skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because performance is not usually a step function. It is a continuum. If it's a continuum, variance in training time to reach expertise is not surprising.
America is an inefficient, Socialist old Europe.

$6.4 trillion in total government expenditures.

Largest welfare and entitlement programs.

Nearly 15% U6 unemployment. Collapsing labor force. Falling real incomes. 15% on food stamps. Massive fiscal mismanagement in every respect. Endless QE just to fund the government. 0% interest rates just to reach 1% GDP growth. Healthcare is clearly moving toward a completely socialized approach over time and completely away from any free market solution. Taxes are extremely high, between federal and state; typically higher than supposedly socialist European countries. America also has more economic regulations on the books than any other country (and that's rapidly expanding). The largest land owner in America is the government, by a drastic margin. Half of all mortgages are held by the government. And on and on.

Doesn't get any more old European Socialist than what America is today. It would be fiscally impossible to go any further.
However, a government can probably make it very difficult to impossible to get money in and out of an exchange for it's citizens, if that exchange chose not to implement whatever features it requires.
I would say any stop in between the two cities would have a large spike in growth, as they suddenly become viable commuter communities, much like how suburban towns on the east coast grew out of proximity to regional rail lines. Suddenly a little rural truck stop town like Lost Hills becomes a viable commuting suburb.
Is it time for a new social contract between employers and employees?
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This system would seem very weak to criminals / terrorists / whatever firing bullets at it. It would be exceptionally difficult to track where the shot/s came from, and it would cause serious pressure problems.
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Hyperloop | Blog | Tesla Motors
~99% of my time coding is spent working through the stuff in my head

Now if they could optimize that...
Explain why not a single banker has gone to prison from both the fraudulent foreclosure crisis and the 2008 wider banking crisis yet these fools all of a sudden want to regulate BTC?

They can't even regulate the US dollar.
I'm not sure, but in section 4.1.2 of the PDF, it says:

Beautiful landscape will be displayed in the cabin

I took this to mean that there would be windows.

I agree about not wanting to look outside, though. I've travelled on the shinkansen in Japan (which go ~ 1/3 of the speed that the hyperloop is planned at) and it was really hard to look out of the windows for any length of time.
Don't worry -- once the hyperloop is built and running and we still don't have a practical supersonic airliner, Musk will sigh and design one of those for us too.
Which was disastrously over budget
Javascript support had been in progress. They called it EScript. The libobjc runtime is (since 1.6) prototypical inheritance.
Back of the bar napkin calculation with Barlow's formula, assuming 200psi (about what bbq tanks are at iirc?), somewhere around half an inch.
"especially with prison guard union - of course huge prison population resulting from "toughness on crime" may not be viewed as government waste by some" -

what if the prison guard union got in on the contract to have the prisoners build the hyperloop?
You certainly won't if you don't try!

However, here at Jane Street at least, many of the traders are picking up and using OCaml. If traders can do, so can scientists. And if it works for OCaml, it'll probably work for Haskell. (Which, honestly, is quite a bit nicer overall.)

Also, the general consensus seems to be that Haskell is easier to learn if you don't already have extensive imperative programming experience. So it's also a good fit for scientists in that sense. If all the needed libraries and tools existed--many do and more will, soon--and it was easy to get up and running, Haskell would be a perfect tool. Happily, it's moving in that direction, becoming simpler and more capable.
Permission Procurement difficulty: High.
Likelihood of success: Low.

Forgiveness Procurement difficulty: Low.
Likelihood of successs: High.
IIRC, he's actually talked about electric airliners a few times, though I'm not sure if those ideas were for supersonic electric airliners. I suspect not, but at the least it seems to be an industry he has thought about.
At that point why not cut out the coding altogether? Just visualize the output and there it is.
It is also difficult to tell the difference between a tumlbler service, and some other various more legitimate uses.

The level of regulation it would take to actually trace lots of tiny transactions between pseudonymous parties is next to impossible. How is me paying a friend back for half the pizza we shared to a new address of his going to be handled?
the day the average programmer gets an office, well...

I don't even get a cube where I work
Thanks for pointing that out. I am somewhat shy and quite extroverted.
There will also likely be additional capacity on the main tubes.

I doubt the system will be running as often at 2am as it does at 7am
Moving 'for rent' sign uses camera, motorized mount to track pedestrians
To Remember and to Forget and to Remember You've Forgotten
I'm assuming you're being facetious. A picture of the big dig belongs in the dictionary under the word boondoggle, and proves robomartin's point better than almost any other example could.
Wouldn't it be grand if Satoshi was the NSA? ;-)
Why the Hyperloop Won't Work
Smoke pot and test well as a kid? You’re more likely to be an entrepreneur.
The London Post Office ran an underground mail rail with small trains from 1927 to 2003:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway

Here are cool mail rail photos from some urban spelunkers:

http://www.placehacking.co.uk/2011/04/24/security-breach-lon...
The Victorian government won't even build new rail out to the airport; one wonders what would push them to want new rail all the way to Sydney.
It does not seem like that would be very practical.

