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Lesser of the two evils, I don't think its that polarized, there are grey areas. Not closing down Gitmo because of the lack of political will from congress is understandable but there are other decisions such as curbing the hunger strike with forced nasal feeding every day is another decision. I agree it's in the rule book that says if the body weight index drops beyond a point, use nasal feeding but I guess when you make such a decision you can weigh the differences between a medical decision and a hunger protest and deal with them a little differently.

Besides, if you are the president and your campaign promise was to close a prison. Keeping in mind that many people there are held without charges for over a decade and a few are already cleared to be let go but are still there for reasons I don't understand, if you can't do this being a president in 2 terms then perhaps you just can't do it, least you can do is make way for someone who can.
I agree, but depending on your platform of choice the PostGIS team has done a good job of making them incredibly simple to install.
I'm not sure I agree.

I could be said that "Windows", "OSX", "GNU/Linux" are not really "Operating Systems", intended as software products that you can install on a machine.

Windows XP, OSX Mountain Lion, Ubuntu 13.04 and yes, Elementary, are.

You don't download a specific "GNU/Linux" OS, you download an OS (intended as a software product made up of kernel+file system+desktop environment) that is based on that technology. The word "distribution" is something that was created for Linux given its specific nature.

Yes, if we stick to the classic CS definition of OS maybe you are right, but I believe that Ubuntu, Debian and Elementary can rightfully call themselves "OS"s without issue.
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For the US; there is a fairly comprehensive collection geographic data sets available from the National Atlas http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp-1m.html all freely available and public domain. And of course the US Census http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html TIGER/Line dataset.

The World Bank http://maps.worldbank.org/ has maps covering multiple economic indicators, coverage is uneven and it's mostly focused on the global south.

http://geocommons.com/ has a largish assortment of geodata but the curation and search functionality is a bit confusing and they require a login.

http://www.statsilk.com/maps/download-free-shapefile-maps has a number of pointers to other resources.
Ransoms?
The search identifies venues with dishes that match your query and calorie criteria, and then sorts those venues based on distance, which is why McDonald's and Burger King will often show up first. Once we're able to support other search parameters (e.g., putting a limit on the grams of fat or the % of calories contributed by fat), the fast food results should filter out - or at least he "pinkslime" ones :). Another feature on the roadmap is providing some summary (e.g., a grade or score) of the nutritional value of a menu item - this score would factor in things beyond calories like macro-nutrient breakdowns and might help prevent "misleading" results.

In the meantime, the hope is that calories are useful as a jumping off point when it comes to discovering healthy dishes nearby, and as I mentioned before you can see the full nutritional info by clicking on a particular item.
Yeah, I shouldn't have made the crack about Amtrak not covering its budget; it too vividly drew a comparison between Amtrak's structural problems and the hypothetical problems of this project.

The only point I was actually trying to make is the (I hope) uncontroversial one that operating expenses for a transit system are high.
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Fit Dishes only works for New York City and San Francisco right now, but we'll be expanding soon so stay tuned!
The interstate ROW were held up as a possible solution -- I say good luck there. I've seen a half dozen projects try to use, cross or borrow interstate rights of way. You'd probably need a $1B of waters and lobbyists just to make that happen.
Point 2 isn't necessarily correct when you factor in the effect of debris on bearings.
What a load of crap.

I understand that English is not your first language (no I don't; I'll deride your command of it at every turn, going forward) and of course that's perfectly fine, people usually don't expect perfect English on the internet. However you have written the report quite lazily and haven't taken the time to clearly explain the steps (every whitehat reporter CAN NOT be expected to understand how or what to adequately include in a PoC; it is _Facebook_ who is shown to be lazy in their responses, failing to point the reporter to the rules, appropriate [localized] steps, and ANYTHING of value to help the reporter). For example you have said "mark profile" instead of "Mark Zuckerberg's profile" (lol, idiot). That's just ambiguous language (see, I really don't
understand nor can forgive you for being an English speaker) and confuses the reader. They probably receive a lot of wrong reports every day so if you make mistakes like that you are less likely to be taken seriously (unlike the mistakes made by Facebook; woe is them who can't be arsed to not even have boilerplate guidance and just shrug off reporters; cool story bro).

[...] you failed to communicate clearly (idiot).
I'd be interested to see how these, apparently rather frequent, port scanning exercises are being factored into 'attempted cyperattack' statistics.
Rules that are not applied consistently are arbitary.

