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We don't, really.

But when we do:

- There is no TSA gauntlet to run at Amtrak
- Trains do a decent job of serving nearby cities,
e.g. Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-DC and similar-distance commuter type traffic
- (most importantly) Train depots are in the center of cities, airports
generally 20-30min away

I think passenger traffic is run at a huge loss, which is only partially offset by freight income.
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The existence or not of a contract does not entirely determine whether a promise (e.g. to pay you $12,000) is legally enforceable. There may be other legal theories affording recovery. Therefore it is not entirely accurate to say that if you have an invalid contract with someone, "you can't sue [him] and [he] won't deliver." In many if not most cases you can sue and you may be able to recover.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Will make it a point to take a train ride if and when I ever visit the US.
>8 months worth of work for only $20k? This doesn't sound like a successful experience

On the internet, which is kinda global, not everybody is paid US/Western EU salary rates, you know right?
South America.

Front-end coding (HTML/CSS/JS). Admittedly mostly jQuery for the JS part.

I have a portfolio but I'd prefer to avoid posting it publicly as it's connected to my name. By mail maybe if you're curious?

I'm familiar with CSS frameworks and I have experimented with Bootstrap and used Foundation once or twice but I mostly use Sass and Susy for my grids.
I feel like you've made too many comments advertising this site ... Seems like spam ...
One "restore" preference people have is account migration. Take all your email from one gmail account and import it into another.

Plus your response makes my mind boggle. People consider their gmail way too solid. There's lots of posts online of people who have lost their accounts completely.
I wish it was 100k. :)
But no, just 10k/y.
The train is a more pleasant, relaxing experience for medium-length trips, such as along the Northeast Corridor. There's no ridiculous security theater, extremely limited chances of getting stuck on the tarmac for hours...
Don't discount a burger without the bun, and a mostly greens salad... I'm not strictly paleo, but if I avoid going over 100g or so of carbs a day, I tend to do a lot better.
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Actually, they are being used as is. That iPad screen shot is a bit misleading. Our artist did up the little guys in illustrator while we were figuring out how we want these things to animate on screen.
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Very interesting - is BGP fundamentally vulnerable to this attack? Is there a way to put the equivalent of a certificate revocation list on top of BGP?
OK, looks great, what is it?
You're welcome in advance.

I don't think people making cross-country train trips are doing so for the convenience or to save money. As you can imagine, it's sort of a cool way to "see America" from the romantic perspective of how the West was first reached by Americans. A friend of mine did it this past summer, and though he said he would never do it again, it was a cool experience. A lot of the US between the Mississippi and the West Coast is still pretty untouched.
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I wonder wht people use it and others at all.

* The clients expect insane amount of work at a very cheap rate.

* People in developing countries are always ready to charge a lesser amount.

* The Signal : Noise ratio is low on both sides.

* The commissions taken by site and payment services also offer a blow to the amount earned.

IMO, its tough to imagine a situation where a sane client who expects quality would be willing to shuffle through 100s of bids submitted on each project.
I believe the original subtitle is "Extreme Scale Transaction Processing" .
"The NoSQL killer" is kind of childish, nothing is going to kill anything.
Where are Facebook's teens going and what should Facebook be doing to stop it?
- does something that is just asking for trouble and that nobody in their right mind should do without expecting terrible, terrible things to happen

It makes Python run about like JavaScript or PHP. I guess that's accurate.
Server Rooms can get pretty toasty, lol.

But seriously, I think Encryption, proof systems, and other crypto stuff continue to be important and interesting. I think part of this renewed interest is based on current events (The rise of crypto currencies, NSA leaks) but just because that has driven interest doesn't mean that their isn't interesting work being done... just the opposite.
I'm a bit confused here, what design is already done? The designs for the characters? Nope, those are literally coming to life through the sewing machine first. There weren't any sketches prior. How would 3D help this?
Yeah, it sounds like something created with that Medium article title generator, http://benjaminhawkyard.co.uk/medium/.
Trains don't always cost more than flying. Trains between some areas are cheaper than flying, especially if your flight involves a layover (personal example: I travel between Pittsburgh and Albany often. I need to fly from Pittsburgh to Baltimore before I can get a flight to Albany, and it costs a fair bit, usually around $150. It'd cost me about $60 to take a bus to NYC then Albany, but it'd take about 2-3x as long). Also, at the airport you need to get through security, pray your flight isn't delayed and deal with a bunch of people who board very slowly. Despite these issues, it's usually pretty clear when the time savings of flying makes it worth the hassle.

