skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're good at placing a piece of paper on a photocopier, don't you think you can find a better job than placing pieces of paper on a photocopier?
Or what if it breaks down and you're stuck in the middle of nowhere. How do emergency vehicles reach the pod if it is disabled in a sealed tube?
How does that have anything to do with GNUstep?
Or better yet, sell tickets at a discount that can then be re-sold when the system is complete. Someone could buy $1M of reduced price tickets and then resell them for $2M when the system is ready. This way wealthy individuals wouldn't hit a maximum investable amount based on their personal expected use of the system.
Disagree completely. I'd ditch the vehicle option. If the earliest forecast is for this to be built in seven years, how much will the driving landscape change in that time? Robo-cars even? This is primarily for commuters who can walk/taxi/rent at the destination. Even travellers will do the same.

If you want to take your car, drive it IMO. When you fly, there is no expectation of taking your car along with you and this should be similar - focus on what we will need rather than on what a minority could fancy.
I'm sure that kid will feel the same way about paying for your Social Security someday.
That's correct. California waited almost 50 years to build a high-speed rail, and now the "that stuff only works in Europe" mentality is going to be painful to swallow. When I was a kid in the 1970's, I'd see shows with Californians bragging about how they loved their cars, and mass transit wasn't needed. It's really kind of embarrassing how Americans couldn't plan for the obvious.

Unfortunately, It's not going to get any cheaper, and only becomes more difficult as the state becomes more crowded. If "Governor Moon Beam" had build his trains in the 1970's like he tried, we'd now be planning for a 300mph maglev by 2030, just like Japan.
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She needs to die in a volcano. worst singer ever.
While I'm glad to see the effort to enable more cross-platform application development, I wonder why the open source community doesn't produce its own cross-platform toolkit to rival those made by Apple and Microsoft. It seems that far too often the vision behind open source projects is limited to copying successful closed-source projects. I understand it's much harder to launch an open source project in an altogether new category, but it's that much more exciting when it does happen. How can innovation be encouraged in open source? It seems somehow there needs to be a greater potential for financial reward to encourage such developments.
No he hasn't. He could, but not yet. We have other payment processors, car companies, solar companies, and we went to the moon over 4 decades ago. Musk is really awesome, but don't discount Gates. Frankly, his philanthropy might be more important than Windows, and the stuff that Musk has done.
Yes. It says it is self-powering using battery packs and solar.
Why not just use, say, an actual (i.e. backtrack-free, DFA-based) regular expression library?
> Which exist only due to the exact reason I described.
I guess I presumed that when you said "you turned your personal information into bits and sent it to Facebook" you meant explicitly.

> Being prudent about what we enter into a form(either real or virtual) is key
I agree. But then again, when I need to go out of my way to make sure that all of those little 'Like' icons aren't telling Facebook the sites that I visited, just because my browser loaded them, I think that's a line. Because where you are being explicit about the form being real or virtual, you also should be explicit about who or what is 'entering' data into that form... and even what that form looks like (because a lot of the time, it's just a lot of parameters attached to an image request).
"As part of the download, we’ll ask for a very brief description of how you’re planning to use the image. We hope to learn that the images will serve a broad range of needs and projects."

I'll be interested to know how/why people could be interested in that as well. I don't see any business to make out of that database, even though I like it very much.
Yes (I lived in Singapore for 2.5 years) but they go quite slow. Top speed of the most recent, unmanned MRT (yellow line) is about 65 Km/h.
In poorer areas, houses are sometimes made by essentially stacking up and leaning sheets of metal against a few pieces of wood, more or less. Decent windows often aren't a very viable solution. Light bulbs would be usable, but you sometimes have to get electricity (if available at all) by literally running a wire either directly to the power line or across the road and then stringing it up to the power line yourself. So your comment misses a key point about life in these countries.
The opposite of pump and dump is "short and distort"[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_and_distort
There were two fatal high speed accidents just this summer in Europe-- the Spanish one killed 80 people.
History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme
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I still think one of the sanest ways to do this is to set up a filter that takes an email message on standard input, and outputs the same message to a Maildir/mbox[1], with the body encrypted with the recipients public key (possibly signed by a server key, but that wouldn't add all that much in terms of security, as the server key would have to be always available).