Very few economically important plants will thrive in anything less than full sunlight. This makes sense because most plants become economically important because they are productive (good at turning sunlight into something we want like calories or wood).

The exceptions are plants that are grown for some valuable quality which is only needed in scarce quantities, like some spices or flowers.
I'm gonna stick my neck out here and say these guys are choosing the worst and most convoluted way to develop software, much less, a lisp system to for the Apple IIe ever. And then, trying to make a sensation out of it.

I was alive and programming back when the Apple IIe was popular. While I mostly wrote code for the Commodore 64 and Atari systems of the time, I did write a bit of code for the Apple II and IIe.

Those computers are primitive by today's standards, but nobody was entering hex codes. That ended with computers like the ELF II. A lot of the machine code programming was done with a program called a 'monitor' program that was much like the DOS debug program that allowed viewing and writing memory as well as a single line assembly (i.e. inline assembly) that would allow writing programs a line a time in assembly.

But most of the programming was being done using assembler's and compiler's like the Aztec/Manx C compiler that is still availble today (google it) so what they are doing and saying is BS.
Here's the paper that shows how to do the direct construction of the minimal DFA in linear time: http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J00/J00-1002.pdf
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What are the benefits to the world market of an affordable Tesla compared to, say, a modernized version of the Volkswagen Lupo, or a plug-in Up! ?
I'm not sure that the SPAM messages are necessary. I don't think that you can do traffic analysis of this sort on Tor without compromising the local machine (you want to monitor) or something like >15% of the Tor routing network.
Federated uncertainty
I guess it depends on the type of software you're working on, but input speed has never been close to being the bottleneck with coding for me...

Most of the time I'm trying to figure out what to do or how to implement an algorithm. Rarely do I get those mad-scientist frenzies where I'm typing away frantically trying to get all the words down as they come into my mind in a flash of inspiration.
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Mentioned this on HN previously but as a nearly 40 year old developer who has been developing professionally for nearly 20 years -- it used to be the norm for programmers to get their own offices, even just the regular joe programmers... Places really tight for space might put two guys in a very spacious shared corner office...

A few years into my career the idea of cubicles caught on and quickly became the norm, and now of course we're stuck with these horrible open offices that are, in my experience, just absolutely dreadful for productivity; but since everyone is doing it nobody really notices anymore.
Just finished reading the pdf and now I understand why this is by far the most popular HN post for a long time (ever?). I now post my feeble comment to be lost in a sea of enamored nerd buzz.

Fucking awesome, Elon.
Typing "Bing" or "search" or "personalize" or many other variants in the search all give options to configure that data sharing directly from the OS in a very easy manner.
Brainwave tech doesn't really get that kind of bandwidth without implants (and even then, interpreting the signals usefully is decades out). The skull is an unfortunately effective faraday cage, and it makes it impossible to get appropriately high-resolution and low-latency data. Maybe we'll figure it out eventually, but we're not even close right now.
Though i read 2/3 of total... Can't open the pdf now :/
GNUstep isn't a game, it's a platform. Additionally, since we're on the subject of games there have been games which have asked for $50,000 and gotten $2M. I don't think my project will get that much, but I do believe people understand that bringing GNUstep which is mostly up to about 10.4 compatibility to 10.6 is a non-trivial thing.

Problem #1, the video is all I could do. I am not very good at doing videos, it's not my profession. I have little time to hire a cameraman or do professional video editing and I'm not all that photogenic to boot, so it might be a good thing you don't see me on camera.

Problem #2: Easily fixable. I can add other incentives while the project is running.

Problem #3: If the goal isn't reached, then it becomes a matter of it's not even something that's reachable since I must have enough time freed (by having money) to complete what needs to be done. Without the time, the work can't be done at an accelerated rate since I will need to continue to do it in my spare time. So, while the funding goal is high, it is not unreasonable for a project this size.
Is the Android smartwatch hot or a flop?
No, but the less time you spend going through the mechanical action of translating thought to code the more time you have to focus on solving problems.
The default is that your search text gets sent to Microsoft and not, AFAIK, to advertisers directly. I can definitively say that at the very least, Microsoft has established a firm barrier of separation between the advertisers and the Windows client. For example, it's not just a web page with embedded advertiser's javascript/html that it displays when you get your search results, everything is curated by Microsoft and delivered by their servers.
I identified myself as an employee of Qualcomm because, per policy, we're supposed to do so when discussing the company. :)

I think it's reasonable to sell the chips under a restricted license - you don't expect people to use the chip in a product you don't know about. Consider a metaphor using a collection of short stories. You include your story in an anthology, which lets the buyer re-sell it at will. However, it would be questionable for the buyer to remove your story, and re-bind it as part of another book, which they then sell.

