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Sure, so would high explosives directly on the tube. I am considering a situation that could conceivably be accidental because it is incredibly difficult to engineer something that can stand up to malice.
Financial regulations have little do to with the Fed. They apply to transactions in money, not money itself. It doesn't matter whether the transactions are denominated in USD or Euros, and now apparently Bitcoin.

It's not meaningful to ask whether Bitcoin could become compliant. Bitcoin exchanges and processors could become compliant. This means having in place systems to detect money laundering, etc. it might be even easier in Bitcoin, given how much transaction state is stored in a distributed fashion forever.
> My point is although there is no question you are subject to the actions you (and others describe) but it also could be the case that it happens for other reasons that have nothing to do with skin color.

I think that is a bit of a stretch. There is concrete evidence that explains this happens a lot, and it's clear that racism [1] and sexism [2] are a key part of it.

And -- not as scientific here -- but there's intuition I have gathered that's backed up with 10 years of extensive dining out in various arrangements and settings, and anecdotes from my server friends about the politics in restaurants.

[1] http://tippingresearch.com/uploads/Business_Considerations_T...

[2] http://tippingresearch.com/uploads/ServerAppearance1-3-08.pd...
I'm pretty sure I've seen this plot in an animated series of something...
As I understand it, if you want to receive bitcoins with wallet A and send those same bitcoins with wallet B, you would need to transfer said bitcoins from wallet A to B. And each transfer is recorded in the blockchain.
They approved it at a much lower budget ($9.95 billion). It would be interesting for the voters to get another vote based on the current cost projections.
>>I just think that Musk is oversimplifying the situation.

Yes. After all, the project whitepaper has the word "alpha" in the title, and the authors specifically say they are open to constructive feedback. Have you thought about emailing them about your concerns? I think they are valid.
Can someone explain what protobuf is in the real world? I've read this page twice now and have a fair amount of exp but still cannot figure out when i would need a protobuf.
It's more traceable than cash, less than bank accounts.
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>And your definition excludes sugar (sucrose) and corn (since they are both new), and includes sugar of lead (which has been eaten throughout history despite being toxic), so it's not a helpful definition.

I'm pragmatic. I don't care about having a perfect definition. I'm not writing a dictionary entry -- and some things are inherently fussy anyway.

People know what I'm talking about: any kind of stuff added to food that doesn't belong to it in the first place (the way flour and salt belong in bread and beef belongs in meatballs).

Stuff that serves no nutritional value, and is only used to: give them more enticing color, preserve them for longer periods, have them be able to survive frozen, enable lower quality or throw-away animal parts reused, make them more addictive to consumers, make them cheaper, etc.

>Then again everything people sell is done to maximize profit......

In some kind of hell, maybe. In the real world there do exist people that take pride in their work, and who wouldn't fuck with the food they serve to "maximize profit", even if it means they wont get as much money as they could.

You know, the kind of people that refuse to let their famous restaurant turn into a nation-wide chain, despite the offers, cooks that insist on using the most fresh ingredients, etc.
Why?

Until recently Ammonia was extracted from Urine and rotten vegetables was it not?
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Obviously unlimited means 'by them', not 'by the laws of physics'.
The government doesn't want anything with the currency. It couldn't care less. The government is concerned with the businesses that transmit or transact the currency.

Money transmittal laws vary from state to state and country to country. The exact requirements thus depend on the very specific circumstances of the business at issue.
"Why not? "

One thought that comes to mind is if you mention that you are also talking to "Sam " then "Bob" (who you are having a conversation with) can start to game Sam, or Sam can game Bob (when Bob mentions it to Sam later if they know each other).

So in terms of general business "loose lips sink ships" this is something to avoid.

So either party can play mind games with the other. And depending on the relationship of the two this could create a problem.

Other thing is that this gives the VC you are pitching a chance to drop things in your mind about the other VC that might affect your judgement. "Oh well he's a great guy but the one thing you need to consider is..."

My guess is PG might feel that the type of people in YC don't have enough experience to manage this situation properly so it's really similar to an attorney saying "don't say anything let me do the talking".
the pylon could be the target to disrupt the operation
BTW - the link disproves your point somewhat - voters approved a $10bn train, which is now expected to cost over 10x that. Brings into question what exactly they approved, or what it means to "approve" if there is no cost control in the approval.
Sorry, but I do not believe this will be cheaper than conventional rail. This is essentially a vacuum tunnel. Ok it is not a perfect vacuum but it is still supposed to keep 1/1000th of the earth's pressure.* Keeping such a vacuum over several hundred miles of metal tubing would be very very expensive.

This may work but it will be several times more expensive than the HSR system.

