skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Producing and reading PDF isn't the issue.

Again, we have open source tools that will generate, mangle, introspect, disassemble, etc. to both ELF and PE binaries.

What PDF is not is the "preferred format for development", no matter how good the open-source tooling is.
I'm not saying that fighting won't bog a hyperloop down, but the Silver Line fighting was largely due to who was going to pay for it. You had Federal funds, VA state, each VA county, Dulles, and Metro all with their fingers in the pie. This hyperloop only has one state and a few stops, and it looks to be much cheaper than the HSR so it should be an easier pill to swallow.

They both have right-of-way issues, but what land-based project doesn't?
Worse, you'll can labeled a security concern just because you express an opinion that differs from the government's POV. Just look at the surveillance the government does to peaceful protesters.
Again, the problem isn't that HSR is a bad idea.
So in the future if I carry a keyboard around folded up in my pocket I can get root on any phone within ten feet? Neato.

Re the actual article - very interesting. Wish I knew how to solder. Reminds me of the ancient days when people bought their computers as kits.
To me, a 1/1000 atmosphere vacuum system IS a really leaky machine :) Anecdotally, the machine I used to work on would gleefully chew on that for hours idling while we scrambled to find the hiss on the system.

It made an awesome sound when it ground into the atmospheric pressure on initial pumpdown, but at about 1/100 atmo it got bored (mere minutes), and without additional high speed stages the mechanical pumps would backwash at 1/10000 atmo (though it would take a while to get from 1 hPa to 0.1 hPa, many multiples of the time it to to get from 100 hPa to 1 hPa).

Edit: fixed units (0.001hPa is still leaky for base pressures but a completely different thing from 0.001atm).
I feel a bit ashamed to say this, but as a polymath, wasn't Tagore's specific knowledge limited compared to Einstein's, who had been doing distributed work solely in scientific fields rather than spreading his knowledge thin with political matters and theology? Obviously the conversation in question doesn't involve much science, but if Tagore did have the scientific stature to debate Einstein with concrete detail, one could wonder why the conversation seemed metaphysical rather than concrete.
How to Overcome Fear to Get What You Want
Firefox on a tf700 dies horribly at around 3 fps.

I wonder how webgl will perform on the predominant browser platform - mobile.
Well, my own submission just got [dead]ed --no indication as to why-- but I'll paste my comment here as well:

I know very little about Bitcoin or money transmission laws. Unlike other currencies it does not seem to have fundamental dependence on any centralized arbiter, though the practicalities of large exchanges like Mt. Gox seem apparent to me. That lack of dependence on a Fed-like body appears to me like its biggest advantage, above any other potential for anonymous payment and laundering. I'd like to know what exactly is entailed in becoming compliant with money transmitting and laundering regulations and whether Bitcoin in its current form could become effectively compliant. Is that even a meaningful concept, or does the structure of Bitcoin fundamentally preclude coming into effective compliance?

[dead]ed submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6201643
Now everything is clear, thanks!
IIRC, the choice was between no trains and a train. I think a lot of people voted for it so they had a cheaper alternative than planes and a less time/effort intensive alternative than driving.
Keyboard and mouse availability ... it will be configurable. In your own home you'll be able to move from display to display as needed.
Is an urban myth.
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I can't wait either!

I've seen a few DIY projects here and there involving GSM, but his name is what really caught my eye in the first place.

You may also find these interesting:

http://www.open-electronics.org/gsm-gps-shield-for-arduino/

http://www.instructables.com/id/ArduinoPhone/

I'm sure there's room to mix and match improvements.
This feels more like a candidate for acquisition and integration in some HR platform, rather than a standalone effort with a real future.
Tell you what: I will ask DJB tonight and see what he says.
The fact that selling a portion of your ownership (so the cash goes in your pocket) is different from your company raising an investment (so the cash goes in the company's bank account) is the source of your confusion.
Your datapipe will be limited in bandwidth. You WILL have to slice pieces off it for your users. For what it's worth, all ISPs here (south-eastern Europe) word it like this:

- Xup/Ydown MBps for connections within the country (i.e. ones for which we can guarantee the infrastructure)

- X2up/Y2down MBps for connections farther away (i.e. subject to more variables)

- If you exceed N simultaneous TCP sessions, we reserve the right to drop some of them when the network is under load.

