skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that your objection to asm.js is primarily that it strikes you as an ugly, byzantine hack, rather than any problem with the practicality of it. It may seem bizarre to encode a cross-platform intermediate representation of low-level code as a subset of JavaScript, but it works. It may still be 2x as slow as native code, but the implementation in SpiderMonkey is still a work in progress. If GCC or LLVM can take a cross-platform IR and generate efficient native code, then why can't SpiderMonkey do the same with asm.js?
Click the link "Show scripts & coinbase" and it is in one of those.
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Anyone know how close it is to 10.6? I havent looked at it in years but this seems like a big job and a low price.
Click on "Show scripts & coinbase" on the page, and it will appear under the output scripts unformatted. The poster added line breaks.
Not only does nothing stop you, it's fairly trivially automatable.
In a way, bitcoin itself is not really a currency, or money, it's more like an idea for exchanging messages. Bitcoin is really a decentralized messaging system which relies on cryptography and proof-of-work to maintain integrity. Should exchanging messages in the form of "I owe you x amount" over a p2p network be regulated or be made illegal?

However, The fact that it's used as a form of currency is just an interpretation of what Bitcoin is. There can be other interpretations for what bitcoin-type system can be used for, for example Namecoin is used for name registrations. The judge declared that bitcoin is money by making an interpretation.

If anything, Bitcoin is just software. It will be very difficult to regulate.

1. Software using encryption is protected speech (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States). Regulating bitcoin as in bitcoin the software would be a form of censorship.

2. Bitcoin uses many of the standard principles of cryptography we already use in e-commerce. Banning cryptography would have enormous consequences for the economy of the internet in general.

3. Banning or regulating p2p would cause an uproar.

4. If buying bitcoins in exchange for dollars is really exchanging a string of bits for money, then if this is banned or regulated, would it also ban buying software or other digital goods for money?

5. The regulations can't be too broad, but can't be too narrow. Would the laws restrict only bitcoin as a currency or other applications of bitcoin as well? If too broad, then they will unintentionally restrict other uses of bitcoin too. If too narrow, a new system will pop up again.
To be able to see this information on the linked page, click on "Advanced: Enable" at the bottom of the screen. Then you'll see the "Output Scripts" section where this info is contained.
He does say that, that angels cooperate more with each other than VCs do. So yes.

But I think the salient point is whether the investor is asking who the other investors are so they can cooperate with them, compete with them, or collude with them. And that depends on the investor, not whether they are an angel or a VC.
> Part of what has made Musk so special is that he gets things done.

Not applicable to Hyperloop, which he has pretty clearly said he is not going to get done.
Maybe I have been lucky but I have never seen any such threads. The such threads I have seen have if anything been more polite than the average with more details and explanations (since Linux users are on the average more technical). Care to share any example?
The metaphors Tagore is using are confusing, at least to me, but this is definitely in the realm of "Philosophy of Science." It's funny because I can't really spot a practical consequence of the difference in their model of the world, functionally speaking.

Einstein says he believes there is a reality which exists independent of the human mind. When we leave the kitchen the table remains, even though we can't see it. It seems like for Einstein this is less of a metaphysical belief and actually a scientific postulate. I could imagine him saying, "It might not be true, but I don't know how one can do meaningful science with any other premise."

Tagore, OTOH, imagines a "Universal Mind", compatible with certain aspects of our own mind, that "anchors" reality for us. It's this universal mind we're discovering when we're doing science, not some foreign reality.

To be honest, these two pictures of the world seem isomorphic as far as science is concerned. That seems like it might've been part of Tagore's point, when he said "In a similar manner if there be some Truth which has no sensuous or rational relation to the human mind, it will ever remain as nothing so long as we remain human beings." Here is a thing which could very well be true but nevertheless couldn't be demonstrated scientifically.

In many ways his worldview reminds me of True Arithmetic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_arithmetic), which circumvent's Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem at the cost of being undecidable and recursively innumerable. As soon as we constrain our set of arithmetical axioms to something that a "finite mind" can handle, so to speak, we wind up with true-but-unprovable theorems.

True Arithmetic encapsulates the whole universe of Truth when it comes to arithmetic, but in a way that makes it impossible for us to do any meaningful work. Once we constrain ourselves in a way that allows us to do meaningful work, it becomes impossible to ever reach True Arithmetic.

This debate interweaves lots of metaphysics and epistemology, which are things scientists can and do discuss. See, e.g., realism vs. positivism vs. instrumentalism vs. empiricism.
And more apps than you probably realize demand the ability (which you probably explicitly permitted) to listen, store and retrieve everything that is said within a sufficient proximity to it (which is pretty big.) You gotta wonder which of those apps are security state Trojan horses.

If you carry an Android phone with even Google Search on it you are carrying a wire that is not ever under your control and is hot at any or all times.