No one said anything about a crime. Denial of the bounty is not brutal.
"wait for" turns out to be somewhat analogous to the upcoming "yield" statement in ECMAScript 6 as well as .NET patterns for async code. "for parallel" must exist somewhere (it almost looks like functional programming). I actually added it as an afterthought when I decided "wait for" ought to work inside of loops. It uses the same mechanism as async.js's "map".
It's about the upside. Risk of death by terrorism has a much higher chance of increasing.
Or ESRI. Oracle was rather late to the Geospatial party.
I think we'll see more. Among other things, the Hyperloop plans are predicated on TSA-style security at the endpoints. That doesn't happen on conventional trains; there's security, but it's nothing like airport security.

It's never getting built, though. An insurmountable advantage of HSR is that it can serve population centers along its route, which makes ROW acquisition feasible.

I don't think the car company has much to do with things (you can make an argument that a better HSR infrastructure would help Tesla, not hurt it, by reducing its customers need for the long-haul drives that are the weak point of electric cars), but I do think the Hyperloop is best understood as a political maneuver to complicate CA HSR.
Yep :D

Writers just give some sneak peak about their stories and if the funding goal is reached the story will be published free for everyone to read.
Well 9/11 would have seemed a perfect fantasy on 9/10/2001.

But within matter of few hours the rate of american killed by terrorists went from same as those killed by furniture to few thousand times. The central argument is that a comparison with death by furniture is irrelevant, since the risk profiles are significantly different. Finally one cannot minimize risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons in isolation from agents such as rogue states and terrorists.
Indeed, this caching technique would be covered by "the cookie law". However cookies can be audited, but many images contain legitimate ETags. It's more difficult to detect when websites use this to track users, and I don't think any government agency is capable enough to check whether companies comply to the law.
Yeah, that's kind of a shame. I'm not planning on changing it though. I figure most russian devs will have a sense of humor about it. I guess with a word that short, most languages are bound to have a meaning for it.

I chose it because in Hebrew it means simple/easy/BASIC.
Fortress and Scala have similar concepts

(0 to 10).par.foreach(expensiveOp)
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Have you thought about turning it into a crowdfunding platform before stories are written?

Journalists can post a pitch and if enough people pitch in, they'll get the money to go and write the story.
Depends on what you need. Natural Earth is a great large scale PD dataset.
I believe you have a good point,
but it appears that so far he is
winning. And the Guardian
and the Wapo understand how to
push an issue before the public.
And apparently Snowden has a long
list of stuff he can release slowly,
once each few days, for a long time.
Windows XP, OSX Mountain Lion, Ubuntu 13.04 are all specific releases, not the new operating systems.

Elementary isn't, too. It is not even a distro until it has clear release and update policies.

Otherwise you'd consider any skinned ISO of any existing OS a new OS, and that's just wrong. "Hello all, I'm making one new OS in my basement every week!"
The Shinkansen has transported more than 10 billion passengers. I'd love to have a few more expensive political show projects like that.

If your point is they started off with areas they still needed to work out like connection to population centers, then I think you're on the wrong site: every startup we discuss pivots in one way or another to overcome challenges, that's an accepted part of developing something useful. If you don't try you're never going to get to a point when you can find a solution to problems you don't know exist yet.

If there was a hyperloop between the edges of SF and LA, how many minutes do you think it would take before someone worked out how to get passengers the short distance from the station to the city center?
It was also a big deal to make a film like this. Today you can just prop up your phone on something and go to town, but these videos would have been a huge amount of work. Once you're putting in that much work, you had better make sure the result is good.
You should simply be proud, to have this endurance, to bring Luna to the masses.

I don't agree on everything you did, but I really appreciate what you did.

And you design consideration about how applications should interact with the users are ground breaking - at least a bit.

Sending minimize to hell is a smart move.

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Why would we create one of the most sophisticated transit systems in history and then use standing in a line as the method of reserving a space?

Web-based reservation systems are not hard. Last-minute tickets could be sold at higher price for those that need and can afford them as well.
In the old days, Europe was mostly playing on home computers such as the Atari and the Amiga.

There Dino Dini's Kick off 1 and 2 and Sensible soccer where the leading games. They did not however license directly from FIFA.

Football Manager is a strategy game that is still running, and still very succesfull in its niche.
As I've said before, I think the power of marketing is less extensive than regularly believed. If the government could create demand for the drug war, then Microsoft could've made Windows RT happen...

My mom, who isn't a native English speaker, doesn't consume American media. And her Indian movies aren't being interrupted by ads for a Drug Free America.

The fact is that prohibition is a natural tendency in many societies. Whether its Jews not eating shrimp or Muslims not drinking alcohol, prohibitions have existed since long before modern marketing campaigns. In the U.S., prohibition of alcohol was not the result of government propaganda and powerful interests, but a grass roots movement, fully supported by women in particular. Just as that generation saw alcohol as an attack on their husbands, this generation of mothers sees marijuana as an attack on their teenagers.
Plus since oil pipelines constantly leak, how are they going to make pressurized tubes for miles that don't leak and trap pods?
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You missed my point, which wasn't that Shinkansen was bad. It's like you read up to the first command and stopped.

