skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't remember any specific issues about extending the Vélib outside Paris, but perhaps I didn't pay attention too much. Can you develop ?

I don't thing centralizing things more than they are today would significantly improve the issues faced by the various neighbouring municipalities. Au contraire, I'm a proponent of decentralization.
I've found the same thing is true about NYC. There are loads of free and cheap things to do. Especially during the summer.

Much more so than most other US cities, where everything is pay-to-play and you have to pay for driving and parking as well.
The fuel used to fly does not only cost money to buy but also costs environment to burn. I am quite happy if people are cheap when it comes to the environment. It is more likely that they are watching their wallets instead but in this rare case that seems to be win-win.
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Not a jurisdiction, but your data is pretty safe from warrantless wiretapping in a Tor .onion server.
Okay, so forgive me as I only fly VFR piston if I am mistaken with some of the airways routing.

But, I don't care that its 2,200 nm straight line. It's going to be a lot more than that.

United have quoted that time because they have added up how long they will spend climbing and descending. Odds are that the plane that has never existed will need to get high to be able to go fast. This takes time. Generally they don't go for more than 1,000ft per min.

The whole best rate of climb and performance thing is hard to discuss because this craft doesn't exist. But lets say it takes 30 min, and has a Y speed of 450nm on average.

Going back to the united one, not knowing what they fly, lets just use 550knots because thats kinda faster side of common. They are able to do 3,000nm in that time, yet the straight line distance is just 2,200nm. All that time spent climbing/descending smoothly, then don't forget holding a few NDBs before entering the main patern. Circuit Speed isn't going to change much.

I would just suggest then that no matter what happens, we've 1hour of 'slow' time for that flight. That gives us about 1800nm to go faster on. That is about 3:20 with current gen stuff. Lets go for the best case, just subsonic. That is 660~knots. So we can now do it in 2:45, a massive saving of 35 min. So now that time could be 4:50. Add in security, baggage, transport to and from airport.

Not going to make much difference. Having more (maybe smaller) planes a day will be better for people who's time is very valuable. I believe Musk has his own Yakk which is capable of some 1000knot+ speeds.
It depends what kind of trip you are taking. For some trips the journey is more important than the destination. I wouldn't trade my childhood road trips across the country in for the alternative.
Enjoy your 36 hour commute across the US.
the one posted by OP seems to be more deep.
You're suggesting that dense cities drive people crazy (sorry if you aren't), but it's not clear whether it's like that, or that crazy people tend to gravitate towards center with high population densities.
Probably "kill". I don't think that was the point though.
The DLP had the benefit of a number of favourable preference deals, but nobody noticed or cared until a DLP Senator was elected. But the ASP got widespread coverage.

Family First gets coverage because they are very good at faking noise and movement. They learnt well from previous generations of protest movement. The body of media hadn't yet innoculated themselves against it in the way they have against weekly the National Days of Action and Marches Against Whatever that take place in Sydney and Melbourne CBDs every 20 minutes.
Everybody I know who writes assembly language in practice now, self included, prototypes most of it in C first -- why not take the huge headstart from the compiler generated ASM?

And I usually prototype the C in Python first :D
Reltrek.com - could you get me some feedback, please?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5893145
Sorry buddy, Superman can go much faster than mach five.
The question of people being frozen in the hope of being revived is mentioned in a very peculiar way in the "Transmetropolitan" comics (by Waren Elis) . I really hope for Mr Winborn that the future's going to be a better place :))
Or change the terms.txt file to suit your needs and agree. It's legal to make those changes because it's in the terms...
Well, there's Lynda Obst for one...
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> a 1000% interest loan would certainly not be reasonable.

Some payday loans calculated APR is in the high hundreds of percentages (like 600%+). Lenders are often required by law to report the APR even though the terms of the loan may only be for a few weeks worth of time, causing the inflated APR.

Payday loans, however, are generally held to be enforceable contracts.
Redesigning with rules
Good question, but complex to answer precisely.

Short answer: same order of magnitude for four people.

Longer answer:
The airplane burns about $75 of gas & oil per hour, and I figure the total cost is about $250/hr. (I fly it about 125 hours a year, and all my costs, including hangar, charts, insurance, in-year maintenance/inspections, and maintenance reserves for long-lived items [engine, prop, avionics] come to around $30K/year.) My local flight school rents a newer version of my plane for $209/hr, but they fly more hours per year, so that indicates my cost estimates are in the right ballpark.

This trip will be about 15 flight hours, or just under $4K in avg costs, or just over $1K in marginal costs. That's for a family of four (two adults, two kids 2 or over, so everyone needs an airline seat).