* Oh and by the way, it is completely misleading and annoying for musk to refer to this as merely 1/6th of Mars's pressure. That would be a really relevant statistic if he was building his thing on mars.
This style of programming also goes by the name "code quilting". Part of the difficulty with moving this workflow method into the classroom is that it requires schools to redefine "cheating."
You're pretty much done if the life support systems on a plane fail and you're pretty much done if your car has a massive failure while you're doing 70MPH. I can't imagine it being statistically more dangerous than driving.
Not supporting real native apps is a massive lack of very critical functionality.

This alone makes it far more difficult to write apps that perform well, especially those that are doing something that's resource-intensive.

Developers are also limited to basically using JavaScript. Yeah, I know about Asm.js and Emscripten. They're hacks, at best, and nowhere near being proper replacements for actual native app support.
Thanks for the followup -- I agree. I didn't comment on the mouse icon simply because I didn't make it. Switchboard does not ship with icons, it simply uses whichever relevant icons are available in the theme (e.g "preferences-appearance").

Personally, I agree with you that the mouse icon (and I've stated this elsewhere) is needlessly similar to OS X's. Frankly, the designer likes Apple' design aesthetic and probably liked their icon, and tried to create his own take on it.

Which is fine, but yeah -- it probably shouldn't be something we ship with, given our long-standing history of perceived similarity to OS X.
The biggest crimes have been relabelled, and now the continuing theft of people's futures by a wealthy self-styled "elite" is considered lawful.
I disagree. The "passenger plus vehicle" option is definitely more complicated, and in the first version of any project you need to keep things as simple as possible. I mean, the system in question is as complex as it is. I think the "passenger plus vehicle" version is included only to make the case for the additional possible uses of the system.
You don't have to avoid overselling. You just have to keep a safety margin over the promised minimum speed.
>> "For tipping, flat-rate minimum tip (like for larger parties, and also described in one of the articles), for instance could level the field."

My belief is that that will mean you rarely get tips higher than the minimum. Tips are supposed to be--by definition--voluntary, and in some sense a reward for service. As such, it offends me when a minimum tip is added (note: pre-adding it is different that merely showing off to the side what certain percentages of the bill are as a helpful arithmetic guide.) In keeping with that feeling, I never tip higher than the minimum if it's pre-added, even though in almost all cases the tip I would have given would have been (sometimes significantly) higher.
I don't know why this should be unpopular, except among people who see the Internet as a new Wild West. The basic advantage of Bitcoin, that its controlled by an algorithm rather than a central bank, exists whether or not financial regulations apply to Bitcoin. Does it destroy the utility of a crypto currency for exchanges and processors to be required to detect e.g. money laundering?
Well, fast trains or no new trains. It is still technically possible to get on BART in San Francisco and get off from a train in Los Angeles. You wouldn't choose to do this -- nobody would choose to do this [1] -- but it is possible.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14Train-t.html?pa...
possibly also something more along the lines of 'anything that keeps bitcoin in the news is good news', keeping up the influx of new people wanting to try bitcoin.
It is by the other investors. And the best investment opportunities come when other investors ask you to be in a syndicate for a deal they're leading. They may do this because they hope that next time you're the early-bird investor, you will remember them when you are helping form the syndicate.
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Probably, though the thermal shock might be a lot more exaggerated (hot-ass days, cold-ass nights).

But the solar power mechanism would definitely be more viable in the desert.
Rinon, you are correct. The Supreme Court (perhaps foolishly) decided that private to private transfer of land is permissible under eminent domain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
There's no reason why the customer should bear that burden rather than the owner. The owner can figure out how to implement a profit sharing/incentivization scheme just like every other business! If I work at an Apple store and we sell 5,000 iPhones in a day and still make the same hourly wage, should I be mad at the customers for not tipping?
Are you? I wouldn't rule it out, but personally I think getting an outside signal into a sealed capsule which is moving so rapidly that it must use battery power rather than a physically connected power source seems more than trivial.
Putting on an oxygen mask is not a difficult operation.
Perhaps the better question is whether or not it's legitimate for government to attempt to change social mores like that. As a corollary does a "behavior modification" style policy actually change how people feel? Or just how they act? And if it only changes how they act, have we really accomplished the desired end?
The same reason san francisco has built like 100 or 200 new housing units in the past year, and the same reason the california coastal commission was being sued (and found unconstitutional, etc):

California has a very large amount of regulatory burden compared to almost anywhere else in the US. High speed rail there is likely to cost overrun by a massive factor, and under deliver by a massive factor, and both, for no actually good reason, instead, only theoretically good ones.
> Can you please clarify why the high speed rail is likely to be a debacle ?

I don't believe that high speed rail will necessarily be a debacle.