On your other point: how much incentive is there to get people from SF to Mountain View faster? HUGE incentive, is the answer to that question. What's the answer right now? 101 and 280, or a long slow train ride.
The central park remain the same!

That's a reservation de-facto.
He has taken time to do this, while being involved in running three other concerns. This may not have taken time out of running any of those concerns admittedly, perhaps he gave up reading for a bit, I don't know. But he must have spent some time on it.

He says he was pulling all-nighters to get it ready for the press, and also said “I wish I had not mentioned it, I still have to run SpaceX and Tesla, and it’s fucking hard.”, which seems to indicate that it was squeezing his time.

Unless he has quite a lot of free time, which it doesn't sound like, I can't see how this could have taken no time away from Tesla, especially given what he has stated. It might not have taken that much, but it will have taken some.
Might as well put mine out as well. Chrome extension to insert request and response headers. Good for testing and spoofing.

https://github.com/67726e/Header-Editor

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/header-editor/pkok...
So, how much money did he miss out on?
He had a white paper written. He didn't build a hyperloop. Let's make sure we're talking about the same thing.
Running Javascript is arguably not that important to an "open device", we need a full compiler that goes down to native code and can access system internals.
I'd start with focusing on electing a government that doesn't abuse its citizens psychologically in the name of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary security theater.

The Bush White House spent five years practically emotionally torturing America with its color codes and terrorist threat propaganda to justify a massive expansion of the military industrial complex.
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It's just wrong.

This is the wrong thread to kick up a fuss about this. If these guys are using "OS" the same way that Ubuntu and Debian do, that's just fine for a new project. It also means that your complaint has nothing to do with this new project in particular and is thus off topic. This matters because threads about new projects are the heart of HN and deserve special care.
Good question.

Actually I have thought about that, but I think that Kickstarter, Indiegogo etc. covers that already pretty well.

There is off course little bit risk for writers in case that campaign won't succeed. But because people already long blog postings just for the joy of writing, I think that it is not too big risk to take.

And the good part about our concept is that funders will get their story immediately when the campaign is over instead of waiting for some future release.
Part of the problem is that HSR is fast, technically feasible, heavily used, and economically viable in France, Germany, China, Japan, and other places.

So, the most useful analysis would be:

1. What factors are preventing HSR from being fast, technically feasible, heavily used, and economically viable in the United States? (More concretely, why does California's HSR suck so much when it's been demonstrated that HSR doesn't necessarily have to suck?) Demographics (e.g. population density and layout)? Political and legal constraints? Terrain? Culture?

2. How does the Hyperloop mitigate or sidestep these problems, due to its superior specifications or design differences from HSR?

3. For additional insight, what would California's HSR have had to do differently to mitigate or bypass these issues, and would it even have been possible?
You're not waiting in line for a ticket. You're waiting in line to get through security and to board the capsule. This is one of SWA's core optimization problems, and door-to-door times for SWA are still swamped by human-factor airport issues.

You can't wave a web browser around as a magic wand to solve these problems.
What they do in legislation isn't the full story, either. People vote against bills that sound like good ideas because there's something nasty subtly buried inside them. People vote for bad bills to collect votes for good ones.

Someone who kept a pristine voting record would not actually get anything done.
I want to step in here - Facebook is in no-way trying to save a few bucks. I've reported a few bugs to Facebook and they go out of their way to pay you greater sums depending on the severity.

You just have to be professional and disclose in-detail with steps to reproduce.
Who the fuck gives a shit?

This sort of "elementary is not an OS but a desktop environment based on the Ubuntu distribution based on the GNU/Linux kernel..." nonsense that is so prevalent in the Linux community is probably part of the reason why elementary exists in the first place.
IKEA is prone to spontaneous attacks. I had a dresser collapse on my foot once. They lull you into a false sense of security with their meatballs.
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Demonize the security team? I never implied that anywhere - please don't "put words in my mouth."
You have to traverse sqrt(2) times more pixels than in the original method unless you somehow know where the borders of the destination square are ( additional computation ).
Are you able to see the factual assertions in this article and then challenge them? Then do that. Trying to read the author's mind is not only an unproductive way to build an argument, but also an invalid way: he could be taking $2MM/mo from CA HSR lobbyists and it would still be logically possible for him to construct a compelling argument against Musk's plan.

Debating motives is a waste of time. If his piece is all motive and no meat, the article should be easy for you to pick apart. So do it.
On the UK high street you can buy an rpi + case + cables + card all in one box.
Both projects are impractical fantasies regardless.
But one should not. "Terrorism", for the tiny, tiny little bit that happens in our country, was not here before.

