skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This traffic light is great:

https://www.google.com/maps?ll=41.869753,-87.648017&spn=...

It turns red immediately when you press the button. When I was in college, I would entertain myself between classes by going over, pressing the button just as the upstream light turned green and cars began accelerating, and then not crossing the street.

This, incidentally, is probably why most lights don't change immediately.
Obviously Elon also very much wants to launch spacecraft, but maybe has reasons to ignore the launch loop for that purpose.

Elon wants to be able to launch rockets that can land vertically on Mars.

A spacecraft capable version of a launch loop is a wonderful optimization, but doesn't get him to the rocket technology you need to colonize a planet that does not yet have the technology to build such a launch loop. (Plus he has contracts to fulfill that he can't meet in time with a launch loop.)
This is not punishment, this is revenge. Punishment is a corrective action, this breaks them even more. By the way, this is extremely dangerous - to paraphrase Nietzsche: in solitude, whatever you bring with you grows. Do we really want whatever they're bringing to grow?
Thanks for the kind words - sure, adding an atom feed for projects shouldn't be too difficult (although I can't promise I'll roll it out soon, but I will add it to the todo list).

Pro accounts with custom domains are planned for the reasonably near future too - that one is quite high up the todo list.
So he's going into the burrito business?
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If you use Twitter, I'm sure it's very easy. If you don't it's a new learning curve of unknown length / gradient.
You have a short term memory, I don't. This plagues me in all kinds of ways but it is also an asset in many others.

And Gates' most recent dip into my wallet is less than two weeks ago so in fact I don't need all that good a memory to remind me who he is and what he stands for.
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Yeah, that's what I meant about piracy not even being a word - indeed there was no other way to obtain software back then.
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A different view: In Germany you are usually locked up for 23 hours/day in your (1 or 2 man) cell when you're serving a prison sentence.

There are some exceptions to this like being able to visit another prisoner for one hour every day or use the kitchen for one hour every few days, etc. (Or if you are really lucky you can get a job inside the prison.)

I'd say being imprisoned is inhumane in every country on this planet. I hope future generations come up with alternatives to this medieval practice.
It's pretty easy to physically separate people but still let them communicate with others. It looks like revenge.
There were lawsuits over this when air travel was getting started.
http://www.teehanlax.com/story/medium/
try entering through this, it worked for me
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The real problem is that the US is part of no international treaty on human rights. Turkey and France have a way more fair process now thanks to the European Court of Human Rights. They have also put hard limits on terrorist law etc. It's slow but it's a real adult supervising the local politicians with true values.
The main purpose of prison is to act as a disincentive. A lot of people don't commit crimes in the first place because they are scared of going to prison.
>> I haven't met a single person, across classes, from farmers to barbers to shopkeepers, who doesn't want to get richer.

The problem is they want to get rich, but can't see others getting rich.

Agree with you that every society has this problems. The way I see this is more to do with humans than any country in general.
Indeed! Untill, I started exploring internet,reading articles and new ways to make money, the feeling of 'settling' for a job for whole life was deeply ingrained within me.

"Take up this field son, government job could provide job security", my father said. There is no regard to doing what people like. Even today if you are to give my mates, the worst working condition for 30,000 Rs a month, they would readily take it.
You may "get hard" over confirmation bias, but a lot of us "nerds" are scientifically trained and actually do a pretty good job of interpreting reality. Sure, no-one is perfect, but "nerds" tend to be better than other "demographics".
Yeah, just need an ABN.
well, Ayn Rand modulo all the public money he uses in his ventures (state environmental credits for Tesla, contracts with NASA ... ie. taxpayers money, research grants, etc, etc). Then again Ayn Rand did suck state bottle with medicaire and social security. I'm not saying the projects are not ambitious and amazing. But they would not grow so quickly without the State.
>>Indian middle class and even lower middle class shows tremendous resilience.

No, they live a life of silent desperation. After some time you just get institutionalized to your state.
Yeah, I might as well have just stayed on Reddit.
I suppose, in a sense, people like this are part of a concerted effort to hack popular opinion.
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You know, being an edge case does not prevent from respecting the rules, and human rights rules are made so that "special cases" don't end up like the nazi Germany special case. (yeah, sorry, that's historically when and why it was decided to write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Also the M&A acquisition scene isn't too good. If you want a exit out of your start up its not easy.

