skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source code:

https://github.com/hermanschaaf/ironzebra
Spot on.

We got one of these devices. And did the demos waved around our hands to move through google earth but then we were wondering so our hands are getting tired and we couldn't really see how this was better than a mouse or joystick.

Maybe it would make it cool for interactive kiosks or cool little showroom gimicks for prolong use, forgetaboutit.
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> actual studies of the proposed system energy consumption go as high as 6.5 MJ per passenger KM

Only if you assume that all the trains will be almost completely empty. I don't know about the US, but I've travelled on some odd routes at low-traffic hours in the UK and it's really fucking rare to see a train with as little as 10% occupancy because the rail companies don't run them.

Come to think of it, most of that was on relatively local lines that Hyperloop's not designed to replace anyway.
... which are both currently only possible on a bootloader unlocked Android phone
He was right? His lightweight fighter isn't so light and has been more utilized in an air-to-ground role than as a fighter.

If he'd been right, the F-16 wouldn't have all those hardpoints or a radar (he believed air combat would be managed by ground controllers). You can say the F-16 evolved, but it sure as hell didn't evolve as he thought it should.

The AF and Navy/USMC need a plane for dropping bombs. They keep hacking fighters to do that. But they're more right than Boyd was.
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Contrast this with the United States, where overpopulation is a growing challenge

Could you define "overpopulation" or cite sources that show this is a problem in the United States?

While the population has risen more than 50 million people in the last 60 years (1), housing stock, food output, and economic activity, has also risen. In addition, while there are many urban and suburban areas that are more crowded now than they were in the mid-20th century, there are also thousands of small towns and cities that began losing residents long ago (2).

1. http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&c...

2. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/04/us/dying-rural-towns-play-...
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The main thing that's broken from the perspective of #3 is that it looks at a best-case scenario with no legal or political hurdles, and assuming the detailed construction part will not present any surprises (and surprises that massively increase costs).

But from that perspective conventional HSR is easy and cheap, too. You could sketch out a reasonable LA-SF HSR system with optimistic assumptions and put a $15 billion pricetag on it. It also has the benefit of being technically validated, and implemented in practice: Japan, France, and China have all built working systems for per-mile costs in that range or less. The California HSR issues have more to do with a mixture of politics and the U.S.'s "unique" regulatory setup, and it's not clear how hyperloop plans to sidestep those, even assuming the technology works exactly as envisioned. If Musk has some secret on how that's going to happen, I'd like to use it to just build conventional HSR!

Put differently he seems to be offering a technical solution to a problem that didn't have a technical bottleneck, and it's not even clear the technical solution works.
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Does anyone have any bad experiences to share about GO?
It goes both ways: there seems to be a percentage somewhere between 5% and 10% of "strangers" that people can accept living among them without feeling threatened. If that percentage is exceeded and the main population starts to feel threatened, you get xenophobia and things turn ugly.
So now there are 5 players in this space (that I know of).

Ordered by the launch date of their marketplace offering: WePay, Balanced Payments, Stripe, Paymill, Braintree.

Edit: Added WePay.
> Go isn't an impressive programming language, but a very impressive software engineering language.

Curious, what is the distinction?
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This could also boil down to the fact that the purchasing experience for in-app purchases is much nicer on iOS (for the better or the worse).
What a coincidence! Today there was a retweet in my twitter stream of a essay from American Scientist. The title is "The Science of Scientific Writing". While not everything may be appropriate to blog postings, nevertheless it contains some timeless hints. Here is the URL:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.877,y.0,no.,conte...
It's the driver. The Leaf is a lot snappier than previous hatchbacks I've owned (a miserable Chevy Aveo, and a pretty decent Pontiac Vibe (aka Toyota Matrix)).

I'd peg it about the same as my wife's old Volvo S40 T5. The 0-40 is very spunky. Much more than your average car IMO. The only time it feels sluggish is highway (65mph+) passing, but even then not slow-er than your average non-turbo hatchback. Just back down to less thrilling levels.
I happen to agree with the article's premise and conclusion, but this is typical of social psychology articles, which start by noting a correlation between two traits A and B, then, to appear to be scientific, they presume to explain the correlation, but without any substantive, falsifiable validation for the explanation.