But the route was largely chosen for political considerations. It was decided downtown San Jose, Fresno, and Bakersfield must have stations. (This requires an additional long tunnel, and urban construction is much more expensive.) The route takes a detour through Palmdale[1], an underdeveloped part of Los Angeles County.

The 'straight shot' route down I-5 that Musk proposes was also considered for HSR, and rejected even though it would have been much cheaper and simpler to construct.

[1] http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/06/the-truth-about-tejon/
I wasn't questioning that it happens I said "there is no question you are subject to the actions you (and others describe)"

I was saying that there are times that it happens that have nothing to do with skin color and would happen (maybe the waiter is having a bad day who knows) to anyone.

Like the man in the car next to me (assuming he is not gay) if I was a hot girl I would automatically assume it's because I'm a hot girl. Of course this is not the same as saying that men don't look at a girl in the car next to them!
I suppose that's true, though I don't know if that's a real difference compared to building other very long things that are the same all the way along, like roads and railways and the Great Wall of China.

It's just fascinating to me that the most expensive thing (in aggregate) is also the "dumbest" part.
The reason you can't "call us out on it" is because it simply isn't a lie. You may feel differently, but (if it matters), I give you my word that we did not intend for it to look like OS X.

As others have pointed out, I never said that it isn't in fact reminiscent of OS X, or that we did not evaluate the design of OS X along with a handful of other platforms when we created our designs.

The argument here is about intent, not the result. And there's positively no way you can prove the former, as much as you might dislike the latter.

(I would be happy to describe in greater detail the design process if it might help convince you that we didn't set out with the intention of copying OS X.)
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Not alongside. On top of. And all of it needs to be approved for safety in earthquakes.

If you're traveling at 600 mph, you do not want to have that tunnel unexpectedly move even a foot sideways during an earthquake.
> And remember - Musk contrasts $6b to what he estimates could possibly grow to $100b for the current proposal, so even if they end up needing to double their budget, they'd still be off by an order of magnitude.)

Why should we think that Musk's estimates for a technology which still isn't well defined (read the "Future Work" section at the end of the document) are reliable even to within an order of magnitude, and why should we accept Musk's assumption that the actual cost of the HSRA will be 50% higher than its official estimate?
What airlines are you flying on?
I would be very surprised if the numbers really work out the way you claim: that the weight for carrying a passanger is similar for trains and a tube, and that the weight advantage of a tube comes essentially from 3x speed allowing for a one third the linear density of passengers. Do you have a cite?
When a world changing idea comes along, there are always parties that stand to lose from it (1). If those parties are good capitalists, they will oppose the change. That is what stops many good ideas in their tracks.

(1) yes, a change could be an absolute net win for everybody, but it cannot be a relative win for everybody. In many cases, people will prefer to have less, as long as 'the others' have even less.
Previous discussion (2012):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573694
I had to seriously do a double-take, I thought this was straight trolling, not a real company.

I doubt any serious developers would consider doing this, there's already a way to demonstrate your programming capabilities in the real world, either by contributing to an existing open source project or maintaining your own projects on github.
I'm pretty sure the first Hyperloop will be built in China.
Why iPad? Why not a surface pro or a nexus 10 running Ubuntu?
> the Internet as a new Wild West

I thought that idea died, was buried, exhumed, and reburied back in 1996.
Steve Wozniak's original Apple II Integer Basic had 16-bit signed integers, but no built-in floating point support.

Applesoft (licensed from Micosoft) had 16-bit integer variables (such as A%) as well as floating point, but you are right that it converted them to and from real with every operation, which was slow. They were useful for saving memory (2 bytes instead of 5) and not much else.

There were BASIC extensions published in places like Nibble and Call-A.P.P.L.E. that added native integer math to Applesoft using the & command, so you could write things like "A% = B% &+ C%", and the operation was performed without conversion to real.

Let's also not forget SWEET-16, Woz's software emulation of a 16-bit kind-of-RISC processor on the 6502, that had 16-bit arithmetic. Reading the source code of SWEET-16 blew my young, impressionable mind.
Inline documentation done right is undeniably a massive time-saver though because you don't need to search a separate document at all. With the right editor, your documentation can also be folded into a single line or be hidden altogether.

Can you show us any concrete examples of high quality, comment-less codebases? The last (mostly) comment-less source that I read through last year was Node.js and I wouldn't exactly call that high quality or well documented.
Orbital welding on this scale and much larger is already done in the offshore oil industry.
This seems like a reasonable conclusion. Trying to learn the ins and outs of a new language/library/framework while trying to get something done is not a great way to do either. My primary languages are Haskell and C++, and I write a lot of language tools. It seems to me that both languages are good choices in this department, but for very different reasons. Haskell is difficult to beat in terms of sheer data-munging expressiveness, and I spend 20% of my time in C++ doing what “deriving” does for me in Haskell, but if you know C++ well, you can use it to write very efficient code that’s still fairly expressive. That ain’t nothing. Maybe next time choose OCaml though. ;)
The problem most ISP's face is that a very small fraction of users consume a majority of the bandwidth. It doesn't pay to quibble with users over metering, so you generally just cap or disconnect your unprofitable customers.