These actions are not restricting the actions of customers in any way (as far as I know), so they seem ok to me.

Edit: sorry about the delay in reply!
> Nobody hoards large sums of cash

i completely disagree.

first of all, you're arguing semantics, and you know very well that there are many fractional reserve bank accounts with lots of accumulated cash available for withdrawal at any time. that is a working, popular, valid definition of "hoarding cash".

second, do not underestimate the amount of cold, hard, paper (polymer?) cash hidden in safe deposit boxes distributed around the world. you can bet your bottom dollar (har har) that this cash isn't being lent out to commercial banking clients and mortgage buyers. it's sitting in boxes, unused. in a certain sense, it's an anti-inflationary savings mechanism.

that's not even counting the gold, platinum, pearls, diamonds, precious gems, and etc.
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Can you name any new major civil engineering project in the US in the last fifty years?

New San Francisco Bay Bridge. (No, it's not a refurbish -- it's a completely separate bridge with a separate design to replace the existing Eastern span.)
Love this post. Great tips that are useful for anybody/everybody, introverts and extroverts alike.

Just want to make the point that shyness/anxiety/insecurity != introversion. They're completely separate spectrums. Sure, sometimes they cross one another, but correlation of the two does not mean causation.

Here's a good post by Susan Cain (the author of Quiet) that gets at this idea: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/2011/07/05/are-you-shy-i...
No, it's the same thing, as that link points out:

Both inflation and demurrage reduce the purchasing power of money held over time, but demurrage does so through fixed, regular fees while inflation does so through expansion of the money supply by a central monetary authority distributing newly issued currency or through endogenous money creation (such as fractional reserve banking).
Just because someone's an engineer doesn't magically make people throw money at their project. It's _understandable_, perhaps, that an engineer might overlook the need for good marketing, or not know how to go about marketing something well - after all, for probably the vast majority of software engineers (or other types of engineers!), marketing is just not something they do often. But that doesn't make it 'lame criticism' to point out why such a campaign may do poorly; hopefully the author of the campaign uses this criticism to improve on the campaign so that it might succeed.
Originally I thought it was going to be inside a transparent tube that you could see out of - one of the only downsides to this is that you are inside a steel tube with no view. Technically not important, but may be important for some passengers.
If you are able to get WebObjects 4.5.1, then you can take a glimpse of how GNUStep should've been done on the Windows.

Sorry, but detachable menus, while great (and I love them in Autodesk Maya, but they start out as regular ones) would not make lots of people happy. Even Apple more than 15 years ago realized that, and their menus on Windows looked like Windows.

This is what for example ActiveDeveloper, an IDE based on WebObjects looked like:

http://img.brothersoft.com/screenshots/softimage/a/activedev...
Anyone else find speaking commands out loud to distract from thought?

"slap... slap... jog... dot... word... chk... slap... snore"
It's not about NeXT or WindowMaker or anything like that. I don't care about the NeXT look and feel and as you can see from the video and the screenshots GNUstep has moved away from that look.

I should point out that there are anumber of companies who have moved their products to Windows using GNUstep. THIS is the point of GNUstep, to allow both development of new projects and porting of existing projects to other platforms without the need for much code change. There are two examples of companies which do this today:

http://www.testplant.com - Testplant ported their EggPlant app (a testing app which is script driven) which is the core of their company to Windows. NOW the revenue from the Windows version makes up more than 2/3rds of the company's revenue.

http://www.apportable.com - Got an Android? Got an android that runs any game which is familiar to you from iOS... well, guess what... chances are these guys probably ported it... and they used GNUstep to do it. GNUstep is currently running on millions of devices out there.

So the sentiment "just get a mac" in this context, makes absolutely no sense at all and, in fact, completely misses the point.

Greg C.
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In the end the Federal reserve will protect their monopoly on money. The more legitimate Bitcoin becomes, the more likely a target of Fed action.
I am the chief maintainer of GNUstep. I wrote most of AppKit and all of the InterfaceBuilder equivalent Gorm. I run the GNUstep free software project, I was appointed as it's lead by Richard Stallman.

Please read:
http://www.gnustep.org/developers/whoiswho.html

Gregory Casamento
Which, of course, is the basis of modern macroeconomics -- keep people spending as much as possible.
Microsoft now says Kinect turns off completely; Xbox One can work without it
I don't understand what your concept of "bias" is. A review on a review site is a person taking the device out for a test run, and seeing how it works. This personal blog post is a guy taking a device out for a test run, and seeing how it works.