In science, a statistical correlation, a description, is followed by a falsifiable explanation that can be later confirmed or refuted by those who try to replicate the study. But not in psychology -- in psychology, reliable but possibly meaningless correlations are followed by unreliable and unfalsifiable explanations, then no one tries to replicate the work.

Again, I happen to think the article's conclusion is correct. But that conclusion is an opinion, not science.
> My only gripe is its intended use as a systems programming language.

It's not. It's a new Java, not a new C++.

> ie: hard to bind other languages to it through an FFI.

More or less impossible: GC and goroutines are not optional so you'd need to cleanly setup and shutdown the Go runtime. You'd have to embed Go as you do Lua or Python.
I'm willing to bet you've never driven a Leaf, and/or you're comparing it to all-out sports cars. You can get the Leaf S for US$21,300 after the federal rebate, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a higher performance car at that price.
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Idiot! Reposted.
This is the obvious intuitive response, but it turns out that it's broken: Compressing data before encryption can give attackers a new side channel to recover the plaintext, by just watching the message length, and seeing when the compression is more or less effective. See, for example, the CRIME attack on TLS.
I thought they pulled out due to instability in the icelandic markets due to the financial collapse of 2007.
The development speed isn't very good with Go because you have to re-invent almost everything yourself because the web libs are seriously years behind other platforms.

The default template language is also really archaic and no one has created a solid alternative yet that's actually well tested and used by the masses.

It might have good execution speed and the language itself might be nice but the only thing that matters is going from point A to point B. Go will not get you there faster than other languages and the execution speed is a non-issue for pretty much every platform (even rails) if you use tools available to you to their fullest.

P.S.,
I compared Go to Node almost a year ago and even wrote a mini framework for Go to resemble a smaller version of Express. I eventually just said fk it and stopped because the gains were not even close to being worth it.
I don't ever do that. But mine's a lease, so I don't really care about the battery. I charge to 100% daily, and wasn't even aware of any "cool down" recommendation. Not that it'd matter with 95F evenings anyways.
> "Expecting to know the answers made people more likely to get the answers right."

Well, yes, if someone expects you to know the answer it seems pretty straight forward that you would be more inclined to make a guess rather than saying "I don't know." All of us who ever watched a quiz show on TV know that people who guess an answer instead of passing will sometimes get it right. More often than people who pass, actually.
Really...I don't get the down vote here. Maybe cynicism is not understood or, possibly worse, overpopulation is not seen as an issue. The links were for entertainment value, a simple metaphor.
Confidence plays a massive role in success. If you can balance the fine line between confidence and arrogance you'll find more doors open up to you than ever before.
"The problem is, there are no good incentives to pay for you to have an 18+ year responsibility."

If you think like that, don't have kids. I think people should have kids because they like having them around.

If we go extinct because people don't like kids anymore, so be it. It would just be a shame if we went extinct because people can't afford children anymore.

But I didn't mean pay parents, I meant pay employers.

Also Germany already pays up to 20000€ for kids, if I remember correctly (they pay a percentage of the mothers salary in her last job for 12 months).
If you meant the Hello World example, it is probably because the board game Go originates from China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
Iceland is shown on the Pangaea map, it is very very very tiny, but it is there.

Iceland did not exist as a landmass back when pangea was a thing.
So why are they killing US Marines and not British RAF?
Thanks for the insight. I and a couple friends tried from Germany, but I don't know how that relates.
Exactly - so instead of giving people more money so that they can slack of and have kids, make them work even more and take away their kids.
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Wrong way around. By "bind languages to it" agentultra talks about using Go from other languages, not using C from Go.
"My personal favorite theory about why iOS makes more revenue in the app store, is that more rich idiots use iOS."

I would have an easier time accepting this were it phrased differently. Are these people really idiots, or are they just vulnerable consumers? To draw a comparison, are alcoholics "idiots" or are they just vulnerable to alcohol? I believe that science tells us that is it the latter. To apply this, I'd be more likely to say:

"iOS makes more revenue in the app store because no average it's users are more susceptible to pressure to spend money."
Immigration is really a major point. As an immigrant from south European country that moved to Germany with a plan to stay here with the already formed family, all I can say it's not that easy.

