skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The capacity constraint accusation on the grounds of spacing and max G is pretty bogus. Firstly, there's nothing wrong with running at far more than 0.5g in an emergency. You think a plane stays below 0.5g when it crash lands? You just have to make sure people aren't badly injured, not pamper them - and make sure such emergencies are very rare.

Where the author really gets it wrong though is in saying "Maybe he can resolve that by using larger pods. But of course, a larger pod will weigh more. And that will probably mean using stronger steel for the tubes, which means that the cost will go up".
That would be true, but if you're happy to resolve the issue with larger pods then you should be equally happy to resolve it with groups of smaller pods travelling at smaller separations. A 737-800 seats around 150 people. Hyperloop passenger capsules seat 30. So no one should have any conceptual issue with running 5 hyperloop capsules in convoy with separation of a couple of seconds. This 'couple of seconds' still means almost 1km, so they're certainly not sharing the same segments of tube, so you don't need to scale the tube design at all. It's still dirt cheap, and you have plenty of capacity, and it's still MUCH safer than a plane because if one capsule has a fault the others following can still likely stop in time (given they're all decelerating at roughly the same speed).
It seems to me that a good line to draw regarding overreach by the government is to determine who or what they're efforts are protecting. Terrorism laws were sold to us as necessary to protect the people. More recently, it seems that the efforts of the government has been to protect itself FROM the people.
There sure has been a ton of Golang hype lately. At the risk of being downvoted, just wanted to add my 2 cents: seems obvious to me that Google's PR team has been in full motion on Go lately. At the very least, there are quite a few Google fans active on HN routinely pushing Go. Which is no problem of course.

I just find this somewhat frustrating given that we also have the massive NSA surveillance scandal unfolding. Because I'd like to think that intelligent, free-thinking hackers would opt for using products & technologies from companies & organizations not so directly, deeply, and intricately involved in said scandal.

Anyway, kudos to Dan for his detailed article - I'm sure he could care less about the political alignment of the corporation he is getting his tools from - and really it should be about technology first; so if Golang fits his needs most optimally then by all means that's what he should be using. Just saying, don't forget about the alternatives ;)
The only advantage over my current gig, I meant.
Soon? It looks like the act of printing stories critical of the state is already being punished, and we now know that the internet is surveilled.
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I wish this could be integrated directly into Mint.com and/or my bank.
Yea my mistake, I missed the units on the radius :( thanks!
If you read the Wikipedia article[0] on the ‘Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001’, you will notice that it is not restricted and applicable to areas other than terrorism – serious economic damage to the UK being one of them. So there is at least some slight hyperbole in calling it a ‘post-9/11 terrorism act’, even though its passage was clearly motivated by 9/11.

As an aside, what exactly is wrong with freezing the assets of a company that does not appear to plan to meet its liabilities?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism,_Crime_and_Secur...
That sounds like a strong factor in favor of NYC. The optimum would probably be having some experience in NYC for a few years and then potentially moving back to HK in a more senior role?
I think jerk could be kept much lower than in an aircraft though - in the hyperloop jerk would be basically 100% deterministic. You could design to keep it within reasonable limits. Sure, there might be minor imperfections in the tube surface, but there's suspension in the air skis to isolate that.

I think the main thing needed to prevent motion sickness would be a virtual 'view' with horizon, which isn't hard to create.
Archiving languages is necessary for linguistics' sake. God knows we'd love to have at least some form of written attestation for most ancient tongues.
Aside from the auto address update feature we think there are some other really useful things we're offering

First of all losing your wallet is a huge pain and if you use each provider's auto pay feature its even more of a pain, losing your wallet when you use Cloudbill means updating your card number just once.

Helping our users maximize their rewards points is also something we've heard a lot about lately and a feature we're really excited about!

Aside from that helping our users find fraudulent charges on their bills is also something we think is worth being excited about :)
Another Northie idiot showing his intellectual shallowness - you do not understand how Language and Culture are central to Identity. Any way, how about teaching BiMaRU idiots writing in Hindi, once your Hinterland accomplishes 100% literacy(most likely never), we can talk.
The reality, however, is that so long as sufficient bread and circuses are provided, nobody will care nearly as much as you or I do.

Your corrosive cynicism isn't helping them care, nor is it furthering the debate any.
My understanding is that Go is an open source project, of which the main maintainers are employed full-time by Google specifically in order to improve the language and make it more useful and used within the company itself.
Many otherwise good developers I know struggle with this. The best way I've found to combat it is to pair with them during high-level design/dev, and code review early and often.

This works if you're in a position of power, but sadly even some senior and lead developers seem to struggle with it.
What you saying is just. End users donwload operating systems and the know what a distro is.