The only way you could sell flat rate unrestricted internet service is to increase the price and force your most profitable users to subsidize your least profitable users (biting the hand that feeds you). Bandwidth usage based metering would help fix this, but there is an extreme aversion to usage metering among even low usage customers.

From a (former) network engineer's standpoint: people who are upset that they can't keep their $50/month 20Mbps connection at line rate 24/7 make me think of people who want to fill shopping bags at a buffet.
Yes, and we don't link them to our phones either. ;)
Look at the Armstrong limit (at 62,000´), a mayor problem to overcome if the tube is going to be at the equivalent pressure of 150,000´

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Limit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_useful_consciousness

Also look at the TUC (time of useful consciousness) that it´s below 5 secs when flying that high. That means that you have less than 5 secs to put your oxigen mask on before you lose conciousness, or behave with out knowing what is happening.
Also due to the extreme low pressure, you´ll have a horrible a horrible stomach ache due to the expansion of the gases inside you. Your blood (or at least the corporal fluids exposed directly to the low pressure) will start boiling.

Not funny. Maybe one solution could be wearing some kind of pressure suit for this trips. But that is not going to be very convinient..
>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.

I wouldn't. Never interfere with my packets (except dropping when buffers are too full, of course). Throttle me to 1mbps if you need to, but you shouldn't even know how many TCP connections I have open.
Turn down the nastiness. It's totally non-obvious that this isn't overshadowed by the weight of the tube. And it does carry a motor with it, just not one that's responsible for initial acceleration or for large air resistances.
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The $9.95 billion was for the initial bond issuance. The estimate on the ballot was $40 billion versus the current estimate of between $98.5 billion and $118 billion.

Edit: correction from dragonwriter, via wikipedia [1]:

"The cost of the initial San Francisco-to-Anaheim segment was originally estimated by the CHSRA to be $33 billion (2008) / $35.2 billion (2013), but a revised business plan released in November 2011 by the CHSRA put the cost at $65.4 billion (2010) / $68.9 billion (2013) / $98.5 billion (YOE). The latest plan has revised the costs down to $53.4 billion (2011) / $54.5 billion (2013) / $68.4 billion (YOE)."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail#Fund...
I don't know if this is common knowledge or something, but how are all these companies implementing a secure way to execute arbitrary code? Sounds like a non-trivial thing to get right.
> When you buy a personal Google Fiber plan, you're not paying for an unmetered 1Gbps upstream/downstream fiber connection. You're paying for an unmetered 1Gbps upstream/downstream connection for personal use.

"When you rent a car from Hertz, you're not paying for an unmetered vehicle to take you all around the region. You're paying for a vehicle to drive around in town and to and from the airport. It doesn't matter if this isn't mentioned in any of the advertising material or at the rental counter."

There's nothing special about server traffic. Bits are bits, and if you're advertising certain bitrate for a certain price, deliver that or advertise something else.
Urine contains a lot of things, urea being one. Urea can be broken down into ammonia, but ammonia isn't ammonium hydroxide any more than sodium chloride is chlorine. They're not washing the meat with piss by any measure.
"We have a circulating system with a fixed population..." Not quite the same since people getting off the hyperloop won't be turning around to get on it again.
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> "no data caps,"

What, if anything, does this mean to you?
http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/SpeedofSoundOther.html

The only ones I see that are significantly higher than nitrogen/oxygen are methane, hydrogen, and helium.

Helium is mondo-expensive. It's not cheap even in welding-tank quantities, much less in the amounts you'd need here.

Hydrogen is flammable and/or explosive (depending on mixture) and is a huge pain in the butt to keep confined (so is helium).

Methane is cheap (but not as cheap as air :-)), and we have lots of experience with keeping it confined in big pipes. However, it's also flammable or explosive.

Using anything but air is going to require some sort of complicated replenishment/purging system and an air lock at both ends, whereas air leaks just require pumping it out again.
It's totally implausible that that's the primary factor.
What about the 2nd through the 5000th?

All the cost skeptics want to roll all the R&D costs into one line. That wouldn't be the case.
I joined Facebook last year and my profile was 80% done and waiting for me to claim it.

It was beyond creepy.
I'm fairly certain they've realized this. My guess is that "Proposed SF-LA tube costs billions less than HSR" makes for a better headline.