skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting... I'm this guy:

http://nsbrief.com/85-gregory-casamento/

;)

Greg C
It's intentionally non-spendable, by doing so it keeps that data from having to be stored forever in the dataset used for block validation.
The man is innocent until proven guilty. Even if he started the fight he may have felt threatened. I would say nothing at this point. I would hire another talented programmer and go for the seed money to grow your business. With your growing business you'll be able to rehire the fellow if he in fact does have to do time. You did say he was stellar.
This is all very interesting, but how much do you squat? Let's quantify the progress in absolute terms we all understand, like pounds on a bar through full ROM
It is presented to provoke and I think you're right, it does look like an attempt to derail CA HSR.

Instead, I think of it this way... if it's so cheaply do-able, then - do it! Sounds like an easy money making idea if you can build it for the figures proposed. While you may only need to charge $20 each way to break even, why not charge double what it costs to go the next most fast, convenient way, and you would make bank! I mean, who wouldn't do this if it works as envisioned? It's a genius business plan, right!?

So do it! Some rich bold genius! Build us a hyperloop - so cheap and obvious and do-able! And whenever we get to HSR, we'll build it so it connects to the awesome LA-SF express hyperloop.
Ask HN: What are the best ways to find freelance dev gigs?
I have to pick up some freelance work to supplement my income from my day-job, and I'm wondering what other people use to find work that pays by the hour.

I'm asking mostly about development gigs (front-end, back-end, anything). Are there good sites to go to? If so, which ones are good/reputable?
It could also just mean there will be picturesque scenery mounted on the interior.

(I'm not sure I'm joking)
Allow me to get this straight... you would like to see a complete analysis of everything that's missing between the current state of GNUstep and 10.6? I can produce that, no problem but it is very boring and not worthy of either my blog or a kickstarter campaign.
GNU Libc 2.18
I have an anecdote here that is both funny and sad.
My friend's mom visited a few years ago from Germany.

After she returned home she said that she really had enjoyed the trip, especially the trip on "the old, historical train".

She was talking about Amtrak.
I think it mentioned in the PDF that speeds would be reduced significantly while in or near residential areas?
Absolutely relevant article by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fieldguidetodeveloper...
Here's an idea: public mail pools. The entire email message is encrypted and randomly routed to one of many addresses. Each customer downloads all the messages from all the addresses in the pool. You try to decrypt each message, and the ones that decrypt are (obviously) yours. The rest belong to someone else.

To make life tougher on spies, add fake email messages to the pool regularly.
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Most programmers have mnemonics for text motions and symbols so as long as they're mnemonics you're familiar with I'm sure there's no problem.
Good to know that _none_ of the technical people or authors of the software are important as far as NY is concerned! :P
What a jackass. The whole Texas vs California regulatory environment is so tired. How the heck would this be "ideally a private project"? I could easily see politicians like Brown or Arnie getting behind something like this and it getting some real traction. We just spent $7b on the Bay Bridge so it's not like we can't get this scale of stuff done. The bulk of the land is already government owned/controlled (mainly I-5). This reads like it was written by Forbes...knee-jerk anti-California biz environment.
Your argument assumes that individual bitcoins exist...

Bitcoin ties a number to a script. By providing a cryptographic key for that script you can add that number with some other numbers from other scripts and then divide that value into new scripts (throwing away the extra). Bitcoin programs often generate new keys for just about every transaction (so it's hard to link them together).

These scripts are transactions in waiting. They can't complete until someone provides the key that decrypts them, and then puts them in another transaction. Bitcoin is deniable, no one can prove you have the key to some scripts (since you can generate the keys from something in your memory, as opposed to using the easier to use encrypted wallets), and if they tried to, it would be equivalent to a thought crime.

Now, as a legit business, you would be required to collect tax for your services (for sales tax), but you already have to do that, which is how it should be.
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Okay, here's the million dollar question that isn't on the FAQ and no one in the audience asked.

How the hell did he code it without using his hands? With help?

To his amanuensis: Slap. York. Tork. Jorb. Chomp.

Or maybe he felt his hands going, and he spent the last few months of his pre-RSI existence coding this up.
As a professional engineer I think you're missing the point that the air bearing doesn't require such tolerance it creates such tolerance automatically through negative feedback of the physical system.
(yes, I know I'm hell banned)
Surprised none of the indignant commenters are opening a food truck in front of every olive garden. The unlimited Soup Salad and Breadsticks could be resold for pure profit!