Generally, I find the more challenging travel choice to be bus vs train. The bus is cheaper, but has a higher chance of being delayed unexpectedly and taking longer than the train. Otherwise, they take about the same amount of time.
A little jitter can help (evening out distributed workloads)
Hi Dan ;)

I think you'll find that's SIF 3. I think that last time we spoke there was only one SIF 3 deployment around, and that was a pilot. All production instances are SIF 2 - or has that changed recently?

As I've said previously - I quite like the SIF data model, but I'm not keen on the SIF 2 programming model (to be fair - as many have said: it's pretty old software now). The SIF 3 programming model is a lot better.
The hope was that in recent history, far fewer people had been executed, particularly as technology, and better knowledge of what types of evidence stand up to scrutiny has improved.

I was more pondering, how many people in the past have been executed wrongly by the united states.

A quick google search suggests that 14,634 were executed in the period 1608-1987. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions.php
I've used Parcel Lockers twice so far, and got the fastest and most convenient delivery I've ever had, with 24hour access (you get a temp password for a temp locker - which also acts as a signature, for packages requiring that).

However, they charge a fee to non-Australia Post couriers (FedEx etc), and so it seems those couriers refuse to deliver to them... which might be shortsighted but could be an effective strategy to kill the competition in Australia, since they are far superior to FedEx (in my experience, so far - I've used FedEx many times, always frustrating).
That's discouraging but thanks for posting.

EDIT: I was thinking, maybe it's not worth it at your income level but maybe for mine it wouldn't be so bad? Maybe I'm grabbing at straws.
No offense ... But this proposition doesn't sound very appealing at all ... I love how with hard work and determination, mastering technical knowledge, you too can become a middling middle managing bean counter too ... :) Perhaps that is a bit harsh but ... I dunno.
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"It needs to be captured if you are considering it an investment."

I'm considering it a currency and a revolution.

I want to make money by building things for the new Bitcoin economy. The price of Bitcoin going up is just a pleasant side effect of rising popularity. Bitcoin going up doesn't provide new value to the world...building a new kind of money and the infrastructure to use that new money does provide value. A tremendous amount of it.

As a software developer, I've always had the ability to have the Internet give me money for very little effort (relatively speaking). What's interesting here is the power to change the world.
I think you need to hit the double arrow button at the bottom left to 'Play'.

Rob doesnt seem like a great example, as it doesn't really start appearing until the 1950's
> Isn't fork the real offender, which requires Linux to overcommit by default?

Maybe I'm missing something, but how does fork require overcommitment? When you fork, you end up with COW pages, which share underlying memory. They don't guarantee that physical memory would be available if every page were touched and required a copy; they just share underlying physical memory. Strictly speaking, very little allocation has to happen for a process fork to occur.
There are some routes where trains are more efficient, especially if you consider delays and time waiting in the airport. It's just that most of them are on the east coast, where you have a lot of large, dense cities that don't require cars packed closely together.

When people talk about passenger rail in America, they tend to forget that cities are pretty far apart. Milwaukee to Minneapolis, from the parent post, is still over 300 miles - about the same as Paris to Frankfurt. Even with high speed rail, Paris to Frankfurt is ~$160 for a 4 hour train, vs. $140 for a one hour flight.

(Source: I just looked up prices on the internet, regular travelers of that route may know better ways).
The Northeast Corridor metro areas (Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-DC; dense, 4mm+ pop centers all located within a few hours of one another) and a handful of other regional short-haul routes (San Diego-LA, Boston-Portland, etc) account for almost all Amtrak traffic; the long-haul cross-country routes are basically tourist attractions subsidized by the commuter rail segments of the system.

http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=Page&pagename=...
You have (at the time of my writing this) 3 comments, all in this thread, all anti-Mandela to the point of being almost pro-apartheid. Nice throwaway account!
StackOverflow was indispensable for learning to code Python. Every single time I googled a question, StackOverflow was right there at the top with a high-quality answer. Sure, the Python docs mighta-coulda led me to the same answer, but for searching efficiency StackOverflow won hands down.
If you're working hourly jobs, payment is guaranteed by oDesk. That said, fixed-price jobs usually pay out, too. Make sure to review the client's work history and feedback which is shown at the bottom of every job post. Equally important, make sure you understand your client's expectations before you do the work - a good practice regardless of where you find clients.