So its either try until your die, or keep trying.
Yeah, worked fine on iPhone 5.
Some previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820332

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2825402 <- most comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827149

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2884314

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3340589

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5255973

The other submissions have cross-references to similar things, so if you're interested they're worth following up.
It must be inmune to weather and take into account that it will be supersonic at least, so it must be covered. Also Elon is very good at going to the basics of the problem like:
-Cost of installing the system
-pass rights
-cost of raw material
-current state of technology (lots of legacy tech on transportation) and "easy" improvements of Efficiency with improved implementation.

Given that thanks to his actual business he has great knowledge of high speed aerodinamics, electromagnetism electrical propulsion and energy storage..

My bet is towards an elevated light tube (not vacuum) that works as a induction propulsor for the vehicle and condensor battery(you may use solar panels on top to recharge it). Also it insulates the "train-plane" from the weather and the exterior from the sonic shock.
The vehicle will be like a electromagnetic train but just for impulsion and braking, it will use the shock waves and ground effect to hold the weight and stabilization. That way the electromagnetic fields don't need to be generated with expensive systems.
The tube could use high voltage lines right of way and some simple metal towers to hold the actual system.
I don't know if it makes sense but if something like this really can work it will be way cheaper that current high speed trains, vacuum capable tube or spinning megatons of steel at high speed through highly populated areas(a mechanical failure has the capability of wiping entire neighborhoods like a wire lawn mower).
No, I'm a proofreader. I wondered the same thing.
0.0000001 BTC to store a bit of data, indefinitely, for as long as the BTC network exists? Methinks there is a Dropbox plugin on its way ..
Disagree, at least at this stage. Medium seems to be low enough volume and high enough quality that it probably beats a no name blog right now.

Not sure how they will handle open publishing.
A shame that O'Hare couldn't continue, he was great in the role.

Last year rbanffy posted an interesting link by a writer exploring what could/would have happened had he stayed: http://www.webcs.com/b5/neverwas.html

Very interesting reading for fans that I recommend.
If BitCoin succeeds, it will have successor digital currencies that will try to start with a peg to BitCoin. If one of these successors succeeds, then we have have a new source of digital money that is financially equivalent.

The protocol already allows the creation of publicly verifiable contracts with creation/destruction mechanics that allow BitCoin to translate into a new currency. That puts the price of BitCoin as a ceiling for the new currency. The challenge is making it popular enough that the price of BitCoin is a floor as well.
>It's something which is, ironically, used by people who overestimate their own understanding of pop-psychology to put down others.

While a valiant effort of you to meta-snark (couldn't help it, could you?), there's nothing much to "understand" about it. It's a well known experimental study. And it wasn't quoted here as a scientific citation -- just as a well known metaphor for "don't overestimate your smarts, kid".

>The fact that it was used in earnest without presenting any justification just makes it all the more hilarious, unintentionally so.

"Without presenting any justification"? What exactly do you thing this is? Some academic forum on psychology where we study cognitive issues?

He have, here, an exchange on programming languages, where the parent put down whole classes of programmers as inferior (to some unmentioned higher standard) with rigorous hand waving and a few invalid arguments -- several of which I refuted.

The reference to a cognitive superiority bias was given in this context, as a token "and who do you think you are" gesture. Nobody said that this was a clinically verified case of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action -- or that it was the core of the conversation anyway (it's a single link at the very bottom of a 450 word reply).

I know some people on HN tend to be pedantic, but you should not let pedantry ruin your ability to hold a conversation (AKA, the "well, actually" effect: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html ).
I am from a "business" family in India: This means, most of my relatives run small and large businesses. Risk and entrepreneurship is considered normal and a desirable thing to do. Due to this I know a lot of types of businesses and get access to data of their revenues and profitability.

The most profitable businesses I have seen built in the past 5 years, are brick and mortar, infrastructure and real estate businesses. These are not VC funded, or typical for the HN crowd. These are very offline businesses, built on angel capital (friends and family), then institutional bank loans and then directly public money via small IPOs at the best outliers.

A few of these businesses make $100MN+ revenues and the scenarios in which they reached here, was the Government + private contractor nexus. Privileged access to information and contracts is the only case where I have seen hockey stick growths of revenue in India. Most of the profitability comes from "cutting corners".

These businessmen/women stay off the public radar, typically run massively profitable businesses.

Most of them wouldn't consider going to a VC. Private Equity, sometimes yes.

So, in view, its a great time to be in India and to build infrastructure projects, brick and mortar things. A "relationship" with the Government officials is almost a necessary condition to get the contracts. I don't know how honest you can remain in this business, but I have seen so many examples of real startup like hockey stick growth. Hustlers is the word I can think of people who succeed in this type of environment.
http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-repays...
I think you should ask this (or search for this) on http://security.stackexchange.com
Sure, if you generate the same amount of traffic.
I love that this is happening and this innovation is extremely important in the Australian market.