1: Probably one filter that takes an email on standard input, and writes an encrypted "copy" on standard output, and another program that takes a message on standard input and delivers it to a Maildir/mbox:

#.forward pseudocode:
| gpg-encrypt-to-self | deliver

Optionally check if the mail is already encrypted:

if is-gpg-message
then
deliver
else
encrypt-to-self|deliver
fi
I don’t know how common such “good regexp libraries” are. The README includes a benchmark at the bottom, demonstrating that the complex regex is about ten times faster than the simple version. The benchmark uses Clojure’s built-in regex engine, which is the same as Java’s.
Does a Front End Engineer need to be god at competitive programming? 
Lets say I'm an undergraduate looking for a job as a front end engineer. is it essential for me to be good at competitive prigramming?
I can understand being proud of a beneficial invention and offering something to people without taking money for it. He's done an amazing good deed and hopefully will be remembered for this. But I don't understand the title of the article because I think taking pride in poverty is a weird position to be taking. The headline might just be catchy click bait.
OK, then more like this please! ;)
Without having seen the appointees or its (foregone?) report, I think it's setting up to have no muscle at all.

Of course, why do you think they got guy, who they got to lie in front of congress the first time (no not Roger Clemens, that was more reprehensible than this of course) to chair this circus?
It is said that:

A copy of the GNUstep Live CD with GNUstep and all applications pre-installed on an instance of the latest version of Debian Linux.

Estimated delivery: Feb 2014

So maybe this step could reached before Feb 2014.
Ask HN: Rally against the high speed rail plans in CA?
Just curious since not many people I speak to even want the train. Additionally Elon Musk's Hyperloop could be a better solution.
Was this CNN article wrong then? I don't travel very much, but haven't seen an X-Ray backscatter machine since last year.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/29/travel/tsa-backscatter
Except way less likely.
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Of course it is. If at any point where you think you have created a technology that will be tax free, it will only remain so until it becomes economically viable for the governments to tax it. We only have to look to Mass. software tax to realize this is the case, even when the implementation doesn't make a lick of sense.
I certainly don't count on that scenario ever playing out... By all means though, those children should be able to pay $50-100 for the privilege to never pay into social security. That is a great idea.

What is your thesis here, I shouldn't be annoyed by children because one day I will be old? Not sure I understand that logic. "Being annoyed" isn't even a proper choice; if I could turn it off, I certainly would. In fact, I would say that the ability to turn if off for a few hours at a time is worth about $50-100 to me......
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Except test tracks have been built or are being built, and it's sure to become a reality sometime or another.
I wrote a brute-force minimal-regex finder once; wish I could remember where I put it.
Down below, a deck prism illumination is astonishing. Drilling a round hole in the cabin sole is way easier, and a discarded plastic bottle is far less expensive than a vintage Criitenden & Willcox prism. Separate the bleach if you get real thirsty? Watch your head(pun?).
Not an answer, but this might tell you whether FOIA requests are much good:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/justice-departm...
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I'm not sure that's fair. It is bulb shape and it emits light. The source of the light happens to be the sun. This is kind of like saying that tungsten lamps aren't lightbulbs because they don't work when not supplied with electricity. They're truly acting as a substitute by spreading light around a darkened area.
> So Lisp Machines were developed to run a very compact machine code representation of Lisp and with very large main memories (1 Megabyte or more), graphical user interfaces and all that for a SINGLE user - a $100k per machine.

> Later in the mid 80s the architectures were brought to microprocessors

I wonder when will someone build one onto an FPGA.

It's the ultra-übergeek version of the Jeri Ellsworth's C-One.
Seeing as the author messed up and made the transaction unspendable, it's clearly not Satoshi actually authoring the patch. Just somebody playing around.
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"When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras"

Assassinated by the government is definitely a zebra

Driving recklessly because of PTSD from being in a war zone is going to be the horse in this situation:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-05/national/39048...

And if he was not assassinated by the government, then this whole thread is just providing a distracting side show when there's a real known issue out there that kills thousands.
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Development is underway in China apparently!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain
"... each passenger will have access their own personal entertainment system."

Only a small point. Other than to display ghastly advertising, why not a dumb monitor that interfaces with your phone/tablet? It's not like you're going to be able to watch a movie. And if we're seven years into the future on this, I'll be wearing my Oculus Rift 4.0 anyway.

Maybe I'm just too disillusioned by the systems used in aircrafts with their awful interfaces, lag, etc.
> the three factors that determine how many people you can move past a given point per unit of time are the frequency of the vehicles, the capacity of the vehicles, and the speed of the vehicles

Why is speed relevant?
Unfortunately, non-strictness is the biggest hindrance to understanding operational semantics of Haskell. To my knowledge, people using Haskell in serious production use strictness annotations like there's no tomorrow.
I understand that, but I see Android improving or hardware becoming cheaper before FFOS catches on. It's a noble goal, but the app ecosystem is with Android.

Windows didn't get better and Linux didn't move fast enough. Hardware just got cheaper and people went where everyone else went, and Windows is dominant. I foresee the same thing happening with FFOS and Android.
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Lets be honest, the difference between 700mph and 80mph head across the median on is negligible. Either way you are almost certainly dead or crippled. Past a certain speed the only real difference is how large of an area your body is spread out over; dead is dead.
The problem is that the chess study shows that some people never became chess masters, no matter how many hours they practiced.