Disclosure - I'm a former oDesk employee.
This is why I really like the callback pattern that node.js tends to use for all it's IO api calls... the callback always has the option for an error first.. generally if its' a nested callback, bubble up early. Internally, the C code can just check the state and call the callback method early if an error state arises.
Conversely, if app developers wrote the same code that embedded systems programmers do, we'd never have any apps to use. Its just not worth the trade off- moreover, telling a user to free memory is a losing battle.
The US is a symbol of non-peaceful dominance but somehow, thats okay, because 'destroying WMDs' or 'getting rid of the Taliban' are all better reasons to use violence than decades of systematic oppression.
Interesting that they're competing with Work From Home, which is free.

https://www.wfh.io/jobs/
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I wonder what the post-Moore's law world will look like.

The past couple centuries has been dominated by consumers and businesses automating and digitizing increasing parts of their lives as computers become more capable to handle them at the same low cost. (And the power the Internet gives us for being able to share information)

As creating faster chips becomes harder, institutions will start to invest more in other promising fields and technologies. I wonder if the next few decades will be dominated with developments from an entirely new discipline and culture.
IANAL, but to me that reads like it specifically gives permission of what Clever is doing.

FERPA allows schools to disclose those records, without consent, to the following parties or under the following conditions (34 CFR § 99.31):
...
- Organizations conducting certain studies for or on behalf of the school;
- Accrediting organizations;

And additionally:

Schools may disclose, without consent, "directory" information such as a student's name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance.
Mitch Hill went way too soon, he was too young to die. Live in the moment people, you never know when your life could be cut short by cancer. My condolences to Mitch's family, friends and others close to him who will undoubtedly be affected as a result of his death.

I hope I get to live to see a period in time when most forms of cancer are cured and people aren't taken away from us so early.
"Not just a teaser version". Nice!
That's a really interesting bit of data but the idea that you save money by putting money into public transport is not supported by evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio

There isn't a public transport system outside of Asia with a farebox recovery ratio > 1 .

This is not to say you shouldn't spend on public transport, just that saying it will save money is not true.

It is great to see more people riding bikes. That saves everyone money and makes people healthier.
While you don't need to drive in NYC, you'll find plenty of people have cars. In fact, most do. Contrary to popular opinion, Manhattan is not the only borough.

I suspect the decline is largely related to the Internet and the increased ability of people to work from home. Work from home = no commuting = less miles driven.

EDIT: In fact, most do. = 46.6%. Happy?
I don't drive. I hate the bus with a passion though.
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I'm not sure this is true, at least in the current climate. At our (Series B) startup, PMs make about half what engineers do.
The three basic (metaphysical) axioms according to Objectivists are Existence, Identity and Consciousness. Anyhow, as far as I can tell, all you're saying is that either (1) Cantor's argument is invalid within ZF(C) or (2) you find ZF(C) objectionable on the grounds that it conflicts with the basis of your metaphysics.

That's fine — I don't care whether it does or not — but mathematics has no opinion on the matter. You're free to choose a set of mathematical axioms which you don't find objectionable and go about doing your math in that universe.

If you want to claim Cantor's argument is invalid then you need to tell me what axioms you're taking as the foundation for your mathematics. It is valid in ZF(C) and I'm 99% sure it's valid in plain ZF. Which of the axioms of ZF do you find objectionable and what would you replace them with?

Assuming you're trying to engage sincerely, I'd ask you to be precise. This means listing whatever foundations of mathematics you don't find objectionable and talking about how they differ from ZF(C).

If you're unfamiliar with it, I'd read up on proof theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_theory
It has content and communicates an approach to machine learning distinct from other approaches. It isn't like "big data" which is truly meaningless. However, deep learning is also not a single method or algorithm.

I would have described the library in question as a "GPU-Accelerated Neural Network library" since that is more descriptive.
Same thought and it being at an early stage, ugh. And there goes at least a dozen of competitors out there trying to be different than MongoDB. I am just sort of happy that in the SQL world we usually either look at MySQL or PostgreSQL (well, Oracle and SQL servers are probably more relevant to corporate web service)... but I think people are trying to migrate too.
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Actually, 150 hours/month is more like 37.5 hours a week (7.5 hours, mon-fri). IMNHO there's actually quite a difference between that and a full 40 hour week. This all assumes no work outside the 1200 hours, obviously.
I think there is a very different perspective (namely one that spans the entirety of Mandela's adult life) from which one can look at this. Yes, under a violent and oppressive racist regime which virtually anyone in the technologically-literate world would condemn, Mandela founded the MK and rebelled violently. He was imprisoned for a long time, released, and became the figurehead for positive, reconciliatory, peaceful change in a tumultuous part of the world. It's important to not deify the man, but it can come across as pedantic to bring to light the long-ago wrongs of someone who did, and stood for, an awful lot of right.
My friend and I took a train from Austin, TX to NYC once. ~54 hours on a train, with an 8 hour layover in Chicago. Definitely glad I did it, but maybe not something I would do again, especially without a friend.
Public transit offers a large externality: it provides transportation to employees and shoppers, which means a benefit to employers and merchants. There's also a massive benefit to those who can't (or won't) use transit and benefit by reduced congestion.