In real terms, if we had to fly commercial, we'd have skipped seeing my very old grandparents (always possibly for the last time), and only flown into Lexington for the wedding, rented a car for the week at the lake, and driven the three hours down here like the rest of the family.

Looking at far advance purchases on hipmunk, that looks to be $484pp on Delta, plus $100 in bag fees (2 bags, round trip), plus a rental car that we can avoid by having one of the family cars pick us up at the small airport just down the road from the lake.

So, same order of magnitude: airline is more expensive than the marginal costs, less expensive than the average costs. (And there's a lot of "hobby time" to train, stay proficient, geek out on airplane forums, and light airplanes are not nearly as "almost all weather" as airliners.)

Other less tangible items:
Much safer statistically to fly Delta than a piston single.

My kids know "Jeda and Baba", their late 80s great-grandparents, because they live 2 miles from a cheap-gas airport on the way to/from one set of their grand-parents, so we stop in for lunch/dinner and sometimes one overnight on those trips, including this one. I'm not especially sentimental, or extended-family oriented, but even still, that's worth a lot to me, as the day is coming all too soon when they won't be here and if we flew commercial, we'd literally never stop in to see them except for family funerals.

Big one for my wife: my airplane has lavatories at "either end of the flight", but not on-board. Now, we can divert anytime and be on the ground inside of 10 minutes usually, but for a 2 or 4 year old, or a pregnant 30-something, that can be a long time...
as a Computer Science student, I am embarrassed that this is true at least for me, though I am eager to learn...
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Isn't that how the world works? Effort without impact is just wasted effort.
I can't resist a quick plug for this beautiful O(n) implementation of the fibonacci sequence in Haskell. One line to define the list `fibs` -- an infinite list of fibonacci numbers -- and one line to define the function `fib` which simply takes the n'th element of the list.

λ> let fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)
λ> let fib n = fibs!!n
λ> fib 100
354224848179261915075
Used this for some parts of shockoedenim.com, highly recommend.
> Many papers publish reports on things where the sources are not even named; indeed, the protection of anonymous sources is one of the tenets of journalism.

Except this isn't the WSJ reporting on a new iPhone "rumor", this is a very public release of important information. He's already outed himself, so this isn't about protection of anonymity.

It really isn't hard for the Guardian and Snowden to setup a CoT including PGP. They can verify it using a key pair they have ultimate trust in and then include that verification in their posts. It isn't asking a whole lot for them to say why or how they have trust in the responses they're getting. I trust the Guardian, what I don't trust is whether or not we're actually getting answers from Snowden that aren't being manipulated en route or otherwise not "live" and intact.
It seems to be using a private API method of UITextChecker. [checker suggestWordInLanguage:@"en_US"]; to generate each word in the list. Can anyone explain what this method is actually doing? It doesn't take any sort of argument (other than language), does it literally just give you a random english word?
Cars put out smog and non-CO2 air pollution, as well.
>Laws may put more requirements than pressing a button. The normal standard in Sweden is to make a written paper and then let both sides sign that. Scrolling past a lot of text and then pressing OK does not pass that hurdle.

That would be an incorrect understanding of the law or at least common law. When you go out to purchase a drink from Starbucks, you have formed a contract with them. Signing is not essential to forming a contract.
I believe you are missing a substantial scalability issue. From an article in The Telegraph "the Globe has played to 480,000 people this year". It seems to seat somewhere around 2000, so I am willing to believe that they have about 200 performances per year.

Living in the US I'm well aware of urban sprawl and the near inability to define imaginary borders. However for the sake of argument, wikipedia claims a bit over 8 million inhabitants in London.

Some long division and making the HUGE assumption that The Globe only permits admittance to locals (LOL I'm guessing its probably 90% rich tourists like myself) then the average local can only visit The Globe once every 16 years rather than your "frequent trips". If my estimate of 90% tourist statistics is correct, then the average London resident can only physically visit The Globe once every 160 years. Of course the average lifespan of a london resident probably does not approach 160 years. And there are more cultural activities than just The Globe. But lets say you want to do something every weekend... Personally I'd take the train and live somewhere else, but if you can find 160*52 = 8352 other equally cheap and worthy cultural activities then it would scale.

"I would never have discovered my love for Classical music, ... if ... the tickets so cheap."

For me it was free audio rentals at the public library. Back when they used vinyl and magnetic tape. They freely loan CDs now, there is a limit but its ridiculous like 10 loaned at a time. I used to visit my local library every week, but the local symphony only plays something like 8 different performances per year, so do the math there. In this modern era its trendy to claim people only want someone elses streaming selections rather than having a mp3 of their own and making their own selection decisions, regardless of how ridiculous that is, its also more or less free.

