" in this article.

Do you have a citation for me to look into?
Actually, I opened it in Chrome on my SGS3 and experienced no problems at all. The page was snappy and responsive to things like scroll, and it loaded quickly. I actually didn't realize there was any problem at all until I read these comments.
Try a new library, or language, or feature of a language as often as possible. Experts become experts by mastering a ton of tiny things.

Personally, I'd rather go deeper in what I'm learning on at the moment and finish something substantial before diving into some other topic. It probably depends on how much of a multi-tasker the person is, but I find it difficult not to concentrate on one topic at a time.

I do understand what you're trying to say, though.
>>Lack of trust

This is something I can attest to.

As some one who is starting up on the side while having a megacorp job. I see that people here in India somehow expect a lot of things to come for free, I've had serious problems receiving payments. Not just freelancing and doing projects on the side but even big companies have this attitude of considering offering an employment as doing a favor. And this attitude is something deeply ingrained in our culture. A bit part of this is because even until recently, being rich was all about cheating some way. Jobs were all about working for a land lord in some fields, or having a small time shop selling groceries or at most stuff like shoes, or clothes. The only way out was two areas engineering and medicine. For a long time and to a very great extent now those were the only two areas where you could make big money as some one from middle class.

There fore when it comes to a definition of a job. People still tend to think of those lifelong employment at some government set up or at most a factory worker.

In India most people have a difficult time understanding money can be made non-linear to the efforts spent. We are still stuck in the idea you get paid x rs/hour or y rs/month.

And if that is not enough we have some kind of enjoyment in making glory out of poverty. Rich = evil, poor = godly. More worse, if you are rich or trying to get rich, People throw in this 'happiness doesn't come from money' card. Every other attempt is made to keep a person in a constant state of mediocrity. People who try to break out of this vicious cycle are automatically termed as 'greedy' and 'selfish', In other words if you promise to stay poor as them, all is fine. Silently they tell you - 'How dare you try to be different than us?'

Some people are just plain afraid, they or there parents spend a lot of effort getting somewhere in life. And they don't just want to throw away all that by failing doing start ups. Some are afraid of ridicule. Some are just lazy.

It will take some time to break these assumption/rules about living life.

Regardless of this, many Indians now realize all this are making a lot progress. Much wealth can be created as genuine competition is practically non existent.
Since we are generally speculating here, is there any possibility the Hyperloop could be a suborbital craft to escape the atmosphere and thus reduce journey times dramatically.

That doesn't really work for "San Francisco to LA" but Richard Branson has mentioned this as an objective for Virgin Galactic "within the next 20 years". I'd be surprised if SpaceX, and hence Elon Musk, were not also looking in to this considering the technology they are creating.
There will always be people who want something because of what other people will think of them for it. Among my cohort growing up this has often manifested as becoming one of the big three: Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer (very much in that order). I have seen this shift toward adding "entrepreneur" to the list, and its impact on younger members of the same peer group. Make no mistake, these are not "scenesters", but the type of people who aggressively overachieve in things, even if they do not possess a purity of intent.

I would rather see a glut of entrepreneurs who don't know why they want to be one, over a glut of lawyers who don't know why they want to be one.
I have been testing with these guys as we get closer to releasing our service and they have been great to deal with. Not having to worry about a merchant account saved a lot of time when it came to paperwork and the integration is very simple.

The payments sector has been awaiting a shakeup in Australia for some time now, and Pin will definitely be a recognizable force moving forward.

Congrats on the launch and thanks for the lowered monthly fee!
Fair enough, I just presumed it was a more intellectual version of the standard "OLD!" comment you see on things, which tends to annoy me.
Public key encryption invents the notary public, now with 10,000% more energy use?
And the way they've got inline comments working is beautiful.

Like you I have problems with the lack of ownership, it feels like submitting work to a magazine (which appears to be what they're trying to be). I'm looking forward to polished open source clones being created.
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I think you are projecting quite a bit here in terms of what you think is going on.

EA (to pick a random DRM supporting publisher) and others perfectly understand what they are doing, and the tradeoffs involved. It's not ethical superiority, it's business. You can claim they are destroying x, y, and z all you like, but the reality ends up being pretty simple:

Until consumers stop buying games due to DRM, or these publishers have actual numbers that show it is actively causing them to lose profit, they'll keep doing it. I'm not talking about random blog posts from indie developers. I'm talking about game after game with DRM failing, and game after game without DRM succeeding. Or, if all their games have DRM, them going out of business, while other non-DRM using publishers succeed.

