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Opex won't be zero, but I don't think it'll be anything like HSR (or an aircraft). $20 seems too cheap. But I don't think $50 is out of the question at all if (and, agreed, big 'if') the capex costs are close to target.

Something else to consider though - those prices are for ridership levels that you could expect by connecting SF and LA. If you start to link up more points (Vegas, San Diego) the utilization of ALL the lines increases, which means you're amortizing the capex over more passengers... which helps a lot given the small fraction Opex will constitute.

To your second point, are you sure it'll be prohibitively expensive to integrate it into the city transit systems? As an elevated system I don't think it'll necessarily cost that much. I suspect it was omitted as much because it'd be expensive in concept evaluation time to sort the details of the integration as because they're just crazy expensive. Is it really that hard to get 2 x 3m tubes on stilts with a foundation every 30m out of a city? It's a very different proposition to putting in a new ground level rail line.
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Being modest in an argument never convinces anyone of anything. However, if you appear to be seriously pissed and offended, then people tend to think for a moment about it.

Why are they so angry? There must be a good reason.
I have no doubt it must have been easier programming in go. My question was on resource efficiency. I doubt anyone programs in C++ for fun anymore :-). The issue with toy problems you can write a vanilla python or perl program that processes text faster than C++ (without extensive fiddling) however the memory and CPU utilization can be 5-10 times higher. This doesn't matter on a single box for toy problems, but matters when you have an infrastructure costs of Google that run into the billions.
I also love Google App Engine. I have a paid iOS app that uses GAE, and so far I get by with the free plan.
10% is a lot of hacker ethos. Few take shits on toilets they made themselves all the time. Few make their own mattress or intentionally hack their brainwaves with external and/or internal devices when they sleep. And very few are consuming soylent regularly. You could have written your own email client, browser, and you could be writing code on a CPU you designed yourself, just to avoid the day-to-day grunge of unhackerness. I could have spent the time that I wrote this to instead take apart an old cordless phone to make it a garage door opener, just to have a spare. The car I drive could be one of a kind. It shouldn't even be called "car", because it would be different and better suited for the task of getting me from point A to B, freeing my hands to hack something together while I'm traveling.

Yes, 10% is what was meant, even if it was unintentional.
Nothing anyone has said in this nested comment thread is fascism. Did you choose that word to convey your anger?
Not only EA changed the game mechanics, but Konami completely broke PES too.

Fortunately, the game is back on track. PES 2013 is great.
OP here. I do actually use vim but I have yet to adopt most of the fancy plugins that vim provides -- put me in a time machine back to 1977 and I would be very capable of programming on any UNIX system that you'd drop me in front of, provided it had vi installed. I'm not defending this choice of lifestyle; it's just how I learned to program :-)
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In this case, the user knew they'd been banned due to the Cease and Desist letter they received.
Well then they aren't a purely American company, or at least they could be considered doing business there. I don't think OP knew that.

If Google did exactly the same thing to the exact same people from those countries, but without having offices in the UK, it would have been fine?

It's interesting that doing business in a country makes you liable to that country's laws, even for things that happen half way across the world on a web server. Though they very likely do have servers in the UK so that doesn't apply here.

The internet is a weird place for the concept of "where" something happened.

Though it would be nice if they could provide servers around the world and operate their street cars without making the entire company liable to every single government's laws.
It's slightly misleading to call this "revolutionary" - another cricket bar project [1] was funded on Kickstarter last year and appears to be in full production [2].

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/466721916/the-worlds-fir...

[2] http://chapul.com/revolutionary-supplies/
I maintain a library (a more comprehensive fork of AdBlock's porting library) that emulates most of the Chrome API in Safari: https://github.com/disconnectme/port (we use this library for Disconnect). Now that Opera is based on Chromium, you can pretty easily develop an extension for three browsers with one code base.
“The obsessive, delusional side of fantasy role-playing”
Usually kindle, but I try to buy a few books/year at Digital Guru on Lawrence near 101, next to Madhuban (mmm) in Sunnyvale. + easy side trips to Unix Surplus, Weird Stuff, Fry's, Halted.
We've done lots of load testing and the CPU and memory footprint of the Go version is better than the C++ version. Not surprising since we reduced the code size so much, but at least using Go did not involve significant bloat.
It really grinds my gears when companies call bars with more sugar than protein as "protein bars".
well, if i knew morse code, i could drive and text easily. or type an email in the middle of a meeting without anyone noticing. looks like a good skill. considering learning it.
Can I a question I haven't been able to answer myself?