Is this true with iOS?
> Well yes, you can never have the goal of harming US citizens.

Aren't US citizens at risk of being harmed everyday in normal diplomatic bargaining? Isn't it debatable, among US citizens themselves, as to what constitutes harm or benefit? Isn't that what political discourse is about?
Yes, but so could tracks on any high-speed rail, and in that case with considerably greater ease. In this case, the actual railway is sealed off from all but the most determined external forces, who would be able to do just as much damage to a conventional train.
Is there a signature anywhere to prove that it was authored by Satoshi?
Well the issue, apart from getting the land to build, is probably that the public benefits a great deal more than a company can profit off. There are always going to be intangible benefits from huge infrastructure projects like this that a company can't monetize. Hence what is economically a good idea for the nation or state as a whole, is not necessarily a good idea for a private investor.
It is going to take a lot of concurrent repeat customers to appreciably degrade the service that new customers receive, at which point the value of obtaining new customers is diminished. We don't have to talk in hypotheticals with this though, we need to look no further than how business-minded owners treat repeat customers in real life. Repeat business is preferred business.

Server turnover in practice is unlikely to hurt repeat business unless we are talking about unprecedented amounts of turnover on the period of days or weeks. A churn period of several months or more is unlikely to dramatically harm repeat traffic. Certainly I have never stopped visiting a bar because my preferred bartender left.

Furthermore, presumably if a repeat customer repeatedly gets poor service, then that customer does not care about the quality of service. I get fucking awful service from the coffee shop I usually spend my Saturday mornings in (perhaps because I only take my coffee black, or perhaps because I refuse to tip baristas...), but I don't care because I don't need frequent coffee refills and I mostly like them for their decor.

tl;dr: If tipping really is bad for business, then the business owners would be fighting it. They're not stupid, knowing their customers and maintaining a customer base is their livelihood.
Ditto. I am following a similar path. I am curious if there are any groups dedicated to people like us (econ/consulting/finance people learning data science) to help facilitate the learning process?
You can yak on your cellphone (or watch movies on your tablet) for the entire 35 minutes of this journey.
True. And it's not like Amazon doesn't have the money to splash around.
Inasmuch as it's optimized at all.
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> Not applicable to Hyperloop, which he has pretty clearly said he is not going to get done.

But he conceived the idea. Ideas have value and can be said to be "done". To argue that pure ideas have no substance is to argue against science.

I think it's admirable that he published the idea without attachment or limitation, in such a way that others can turn it into hardware.
The Russians studied skill development in sport more than anybody. In weightlifting one of their leading coaches, Medvedyev, had a 7-year plan to take a promising 10 or 11 year from child to international competitiveness, planned down to the day.

As the plan progressed, the percentage of work dedicated to different training demands varied. By the time a trainee has pass into the final phase (Master of Sport International Class), he would only be performing the competition lifts for about 16% or 17% of overall training volume. The rest was taken up by a very large collection of assistance exercises, rotated as necessary.

After a while, the emphasis was on getting stronger. Their pattern of movement from tens of thousands of repetitions was sufficiently fixed that all that was left was maintaining the pattern and making them stronger.
Build an app which collects medical data, behavioral data (e.g., what did you do today?), and dietary data from users who agree to a "do anything, as long as my data is kept anonymous"-ish agreement, then use their data to figure out correlations between serious illnesses, and the activities / diets that "cause" them (yes, correlation == causation once you have enough data points - else, what is "proof"?). You can provide a mobile app (HTML5 launcher to get started more quickly) and make it easy for users to cram as much data into the app as possible.

The goal of such an app would be to glean information from all the non-DNA, non-race, non-age, non-economically influenced data points, since most every other medical company (a "company" is what a startup used to be called - so yesterday) cares about the bleeding edge of science. Applying science that matters to data that matters means results.
Not to be nitpicky but if you haven't driven the I-5 theres substantial room between each direction of the freeway so I don't think it will actually be above traffic if that's your concern.
I've been on one of the Chinese high speed trains and they are really impressive. The most striking thing about them is how smooth they are -- very little vibration at all, and very quiet. Far more pleasant than air travel, conventional trains, or anything else I've been on.

Sadly, I think the first place a Hyperloop will be built is China. Chances are there are engineers there looking it over now, and figuring they can knock out a test system in a year or two.
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It worked!