This is pretty much exactly the argument I'm hearing from people that think Google is doing a terrible thing here.
Concrete is about two tons per yard. The legal limit on most trailers is about 20 tons (40,000 pounds, the trailer is about 40,000 for the legal limit of 80,000 pounds). So you can get about 10 yards of concrete in one go; you can use specialty trailers to get higher numbers, but even if you double it to 40 tons, that's still only 20 yards.

a 4' x 4' x 8' ecology block is about five yards. So let's picture the pylon having a 4' x 4' base that sits on granite, requiring no foundation. The pylon is going to max out at 16 or 32 feet tall if we're required to stay within the load limits.

furthermore, when you see those ribs moving around, they're moving around on interstates or state roads of solid construction. If there was an interstate running directly from San Francisco to Los Angeles along this route, we wouldn't be having the discussion. Building such a road to deliver precast sections is quite the endeavor.

I stand by my original claim that these would need to be cast-in-place.
I did a simple survey of our codebase... as I think we meet your requirements for serious production Haskell. Here's the terribly inaccurate and probably misleading results:

Raw line count:

destroyer:alphaHeavy$ find . -name "*.hs" | xargs wc -l | tail -1
132272 total

Things that look like bang patterns or strict fields:

destroyer:alphaHeavy$ grep "\!" -rI . --include "*.hs" | egrep -v "\\$\!|\.\!|\!\?|\!\!" | wc -l
1344

Strict returns:

destroyer:alphaHeavy$ grep "\\$\!" -rI . --include "*.hs" | wc -l
762

Unboxed fields:

destroyer:alphaHeavy$ grep UNPACK -rI . --include "*.hs" | wc -l
298
You're adding to the problem here instead of taking the constructive criticism to heart and taking action to make things better.

This project is now a business seeking outside funding and should be conducted as such. There are no excuses and perception is everything. Instead of an itemized (note: this projects as petty) response, you need to fix it and say "thank you" to sillysaurus for the valuable input.

You've since added $1 minimum contributions. Awesome! What does that person get? An honorable mention? Their name on the 'Founder's List'? There's nothing in the tier descriptions...

The overall message is still unclear. How does Johnny MacBook benefit from all of your hard work? What is the point?

I want this project to succeed, and that is where the feedback comes from. It's obvious to me and everyone else here that you've put a lot of time and effort into this project. Please don't make the mistake of thinking that it's enough to build it. If they don't know what it is and what it does for them, they won't come.
How much data could you store if you pinged the voyager 2 probe?
That's funny. I was thinking of exactly the same thing. Another thing to do is limit how much email is kept, so old mail is automatically purged.
The best part is the "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed"
Oh FFS, the whole world does not revolve around the damn NSA. You're obsessed, go see a shrink or take a day or two off from the internet.
Real money is a government IOU that can be redeemed to fulfill your tax obligation. Bitcoin fulfills neither of these. It's simply a receipt for wasted electricity.
it describes his last salary, so if you know the formula, 3% at 55, and his years of service - 31 - stated in the article, it also allows to calculate his pension - 180K+
This is amazing!

If you could speak a bit softer with this, maybe throw in some noise-cancelling headphones, I could totally see this being useful even in an office situation.

I could see a potential pseudo-language developing out of this to abstract a lot of the individual characters, functions and common invocations used while coding.
The hyperloop passenger capsule is estimated at 15,000 kg, while a TGV weighs 400,000 kg.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV

Edit: I had the wrong numbers before, thanks to Shiffern for the correction.
What does his squat max have to do the point above? Besides, he's an oly weightlifter not a powerlifter.
grimwire.com/local is trying to solve that by turning workers into web servers and letting them power user plugin systems. I'm in the process of redesigning the docs and packaging it with webrtc tools, so it's getting some work atm, but here are some videos of things I've tried while working on it [1][2][3].

1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nrZiJph6SU&sns=em

2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAMTomxQV80&sns=em

3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erVREtQoMCc&sns=em
There are overpasses all along I-5. I seriously doubt you can put a 20 ft elevated tube under them and you certainly don't want them in a place where a truck can easily slam into the support pillars.
it seems you can do very well if you get into CA politics :)
Interesting talk. Naturally it made me think about steps I should take to prevent any kind of RSI. Should I be seriously concerned if I type for about 4-5 hours on average per day? How can I prevent it?
This idea has been around for a long time; see e.g. Zalewski's paper from 2003: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/juggling_with_packets.txt

Cool to see an implementation though!
So what you're saying is that their pensions aren't "200-300K/year"?
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This is all rather absurd given that the Western European nations that haven embarked on major infrastructure projects in recent decades tend to have higher rates of unionization as well as stronger labor and environmental regulations than the United States. That Europe has high-speed rail and the United States doesn't can hardly be chalked up to unions.
That sounds like a good point (I'm not from California so I can't judge), but the quality of your argument is significantly reduced by the initial ad hominem.
Coincidentally today:

Crypto-currency for NSA leaker: Snowden fund accepts Bitcoin

Published time: August 12, 2013 14:51

US fugitive Edward Snowden’s defense fund, launched recently by WikiLeaks to raise money for the legal protection of the NSA leaker, has announced it now accepts donations in virtual currency Bitcoin.

http://rt.com/news/bitcoin-snowden-fund-wikileaks-384/
Budgets are tight, FOIA compliance is way down the list. Congress likes keeping the executive branch on short rations, and legal stuff like this is a cost center.
This one:

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

It only supports my point. It's 2.2 miles long. Construction started in 2002. It was supposed to open in 2007. It will not open until the end of this year. Total cost is currently at six billion.