In your webapp using POSTGRESQL, are you actually using SQL statements in your code to retrieve the data? Or is there some other way to get at it?
Sure, depends on the tumor type, the stage, mutation and diagnosis. I have been involved with what we call "advanced cancers" mainly.
Your aversion to insects is highly cultural. Plenty of cultures, especially in Asia and Africa, treat insects as common foods and even delicacies.

You don't have a problem eating insects if you eat any sort of processed grains. The USDA (or equivalent agency) has distinctly non-zero limits for insect parts and rodent feces in cereal, because it's impossible to economically keep all insects and rodents out of grains.
Why would I do that when I want to use Chrome only?

I can have both my Github accounts logged in, both of my gmails, etc, and get my favorite interface. I'm glad I don't have to launch Firefox or Safari anymore.
Google is heavily dependent on Java, Linux, Python, C++ etc. About two seconds of thought is all it takes to realize what an absurd claim this is.

Google is almost alone in building internet services at its scale. The people calling for adoption of exotic tech like Erlang without understanding their unique requirements are the fadsters.
Their prices seem reasonable. Over here in Australia similar home cleaning agencies typically charge AUD $30 (~USD 27) an hour with the cleaner getting around AUD $25 (~USD 23).
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Nope, not any more: http://www.quora.com/PyPy/Is-Quora-still-running-on-PyPy (The answer you linked is quite old)

I'm even more skeptical now that I see a company tried moving to PyPy, and actually hired a core PyPy developer (Alex Gaynor - http://pypy.org/people.html) to make the move, and it still didn't work out.
A very smooth way how copyright thieves do their tricks of the trade. 1st they deny you that your work isn't good or just like here, you say "IT'S NOT A BUG". Then they they get your work, re-edit it and claim that it's their own. On this matter, the whitehat proved that there was a bug, then I'm pretty sure you tried to look further into his report and then figured out to identify the issue. Stole the idea from the whitehat and had it fixed.
I agree with this except would encourage anyone interested to check out HF communication before investing even $30 in VHF :)
The notion of forcefully bringing about a change in popular culture is fascism at best. If you did not understand the politics behind this discussion, then you are either too naive or belong to the camp I mentioned.
This has been true for 10 years...

"You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists." - George W Bush
My Sunday-2hours-Project - grunt-kal (Compile Kal files to JS, with Grunt)
To quote the question "Why would anyone want it on other cloud providers"

You can't use AppEngine or any other cloud provider, unless you start playing semantic games around what "servers we do not control" means.
I don't understand how the analogy is related? Yours is cruel beyond people's feelings.
It makes sense on Windows and OS X too. I have a couple sites where I have multiple accounts, and it's nice to just fire up another instance of Chrome where different credentials are saved. Different extensions per account and so on. I shouldn't have to switch users at the OS level (which is slow) just to manage multiple online identities for me.
Shouldn't it be "One Fewer Wire"?

I'm not trying to troll with pedantry here, I'm genuinely interested in the reasoning that surely went on at the NYT.
Other great answers here -- I'll add my $.02, well, just because.

Ham here as well (K2KD). I had most of my experiences as a kid (6th - 8th grade), had an HF rig in my bedroom, and made my way through Extra class (which, I think, required a 20 WPM morse test).

I'd liken hearing common CW phrases not so much as hearing "the phrase" in its entirety / natively, but more akin to listening to a song or tune you're familiar with. Your brain knows what the next word / note is going to be, so that's queued up in your head (and why you can hum along with a tune you know).

Same with morse code -- you'll start to hear a familiar pattern and you'll just know how it's going to continue. Things like "CQ" were VERY common to hear and you always knew that pattern (-.-. --.-). Or signing off, you knew when someone was starting to say 73 (--... ...--) so you'd end up "singing along" with the words to the song you knew (metaphorically-speaking).

I was quite experienced with it and even now, 20 years later, I still know the alphabet. But I'd never say I got to true language-less fluency -- the code always translated into letters for me (either written or in my head), except in the cases above (I can hear a CQ now and not think "CQ" but instead hear it as the universal beacon call...da dit da dit..da da dit da......da dit da dit..da da dit da...)