Who are you, to define what a operating system is?
I've been doing a very similar thing for a few years: https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/optimising-directory-navigati...
Wow. That message is stunning propaganda.

Sure, I could give someone a dollar and that person could use it to buy a small portion of their last hit of heroin which finally ends up killing that person.

This message is saying that I am responsible (at least partially) for that person's death.

The bigger causes of that person's death is that this person is a heroin addict, and something caused this person to be a heroin addict, and that someone is selling heroin, and that someone is making heroin, and so on and so on....

When you account for all the causal factors that led to that person's death, this one dollar is just the straw that broke the camel's back. The real cause of the death is all the other factors that brought that person to become addicted to heroin to the point of overdose.
An Earthshaking Announcement - Donald Knuth (2010)
Inane comments like this are one of the many reasons why political discussions on HN are so bad.

The thinking that most politicians are just like people who would take a 12 year old boy and dump him in a vat of acid after strangling him is shallow and devoid of any depth of thinking on how different organizations operate.

States do dirty things, and so do individuals, and so do organizations on various levels. But there's a lot of differences in incentives, capabilities, tradeoffs, calculations and so on between them all. If you are really interested in understanding the world, rather than making the point that THE GUBERMENT IS EEEVIL, thinking about some of these differences would behoove you.

So: are you genuinely so poorly informed that you see no difference, or are you completely blinded by your libertarian propaganda as to not see any difference?

I live in Italy, and like many people, I intensely dislike Berlusconi. But, you know what? I'd prefer him 10 times - 100 times - to the sort of people who run actual Mafias.
It's just a paraphrase of the Dijsktra quote. The same idea is implicit in the distinction between lexical and dynamic scope, which confused me for years before I got it... probably because "dynamic scope" is something of an oxymoron.
I always recommend people use PostGIS and used it myself for many years but it was behind Oracle in significant ways even though Oracle is not that great. In recent versions of PostGIS, most users won't notice the differences. Oracle still scales marginally better.

Most importantly, Oracle has always had a better geometry engine that PostGIS, though that gap has closed significantly. It wasn't that long ago that proper geodetic models were not supported at all. And last I knew the current PostGIS does not do pure geodetic for all operations (or so I've heard from the guys who wrote the geodetic geometry engine for my company). Oracle also supports a variety of related data types, operations, and indexes that are useful.

The only platform that currently offers scalability and throughput for geospatial data models is SpaceCurve, of which I am the founder. Among other things, it supports continuous online indexing at a rate of millions of geodetic polygons per second concurrent with queries on petabyte-scale data models. The technology was originally developed for building real-time sensor-fused models of the planet, though it is much more general now.
SnapChat uses App Engine: http://gigaom.com/2013/05/07/snapchats-act-of-faith-in-build...

So does Khan Academy. Ben Kamens, their lead developers, writes a lot of great App Engine tips on his blog: http://bjk5.com/post/54202245691/the-app-engine-way
I've built a couple of Chrome extensions and is something I really recommend. It's easy, useful and satisfying (if you have a userbase).

An example. I love checking the EXIF data of the pictures on the internet to know more about how they were shot. I use Jeffry Friedl's Exif Viewer (http://regex.info/exif.cgi). The process was: right click on the image, open in new tab, click a bookmarklet, new tab opens with the exif. Then, I decided to create a super simple Chrome extension that adds an option to the context menu of all images that opens the image in the exif viewer.

You can check the (minimal) code here https://github.com/JoseTomasTocino/send-to-exif-viewer, as well as the link to the chrome web store https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-jeffreys-e...
Exactly. The tables have turned.
All Journalism Is 'Advocacy Journalism': http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...
Sure, perhaps it could be said then that Go is similar to that of Android. Which is the prime example of one of Google's 'open' projects that has done wonders for its' industry. Yet given the NSA's surveillance scandal and Google's long history of a close & secretive working relationship with the NSA - today perhaps we should be questioning whether or not we are still comfortable using an Android device. Or programming with Go.
It's interesting to see bitcoins going mainstream. I wonder if it'll take off, or if regulations will scare the layman away. It's a cool concept, either way.
It took nearly half a year of revelations before people began to care about Watergate. I figure that it would take that this time as well.
All Journalism Is 'Advocacy Journalism'
Woz is apparently consulting for Sorkin's version, so I'd take that as a fairly good sign.
The film J. Edgar actually felt a lot like that. Similarly, A Beautiful Mind.
https://wefunder.com is raising money for some of them if you have the money to be a certified investor. Likewise https://angel.co (Angel List) or Funders Club.