The Hyperloop is 400 miles long, will be built in seven years and will cost six billion.

See my point now?
This is exactly what the standard bitcoin client does - it creates 100 addresses when installed.
He responded to your points about the linked article. You went back to discussing why his language was out of line. Now you're destroying the tenor of commentary. Just append the etiquette suggestion to your previous post.

...now I'm contributing to this thread -- shoot!
The 'default' (and I'm not sure how now declaring your variables with var qualifies) depends entirely on what's bound to 'this'.
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A country like America in the '60s, '70s, or maybe even '80s would build this in a heartbeat.

A country like America today...who knows?

This plan has the perfect mix of reasonably practical yet slightly unsettlingly new and unfamiliar. It is just the sort of thing that meaningfully evolutionary changes are built on, like airliners or cross-country trains or steam-powered ships. If America builds this, great! If not, watch for which country does and move there post-haste!
hmmm so I've been looking into this more and more. I came across this post by steve blank and thought i'd add it to this discussion - http://steveblank.com/2013/08/12/how-to-get-meetings-with-pe...

essentially he states how he now filters his meeting requests to the ones where its a two way conversation versus just the "I'd like to grab coffee and pick your brain".

good stuff. I will definitely use this.
Why bother with peripherals.

Project the display onto a wall and project the keyboard onto the desk, the unit would detect the position of your fingers over the keys using similar techniques to how Kinect works.
"Emacs pinkie" is a non-issue if you use a keyboard with thumb clusters, e.g a Maltron or a Kinesis model. Investing in a good keyboard is just as crucial as investing in a good chair, especially if you make a living by coding. The time that you spend compensating for a bad input device by hacking your own workarounds can be more costly then spending money on a proper solution.

Once you are an adequate touch typist typing speed is only beneficial if you use a language that requires you to type a lot of boilerplate. Even then, you can use an IDE for auto-completion. I can type at very high speeds — as fast as others can input text by using their voice — but I can't remember the last time I needed to type for more than a minute at a time. If you use a language that requires you to spend more time thinking about code than it does to actually type it, typing speed really doesn't matter. Code is like speech in that it is judged by the eloquence, not the speed, of its delivery.
With the purpose being... to undermine the currency of their only source of income (the US government)? ;-)
European unions do not behave as American unions do. They seem to know how to balance their wants with the idea of allowing their host to survive, grow and succeed. American unions tend to extract as much blood as possible out of their hosts. They are really selfish, to the point of causing terminal damage. Look at the cities they've killed off.
What I get from this is that the new Mac Pro is going to be expensive - the older generation Sandy Bridge Intel Xeon E5-2687W still costs > $1900.
If it were possible to force an app into being with money and willpower, Instagram would be on Windows Phone.
I was thinking the same thing. Dig a deep hole, or make a mound, then you can grow your weed with good privacy.
My neighborhood is under served by municipal utilities (No telephone, no electricity, no water, no sewage, no cable, no pavement,) so for water most here use rainwater catchment systems using above ground cisterns or pools for storage, and various treatment methods such as UV, RO, and charcoal filtration. (Many haul drinking water from county provided spigots)

For sewage most use cesspools dug a minimum of 12 feet deep by 6 feet wide capped with concrete & steel, although those with small lots are required to use septic tank systems.

For hot water I have a solar collector thermosiphon setup augmented by a propane tankless (on demand) water heater.

For electricity I use PV panels (8 Kyocera 135 W panels) going through an Outback charge controller and a Solar brand voltage inverter, with 6 Interstate 6 volt deep cycle batteries for storage.
This is enough to run all of my light electronics, as well as a refrigerator/freezer and more.

For heavy electrical loads I have a backup gasoline generator, which I rarely use anymore.

Since my area has one of the highest electricity rates in the USA my system began paying for itself after less than three years.

My home has a lot of windows, which helps to provide airflow as well as making air conditioning unnecessary, thus I have no need for lighting during the day.

(I had some pictures on one of my phones, but am unable to locate them now...)
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

^ Missing the end quote
use jekyll or middleman and host it on a VPS (Digital Ocean is a good choice).
You're still missing the part where it incurred interest, so it wasn't free in the least.
Emphasis on displayed... It could be a screen.
So stupid, and it ruins the perception of the US worldwide. The result of this change is going to be exactly as described, a lot of US citizens living outside of America are going to renounce their citizenship and not a single dollar is going to flow into the federal budget. No upside, a lot of downside.
There is no them. I can just imagine the redactor cursing out the idiot who scanned this for him.
Nevertheless, we have a greater resolution on the kind of information that is sensitive to governments.
Bitcoins and the Winklevoss twins...to regulate or not to regulate?
> Why would any successful government ever voluntarily give up that control?