Good memories - glad you're giving it a try!
I doubt wireless power will catch up to the efficiency of battery power any time soon. Batteries have been around a long time and have the ability to time-offset local renewable energy resources such as solar power.
There's no timezone on the Time of Day chart. Any good guesses?
That's what AI is saying:

>Schedule 7 is the law that allows the police to detain anyone at the UK borders without any requirement to show probable cause and hold them for up to nine hours, without seeking further justification. The detainee must respond to any questions, regardless of whether a lawyer is present. No lawyer is provided automatically.

>It is a criminal offence for the detainee to refuse to answer questions -- regardless of the grounds for that refusal or otherwise fully cooperate with the police.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/uk-deten...
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From what I can tell, you cannot have an appointment less than 2.5 hours, which with the service fee works out to $55. While this is still cheaper than Exec, I do not think that 2.5 hours of cleaning is necessary every other week for a <500 square foot studio.

The price isn't bad, but I would be more comfortable if they didn't stick to "$20/hour" and instead did something along the lines of "$50 for a basic hour-long cleaning, including travel and cleaning fees, and only $20/hour for every additional hour."
even if evading geo-blocking is lawful in australia (whether it is or not is another question), services like Steam, if they detect that you did such a thing, have the option of revoking access to your account, and you lose out. And the amazing thing is, steam's revocation is completely legal (plus you also agreed to it in the EULA).

This whole thing is completely anti-consumer. The law needs to catch up and make sure that consumer has the same protection as physical goods.
It was the closest thing the Incans had to an Internet, and a bit more like digital technology than those of us raised on the idea that the Incans had no system of writing would expect. And of course anything with such a title will be speaking figuratively: if you were fooled, or unable to see the basis for the metaphor, the fault lies as much with your literalism as the original submitter's stab at metaphor.

Now, I'd agree "The Incan Internet" could be improved as a title, especially to explain the article's relevance to this audience. "Quipu: the Incans' digital communication tech" would bridge the gap from the original title to the interesting, vaguely-Internet-like aspect for HN readers.

Unfortunately, it seems the mysterious headline-changing-Gnomes of HN only have a button for "revert to original TITLE", and a fierce loyalty to literalism over creative-but-fair headlines. So, we wind up with useless-but-easily-enforced crap headlines like "Quipu".
Rules are meant to be broken. Pay the man, he saved the company money.
Ahhhh, but those aren't protein bars!

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pray tell, why is that?
Consider the strength of an AI that could know you and your tastes, ideas, interests and concerns very well, continually scan all communications it could access, and continually keep a list for you of the top-ten things you might want to know about.

Imagine never missing a proof you need, a bit of news that might instantly leverage your talents, the bottoming out of your short position, a piece of entertainment that you might not hear about for YEARS otherwise.

Now how much would you pay if that plane could flap its wings?
The "gays are evil" thing is a little bit fringe in the UK these days.
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Pushing for change is not the same as forcing something. Sometimes the spirit and essence of it can be close to the same. However there have only been initial and hand wavey vague discussions here. None of it being fascism [at best], literally or in spirit.

The second half of your comment makes things weird/passive aggressive and personal. Not to mention the attempt at condescension. I in no way gave or am giving my personal point of view here.
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Sorry, these are all I could think of. I know there was this startup in Silicon Valley that did something with gesture based music control and I think they got acquired by Microsoft, but I cannot recall their name right now...sorry.
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i have had multiple problems with brew install postgres. it installs the code just fine but you get weird errors when trying to start the server and connect to it with the psql client
I'm glad to hear it.

Was there anything about the language that you found particularly forced clarity and modularity? I'm giving a talk comparing Go and Ruby next month and I'm curious as to what people with experience with larger Go programs find to be most helpful.
Yer fucked heathens! Hand of God has struck the hour!

God says...

14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as
when he fought in the day of battle.

14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall
cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and
there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall
remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

14:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley
of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye
fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah:
and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not
be clear, nor dark: 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known
to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at
evening time it shall be light.

14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from
Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward
the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall
there be one LORD, and his name one.

14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her
place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the
corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's
winepresses.
This: "[X] is faster at runtime and python is faster at development time."