Basically, see how much you're getting from your provider and in how many pieces you can slice it and how much it will cost to buy fatter pipes when you have more users.

Give mid-bounds for speed - tell the customer their speed is usually this, but might be less under very heavy load (rare) or more when the network has spare capacity. But do sell slower/faster connections. This way you can sell better connections more expensively to people with more money.

Never put limits on how much data a user can down/upload. That is limited by their speed.

Make sure your equipment won't die if someone really does start an http server and posts the link on /. with "an experimental raspberrypi http server that can serve 100k simultaneous connections; do your worst :)".

Basically, I want my connection to have low latency, 99.999% reliability and you want me to pay as much money as I'm comfortable.
You confused a little bit pre-money and post-money valuation.

If company is worth 1m, and someone invests 100k, they get 0.1/(1+0.1) (current value of company + additional $100k after investment) worth of shares, what gives investor c. 9% of shares.

Founder now has 91% of shares, what still give him $1m. (91% x $1.1 = $1m)
Really? As a European I don't find the backseats of most American cars cramped at all.

Plus, with a car you'd have a 7-8 hour journey to look into.

And with an (equally cramped if not worse) plane you'll have more traval time than in this scheme, if you include waiting to depart, the lengthy procedures at the airport and getting to the airport in the first place.
Railway track built above ground has to support weight of the cars, which seems significantly higher ....
Assuming your bacteria make intracellularly into those particular cells. That might require a lot of luck, or reengineering those plants or the bacteria.
I won't buy your connection. I would prefer to be more severely bandwidth-limited than total-traffic-limited.
Except that planes have (supposedly) trained staff that can go around and make sure everyone is getting oxygen. These pods are automated and would most likely have no staff on board.
$20 plus operating costs. That is, the $20 is just the additional cost to pay off the capital cost over $20 years, and doesn't include any of the amount necessary to pay the operating costs.

Airline tickets would be pretty cheap if all they were paying was the 20-year amortized capital cost of the airplanes + airports, too.
"I am not a number, I am a free man!"
But that's the beauty of it! You can make those pylons anywhere, truck them in, and install them in whatever order you want. It's construction....that scales up almost effortlessly.
However, if I go to an all you can eat buffet, I don't expect all the food to be gone during lunch hour. it doesn't matter if its peak hour, if they take full price and all I got was the bread an water, I would call it fraud.

Up to 12 dishes is not a acceptable advertisement for such restaurant, but why is it acceptable for an ISP? Should such restaurant, beyond being allowed to do as the ISP, also be allowed to have a TOS where limitation is put down? Maybe forbid athletes to eat anything above 300G, or its "for commercial purpose".
In Brazil the building of a new high speed train between São Paulo and Rio was just delayed for the third for for lack of interested companies to build the system. The estimated cost is at US$ 17B.

There are not earthquakes in Brazil and the length should be around 500km. It seems like a better candidate than SF-LA.

just saying,
I like to think (hope?) that when a world changing idea comes along (and if this does work as described, it definitely is world changing), everyone can work together and implement it in a reasonable time frame. I think one of the reasons many projects take so long to complete, like the California HSR, is because the cost to benefit isn't all that great. It has no advantage over flying and little to no advantage over driving.
I've been rudely informed to go back to my seat when I tried.
The pressure difference is higher than in a passenger jet. The pressure vessel must be a tubular structure with small well sealed doors. None of this prism with whole fuselage gull wing door stuff.
> The intelligence community doesn't ignore senators and representatives. That isn't happening except in a political fantasy world where being opposed to the NSA is beneficial.