Early transit systems were highly subsidized by just those same parties. Concentrating on farebox recovery is a false premise, ignores these benefits, and results in underprovisioning of transit systems.
When do you expect to ship the glasses? I see you mentioned in January for people who bought the glasses through indiegogo, but if I was to pre-order now, when could I expect to receive them? Thanks.
Driving is heavily subsidized. What is the farebox recovery ratio for spending on roads?
The end of Moore's law will probably come at about the same time true human-like AI appears. i.e. It seems like it will always be just a few decades in the future. e.g. Here's an economist article (sadly, paywalled) predicting that the end was nigh in 1995!

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-17272668.html

If you extrapolate current designs out then, yes, a size barrier is approaching. So, we should expect new designs to start appearing. For example, non-planar designs offer a lot of potential to reduce average trace-length, which could reduce power dissipation and increase speeds in turn. There are huge challenges to solve, but it is reasonable to expect that they will be met so long as the demand is there. In this light, Moore's law is almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. The demand for computational resources grows exponentially, so a way to meet that demand is always found.
That reminds me of Vigil[0], a Python-derived language that defends supreme moral vigilance.

[0] https://github.com/munificent/vigil
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Thanks for your 0.02, there's a couple gems in there.
so many dependencies to install...
I suspect that though size and speed may not increase, costs will likely continue to fall for at least a while. This will affect what sorts of systems can be computerized and at what cost, if not the computational power of those devices.

And while I've been watching promises of quantum computing for a decade or more with no apparent real progress, it's possible that alternative models of computing devices will allow still greater computational power.
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> The fact that you say "the liberal sales wing of the ruling class" just makes you seem ridiculous.

"ridiculous" is generous here.
Just in case someone didn't read the full article:

"Customers who purchased kits before November 22, 2013 will continue to have access to all the reports they’ve always had."

"Research is and will continue to be a significant priority for the company. The 500,000+ customers we have today have given us more than 250 million survey data points. You, our customer, have powered an incredibly important crowd-sourced research database that I believe can have a significant impact on the pace of discoveries and cures. We will continue our Parkinson’s, sarcoma, MPN and African American research projects and plan to launch more communities in 2014."

Its not like crowd-sourcing genetic correlations is ending. It just wont be expanding until this issue is resolved.
Whenever I'm wondering if Moore's law is still prevailing as a trailing indicator, I check out: http://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/

If that (logarithmic) chart starts to flatten - particularly for device #500 (more price sensitive than the first part of the list) on the list, then we're running into real obstacles.

Let's check back in 2020 and see if Device #500 is running at 10 Petaflops.
Can you compare InfiniSQL to existing in-memory clustered relational database solutions like Galera?
If you truly believe what you wrote, you don't know Knuth.
Trains (Amtrak at least) are also much more comfortable than airplanes. Larger seats, more legroom, free WiFi, dining car, quiet car.
Ask HN: What do you guys consider traction?
1) No one could really tell me what an absolute number was that would define traction at an early stage for my business. How would you define traction for your business and what kind of business is it?

2) Do you just know that you have an "it" product? Lot of people claim they spend $0 or did nothing on marketing but I think that's pretty much a lie. Having celebrities/PG/influential bloggers tweet out to millions of their fans is definitely something. Do some sites/apps just take off without any marketing initiatives? (month 1 - 10 or after you've already acquired your first 10,000).
I think at least twice in this article you wrote 'contractor' when you meant to say 'client'. A contractor is the worker (you in this case) and the client is the person hiring you.
For the record, providing transportation to employees and shoppers isn't an externality. Imagine if I said that providing a subsidy for buying milk was an externality, because it benefited milk sellers?

Carbon emissions would be an externality if it were proven that public transport really did reduce carbon emissions.
Maybe this?:

http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/fetchmail-friends/2003-1...

While I can understand holding a grudge against any software that drops email -- that was in 2003...

[edit: also see markrages link on "why getmail" below]
I see this as fairly similar to memSQL, but less mature.
Last week's discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6795263
Flashlight app kept users in the dark about sharing location data
Are you talking about the undergrad summer school program or something else?