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With the addition of Hyperloop, Elon Musk is basically transforming transportation in all possible ranges:

- Short-range (in-city, cross-city): Tesla

- Medium-range/long-range (cross-state, possibly cross-country & cross-continent): Hyperloop

- Ultra-long-range (cross-planetary, possibly cross-galactic): SpaceX
I am not quite getting the connection between Elon Musk and ET3, besides some similarities in goals.

As far as I can tell, this is not Elon Musk's idea/company, the article is only written to imply but not actually say that it is.

ET3 website: http://et3.com/about-daryl-oster
If you can't hold your urine for 30 minutes you shouldn't be commuting in the first place.
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Dude... not to go all reddit on you but first-world-problems doesn't begin to describe it.
It goes down the tubes when it gets to the terminating station :) I'm sure they can design it like an airplane or bus cabin with regard to disposing of human waste, a small lavatory will probably be OK.
I think there is a commonality between the war against pirating , wikileaks and government surveillance programs that all relate in some way to "information wants to be free." I'm not quite sure how to articulate it.

Basically, there is a trend. Technology liberates "information" by improving access to it. But the same forces also work on aggregating information. Information is not just what the government is doing. It's also what you are doing.

When we talk about governments trying harder to maintain their secrets or record companies trying to maintain their copyrights, it seems like they are fighting a lost cause. You can't fight the trend. copyright is meaningless in a world of digital copies. Information gets out. It gets aggregated. Is that any different from these

Same force only this time we don't like the result.
I think in any line of work if you go around thinking that you know everything about a subject because you got 100% in some academic test then you would be an accident waiting to happen.

Having an understanding that you don't know everything is a pretty important thing to learn.
Name seemed familiar, and in deed their blog has posts from 2011 when they were a SaaS. Anyone know what happened, did it simply fail and they open sourced it or is there something else in play here?

Cool project either way though :)
I don't doubt they exist, it's just in the comments on HN, usually the only thing that's touted is that "it's not MySQL" in that it doesn't have the quirks MySQL does (in regards to silently munging data types, etc). Sometimes performance/scalability is also discussed.
Can you elaborate on your 'tude?
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It's called medical tourism, and it's absolutely rife in Asia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism (I guess Oklahoma is the new Mexico, or something.)
Uh, the Source engine is very well acclaimed. Valve may not market it like Epic or Crytek, but it has stood up well to time and has received numerous updates.

The guys at Respawn, with Titanfall, seem to be doing just fine with such "old" tech.
In fairness, if something goes wrong at 100MPH you're probably dead too, so beyond that point the difference isn't that important.
You got to this before me, but thank you for posting it.

I remember reading that paper in college. It was the first thing I thought of when I read this. While rooted in the experience of liberal and women's groups, it really has lessons for anybody working in any organization that tries to eschew formality, including startups.

http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

"the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can be so easily established because the idea of "structurelessness" does not prevent the formation of informal structures, only formal ones ... Thus structurelessness ... is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not). As long as the structure of the group is informal, the rules of how decisions are made are known only to a few and awareness of power is limited to those who know the rules. Those who do not know the rules and are not chosen for initiation must remain in confusion, or suffer from paranoid delusions that something is happening of which they are not quite aware."
"If anything goes wrong with this I'm dead" does not deter people from driving 100 mph on free ways and boarding planes.
The Haskell hype is already over the top.
People should re-read this article carefully. There is an insinuated connection between Musk's Hyperloop plan and the company ET3 and their evacuated tube design, but there is none.
The hyperloop is a different concept than the one used by ET3, which Musk is not affiliated with.
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If somebody cared enough to be willing to give $9000 for said virtual spaceship, then yes you could consider that money lost.
A few suggestions, since the author seems to be hanging around in this thread:

It would be good if plurals for variable names were the same as the singular, so that

light speed = 299,792,458 meters/second

Would be compatible with

time to earth=> 499.242173411seconds

Also, it would be nice if "per" was equivalent to /

Also, it would be nice if definitions didn't have to be

Single item on the left = many things on the right. For example, this would be nice:

Miles per gallon = 34
Gas tank = 13 gallons
Range = miles per gas tank

So far I'm having a lot of fun and already posted it to Facebook.
"long stretches of european monarchy shows this"

I'm struggling to think of many examples from the history of the UK/England/Scotland (and there was a civil war 350 years ago to end absolute power of the monarchy), were there saner royals elsewhere in Europe before everyone switched to keeping their royals as fairly powerless heads of state?
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I would be more intrigued how Hyperloop would play as a competing technology vs Tesla for short range commutes say SF to San Jose. Would hyperloop be discouraged for such "short-range" routes because Tesla could then pick up the slack? Or would they assume that those who used Hyperloop were probably never going to buy a car?
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I have literally not heard of a coming referendum at all, although in in the states and not necessarily current. Got any more details?
An optional<T> has two states: it either holds a T or nothing.