What have I done?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155556

http://blog.twistedcode.org/2008/03/customizing-your-bash-pr...

http://www.bbs-software.com/blog/2013/08/03/%EF%A3%BF-in-you...
From memory the departure time scales on the shinkansen are smaller than this...about 90 seconds IIRR.
All publicity is good publicity.
Or 3 million people donating $2000 each for huge discounts on long term access. I would donate $10,000 if the discount was steep enough on long term use and included use of future expansions of the system.
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I'm not sure that analogy plays out well for hackers in the long term. Ultimately, the wild west was not won by cowboys with some horses and guns, but large-scale ranchers with title to hundreds of thousands of acres. The cowboys may still have movies made about them, but the likes of King Ranch came out on top economically.
It'd be easy when editing the tag for the server to say "Does this name match this user in the imported contact list? Yes? Ok, it's most likely that person then."
Ok, lets see where the breakdown occurs.

Do you see the point of the original OpenStep project?
What's so great about the JVM?
How many environments can run my Cocoa app?
Please build an application that will allow someone to click anywhere on a map of the world and view an aggregate stream of all photos and/or video uploaded/streamed at/from that location. Content should be available from any photo or video app. Streams should be from the nearest location (if it's remote), or radius defined (if it's an urban location).
2.8/km² Australia

And here you can travel from most parts of Melbourne to most parts of Sydney with just two train changes. One at a Melbourne hub to the interstate trains and one at Sydney to the local system.

Even so, we feel our train systems suck too.
The issue of bitcoins vs IRS combined with the recent news about the NSA actually scares me. Why does the Gov feel the need to control us?
They don't seem to break down the labour costs of building the tube/pylons very well. In my experience watching big government projects, that's where the massive overages start coming in.

It's easy to say that something will cost (eg.) $1bn if it's built in 2 years, but when most of that is labour and bureaucracy starts getting involved, the labour gets put on hold for a year or two whilst still getting paid. Suddenly the overall cost of the project has tripled without anything actually changing, except some bureaucrat sticking their oar in.

Maybe I'm just cynical, but the labour costs seem to be one of the least well defined aspects of this proposal. It's easy enough to make it look cost effective compared to existing rail projects when you don't factor that in.

Afterall do you really think that the HSV with two steel rails is costing $80bn+ because of the price of the components? Although I don't really know the specifics, I find it hard to believe that the rights of way cost that much either. It's usually down to contracting an entire company worth of engineers for 10-20 years that ramps up the costs.
In my own experience, the physical interface is a third of the skill. So I agree, the abstraction, perspective is far more important. Physical capacity to serve the need of an idea.
I just wondered to myself how long it would take you to use up all the addresses if you created a trillion per second.

3.6e+17 times the current age of the universe. So, it looks like there are enough addresses for you to really go nuts, if you like. Block chain might get a bit bloated though.
Finally - New York is going after financial criminals! Oh wait a minute...

In related news last Friday the Justice Department had to admit that the success numbers Eric Holder trumpeted on mortgage fraud were massive overstated - by 80 percent. The government restated the statistics because it got caught red-handed by a couple of nosy reporters. Priorities...

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-11/eric-holder-owes-th...
The question is how many people really need to travel between the Bay Area and SoCal? Right now it is about 12 million trips a year. That would increase if the link is cheaper, but to what economic gain? These two areas are strongly connected economically, not like NYC and DC are.
We shouldn't expect him to demonstrate his idea?
A funny mistake most likely, probably document reuse for basic layout. Download it again. It was just updated from "Nicholas Liggett" and "Falcon 9v1.1 - Reentry Nozzle Study" to "Elon Musk" and "Hyperloop Alpha"
> This is exactly why it wouldn't be very expensive. Because almost nobody is actually going to use 324TB/month, so if some small minority does, it raises the average monthly bill by some small number of pennies. Conversely, if it turns out that large numbers of people are experiencing an unexpected pent up demand for massive amounts of bandwidth, prices go up until supply and demand meet, which is how the market is supposed to work.

But then you have monthly payments which vary, potentially wildly. I can move into your neighborhood and probably triple your bill within a month. This is bad for the vast majority of users. The demand for it would almost certainly be very low. Virtually nobody is going to want to share the bandwidth costs with their neighbors and virtually nobody is going to want 24/7 throughouts of any speed.

And speaking of markets, what about the demand for low-cost, high-burst but transfer-limited connections? I would guess that to be the product in the highest demand, based both on average non-tech-savvy users, and even bigger users like myself. And, lo and behold, that's what the vast majority of home Internet plans are (all the ones I've heard of). Note that I'm not suggesting that we truly have anything like a free market when it comes to telecoms, but in this case, I feel like supply is meeting demand quite well.
Yes, I think people should be able to get on an airplane without identification. It is a perfect example of a bogus security check which causes hassle for everyone without materially impeding anyone who wants to cause problems.
Yeah, there are some fairly lawless places on Earth today and you don't see many people (other than rdl) moving there to make their fortune. People subconsciously prefer the rule of law but it's cool to romanticize Bitcoin data havens and whatnot.
That's very interesting. But is that enough to get the tx mined into the blockchain? Isn't it still a non-standard tx?
You can run in circles for long sometimes. I suppose the people who get stuck needs another teacher, context. Or just a time off. Sometimes you finally click for something you didn't understand 10 years earlier, for almost no reasons, but now your brain sees it. As weird as pleasurable.
Does GNUstep support any languages other than Objective-C?
> Can you show us any concrete examples of high quality, comment-less codebases?