They all do more crowd sourced investing, but until next year if you're not a certified investor you won't be able to participate.
Yes, I'm well aware of your descriptions, which is precisely my point. The description of extortion given above would include the first two things.
Of course I can't possibly know but I agree with @acqq I think the effect of surprise worked and it was all about that in order to grab the hard drive for current and past files and his contact list on his phone. I think that if he was really prepared and if he was expecting such a move he would have tried to avoid Heathrow.
For comparison here's what he had to say about "Pirates of Silicon Valley" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lx9JsSTklI
That's just geek one-upsmanship, it's not commentary. Geek A says that he really admires Geek Icon A. Geek B denigrates Geek A by telling him that Geek Icon A didn't really do anything, that he was just standing on the shoulders of the slightly more obscure but infinitely more talented Geek Icon B. This makes Geek B sound smart and informed, or at least it it makes Geek B feel smart and informed and better the Geek A.

Geek C comes along and tells Geek B that he's clueless, because Geek Icon B was just a poseur who spent his career harvesting the intellectual fields that had been plowed and sown by the even more obscure Geek Icon C. And so on, ad infinitum.

I halfway expect someone else to stumble on that thread and inform the author that he's an idiot because he doesn't realize that Dennis Ritchie is no more than a pimple on John McCarthy's back (not my opinion, just the sort of binary thinking and argumentation that I've observed in these types of threads).

It's also an example of geek self-importance: the idea that the only thing that matters is writing code. It reduces the value of anyone involved in the creation of a piece of hardware or software who wasn't writing code or soldering stuff to nil. People say this stuff to feel better about themselves at the expense of other people that they feel get too much credit. There's some truth to it, of course, but it's rarely expressed as a gray area. It usually comes in the form of, "hey, you know that guy who everyone thinks did everything? Really, he did NOTHING! Nothing at all. This other guy that most people never heard of did EVERYTHING." Which is just as intellectually dishonest as the idea that the first guy did everything.
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Perhaps all that brilliant content was written for him by other people that are no longer in his service?
While obviously, mafias and governments work on the same problem: How to govern, how to stay in power.

Of course, a government has the power to brand a mafia as a criminal organization, but the line between legal and criminal can be very blurry, and often quite arbitrary.

If you just go, historically, by the score of committed crimes, then whatever metric you choose, governments and their agencies will beat criminal organizations by a huge margin.
Methodologies. Languages. Practices. Tools.

I did say "specifically" :)
The 2000 act listed the IRA as a proscribed group but it wasn't the focus of the legislation.

There were major changes to "terrorism" legislation between 2000-2010. The 2001 and later acts/modifications were more a result of 9/11, 7/7 and the "war on terror" (and the UK being Bush's little bitch).
but would only identify himself by his number: 203654

Inspector Javert?
... and wouldn't carry electronic devices except for disposables.
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> Hack

1) I like this typo.

2) I can't imagine how you made it. Dvorak keyboard?
What if we came up with a way to directly connect the device to the ubeam device? Like some kind of connecting wire through which the energy could travel? THEN we'd have some serious efficiency!
The very fundamental underlying premise of the entire US constitution is the idea that government power should always be carefully limited and extremely well checked. It's shocking how far we've drifted from that ideal.

Unchecked power in the hands of folks with good intention can sometimes be used to great affect to achieve good ends but almost inevitably such powers fall into the hands of folks who would abuse them. More so, even people operating under what they consider to be good intentions can lead to tragedies of unimaginable proportions.
"Apple. How can they name their mostly API-level visual customizations of the existing projects "OS X" and be accepted as serious? Such things were called skins and themes.

What is really original there apart from the visual design elements and the UI customizations to allow them calling their contribution an "OS"? Just that they actually write some code? Where are their own kernel and their own drivers? Aren't they just a derivative BSD/Mach distro?"
> First, archive -- record the language, its linguistic structure & features for science's and posterity's sake.

All other issues with your post aside, this is not a thing that we can do. The subtleties of a real language that real people speak can neither be fully deduced from recording it nor is it likely that it can be archived in a way that actually preserves most of the things that make it interesting (that is, the methods available to us for encoding a language encode the words and grammatical rules, and very often lose many of the meaningful components).

That is, we cannot successfully archive these languages. How does this fact impact your thesis?
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Clouds in Qatar are really rare. Check this one!
Can you ask? I'm curious.
Thanks for the tip!

Neither Ctrl+L nor Alt+D work for me (Win7 Ultimate, 64bit), but even with clicking manually this is extremely useful for me.
It's probably worth asking what computer specs and what browser, too...
The first, obviously, is swift and violent revolution. Historically speaking, totalitarian power has only ever succumbed to greater power. Obviously this is not an option I would advocate or consider. Nor is it an option that's even possible. Drunk NRA members with Mini-14s versus the US Naval Carrier Fleet, USMC, and USAF, all of which are provided with dossiers on high value targets sympathetic to the cause provided by the NSA? Lulz, no contest.