I live on what amounts to a very small landed estate technically in the suburbs, but somewhat rural. I visit Chicago roughly annually and soak in some culture. I'm glad I don't live there, so I can trivially afford to visit, and my tourist dollars are crowding the locals out of the very cultural activities they supposedly pay $3000/month to live nearby, while I pay about a third that to live in a vastly superior location about 100 miles away. You'd be surprised what a couple extra thousand dollars per month adds up to in the long run.
Methods of Asynchrony: Paradigms for Asynchronous Programming
For anyone using PhantomJS I'd recommend checking out CasperJS (http://casperjs.org/) . It adds some nice features to PhantomJS and takes out a lot of the pain points
FDA cautions against cyberattacks on medical devices
NSA method of hacking 
The NSA does not require heavy supercomputers to crack encrypted communication, only in very rare situations. Most encrypted data can be decrypted on the fly. Because if you own some root encryption keys you can solve it fast. Of course companies like versign go-daddy etc will keep those keys a secret. What is to be learned is that those keys are not safe. And their rootkeys have been hacked. Or let me better explain that they have not been hacked but stolen. Stolen ???, yes as this preferred method was proven with the stuxnet virus. Its more easy to steal them then to hack them. NSA think its in their rights to steal those from all over the world..

Just think about that potential...
While I'm all for propagating the knowledge of cryptography, there was a kid in High School would walk around handing his public key out to people on slips of paper. That wasn't terribly effective for him.
At the very least, asking people to generate app ideas as spec work (with a submission fee!) is worth it for the irony value.
They do, it's called private jets, and they are awesome.

And there's actually some interesting innovation going on in the space, with netjets, flexjet, jetsuite, and so on.
I define a "gang" as any organized group of people which systematically initiates force against others, or coerces them with the credible threat of force. A gang violates my core moral principle, which is that relations among people should be by mutual consent, or not at all.

That I understand. Big chewy bloated terms like "minarcho anarcho radical yadda yadda" mean nothing to me.
Yes, I agree you can only actually learn by doing. No amount of book-reading will equal your first startup in terms of practical knowledge and how to apply it. That said, one's own startup is necessarily narrow in scope and there is a ton that the active practitioner can learn from anecdotes from other startups, especially across different markets and industries, and with different talent and network constraints.
The greatest invention would be a body debugger.

Imaging + Genome Sequencing + Blood Tests

Still pretty barbaric compared to what we'll see in the future, but useful while we drag ourselves forward.

Anecdote: I was bit by a tick about 2 weeks ago. To get a lyme disease/meningitis test done, I had to pay my copay ($30) at my primary doctor (for him to approve the tests) and then had to make another appointment to have my blood drawn and tested by Lab Corp (~$200). I then had to wait for my doctor to call my back because Lab Corp would not provide my results directly to me (!!!).

Like I said. Barbaric.
I like the idea. I'm curious of what will be done in the four weeks. Is it pure coding or is it also R&D into the potential product's market? Will they be working on other client work in parallel or be fully dedicated to the selected product.

My point is that four weeks seems like a a lot of time to dedicate to a MVP. I've seen people bang one out in a weekend. With this kind of business proposal it would seem like a good idea to constrain the time spent on each proposal. As mgkismal suggested 1-2 weeks sounds like the sweet spot.
It's actually cheaper and faster to fly 1st, cut through all lines and be able to board at the last minute than to fly at Mach 1.
Ask HN: How do you come up with ideas when your to-do list is empty? 
Fellow entrepreneurs. What do you usually do when you are out of tasks? Where do you get new ideas? Actionable advices preferred, thanks.
I was thinking more like Philadelphia to Charlotte.
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Did he participate in insider trading? Do you believe he was framed?
Picking an AWS RDS instance? Well, the medium utilization tier is meaningless.
Most amazing product demonstration, ever.
Currently takes 6 hours by airplane. I don't see a bullet train beating that.

OTOH, there are a number of < 1500 km routes that could easily be served by train, if we didn't have some of the worst train service in the world. Bullet trains would be nice, but require new grading in many cases. I too would be happy just to get our old train network back.
I see the Harrison clock as a brilliant vindication of X-prize development, but I do not think we will solve the big problems through X-Prizes. What we will do is get the equivalent of bi-metallic strips and other engineering enhancements. My totally unscientific view is X-prizes allow unusual approaches to actually leave drawing board and get tried out - I suspect in a manner similar to war.

PS - yes he was "cheated" for decades out of a prize he had won. And given current Prince Charles' public letter campaigns on architecture and farming, I seriously doubt that parliament would be moved by that threat anymore !
Or, indeed, the complainant.
> encrypting your uTorrent downloads won't stop you getting busted if you are down/uploading copyrighted material.