You are ignorant of basic historical information necessary to have an effective discussion on this topic. If you were up to date, you would know about our elected representatives that sit on the security council being stonewalled, ignored, and lied to by the representatives of the intelligence community which are supposed to inform them. They are supposed to inform them of what they are doing so that they can do their jobs as our representatives. If our representatives are ignorant, how can they possibly do their jobs as our representatives?

Clapper LIED to Congress. This is not a disputable fact. He lied. This is Federal offense - why is he not in jail? The US Government is issuing the most bizarre, hypocritical, carefully parsed statements about everything relating to this fiasco - are you cool with this kind of behavior from the most powerful organization in the world?

I'm not advocating direct democracy or direct knowledge of what the NSA does. What I am advocating is that the IC follow the goddamn law - both the statutes and the Constitution: 'social contract' which keeps our society running.

I also note you skipped the entirety of my first point.
are you sure those bacteria can get into those cells or are the just hanging out interstitially? Plant cell walls are tough. Certainly, phytoplasma do it, so it's not impossible... But it may require some sort of plant-cell symbiotic communication which many not necessarily be evolved in the plants you want to use it, especially if at the moment the bacterium is semi-opportunistic.
Ah. Maybe a the built-in types could have special cases built into the doc generator?
The combustion temperature of JP-4 is 3,688 °C.
I wonder if some of the furore is due to people thinking they could start a nice hosting business and saturate their google fiber connection? It's not as if no alternatives exist (or that it is even realistic to think you could max out the bandwidth with servers for that price).
Imagine the integers were all the things you could do with the service. Imagine that those odd ones involved hosting a server, while the even ones didn't. The set of even numbers is limitless, even though it excludes all the odd numbers.
That does sound interesting, actually.

I might like to have some kind of charging pad that does it, you just take your phone out and toss it on the pad and there you are. Have it be 'automatic' only while in contact with a specific surface.
What's funny is that the "burden of proof" to even open people to the possibility of an alternative explanation is so much higher than that required to prove the "official story" (i.e. none for the latter).

As a result, the "official story" almost always stands because it doesn't require evidence. Even if that story makes zero sense whatsoever, people don't tend to consider that there could even be an alternative explanation, unless such an explanation can be exhaustively detailed and proven.
Have you ever been in submarine?
did you read the paper?
I think Sweet 16 was with Integer Basic. My II+ didn't have it but I could get it by loading Integer Basic into the language card.
> it's not like there are so many candidates out there looking for work that it's impractical to do face to face

That really depends on your target market. For the most popular technologies (.Net, Java etc) in the most popular areas (London, Glasgow etc) for low-to-medium positions, you'll get tons of decent candidates.
Ratio for a good life exposed as 'nonsense'
MongoDB Critical Advisory: large documents lost during chunk migration
I recall reading that the pylons had vertical and horizontal dampers to protect against earthquakes (among other minor natural changes), so wouldn't those dampers be able to cancel out the shear waves?
Hyperloop Designed for a Quick, Convenient Commute Like No Other
The choice was fast trains or no trains.
So what? If we are going to be pedants about the literal definition of endless then coming up with mathematical analogies is not in the spirit of pedantry. Limitless may be a definition of endless but it is not the only definition.

edit: Wow, down-voted for out pedanting the pedants. That's some cognitive dissonance there.
IMHO Musk (or anyone who follows up) should drop the "passenger" version and go with the "passenger plus vehicle" version only.

Because right now what people and the press are going to focus on is how small the cabins are, why there are no toilets, etc. On the other hand if you can imagine putting a car in there the claustrophobia argument disappears and you can think straight again...
Besides, rustc already does an impressive amount of linting.
I agree, but it's not really a 'problem'. Knowing enough about how the internet works to save, say, $10/mo on your bill due to pro-rated charges probably just isn't worth it for most people.