From the publishers perspective, if it was really having all the negative effects you have, they wouldn't keep selling so damn many copies.

Honestly, I'm not really arguing one way or the other, i'm just pointing out that publishers aren't concerned with ethical blah blah blah, they are concerned with money and unit sales.

If DRM doesn't decrease their sales, and possibly decreases profit loss, it's a win for them.
If it does decrease their sales, and the decreased profit loss makes up for that, it's a win for them.
If it does decrease their sales, and the decreased profit loss does not make up for that, it's a lose for them.

Until it's a lose for them, they'll keep doing it.
Those appear to be different, though related, papers.

It looks like the new paper contains attempts to address the previous criticisms.

The new paper is on arxiv, for the curious

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.6844.pdf
It is always very simple to come up with these kind of post-hoc explanations. Not that these are false but they are not certainly "killers". Compared to say United States, Indian middle class and even lower middle class shows tremendous resilience. I am sure these kind of obstacles are not that big. I feel the real obstacle is a totally dysfunctional government and absence of law.
That's only about half the speed that the hyperloop is being advertised at, though. That route is claiming ~500km/h, which would put you from SF to LA in about an hour, if this site is accurate: http://www.mapcrow.info/Distance_between_Los_Angeles_US_and_...

Which is not to imply that's not an incredible feat - the Shinkansens are awesome, and work. Just that things get harder practically exponentially as you increase speed, so doubling it is a very, very big jump.
Rackspace is 100% supported in libcloud, both first-gen and next-gen. Just like bpiatt said, the whole library is maintained by Rackspace employees and others. Side bar: The community has only gotten better and the abstractions too!
Only 8% of the MALE population are colorblind while only around 0.5% of women are colorblind.
> History has shown that some obvious projects, such as tunneling under the English Channel proposed in the time of Napoleon, can be delayed for centuries because of political pressures

I really don't see why, french empire and united kingdom were such good friends :)

On a side note, I feel very sad to consider we could have a mean to travel the world at cheap cost for four decades, and it still cost a salary and sometime about 24h to go to the other side of the world. With all other things Musk has talked about, it really makes think humanity seriously lags.
This "designed for laptop" sentiment and (most) of the parallax et al "experience" sites kind of upset me. People use tablets and phones. Acknowledge reality and provide content tolerable to the medium.

I give Teehan+Lax and portfolio sites in general a free pass on this (most important visitors are sitting at desks), but much of the internet seems to willfully disregard audience needs and desires as devices, contexts, and limitations expand.
Do you realize how impossibly loud this is going to be?
If the data sets are already in the cloud, for example at AWS, you could skip the transfer costs if the machine learning SaaS operates on the same cloud.

In case dealing with terabytes of data it would probably make sense for the MLaaS operator to run points-of-presence in major clouds.
After paypal shutting down my account on a number of occasions while organising campjs.com, we switched from Paypal+EventBrite to Pin+Tito and it's been smooth sailing ever since. The Pin team has been a joy to deal with, responsive to feedback and I highly recommend them. Congratulations to Pin.
It's non-trivial, but further division of bitcoins is possible to implement and would likely be accepted by the network if it was in the best interest of the currency.
Let's do a beautiful ToDo app :)
I would go one step further and say that the mechanism you describe would also keep the train off the floor (and would possibly be handled by the train, not the tunnel). It seems to me that using electromagnets for propulsion only and not for levitation would drastically reduce costs.

I could only guess at the aerodynamics but I have a feeling you could just give the train a flat bottom and make the end of the train pointed like the intake of a jet engine. At speed it would compress the air and force it between the train and the floor of the tube in a way similar to how an air bearing functions. (Actually all sides, assuming it was rectangular, would work in the same way.)
That's why, for satellite launch, it would go in the Horn of Africa. Maximum volume is at the muzzle, and would pretty much require an exclusion zone of maybe 10 miles out, and would be deafeningly loud for another 50 miles. Mountains would be ideal for this.
Its taken twice the time and 10 times the people and budget to build something half as great as Glipho I guess silicon valley is all about who you know!
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