However, if you're an Australian company that wants to deal exclusively or largely in USD -- then you need to keep an eye on the cost.

Pin is offering $50/month ($9 promo atm) - then 3% and $0.30 on every transaction. Then for foreign exchange there is "a retail foreign exchange rate of 4% on top of the wholesale interbank rate at the time of the transaction"
https://pin.net.au/pricing

Plus if you've got USD outgoings - e.g. paying for EC2 - you'll cop the foreign exchange on the way out too.

All of these things chip away & can add up to quite a considerable overhead.
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DS9 was enjoyable and had a few great episodes, but I don't know that its had a lasting effect on me as B5 did.
The only real option is presumably the Dart route: Work really hard to make it compile to fast javascript and integrate well, and do a native VM as a separate option that can at some point be slotted in as an "optimisation" if the language gets enough traction. I don't think that alternative looks that bad. I'd rather have that, than go back to plugin hell or have browsers bloated with support for tons of languages.
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A Mac is not needed :)
Well, that's one of the ways. The fun one involves GDB :)
Not sure why they need to do that, AUD/USD forex is something like .1 of a percent given a high enough amount if I recall correctly. I am probably missing something.
Ironically medieval prisons were only for those awaiting trial - prison wasn't seen as a punishment only an administrative means of keeping hold of people.

Given what they'd do if you were found guilty...
>Therefore it often makes sense for Google to throw half-baked products out there and get help from others to gain traction, Android being the shining example.

I'm not sure Android is a good example of "Google making their money from usage".

For one, have the Android development costs been recouped even? Including the Motorola buyout.

Second, the more successful companies (Amazon with Kindle and Samsung, which is 95% of all Android sales IIRC), are either already having or in the process of locking Google out of it. The Fire's already doing it, and Samsung is investigating it's own path there too.

And if they could replace the web search to something else, they probably would -- but there's nothing much at the moment, which is why even iOS using Google as the default.
I don't see it as at all odd or surprising that the profits of the PC release of Brutal Legend will go in to the game. Double Fine will be reaping all of the profit from Broken Age, so it seems sensible that they carry some of the risk through investing their own money.
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The "Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations" of the State of California tweeted [0] a related article [1] titled Why the Producer of "The Hangover Part III" Spends So Much Time in Prison.

[0] https://twitter.com/CACorrections/status/340220581972692992

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/hangover-part-iii-e...
https://github.com/nddrylliog/thechoice/pull/3 :)
Totally. I don't know how it is in the US, but in AU braintree doesn't even compete with eway + your choice of bank.

IMHO Pin lowers the barrier to entry for accepting CC, which is most welcome, and long overdue in this country.
The tech scene here is quite thriving. We have "Port 80" meetups[1], as well as many other meetups for a vary of topics. As you said the universities here and quite tech-focused (Curtin, Murdoch, UWA) which is great, and the TAFE courses are usually full (for IT/Web/Programming).

There is quite a lot of businesses who want customised web solutions (not just in mining, but would account for a large portion), so as a result there are quite a few web companies here in Perth who do anything from small business websites all the way up to customised systems. The industry does go quiet sometimes, however it's usually pretty busy especially as more people over east bring business over to Perth thanks to the thriving web market here :).

[1] - port80.asn.au
Exactly. All a government would need to do is set up a laundry service with the lowest fees and they would be able to track and map a lot of juicy bitcoin usage.
If you use you document's SHA256 as a private key or one of keys in MULTISIG 1-of-2 transaction, then you can get your amount of BTC back to your normal address. You will only pay a fee to a miner if it's required. No coins will be destroyed.
No problem here - Firefox 14.0.1 - Ubuntu.
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Yup. Thats well worth pointing out. Pin is awesome for Australian facing businesses, but if you want to trade in USD, better off elsewhere.
Don't forget the costs of relying on authority. First, trust can be broken. Second, if notary is offline or asleep you cannot register your data.

Also: even if you fully trust your notary, it's no guarantee some random people in Japan, Australia or South America will trust him too. Anyone anywhere can verify blockchain, though.
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A bit of a frustrating read. What exactly is a "performance swing"? Does that mean performance increased or decreased? I find the writing does not match the precision required to cover a highly technical topic.
Is Perth rolling in money the way that London is? Here, the financial money favours financial startups.

Perth is wealthy, but is the money mostly poured back into mining related ventures?
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This is why opera is now using chromium.
The evidence appears to indicate that it's far less effective as a disincentive than people hope.