But T could be a pointer to a valid object or a null pointer, or am I wrong?

C++ has value types and it's perfectly possible to pass objects that cannot be null.

Only if those values live on the stack. What about heap objects?
Cars can drive around obstacles. Planes don't have set paths. But if some terrorist asshole blows up the tube, your are screwed. Heck even if it's just punctured, the compression wave of air pushing into the evacuated tube might be enough to kill you, no crash needed.

That said, it would be awesome for nonvolatile freight.
This reminds me of what Einstein had to say about discovering Relativity.. "In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."
Both those things offer a chance of survival (just look at the number of uninjured survivors in the SFO crash a few days ago). And in a car you also have control of the speed. At 4000MPH I don't think there is any possibility of survival and the kind of mistake needed to cause an accident at those speeds is probably very small. It may not sound completely rational but I think it's something that a lot of people will think about.
"possibly cross-galactic"

Hyperbole? Or do you know something about the physics of cross-galactic travel that the rest of us don't?
If Scala provided all the things that were mentioned in the article exactly as is, Scala would become essentially yet another Haskell and couldn't do many things that Haskell can't (e.g. seamless usage of Java libraries, real OOP support or performant imperative code). And this would probably restrict it to the academic-niche.
You could just as easily say that Python (one of the languages listed as non-puzzle) is a puzzle language because it lacks goto, so you have to puzzle out ways to model your control flow and looping into the more rigid while-loops, for-loops and if-else-branches. "I want to execute this block at least one time, but not necessarily the second, and I have to check these conditions here, but I have to declare the boolean variable over here... Oh my kingdom for a goto!"
This link was in the comments on that article with some speculation on how it might work http://bentilly.blogspot.de/2012/11/speculating-about-hyperl...
I understand that but most people don't think that logically :)
Ask HN: How to monetize a Hamiltonian Cycle Problem solver?
Is there a market for a HCP solver that could solve instances with thousands of vertices in minutes ... (albeit most of the time instead of all the time)?
It's probably in the same place as the restroom in a car.

As the pods seem to be quite small, for longer journeys, it's probably possible/practical to request for your pod to be dropped at the next station on demand if you need to go. For shorter journeys, just hold it.
Um, what? Of course there's a windows community, in every sense of the word. There are magazines, conferences, and forums for windows programming and windows programmers. There are trends, fads, and innovations.

.. and there are practices that are commonly found on windows programming that are beyond the pale in other environments (loading your app into memory every time the machine starts, installing malware during setup, etc).
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Sometimes it is good to drop into non-idiomatic, imperative code for the sake of performance. This is one of the things I like Scala for - it lets you choose your poison.
I can't find evidence for any link between Musk and ET3. The article states:

"ET3's Hyperloop-like project already has a number of schematics and plans already in place."

Which doesn't suggest to me that they're affiliated.
> without it all those words will lose their meaning, and people will invent new ones.

I can see where you're coming from, and can respect that, but it still feels to me like this idea that we will just perpetually invent new words that serve the same exact purpose to be a bit of an unconvincing assumption. I have no problem believing that racial slurs will go the way of the dodo eventually for example, so would there be a need to replace such words exactly? Maybe the words themselves will be adapted to fit a narrower/different definition, but the point is that it doesn't matter whether the words themselves stay static or not, because the zeitgeist that produced their meanings won't stay static anyway. So either we'll adapt the old ones to these new meanings, or we'll just resort to inventing new words for these similar/derived concepts when the old words are 'unavailable'.

And even this is still assuming that it is somehow innate for us to 'swear', or that 'swearing' as a concept is even well defined enough to try and do anything with it (like try to avoid it). I mean, if I use the word "fudge" everywhere the classic "F-word" would otherwise be used, why is it then still not considered a swear word? Maybe you could argue that it is, and that's cool, but clearly it carries significantly less of a 'sting' to it. So does it still make sense to lump it in with the other swear words? It just feels too arbitrary and ill-defined of a concept.