There was a hard upper limit to their performance that no amount of training could surmount. Insofar as "expert" is defined by relative ranking, some people will never become experts. Why? Because they are outranked by the "naturals".

The general problem with the Gladwell/Ericsson hypothesis is that it sorta-kinda suggests that practice is both necessary and sufficient to produce expert-level performance.

Everyone agrees on necessity. It is the question of sufficiency that is demonstrably false. People are different and are better suited to different endeavours; no amount or sort of training or practice can change the boundaries of your phenotypic potential.

You can move a long way from an average baseline in the direction of expertise -- humans are very malleable. But there are hard limits. Elite performers in any field are elite because they were better suited and then did the practice.
It was absent from the II+ due to the larger Applesoft BASIC interpreter. If you had a "Language Card" (a 16K expansion that brought the machine to 64K) you could load Integer BASIC on the card and use the assembler.
Malware attack on multiple websites 
Malware attack on multiple websites

I develop and keep track of a few websites that are hosted on various providers.
Recently, two of my websites, hosted by different companies got hit by malware.
Since the hosts don't want to help out in tracing the attacker and I don't have root access to the machines I know very little about the origin of the attack.
It's a code injection attack inserting some javascript code into your .html files and index files.
The code starts with an html comment and "0f2490". If you see something like that in your files delete it and look through all of them.
The easiest way to do that is to grep for "0f2490".
You can use the following command in linux to search through all your files for that string.

find . -type f -exec grep -inH "0f2490" {} \;

If anyone has any information regarding this type of attack, it would be muchly appreciated.
The malware seems to be pretty new.
Upon notifying one of the hosting providers, I was told that the site was scanned and it is malware-free, which of course was not the case.
Microsoft only has noticed it on 08/08/2013, so 4 days ago.
Of course I take all the precautions when developing, all my passwords are strong.
My development machine is only used for development, and a full scan is ran each night.
So i hope the breach was not due to my shortcomings.

If you have any information please post it here on Hacker News.
Thank you.
My understanding is that net neutrality is when the ISP does not prioritize/throttle/block traffic based on sender or recipient.

This definition permits traffic shaping based on content, such as dropping bittorrent packets to preserve dns/rtp latency on a link shared between customers.
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I had my first exposure to Objective-C using GNUstep on a Linux box in about 2002. I am grateful that it existed and it was there for me to be exposed to it; I was pretty young and probably could not have afforded a Mac in those days.

As objc and Apple itself has gained so much steam over the years, it's kind of funny to have learned it long ago via a clone of NeXT stuff. Most folks working in the language have no idea that it could possibly exist outside of Apple and tend to think of all the framework underneath them as a black box. I think maybe some of these folks would learn something by looking at an open source re-implementation of these NS* classes, or attempting such an endeavor themselves, even if on a small scale.

Also: objc is just too interesting for Apple to hog it all for themselves, or for it to be a one-implementation language.
Proud to be poor?

Not paying taxes into NSA surveillance/military state or any whatever exploitive capitalism as other collared proles. Some people are far too busy than to concern themselves with financial vanity and the distractions that follow it.

Teeming masses of slum youth with linux netbooks must be high on the list of Fort Meade's threat matrix.
> No, Windows Phone 7 is version 1 of Windows Phone.

But years of combined development experience. My point being they've had 7 chances to execute and still manage a very distant 3rd. I feel like the "it's only version 1" argument holds little water in a market that has thrown out even evolved OSes.

As for the rest, I simply disagree and did in my original post. I'm not disagreeing that they have those advantages, I just disagree that they have any real effect on consumer pickup.

> As for: "no instagram". Instagram is a fad.

Just like Facebook and mobile phone apps right? Everything is a fad to someone, that doesn't mean it's not critically important to a significant group that doesn't include them.

> As for the iPhone's "isn't it cool" comment, hell it's a piece of shit to develop for

Which for the record was my point if you had actually read my comment. Not easy to develop for, higher barrier to entry and developer unfriendly. I don't actually agree with those points but that is how iOS appears to you which helps my argument.

All those downsides, and where are the most apps, most developers and most money made? Right. So apparently, those advantages really aren't as important to most as they are to you.
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No, group policy is used in enterprises to disable things on a company-wide basis. By all accounts (even the original article) it's easy for end users to disable.
Got tired of complicated grocery apps so made this.earlyversion
Flippant comments like "Did you actually read the PDF?" are exactly the kind of needless small escalations that destroys the tenor of commentary at HN. Any time you write that, you could be writing "It's discussed on page XX". If the comment doesn't deserve a cordial response, then just downvote and move along.
Really? We're talking about necessity in a conversation about smartphones? You know what truly isn't a necessity?