It's not only about giving the immigrant right to work, live, later vote in Germany. It's about absorbing them, making their life easier, and truly helping them to integrate into society. That's the effort that, right now, an immigrant has to make himself, but there's no much support from the state.

My own example, I came here on Blue Card. That was easy. Then, I had to wait for half a year before my wife and children could join me. Then we had to wait for another half year before my children could start with the kindergarten. Only after that, my wife could actually start going to language / integration course. All in all, a year wasted before we could even start integrating. In addition to that, my son will start school next year, and will have only one year at German kindergarten instead of two. That will severely impact his ability to actually attend school in a yet unlearned language.

What I want to say is that integration of immigrant is not easy, and there's much more that needs to be done. If you want them to integrate into the society, you should treat them much better, even better than citizen. Why? Because Germany needs them?

If it's not done properly, in 50 years there will be no more German way of life. Majority of the people will not know how to use "der", "die" and "das" properly and would not even care about that. Half of the German population will be made of non integrated immigrants, leaving in small communities of people with the same origin.
> it's entirely based on earth's magnetic field.

No, north is based on Earth's rotational axis. Magnetic north is not true north, as a good topographic map will indicate.

North is a convention of rotation direction: from above the north pole, a planet appears to rotate counterclockwise.
Scala problems (in the old days):

- You can't find people to work on it
- Unbounded complexity, type-masturbation
- Slow compilation (you need a better computer/SSD)
- Might as well use Java, the tooling for Java is great

Do you know if those are still true?
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Only if you don't mind paying approximately an order of magnitude penalty in RAM usage, which has long been an achilles heel of JVM languages.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
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The US will never have a decent mass transit system due to its sheer size.
Was that supposed to make it better?
I haven't ever seen the in-app purchase system in iOS, but the one time I made an in-app purchase on my Android phone it was stupidly slick and easy.

PS: I already had google wallet set up due to previously using it to pay for something from my desktop.
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I think Philips' amBX brand makes computer-controlled ambient lighting and fans. http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/exposure/pressreleases....
This is all about releasing the blocking mechanism that exists. I feel people like Eckhart Tolle have somehow mastered this, at least in the realm of the scope of abilities they are most comfortable being confined in.
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My maths may be letting me down but 4m/s is a mere 14km/h, and many production cars will get you from 0 to 115km/h in less than 8 seconds, so the acceleration of 4m/s^2 is fairly common in consumer world, so unlikely to crush windpipes.
Absolutely, until there's a viable replacement for it.
I really appreciate and thank you for the perspective you bring to this discussion. Even if I turn out to be completely wrong, I'll still be glad I initiated it if only to elicit this kind of response.

That being said, I'm by no means persuaded. If the original technical estimates can't be completely precise, why do they always happen to always be inaccurate on the bad side these days? How come they rarely plan for bedrock and get a lot more clay instead?

Overall, I understand there are new challenges today that older projects didn't encounter. On the other hand, they also had serious challenges that we don't meet (very bad transportation network, frequent strikes, including the wildcat variety, a much less educated workforce etc.) Maybe it's even true that, despite all the new technologies and infrastructure to help us, the cost per unit needs to be higher these days and work needs to proceed more slowly. But that still doesn't explain why projects almost always still run over that higher cost and longer schedule.
Agreed I moved my blog from Rails to static. I tested pageload speeds with disqus on/off and the differences were negligible.

Disqus loads almost entirely async.
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Is that true? What kind of encoding are we talking about?
For lots of people, considering the cost over five years after gas savings and incentives, the leaf actually works out the be the cheapest car available.
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I'm glad to hear I am not the only one with performance issues. That is a lot more upvotes than I expected, especially considering how google heavy the user base is here.

I love google's products and the fact that they all work together but everything seems to be running slower than it ever has before.

Looking at the comments below, it is pretty clear that other people are also having this issue.

It takes a lot for me to stop what I am doing, and move over to Bing so if I am doing it, other people are doing it as well.

They should put making all of their applications less CPU intensive at the top of their list, right away.