They really can't give it up. It's the foundation of government: the ability to issue debt and place an obligation on citizens to offer their goods and services to acquire that debt to fulfill that obligation. Unless the U.S. decides to adopt debt note convertibility to bitcoins, there's really no way for bitcoins to supplant the dollar.
France probably doesn't tie both its rail agency's hands behind its back with pointless environmental impact reports (the sole purpose of which seems to be to generate extra revenue for civil engineering contractors) and then let NIMBYs sue because this or that insignificant detail wasn't included.
This is awesome! Any chance you can repost tomorrow when it might get a bit more attention?
You're not getting it through your head, or comprehending what I am saying, so you obviously have no experience as a professional software developer. Your software will have a lot more bugs in it, and is a lot more likely to corrupt your users' data, if the language you use conceals the problems from you during development and testing, and guesses at what you want. Go back and read what I wrote, and address those points instead of ignoring them. You are incorrect that it's better for a programming language to hide errors, guess what you meant, and silently corrupt data. You may think that it's convenient for you not to have to type the extra keystrokes to check for unexpected null pointers, but that is because you are a lazy programmer who would rather save time and cut corners than write reliable code.
This is Elon's Segway - unproven, hyped up technology. This always happens with successful people/companies - they feel like they can do anything and can't fail - throwing rationality into the wind. I love Elon, but this is not worth his time at the moment.
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You can't edit a comment that's more than an hour or so old. Reasonable people can have disagreement about the ground rules for online discussions, and it's helpful to get everyone in the same page in a constructive way.
I think the point is valid in a larger sense, when applied to the US. The US can't be home to the hyperloop.

The US political and regulatory system has become so corrupt and byzantine that we just can't do big projects here any more. Not of this scale. (Seeing other comment - the Bay Bridge is nothing like this scale, and the fact that's a $7billion project works against your point not in favor of it).

It isn't knee-jerk anti-unionism to discuss the union involvement either. It's not just that they'd want to unionize construction and operation, raising costs, but the unions who would feel threatened by this (airlines, rail) and other lobbying organizations, as well as the petrochemical industry would all gear up to delay, undermine and attack this project.

If the Hyperloop is ever made a reality it'll be elsewhere, most likely China. The ideas will flow freely in the US but the implementation will be elsewhere, somewhere they have the will and means to make it happen.

(To pre-empt the straw man that I'm saying the US is too corrupt but China might do it so I must be saying China is not corrupt - of course it is. Just a different type of corruption, one benefits the politically connected through inaction, the other through securing powerful monopolies and funneling state money to private projects like this.)

All that being said, I would love to be wrong about this.
It usually happens during refactoring, or when you're doing something you've done before, so you already know pretty much exactly what needs to be done and you're just executing.

It also helps to stop coding for a minute, think what you want to do, then code until you stop typing for more than 5 seconds, repeat.
when you use a lawyer to draft your ToS, then if your company is sued because of ToS that the lawyer provide, is the lawyer for any lawsuit that comes with the ToS? and lets say if your company lost a lawsuit due to ToS, who will be liable for it? and who is going to pay the damage or settlement?

I am thinking it's the lawyer who may have to pay because your company paid the lawyer to draft the ToS and he was not competent if such case happens. But I am not sure, hence the question.

Thanks.
I don't know the exact situations behind HorizonXP's company and their refusal, but having worked in devrel on two minority platforms, I can share with you some common reasons:

-[small companies] even if you bought them a developer, it would impede their ability to be agile and pivot and iterate as they try to find something that works. It's hard enough to get them to support Android in addition to iOS, but getting them to support WP or BB10 is even harder

-[big companies] don't need the money. Or would ask for outrageous fees (some companies have asked for north of $20 million, even for faddish apps)

-[big companies] have an existing solution to do cross-platform development for iOS and Android and it's not worth it to redo it to add WP/BB support

-[small companies] complete lack of familiarity with the Microsoft stack.

-pressure from Apple or Google (usually Apple). I've had cases where a company gets favorable placement in the app store or in a commercial, or placement on the demo devices in a retail store and planned Windows ports are put "on ice" because they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with Apple (which of course has reserved the right to be as capricious and arbitrary with its app policies as they like)

-personal dislike. Believe it or not, some companies are run by people who just have a personal dislike of BlackBerry or Microsoft that is so strong that they'd rather spite them than add to their customer base. It's incredibly immature, but nothing we can do about it.
See also this one (read the customer reviews):

http://www.amazon.com/Datastroyer-Model-1000-Disintegrator/d...