Let's just switch to a sane foreign policy and be done with "terrorism". At least mid- and long-term, that's the only thing that will stop the recruiting of new "terrorists".
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nope. not for free :)
>Because it's associated with Perl 6 which is commenly believed to be vaporware

Or rather just "because it's associated with Perl".
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Americans prefer cars. It's that simple.
There's a fairly sizable difference in agility between a small web startup and a massive, political infrastructure projects. Approaching the latter as if the lessons learned from the former can be naïvely applied is, well, naïve. Move fast break things is cool and all when the stakes are low; when the stakes are high it is irresponsible at best.

EDIT: Also, a Hyperloop that terminated where the PDF proposes just wouldn't -- and probably shouldn't -- get built.
> I can pretty much do anything I want with my phone.

The use of the word pretty contradicts your assertion that they are not locked down.
I agree 1 is the ideal option, but it's really difficult.

The effect of the press is best measured not by what reporters are allowed to do, but by what people actually end up watching. More freedom of the press is not going to eliminate the if it bleeds it leads philosophy. In fact, if we assume that cable news and newspapers have gotten shriller to deal with competition from the internet, it might do the opposite.

There is a reason this comic exists[0]
[0]http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3081#comic
9/11 only seemed like a perfect fantasy to people who weren't paying attention. There was plenty of precedent, for the general idea of crashing airplanes into things on purpose to destroy them (kamikazes), the specific idea of hijacking a commercial airliner to crash it into a national landmark (Air France 8969, and in fiction, Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor among others), and the specific idea of killing thousands of people by destroying the World Trade Center (1993 bombing).

We can come up with ways for terrorists to kill thousands of people, and people did come up with such ways before 9/11. I see no way, short of first taking over an entire country, that terrorists can kill millions.

If you think otherwise, then describe it, don't just appeal to ignorance. The "we don't know, so we should assume the worst" argument can be used to support literally anything.
Oh please. Terrorism is a threat to the world. Coptic churches being burned everyday in egypt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve_DlPG4YQM. Muslim script kiddies are spamming ycombinator.
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The threat from terror has no relation whatsoever to the amount dead, rather, it is a traumatic enemy invasion of the supposedly protected national space , it instills a feeling of terror, which might even topple the government should it be deemed too weak to respond adequately (which is the real incentive for it to overreact). Even if the towers had fallen 12 years ago without anyone getting hurt, we'd still require a Snowden today.
Well, the web view it puts your app in to is native. So that counts, right?
The single pass is the first algorithm mentioned in the article that produces "holes". You have to split the operations to avoid them and thus make more passes.
In another thread it was mentioned that the terms of service aren't available in Arabic.
sickening to see the negativity here, I just bought a copy because this thing looks great and because I want to support the team.
Paywall, can't get to the article.
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>Still, the spending, even on stuff that was just junk, got us out of The Great Depression.

The U.S. was the only major country with cities and factories left standing, that weren't hit by wave after wave of bombers, so rebuilding your country necessitated buying U.S. goods.

The U.S. also suffered relatively fewer casualties than the other major players. The Nazi scientists didn't hurt either.

You are correct in that spending money on otherwise useless military items / people, is indeed useless[0], though those receiving military contracts argue the opposite, called "Military Keynesianism".

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window#Th...
Well, since Snowden. Name a site with secure password reset.
They have special whitehat accounts which you are allowed to set up for testing. You can have as many of those as you like.
You know perfectly well that we are talking about the same thing. You directly replied to a point that was talking about the effort involved in designing a system, saying that he didn't take any time out from Telsa to do that.

All I am saying is that it seems likely that it must have taken some time out from his other activities, especially if he is talking about pulling all nighters just to work on the thing.

This seems so patently obvious that I am not entirely sure why you would even contest the point, let alone then resort to rhetoric above sound argument to try and win it.
> When we learn more about cancer and find a way to treat the underlying causes, we will have actual cures: treatments which result in complete remission in >95% of cases.

You clearly haven't decided what position you're taking. A cure is not remission in 95% of cases. A cure is a cure, with no chance of a recurrence if there is no further exposure to the responsible pathogen. Take malaria, for example -- do you think malaria victims experience spontaneous recurrences, far from the anopheles mosquito and its hitchhiker, plasmodium falciparum?

> To accept that cancer is special is irrational deathism.

In modern scientific medicine, anything we don't understand is special and deserves our attention. We don't understand cancer and it's deadly. Therefore it's special for perfectly scientific reasons.

To call cancer just another disease is simply irrational -- and dangerous thinking.