It would be biased if he worked for Google, or if, at any point, he expressed a disproportionate favour for Android without backing it up. But he didn't. Why is it biased?
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Intel's 12-Core Xeon With 30 MB Of L3: The New Mac Pro's CPU?
New iOS control: Pull-to-sort control for UITableViews
This is almost surely the pricing algorithms of 3rd-party sellers going haywire. We've seen it before on Amazon: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110425/03522114026/infini...

This is a classic antagonistic scenario for algorithms and it takes a lot of experience to get things to behave properly. Even the really sophisticated folks in financial markets get it wrong - HFT algorithms have run away from their creators in much the same way.
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First Secret Service documents on Aaron Swartz investigation released
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I took scissors and a ruler to my SIM card, and chopped it to size, following an online guide. Worked like a charm.
Perth > Adelaide > Melbourne > Sydney > Brisbane would be better.

Not going to happen, but would be awesome if it did.
I can't think of a more apt example to support robomartin's original point. Regrettably.
Satoshi Nakamoto is as real as Keyser Söze.
> But 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

As a matter of fact, only the frequency and the capacity matter. Speed matters to passengers but not to the amount of people you can move.

The hyperloop as proposed actually has fairly low throughput; conventional rail systems, particularly of inter-metro variety where high throughput is most important, best it easily. 28 passengers per capsule at a capsule every 30 seconds makes 3360 pph during rush hours. RER line A averages 30000 passengers per hour over the entire year, with rush hour capacity being much higher.
I was trying to work something like this out to try about a month ago but had to put it aside for later. Running my speech recognition inside a virtual machine was a dealbreaker, but not all that uncommon for people doing this sort of thing. I really, really wanted to get Julius[1] running in OS X but after a couple tries I couldn't get it to build (problem on my end– this is a good reminder to get it sorted out). If you're looking for an alternative to CMU Sphinx that's still FOSS, you really should check Julius out. There are plenty of docs on getting it running with languages other than Japanese. If you're curious about how well it can work, check out this[2] demo (requires Chrome).

[1] http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_index.php
[2] http://www.workinprogress.ca/KIKU/dictation.php
Regarding his PGP, it's interesting to see who (at least which key) signed his public key:

http://pgp.circl.lu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x5EC948A1&f...

I assume none of the key verified his identity before signing it ;-)
I think his assumption is off. Much of the weight on a train is due to the wheels and supporting mechanical to keep the train moving. Also using stronger and lighter material such as carbon fiber, which are never used on a train, will reduce the weight even more.
Your sign is mislabeled. The correct spelling is

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I'm guessing that the government wants Lavabit's private keys. Maybe they already sniffed the traffic and now need keys to decrypt it. What do you all think?
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Why not go ahead and build the Hyperloop, and when CA HSR gets around to actually building the links into downtown LA and SF, design them to connect up to the Hyperloop, which will surely be complete and running by the time HSR is projected to be available. The Hyperloop can even share some rights of way with HSR. Why not have both?

Hyperloop should be an AND proposition to HSR, not an either/or.
The Hyperloop Alpha PDF
I'll add a video tomorrow with me talking about the project. I'm learning a lot doing this kickstarter.
>> Just because someone's an engineer doesn't magically make people throw money at their project.

No one said that. It is a lame criticism - focus on whether there is a need for the project, is it possible in the time frame, etc. Substance over style, please.
Perhaps the point was that they were derided as being mere conspiracy theories?
It's also worth mentioning that the project is already %2 funded approximately 5 hours into the campaign and word has not yet hit slashdot or other websites yet.
What about 1) requiring STARTTLS, 2) encrypting incoming mail that isn't already encrypted, using the customer's public key. The message then cannot be decrypted by anyone but the customer. (The customer experience is that all the messages they download are encrypted.)
Just materialize whatever you want, in perfect working order, by thinking of it.
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It's awesome that it works, but that looks totally tiring.
Hm. If not, you have the problem of making sure that the calling runtime handles memory correctly for the non-GCed space, so it is definitely debatable.

E.g. RMagick was famous for suffering from problems of that kind.
The bond for this was put before the citizens of CA to vote on. They approved. Construction on terminals and land acquisition has begun. Seems like the time to rally against it has passed, no?

Massive projects always take time. And in that time, there will always be new technologies. The Space Shuttle used 1970s computing technology onboard, for example. Does it make sense to stop each time there's a new idea?
I guess I had better wash my 12 y/o car before I drive through Atherton again. I only have to go through there about once a month though.
Prior to the use of continuous welded rail there were gaps between each 39 foot section of rail.

Nowadays with welded rail, careful compliance with construction standards is required. Slow orders are issued during heat waves and frequent track inspections are conducted to look for potential or actual sun kinks.

A good summary of the issue can be found in the Heat Orders FAQ from Virginia Railway Express. [1]

[1] http://www.vre.org/feedback/frequently_asked_questions/faq_h...