For prison to work as a disincentive, people need to be capable of making sensible decisions about what to do NOW in order to create a better distant future. They often aren't. Criminals are often people who do very badly at this. They don't want to be in prison twenty years from now, but it's not going to affect how they live their life now.

If prisons as thought of as primarily a disincentive, it's a very expensive way of getting not much back. I expect it's a cultural thing.
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.html#C4
- FBI Local Office
- US. Secret Service (can't see how much use they would be for this
- Internet Crime Complaint Centre

Also, a lot of detailed information on the relative departments here
http://listcrime.com/reportcybercrime.html
I think that assumes that they are in the same state of mind of a well balanced person. If they are hungry, tired (of life), scared, have no other option then the risk reward may skew to them thinking that the risk of prison is worth it.
But, Big IT companies in India are only marginally better than government jobs. I mean look at any major IT services company and you can see similar problems you could probably face in a government job.

Mass hiring, usual linguistic and state based politics, layers and layers of managerial politics, partiality and biased promotions given to managers's yes men, stagnant pay, slow promotions... I mean all your horrors of a government job are now in your big software companies. And I refuse to believe that this only happens in services companies, all big companies have these problems including 'the big product giants'. Even if you join Google India, you will face these problems.

At the end, its all about how much money you can make before you are 35-40. So that you retire and work on projects of your interest.
Supposedly, sections of the East Side Access subway project in New York cost upwards of one million dollars per foot. I can't imagine how much a vacuum-sealed tunnel would cost.
Nice idea (even similar to http://picturesdeal.com) and very good photos kudos mikaelcho.
Good point, I wasn't thinking of the revenge aspect. I guess the system in this case feels like it's purpose is to exact revenge on behalf of society
Just something curious while "walking around" ... https://www.google.com/maps?ll=41.869635,-87.648258&spn=...
Banshee from Halo?
Hint: cross side to side (following parent link) of street looking to sky
> "Active Directory runs pretty much every Enterprise and Corporation worldwide"

From that, I'd say: so much for "we're a devices and services company now".
> I know of at least one Berkeley ML PhD. that was working on a startup that could have easily used the slogan

Out of interest: what is/was the companies name?
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This is how: http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses/content.aspx?menuid=0&d...
For the video of the presentation: http://vimeo.com/49718712
There's an excellent free book - Minining Massive Datasets - http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html
This isn't the pre internet age, though. There are plenty of people with degrees and advanced degrees you can find on meetup.com to enjoy IRL discussions with on a certain topic.
I actually only zoom on HN, if I want to sit back with my feet up at my desktop I can do so.

Don't be lazy and just think people won't. I was on a website the other day where the shopping cart, category and price filters all disappeared completely if you zoomed in, which was a shame because they had size 6 text and great products; it was enough to put me off buying anything from that website.
IOS status status bar notification/alert library
Backend as a Service(BaaS) as Mobile's new middleware
Pick any of the main browsers, the main advance in the UI is the slimming down of controls. Even Opera went from a g'zillion toolbars down to a slim default interface. The rendering engines receive loads of attention while the basic browser UI is just plain boring and out dated. Camino doesn't really look that out of place even today.

Has Firefox gone completely native then on OSX? From what I can tell on Linux is that Firefox and Opera stand out (and even Chrome that shuns your system title bar..) These three apps are out of place on my desktop. At least Camino blended in.
People are down-voting this (presumably for containing the words "central authority") but it's actually pretty realistic.

What we need is a log-linear graph of a few things. The BitCoin production rate is ramping down exponentially, and everybody who gets interested in BitCoin makes BitCoin more interesting, so there is probably an exponential increase in both the value of BitCoin and the number of miners of BitCoin. Finally, the cost of the ASICs needed to mine BitCoin effectively are diminishing by Moore's law at an exponential rate.

Probably when you add these effects on a log-linear plot together, they add up to a straight line going slightly upwards; it's still worthwhile to join the network. But if you just think about it for a second, all of these could change. Moore's law can break down, interest can level off, miners' ambitions could skyrocket.

It is quite plausible that the line would shift downward and new people would stop coming in, and eventually the smaller groups would stop running their own BitCoin miners. The larger miners might even buy them up. When that happens one can certainly imagine that an oligopoly of more than 50% of the computational resources of the network emerges, which turns BitCoin into a centrally regulated currency.
That's hardly a good Mac UI. On the Mac:

1. Tab close buttons should be on the left, not the right.

2. They got the tab title right, in the center, but site icon should be right next to the site title, not on the far left.
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