Could you elaborate? Assume you mean using a VPN service while downloading.
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I've used a hobby brushless motor controller which was configured with a single button and a single blinking LED forming a kind of menu system. It was a fiddly process which required reading the manual carefully and a good memory of what state you were in. Thankfully it's only something which you need to do once in this case.
Slashdotted for me, anyone got a backup link?
Depending on what your routes and usage, higher speed is better than more frequent service.

For example, let's say your options are a 2 hour train that runs hourly, and an hour long ride that departs every other hour.

* Fast train: best case, 1 hour. Worst case, 2:59. Average case - about 2 hours.
* Slow train: best case, 2 hours. Worst case: 2:59. Average case - about 2.5 hours.

Of course this is one example - but there are definitely cases where increased speed is strictly better than increased frequency. (Unless being on the train is better than whatever you could be doing waiting for the train)
Yeah, that seems odd to people the first time. The experience is pretty nice though, since you get all the good stuff from the GitHub issue tracker when you join/create a thread (e.g. dealing with follow-ups by email).
Shameless plug, I've written a small piece of software which will send you daily aggregates of github activity via email. There are also weekly / monthly options as well.

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That is fairly wrong. Netflix is barely more convenient than pirating. I would gladly pay for Hulu+ as well if it had 0 ads, since Hulu+ happens to have a lot of content I would watch. However, with having to watch several ads each time, it simply becomes much easier to simply torrent what I want to see.
#python on Freenode. If you can live with being asked questions when you're asking something funny long enough to convince regulars you usually know what you're doing, it's an excellent congregation of some hella smart people.

(Disclaimer: I'm a regular of the channel myself. I also run the official Python channels on Freenode.)
"The cost of living in Paris is comparable to living in New York City or San Francisco."

This means that Paris is a very expensive city, as the article was pointing out.

How would compare the salary for that kind of position beetween Paris and SF or NYC, BTW ?
Imagine the US assassinating or imprisoning a Nobel Peace Prize winner. It wasn't that long ago where we would fight regimes who did that.
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What's your development environment like? What are you working on in that picture? Which programs are running in that picture?
Notice how Apple's PR strategy always involves waiting. They never speak up until after the main fury has died down. It's like when a person is being yelled at, sucks it up, waits 20 seconds, and then calmly responds.

It worked in Antennagate, and they are catching a lot less flak for their statement than Google and Facebook, who stepped into the melee right away.
One more thing, has anyone used BeautifulSoup for forever? Is the project still active? I mean the website is cute and all, but I find pyquery ( Also based on lxml) so much easier with parsing the scraped data.
Indeed.. I guess if your interested in working with top levels of government these are good resumes to scan to give you some insight on what to know and/or expect.
He most likely meant encrypted data transfer, which it built into many torrent clients.
#oftn on freenode is a great open source programming channel.
Per [1], it seems that the method in question is some sort of Markov generator that Apple uses to generate the passwords in the first place.

[1] https://www1.cs.fau.de/filepool/projects/hotspot/hotspot.pdf
Here's my issue with that, and, hey, I sort of agree, I have found pgp to be useful among hackers, but no one outside that circle has any interest in it, even my mom, the college math teacher.

But is this where the technorati has failed to fill their real social obligation? Are we the new Russian intellectuals who failed to engage the people? Are we so self-absorbed in navel-gazing on Hacker News that we fail to actually execute on the one idea that matters? If we can't restore the security of communications, how will history judge us?
Moving around the world is something that has always been ridiculously expensive, and the price comparators hardly help, they just add noise.

So yeah, it is about price, and if that problem is ever solved THEN people will discuss speed and other bonuses.

It's like piss poor managers pushing agile when their developers don't even have a computer. Priorities matter.
Meanwhile in Argentina, to quit a job you are legally obliged to send a telegram, and people still send them to congratulate newlyweds on their weddings.
Well this is a great example of when I do pay for the premium.

If I am going to Amsterdamn from London, I'll fly CityJet from LCY. London City Airport is brilliant. Mostly because its only used by frequent travellers, no people pushing right up to the baggage belt here, people all know they can spot and politely walk up to grab.

If your going to Antwerpen, their local airport is brilliant as well. LCY if you've only got carry on, you need only arrive 15 min before your flight. Most routes flown have 6-10 flights a day.

I have left the city (London) at 6pm, and been checked in to my hotel, having a nice trappist beer by 9pm on more than one occasion.

When you consider you can do the London to Antwerpn route for £120, return, including baggage, it is really brilliant. It's a 45 min flight total. The thing here is, its the ground facilities that make it so painless.