I'm sure we'd all save on car repair if everyone in the country knew the basics of it, but it's really just not in everyones interest to know a little bit of everything.
According to some quick youtube searching, armor-piercing rounds versus regular steel would create problems: http://youtu.be/q_zZd0NsYG4 .
I mostly agree, but having the ability to use a dynamic type occasionally can be very useful. I like how objective-c handles it in practice.
The US has not commandeered the Internet - frankly, they've always had power over the Internet because it was invented and is still maintained in the US.

So basically, the US hasn't "commandeered" the Internet because it didn't have to? It already has power over the Internet, so it didn't have to take any? I don't see how that in any way opposes the point Schneier was making in his article. He wasn't talking about "control" in the sense of the NSA dictating who can visit what website: he was talking about "commandeer" in the sense of the NSA being able to commandeer whatever information it wants, whenever it wants, from any provider of an Internet service.
I am one of the people behind this project (http://sfpc.io). Happy to answer any questions about it.
I agree with your points, but Ubuntu LTS releases are actually supported for 5 years, not 2 (with new LTS releases coming every two years).
Three tips for managing complexity in Node.js projects
In South Australia (and potentially elsewhere) university admissions for medicine have started to involve something of a personality test rather than purely academic aptitude. The workplace, and especially dealing with patients (colleagues or clients in this case?), is more than a calculated diagnosis.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441650
Google Drive Now Lets You Spellcheck Entire Documents At Once
Sometimes practical considerations preclude using the most "preferred format". Will editing this white paper really be a significant obstacle to deploying a system like the one it describes? Conversely, does anyone ever release a white paper in LaTeX only?
There's two modes of operation, you seem to have the second in mind, and I am thinking of the first:

1:

a. NSA collects American national's "information pursuant to a valid foreign intelligence tasking". (this may be illegal, violation of fourth amendment rights, no supreme court decision)

b. NSA tip SOD (if 1. is illegal, then it follows it's illegal to pass on)

c. SOD instruct police force to stop and search for 'traffic violation' at time and place, obscure evidence trail. (DOJ investigating if this is illegal)

d. d:a) no evidence is found.

d:b) evidence is found, parallel construction begins.

2:

a. law enforcement agency DEA/IRS/SOD asks NSA to get foreign intelligence, because of investigation already underway.

other steps as above.

My problem is with the first mode. Given the first mode, do you stand by your earlier statement and:
"If a parallel chain of evidence can be constructed that leads to an arrest, that's not "because of" the NSA's monitoring programs."

See the NSA's statement re: evidence of a crime. If the first mode leads to an arrest it is by definition "because of".

In both scenarios I have a problem with d:a) where no evidence is turned up because it seems like a very unreasonable search to me.
There have been a few, but they're quite rare. Two of the more prominent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_South_Dakota_Learjet_cras...
A typical psychological "science" story, in which psychologists use math they don't understand, in a way that distorts the equation's original meaning, to impress other psychologists who also don't understand either math or science.
But it's very rarely known who is the early bird in investment rounds.
Elon mentions in the paper that even on planes today landing procedures take over 30 mins, and during that time people can't get out of their seats, and everybody is ok with it. For longer routes you would definitely need more space, but then he also describes the model that would allow for carrying cars, which is a lot more space.
> I was worried this was going to be some pie-in-the-sky idea

Sure, they put a lot of theoretical analysis into it, but its still pretty pie-in-the-sky. From the last page, note that

The authors recognize the need for additional work,
including but not limited to:
1. More expansion on the control mechanism for
Hyperloop capsules, including attitude thruster or
control moment gyros.
2. Detailed station designs with loading and unloading
of both passenger and passenger plus vehicle
versions of the Hyperloop capsules.
3. Trades comparing the costs and benefits of
Hyperloop with more conventional magnetic
levitation systems.
4. Sub-scale testing based on a further optimized
design to demonstrate the physics of Hyperloop.