The topic of this conversation.
There is all sort of graffiti and other garbage embedded in the blockchain.

http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/04/on-bitcoin-data-spam...
not in my book
For your entertainment, https://github.com/matthiasgoergens/Div7 has a regex finder for divisibility. E.g. https://raw.github.com/matthiasgoergens/Div7/master/regex7 checks decimal numbers for divisibility by 7.
> But we need to have a global and long-term perspective.

Wouldn't a global and long term perspective include other "not developed" countries entering the "developed" category and this "consumerist bubble" you mention?
Would it be considered bad form to attach this application to a RFC 1149 network? It might actually increase the recoverability of the data in question.
grep is one example of a programme with a good regex library.

Compare http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Why evolve, when you can solve exactly?
You do realize that this doesn't help your point in the slightest, right?

It's been solved countless times, and yet Instagram is indescribably more popular than the other options.

In other words, it really doesn't matter if some dev can throw it together in a couple hours because of HTML/JS. What matters is the polish, followed by the users. Notice none of that includes "make it easy for the developer".
Pretty sure you can truck pylons if you can truck in precast bridge decks:

https://www.google.com/search?q=precast+bridge+deck
From what I can understand (which I wanted to also note -- half the time I'm really not sure what GNUstep is -- correct me if my understanding of what he's trying to achieve is wrong), he's trying to make extremely portable code that will run identically in any OS right?

TideSDK has made pretty good progress on that front, by leveraging web tech. He could maybe save a heck of a lot of time by porting TideSDK to cocoa and then pushing that
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Well, I probably would too, but depending on the airline, that is nearing first class levels.

Of course on many/most planes "first class" does not get you isolation from children... (certainly not for that low a price) but at least you get unlimited liquor and legroom. I'd be willing to pay more for a flight without children but I would want some unlimited liquor once I go over 200 or so.

On this note, what would be the booze situation on hyperloops? There isn't an aisle on those things as far as I can tell, which means no stewardesses... Maybe per-seat minibars could be installed on them? Strictly speaking it wouldn't be necessary for 30 minute rides, but I see no reason this idea shouldn't be scaled up past 30 minute trips (Musk points out that supersonic airliners are better at longer distances, but since we don't have those either I'd settle for a 30+ minute hyperloop. Both a hyperloop and a return of Concord/Tu-144 would be great of course.)
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I still have my original Apple II from when I was a kid. Have been meaning to fix it up in a while. This is a great reason to do so! In other news, any hardware hackers in Sunnyvale looking for a fun project...
No, if I wanted to say that I would have said that. I'm saying, lowering the barrier to entry is barely needed. If anything you've just outlined my point. The barrier to entry is apparently so low that all app stores regardless of developer complexity are already flooded with crap.

So the barrier needs to be lowered... why?
Hmm. This would also be really useful in doing underground greenhouses.

A tin sheet is cheap. You dig a hole, however long, wide, and deep. Then, you can get in the hole and plant whatever in there. Once done, you can cover it up with the sheet (or wood or whatever) and put the bottle-lights inside.

That way, you keep the pests out of your new garden.
> after which, my previous post applies.

Which is to say it doesn't apply at all since you meant to refute parsing of the subdomain. It's okay to be wrong, just admit it.

Hopefully no one will notice your consistent troll posts.
This is effectively a lightbulb that uses wireless energy.
I would really like to see people starting to build small scale models from this design. It could become the new version of building a rocket in your backyard.
What's a "local" search? Is the behavior you describe observed when "Files" or "Settings" are selected in the "What to search" box, or only when it's set to "Everything" or the web options?
From what I understand he still sort of wants out of Tesla in the long term. SpaceX is his baby and he's only running Tesla because he feels that he has to. I suspect he isn't receptive to spreading himself out over a third project (he apparently doesn't do much work himself for SolarCity).
> As mentioned above, we have been boarding planes without pressure suits for decades

The Armstrong Limit is at 62,000 feet. Jetliners fly at below 45,000 feet.
Just a pull request away: https://github.com/xta/HalloweenBash/blob/master/assets/prof...
I'm assuming the reason somebody downvoted you is the implicit assumption that saving fat cat bankers from middle class teenagers justifies turning the Internet into cable TV. I want to make the other point.

You're claiming it was about commerce rather than loss of life and then using examples where there was often loss of life.
That's not the point. They're still human and humans still react better to faces than to words. I had the same complaints. I think GNUStep is a great project, but I watched the video expecting to learn what made the developers excited about it and instead I got a powerpoint.
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