I don't disagree that we should reserve some expressions for intense emotions (such as those originally attributed to swearing), but like I said, Context is a key part of the language equation, which itself isn't even all that matters in communication (e.g. vocal intonation, and the whole array of non-verbal communications). Language really can't be considered in isolation, it very much still a product of verbal communication, so you have to take those factors into account too.

Besides, the whole debate about whether language limits thought or thought structures language is still up in the air, so to try and say anything conclusive about something that seems to be a purely linguistic artifact feels a bit premature.
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If I were writing a Windows app, the leanest language (barring x86 assembly) would be C written to the Win32 API. Analogously, what would be the leanest way to program on the server side. We're building a web-based application with some server side components and would like to program those in C++. What would be the best choice for platform libraries and tools. Our objective is to produce the leanest code so that we can service lots of clients with minimal compute power.
At the risk of submitting myself to further judgment, and going far offtopic, yes, I did. I had gotten into an accident, wherein I was wrongly ticketed for hitting another car who had turned in front of me despite my right of way. I went to court and spoke my piece, and the judge overturned my ticket, leaving my only liable for court costs (I think it was $50).

At the time, I was working a part time, $7 an hour night-shift job across town, and had just had to expend the paltry savings I had accrued to replace the aforementioned car that I wrecked. In short, I couldn't afford to pay the $50 fine when it was due, and couldn't afford to miss work.

Before I could pay the $50, somebody had broken the window of my new car, broken in, and stolen all my books for class (which were extremely expensive to replace, along with the window. Before I got around to paying the court, they had suspended my driving privileges. Cost to reinstate was $236.74 (I remember it distinctly, even 16 years later as being so reasonable, yet so painfully high at the same time.)

It took me a few months to save that money up, and in the interim, I made a somewhat ill-advised judgement call. It wasn't as though my license had been suspended for any reasons to do with my driving ability, and I needed the job. It was at night, so mass transit wasn't an option, and at the time, none of my friends worked nights, so getting rides wasn't really an option either. My options, as I saw them, was to drive illegally and hope to not get caught, or to relinquish the job I had and dig further into certain financial ruin. I chose the former.
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It's very disingenuous to say that Valve backstabbed you when they willingly handed over all the legal rights to your project when you left.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/18/4343382/technical-illusion...

Granted, a firing is never a graceful affair, but Valve could've done much worse if they wanted to.

It seems to me that Valve was cutting some losses and her project wasn't showing much promise compared to other things they had going on, so they let her go.
Nah, the lesson I was thinking about was taught earlier, in the days of AWT. Back then, Java was fairly slow, and the garbage collector was not as sophisticated as today. When the GC started collecting, you knew.
I have some four-letter domains that start with "w", should I try? =)
Bring back Project Orion and generation ships to alpha centauri become feasible, just hard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...

I don't know of anyone that is seriously looking at Orion anymore though. I suspect that whatever will eventually take us there will be to Orion as the Flying Scotsman is to Hero's Engine.
Why do they seem to repeat everything they say? I can't work out if it's automated or not.
Intel graphics I assume. The terminal program does use 3d graphics so might load it down a bit.
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Yes, true. The biggest problem with this is the short-term planning of everything... Have a look at the map of Germany and Austria-Hungary (I'm European and I didn't know they were so vast). "Vienna was then the capital not of a minor Central European country but the hub of the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire that extended over much of Eastern and Southeastern Europe". It made for a good breeding-ground for new idea's (think the time of Freud and others).

Map: http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_1_effect.htm
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Found it! Not the updater, but how I can use the more recent version.

In chrome://plugins/ (+ "Details") I can choose between Chrome's Flash and the "normal" Flash.
He's been their CEO for years. Mittens is probably the single most powerful person in the game.
Is cycling that dangerous in the US compared to Europe?
When the first cars came out in early 20th century people thought exactly the same thing. The mindblowing speed of 20 mph was far too dangerous for common man!
Yes! I totally agree! It doesn't even have to be intended as a coffee shop - just like a coworking space where I can show up, plug my laptop in to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, sit down at a comfy office chair and desk, and work for a few hours. Would gladly pay for that service.
It's worrying that words are being redefined to the extent that Obama doesn't make any sense anymore.
You also get an instant friendly community in pretty much every bigger city if you dance something popular (like Salsa). This is great when traveling.
Sure. Here are some links to follow.

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http://www.councilreferendum.com.au/

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As I've alluded to, the element of this that pertains to privacy is the incorporation into the Australian Constitution of Council fiduciary compliance. It has been law since 2007 in Australia that in any question impacting the federal taxing power authority conferred by the constitution, such queries can be made as a matter if course, as long as permission is obtained from a single signing supervisor.
Wondering how people react over time when they receive more and more trust and as such become more powerful. Does abuse of power come with the power itself?