It's not a current competitor to high-speed rail, its more in the position that high-speed rail was in in the 1930s.
I don't think there's a rigid bar to judge them by, though - nobody else has had this much data in one place before. There are best practices and things that one might deem "sensible" or "fair" but they're ultimately still trying to figure out just what to do with all this data.

Put it a different way - do you think anyone who works at Facebook would want people to think the company isn't trustworthy? I'd suggest not as it does nothing but harm the company. The decisions are likely made with the best intentions in mind, but to err is human and I don't think that Facebook have all the answers.
This is the same in the social sciences. I'm currently a PhD student in one of the top Communication departments in the US, and it's painful to see how far behind in technical skills and tools the curricula are (eg., Excel and SPSS). I've been self-teaching Python, R, and SQL, and extending my knowledge base from simple regression-based stats to data mining and machine learning, to make up for it. Not only does that allow me to work on massive datasets (and push the field forward across methodologies), but it allows me to improve more 'traditional' approaches by sharing data and models (eg., with .R scripts).
I would not buy a metered connection. It might end up costing me less than an unmetered one, but cognitively it weighs more as you said. I want a flat-charge XMBit/s hard limit, which translates to a total theoretical maximum of ZGB/month.

The power costs per GB sent/received are negligible, the money goes towards maintenance of the network and ethernet cable doesn't degrade based on how many bits pass through it. If too many people utilise the network, then just throttle them and start dropping connections from the more aggressive ones.

Perversely, I would be perfectly fine with you dropping my connections if I try starting 100 parallel downloads or charging me the same whether I download 1GB or 100GB this month, as long as it's a nice flat reliable fee.

Edit: about "that's how all utilities are measured". They aren't. Road tax is flat, but I can drive on the road for as long as I like as fast as the rules permit. Except it's slower when too many people do it at once. I want my internet to be like a road. (disclaimer: maybe road tax isn't flat where you live, but it is in many parts of the world, so please imagine we're talking about them for the purpose of the analogy. you may also need to pay a higher tax to use the highway, but it's still flat. it may also vary per type of vehicle but it's still flat.)
Even if it costs $100 for one way, it's still cheaper than plane, and you save an hour on travel time.
As an experienced developer, I struggle to imagine any of the talented younger developers I've worked with being well-represented by a number that quantifies their experience.

I take issue with any hiring system that attempts to narrow the field of view of candidates. This includes any single-number "scoring" system, as well as hiring cultures that focus on single methods (e.g. "puzzle questions") to the near exclusion of other hiring criteria. If your organization is doing any of the above, it's shooting itself in the collective foot.
Fair solution! Might be cheaper to just cover the interior with advertising though?
But as I recall, the gov't can use eminent domain to give land to a private entity if they're in favor of the idea for the "public good." Or am I way off base here...?
Kudos to Chris and the technical team for delivering Aha! The feedback from the beta was tremendous. We are thinking about how to open source some of the original components that the team built for analytics, notifications, and real-time page updates.
Sure - but that is happening dozens of feet away inside a can designed to contain it. This extremely high temperature and pressure air will be flowing right under your butt. Serious question, Is any kind of breakthrough in insulation needed?
> whether Bitcoin in its current form could become effectively compliant

Why couldn't it be? The entire transaction history of a wallet is preserved into the future. As soon as you correlate a BitCoin wallet with a person, you have their entire history with that wallet. It seems more like a government's wet dream than anything else.
On the second option you could replace the cap with per-customer fair queueing to end up with a work-conserving system. It's not clear what the resulting performance would be, though.
I've seen the video at link #1 before but not #2, still interesting to watch I watch #1 again and #2.
I agree, some incentive/penalty would be better than blanket prohibition. Santa Monica I believe actually requires a $0.10 charge per bag. But that is very different from saying "you must bring a re-usable bag."

For tipping, flat-rate minimum tip (like for larger parties, and also described in one of the articles), for instance could level the field. If I want to tip more, I can just leave the cash on the table...