I wish more people knew / recognized / accepted this understanding of Python's goals. There is the old but still quite accurate:
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/comparisons/

I'm not sure if Guido is the original author, but he at least comments on it. There are also quite a few excerpts going back to the origins of Python where Guido plainly states that the goals of the language are ease, brevity and developer productivity - I've never seen performance as a stated goal.
Of course you are supposed to use them when appropriate; they have their uses just as goto can have its valid uses. The implementation of the standard library contains some examples. But they should be used judiciously and not for mere error handling and not across package boundaries.
(full disclosure: I work at google and also like erlang)

Erlang has fantastic facilities for robustness and concurrency. What it does not have is type safety and it's terrible at handling text in a performant fashion. So if you don't care about either of those things and only care about robustness and concurrency then Erlang is great. There were internal discussions about Erlang here but the upshot was. We had already basically duplicated Erlangs supervision model in our infrastructure, only we did it for all languages and Erlang didn't offer any benefits in performance for us. It's only benefit would have been the concurrency model. That's much less benefit than Go gives.

Go gives you Erlangs concurency model, a similar philosophy of robustness, type safety, all batteries included, and performance. Equating the two languages works in 1 or 2 dimensions but not on all the dimensions google cares about.
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here is the one I was having,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472988/postgres-could-n...

postgres app fixed it
IMO, authors need to start writing more descriptive headlines.
When people ask «Why not Erlang instead of Go, Erlang is X and Y and Z...» they seem to be oblivious to the fact that Go is C-like and Erlang has a pretty weird Prolog-like syntax.

I've had some experience with Prolog before touching any Erlang. It's not a syntax or a programming style that I liked, not at all. When I came to do some Erlang [1], I found the same style and it was not a pleasant surprise.

I learned C-like languages first, so maybe that's why my view is flawed. But most people also learn C-like languages as their first language, so it might be that Erlang looks like an ugly beast when they come across it. And thus as a concurrent language, Go seems to be first of it's kind.

Meanwhile, Go has a very simple style that pretty much everybody can read out of the box.

[1]: CS Games in Canada, one challenge was a 'debugging' competition where programs in ~10 languages had bugs we had to find and fix in 90 mins. One of them was in Go, another one in Erlang. Out of about 20 teams participating, me and another one (2/20) managed the Erlang one while the vast majority of the other teams managed to do the Go one. FWIW, this can speak to people's ability to understand Go vs. Erlang.
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there may be more reasons other than technical that large businesses run on Oracle (database).

The amount of paid "consultants" that oracle pushes thru to make their sale, plus their tactic of charging what you can afford to pay, as well as the "can't get fired for buying IBM" mentality of large IT organizations means that oracle has a distinct advantage over any small competitor.

Not that oracle's tech isn't good, but there are comparable alternatives, but they are only comparable in the technical aspect, not in the (strongarm) sales aspect.
> Archive and extinguish

Should this be applied to Europe also? Should Germans, French and Italians all drop their languages and convert to English?
Fascism is the notion - once it is in the mind, it can get into action - it is important that people understand the level of toxicity of the thought. Humanity is enriched by its languages and diversity. By the way, every notion (other than a proven fact) has personal and political dimensions.
Morse is not all in the past tense, as you write.

I have learnt it, a bit, for amateur radio, where it is still used. There are lots of wee applications for it too, like showing status messages on a small electronic device using a single LED.

There have been times I have wished more people know it, for example for communicating with light accross a mountain valley, or communicating underwater.
> The language has panics. But you aren't supposed to use them. So...

Not true. Panic/defer/recover is there to be used. But panic/recover should typically be internal to a package and/or used in a situation where the program itself suffers an error; not because of faulty user input/validation/etc.

Edit: What mseepgood said!
> Wikileaks has some of the shittiest OPSEC ever (as the Manning events showed).

How did the Manning events show that?
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I really hate analogies in law because it always seems to provide very little support for whether a law is a good idea or not. Your analogy is to breaking and entering a physical residence, but you skip over the fact that this is a publicly available website. I'd say it has more in common with photographing a public building. Lets say Dunkin' Donuts doesn't want me photographing their buildings and making a map of all their locations. They demand that I stop taking photo's from the street and put up a small tarp that covers the physical line of sight to their building that I used to photograph. I then come back and photograph their building from 2 feet to the right and they claim I bypassed their building security.

I don't think my analogy is any more correct than your, which is why I would rather we just decide what is best for society. Seems a lot more useful than trying to decide whether IP filtering is analogous to breaking a window.