===Also, while I am complaining about Google products, the google news doesn't let me easily search by time anymore which has also forced me over to bing. Articles from 30 days ago are rarely useful.
Developers are in high demand in cities like Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt.

Immigration is probably a major feat of beaurocracy but not too hard in principle if you have looked-for skills ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Card_%28European_Union%29 ).
I bought a Leaf because it's much cheaper than the Jeep Grand Cherokee I had before (MSRP), and I spend a small fraction of the $200/month I was spending on gas to charge it up.

I thought it was ugly as well before, but it grows on you. Honestly I think it's more of a familiarity thing.

It's far from slow. It's faster than most hatchbacks in it's price range for city driving. You get a loaded Leaf for ~$27K (off the top of my head, after tax-credit). Anything faster is going to be in the same ball-park if not more (ie: VW GTi).

I bought it because it saved me several hundred dollars a month and I've always liked hatchbacks. After test-driving it I was pleasantly surprised at just how much fun it was.

Honestly I never considered it until a co-worker came back from a test-drive raving about it. Then I spent a few seconds thinking about it and realized it actually made some sense for my short commute.
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Are you playing What’s the brand, but you are stuck on a specific level?
I assume this is still in beta? It's an interesting approach for sure, teach by doing.
NPG is notable for being funded by FAIR, a virulent anti-immigrant group. (Example quote from FAIR founder: "As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?")
It would be interesting to know what the questions were (or even what genre) - to get a better sense of the significance of getting them right.

Unfortunately there is no indication in this article, or the abstract of the paper, and the journal article itself requires a subscription.
> My personal ["semi-serious"] favorite theory about why iOS makes more revenue in the app store, is that more rich idiots use iOS.

Ooh -- can I make silly generalizations, as well?

My personal favorite theory about why iOS makes more revenue in the app store, is that more Android users wildly mash at their phone screens with their giant, greasy potato-chip-dust-covered fingers in a Monster energy drink-induced aggro-fog and so are mostly unable to either understand or properly use their device well enough to access an app store and install stuff.

Or. Maybe people have different tastes for different reasons. And maybe the cherry-picked single data point that Final Fantasy III (which seems to have not sold very well at all) happened to be more popular on Android devices doesn't really mean much of anything conclusive (the PDF you linked to certainly doesn't have much to say about it). Maybe there are more "whales" on iOS simply because more users are comfortable using the platform and downloading apps, and given that app phones are damned near ubiquitous, both platforms will have smart-and-savvy users and rich (or poor or middle-class) "idiots." And everything in between.
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And this is why the Internet is continuing to eat this industries lunch and why people will continue to simply pirate the content. The old distribution mess is a dying model, distribution is too easy with the Internet today, consumers aren't going to wait for content they want and can easily find online. Consumers don't care about media rights, they care about seeing their show as soon as it comes out.
> That said, the map as a literal translation is mostly "correct", even though it is meaningless.

And Canada is literally 'village.' Meaningless, but a funny bit of trivia. Which is all the literal Chinese names map is.
Go doesn't mean just fast for me; in that space there is also the JVM. To me, it fits the fast and lean and easy to deploy space.
Actually, as a Blue Card holder, you can file for permanent residency after 33 months. If you learn language to at least B1 level, you can file after only 21 months.

In addition to that, you partner automatically gets work permit without restriction, and you are eligible for all social benefits like health care and Kindergeld from the day one.

Compare that with the H1B / Green Card situation, and the contrast is clear. It was an easy choice for me (yes, I had job offers from both USA and Germany), and will probably attract more people in the future.
To me this still seems like a slightly abstracted password. The article does suggest a weakness in that malicious users could attempt to guess the coordinates that decrypt a message, but acting as if the physical location of the device actually enforces the security is wrong, I think. In the end, you've just got another encrypted string or hash sitting somewhere, on the phone right?

... although maybe if it's a strong hash it might not matter, but from what I understand (and I may be wrong), the hardware on modern smartphones can't handle strong hashes and tend to store secure data as plaintext or md5. Either way I don't see how this is necessarily more secure than a regular password, just a different way of generating entropy.
Are these trivial micro benchmarks, (simply respond with an empty 200) not totally misleading to focus on?
Especially when you start to factor in many real workloads that involve disk or network io.