One way to mitigate this would be to dampen the Karma. For example by using a logarithmic scale. effective-karma = log(karma+1)
Can anyone comment on the advantages that this extra precision will bring?
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I'd love to play Eve, because it seems like a pretty intense sort of game but it also seems like you need to really commit a lot of time and resources to it. So instead I live vicariously through battle reports like this.
It was an EU wide law. Each country implemented EU in similar but different ways.
It's also a poster child of secure F/OSS comms - easy to get the source code, and crazy difficult to have a secure conversation with a verified buddy.

There's no obvious getting started guide, no plain English explanation stating that Pidgin must be installed first, nothing about configuring for first use, and nothing about starting a verified conversation.
They are giving commands to possibly hundreds of people that might not speak english as a native language. In addition sometimes there is more than one voice talking at the same time and their mic might not exactly be clear. Also, many times they are calling a persons name out and then people have to remember the name and search for it through a list of hundreds of other names. It's repeated so they don't have to remember the name.
Honestly, I'm tired of that kind of articles..

Don't get me wrong I would love to read how hyperloop will work and I'm really excited about it.

Instead I see on HN tons of badly written speculations about what was said a long time ago. Especially those from news sites don't add any new information or analysis.

It just an attractive title to get some page views. It's missing the point, Elon Musk said explicitly that it's not evacuated tube. There are blog post which are superior to this article.
I stay in my parent's basement so I don't have to be subjected to TSA body imaging, why would I want to do it at home?

j/k it's more of a tin-foil covered shed, but there may be some evidence that tHz radiation causes "resonance effects" resulting in DNA depolymerization:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/416066/how-terahertz-wa...

http://www.biomedproofreading.com/Hintzsche.pdf

So get the pat down folks, your genes will thank you!
Try installing powertop, and see for yourself. It generally isn't the kernel.
It would seem the British were 'assisted' with parting with their empire by the US:
"...an ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival".
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Yes. But the default browser options are "accept all cookies, without asking", which goes against the spirit of the law, and also the letter.
You have to think about children and older people who don't have the degree of self control we adults do.

Or the car itself will become the toilet.

P.S. Wondering who downvoted my above, and quite legitimate, comment. Somebody mustthink I don't like Elon Musk or something, when nothing could be further from the truth.
In theory that's true, and I hope Scala eventually makes non-null, immutability and perhaps even I/O visible at the type level. In practice as long as it's clear when you are bypassing these systems, and you have a culture of not doing so (and the language libraries are part of the same culture), you get most of the benefits.

Even in Haskell you can cast out of your type system, or unsafePerformIO, no?
Thanks for clarifying. I was under the impression ET3 was a stealth company he set up that has been working on Musk's idea. The article doesn't make it clear that the two are not connected.
> But you know what? They do go away if you tunnel over a deflate-compressed VPN, or if you increase the available bandwidth by a few percent. Maybe instead of trying to take us back to bug-prone 1960s designs you should be working on that.

This was mentioned once in the IETF discussion, before someone said "but uhm, SPDY is binary, and we have data from SPDY, and yeah".

After that everyone was too busy discussing how horrible unstrict and ambigious text-formats can be, before jumping off to a 20 email discussion about which endianess should be preferred and how the clients and server should determine which one to use, or maybe clients should support both kinds endianess.

All without a hint of irony. It's like a Bizarro world IETF discussion.
A trip to Alpha Centauri would be decidedly intra-galactic; the distance from the Sun to the edge of our galaxy is on the order of 4300 times the distance from the Sun to Alpha Centauri.
No, it wouldn't, because that's not what we're discussing. The discussion was danger one vehicle poses to the other, and the only significant cause for bike fatalities is car accidents - there are no chasms to fall in in the flattest country in the world, and the speed at which one travels on a bike is much slower so much less likely to be fatal in case of a crash with a stationary object. So this is a very real metric of how dangerous bikes are to cars and vice versa.

EDIT: And even then it's skewed in favour of the car, because for cars the fatality rate is more likely due to crashes with other cars.
Something not unsimilar has been tried in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Pneumatic_Despatch_Comp...

In the 1860s there were a series of pneumatic tubes built under London, they were primarily built for cargo but it was perfectly feasible for people to travel in them (engineers working on the system did so).
It could use requestAnimationFrame in the future, then the js won't need to specify an interval.

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