The second option is equally unpleasant, but for different reasons. We would require a total and catastrophic economic collapse, such that bread and circuses can no longer be affordably provided and such that the populace becomes sufficiently uncomfortable to actually start giving a shit. THIS solution is also not advisable, since such scenarios don't offer options to guide who is elected in the place of the devil we know. The transition from the Weimar to the Third Reich offers a valuable, and scary, precedent here.

Since both of the above are unpalatable, my solution is to drink heavily and bitch endlessly on the internet while still enjoying my comfortable life.
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> While obviously, mafias and governments work on the same problem

Bullshit.

You'd do well to read more about the Mafia and how it affects places where it's strong. They are badly governed, and generally not good places to live or do business as an honest person.

Denmark has a strong government that is quite involved in its citizens lives, but the number of them that end up dead, tortured, with their lives ruined, and so on is minimal compared to people in Sicily, Calabria, Campania, or other areas in southern Italy dominated by Mafias. And the standard of living is far higher. People are happier; with the possible exception of the climate, which is not really something either Mafias or anyone else can change on a local level unless you read some of the wackier subreddits.

Mafias are nothing like western democracies. If you're going to compare them with governments, compare them with feudal, tribal systems where family and personal loyalty is everything, and the rule of law counts for nothing.

To equate even something so abhorrent as fascist Italy to the Mafia is to have a gross and severe misunderstanding of history. They are both bad, but very different.

The Mafia is a real thing here in Italy, not just some abstract talking point for your libertarian ranting.
Does anybody else have favorite versions? I really loved FIFA 99.
>The official - who refused to give his name but would only identify himself by his number: 203654

Yup, looks like we are officially living in some sort of Orwellian dystopia.
2 tests perhaps and a warning. I suspect they are a step ahead, and actually did think this through. Whether it will backfire or not is up to the citizens to decide. But I suspect it won't backfire enough to cause a dent.

1) A test to see how the journalist will react and to flush out more information. I.e. force him to disclose more information so they know what he has.

2) Another test is to test public opinion. So far we have seen nothing but defensiveness and accusations from the White House. That bill to de-fund the NSA had some legs but didn't get off the ground. If there is no reaction that is a good benchmark, they don't have to stop and do anything. They could even push the envelope further and probably not get an real repercussions.

3) A warning is a powerful thing. It is message to all other journalists working with NSA sources. "Are you prepared to open your family to harassment, black lists and 9 hour detentions during travel?". As some mentioned in the comments, even the Mafia has basic engagement rules to leave family members alone. That tells one the level of engagement and the mentality of government actors we are dealing with.
Or not as it seems. Walter Isaacson was heavily criticized as being way too light and inaccurate (disclaimer: didn't read). 'Infinite loop' seems a better entry point.
If you ever looked at Darwin and compared it with any other kernel, you'd know it's a serious, big real OS work, far from any "UI" you mention.

Reading what you wrote, however, I don't believe you did something like that, or even that you'd be able to. I see there's no point arguing in such case.
One of the functions of a free press (journalists) is exactly to aggressively report on the malintent of bureaucrats and the maladministration of government power. Actual journalism is and always has been a form of dissent.
Nah, it is actually a pretty good idea. It's high time for the EU to actually take a stance on civil liberties, human rights and the abolishment of these ‘anti-terrorism acts’. This will be a lot harder if there are people at the table working on their application as the 51st state.

Furthermore, by cutting ties with the UK, both its financial and economical situation will be worsened, making for a loss of importance until it’s only an annoying island off the coast of France rather than the first waypoint to Canada or (in this case) Brazil.
Here's mine. If you need to copy link addresses more than once, you know how annoying it is. You need to right-click, find the "Copy Link Address" menu item, and click it. With the extension, you can simply do Ctrl-C/Cmd-C :)

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I think it would be foolish to underestimate how closely the interests of the Five Eyes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement)
track together. They were all hurt by the Guardian articles.

FWIW, this sort of behavior was expected from the UK and US authorities. They did the same to @ioerror and will likely do the same to any individual who is seen as challenging the interests of the US and UK intelligence organizations.

If you've de-cloaked yourself as an investigative apparatus that's dedicated to exposing the secrets of folks who expressly do NOT want their secrets exposed, you should expect no less.
Chrome Extensions, particularly content scripts, are really useful and powerful. You can even use WebGL inside them: https://github.com/danielribeiro/three-hub#three-hub
Do you have a bug tracker? Ended up in an annoying state on my mobile.
The answer -- at least for me -- is "yes", as long the "open" component of those projects remains intact.
My non-tech friends care quite a lot about this story too.
Maybe popular history will remember him as the Thomas Edison of computers.
The closest I can think of:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Xenocide