No.

Quite simply, there is a collective perception that if a codebase lacks inline comments, it's of poor quality. Very few would dare to publish such a work.

I have a different challenge for you.

Take a high quality codebase and delete all the inline comments. You'll find it's just as readable, if not more so. How much better would it have been if the coder had spent the time writing better code rather than adding superfluous comments?
> In a way, bitcoin itself is not really a currency, or money, it's more like an idea for exchanging messages.

It's a way to convey messages, but the messages represent value in the same way that paper money does. If bitcoins can be exchanged for goods and services, then they represent the value of those goods and services, just like paper money.

An electronic message describing a transaction involving dollars, or euros, or some other wealth representation, is just a message about a transaction. But a bitcoin is the wealth representation -- it doesn't require, or refer to, another medium of exchange.

Your argument tries to deny the identity of bitcoins as currency, but that isn't so -- they're currency.
Does it require any binary blobs for the GSM module or other components? If not, this would be a pretty good choice for someone wanting complete control over his phone's software stack.
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Really, interesting, thank you!

The one worry I have with APL and its descendants is that its conciseness will encourage people to make overly long expressions.

One possibly beneficial side-effect of more verbose languages is that it tends to encourage the use of additional identifiers to hold sub-expressions. The act of naming things is often a good thing for both the authors and readers of a program. More abstractly, it allows the program to carry intentional semantics alongside operational semantics.

This is also a problem I have with mathematics -- mathematical notation often uses context-dependent single-letter variable names for semantic information, which is terrible from an outsider's perspective (and by outsider I really mean anyone who isn't working in the exact field of the mathematician).

Edit: I should mention that I'm still pretty enamored with J for numerical computation, even though I never do any of it :)
"GNUstep features a cross-platform, object-oriented development environment. Like Apple Cocoa, GNUstep also has a Java interface, as well as Ruby, Guile and Scheme bindings."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUStep
Maybe he's just dodging the process server.
Yes, our high speed rail process is currently on a ridiculous timescale, something like 50 years out. If something isn't slated for major construction works within a single term of government you can pretty much assume it will never happen in its current form.
Just heard Neil DeGrasse Tyson speaking about this; the Gettysburg address was written with a quill pen and inkwell. If you want to write an entire sentence at a time, this technology restricts you to sentences of roughly 6-9 words - very congruent with effective spoken English. NDT uses the same technique when writing his own speeches and lectures.
Right. If Tesla failed, the people own a worthless company. If it succeeds, Musk retains his stake in a valuable company.

Compare what would have happened if Tesla needed to raise $500m from private investment at the start. Musk would have been diluted up front.
This worries me more about other virtual currencies (eg. "game" money) than it does about Bitcoin. The last time something like this happened because of Bitcoin (FinCEN), Linden Lab forced the closure of all third-party Linden$ exchanges [1] to cover itself legally. Those were very scary times for everyone involved in Second Life.

As someone who does business in Linden$ et al, I (selfishly) wish the media hype around Bitcoin would simmer down, lest my own life become a lot more complicated. The way these government announcements always refer to cracking down on "virtual currencies" in general is very disconcerting, especially when the term is so hazily defined.

[1] http://blog.nalates.net/2013/05/08/end-of-linden-exchanges/
The Business Behind the HyperLoop
N1GHT.com, the nightlife platform. Looking for feedbacks
I'm one of the co-founder. We're in Belgium, Brussels.

Basically, we are building a platform for the nightlife.

The global idea is to provide a fast, easy, reliable, honest, accessible website to find parties in your city.

Accessible in multiple languages and devices, without mandatory login to find a party.

We're using the most complete and up-to-date source of information for parties (Facebook) and make them available in a clear and easy manner.

We provide multiple tools for nightclubs and events promoters. Analytics, viral promotion tools (http://bit.ly/1eFm7A9), customization,... And we're working on a ticketing solution dedicated to nightclubs.

Our bet is local clubbing guides aren't reliable because of their financial dependance on events promoters. Our premium features for nightclubs are paying, but at a very low price. (even free when possible) to avoid to become dependent of them.

Our business model is to sell nightlife oriented tools and presence on our platform to brands. (white labeling, contests, "spot" events,...)

Our MVP is released since june and we're looking for feedbacks.

Thanks for your help!
Australia is the same, here passenger rail between major cities is mostly something old person take as a scenic route. Often it is actually more expensive than flying.