skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most trains in the UK, and to my knowledge all high speed trains, are electrified, and your link states that electrified services are not subject to this duty.
I imagine it would be hard to implement efficiently in Java.
One of my ideas is to use this to find your co-founders.

Enter your skills, the people who inspire you, your philosophies, location, field of business, favorite companies, car brands etc.

I think just by typing in a few words can describe one's personality and way of thinking pretty well.
Rail is environmentally efficient over low occupancy car travel. It's not very economically efficient, in part because the infrastructure is bigger, more expensive and more complicated, in part because politicians force train operators to operate a comprehensive schedule, not just when it's economically viable.
Yes, but it's equally important to have good sensibilities.
3) Ready to delete our post: Before we started researching, we had not realize you could delete an HN post within an hour, with the ability to post the same link again.

For the record, that's against HN rules.
Manage your life afterlife
I've got the graph search but still (even after signing up to the 'waiting list' on day one) haven't got the 'new' design. I wonder if this means I won't get the video ads...
You should check out my little site about naming stuff:
http://namingschemes.com
I love Louis CK on that one. Like he says that people just need to put the way phones to learn be "just that person". Notice that you CAN ride an elevator by yourself normally. But when there are few more people you try to beat this awkward moment by going into the phone instead of just staying still, relax and look straight :)

http://gawker.com/louis-c-k-s-explanation-of-why-he-hates-sm...
Reframe Your Goals by What You Want to Feel, Not Accomplish
Can you clarify what you mean by "managed languages"? I was under the impression that a "managed language" was one with garbage collection: Go and Rust fit into that category fairly well.

Concerning preferences, I would argue that these newer languages are preferable to last-generation languages like Java or C# because they provide _more_ management: the concurrency primitives (goroutines/channels in Go, tasks/pipes in Rust) remove the need for manual thread and lock management, it is all handled transparently by the runtime in a similar way that memory management is handled transparently by the Java and C# runtimes.
> The rich pay less because they spend less as a proportion of their income than the middle classes.

Yes but this is already happening right? Isn't it far easier for them to keep lobbying for new tax loopholes as older ones get closed, than it is to avoid a flat tax? Am I missing something?

> The poor pay less because they are given exemptions, or a pay boost equivalent to the tax they pay.

I've never heard about this. Can you give more details?
Circular - Game made in two days
We made this game in two days.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=blowingnose.circular
Isn't this why you would hope that congress would be a diverse group of rational and ethical people?

All I'm proposing is a discussion on closing loopholes and how to prevent people from actively trying to take advantage of the United States unreasonably complex tax system. If you are suppose to pay X% of the income you make from transactions in the US or money transferred to heirs then you should pay that X%.

The law says that you have to pay X% when passing money to heirs. If my lawyers and accountants discover a way to reduce that amount because of a technicality, then why should that hold up in court?

If there was a loophole in the law that allowed me to murder someone if X conditions are met, should I be allowed to go free?

I see your point about why retroactive laws would be a slippery slope.
> You're taxed on your income when you earn it. Why should there be a special tax just because you died?

Because your children didn't earn it. They just won the lucky sperm lotto.

As a society, our policies should be structured to discourage the formation of a hereditary elite.
The main rationale for building HS2 is that the West Coast Main Line is close to capacity. They aren't going to close the WCML. I believe the plan is to use the freed capacity for more frequent local trains in around Birmingham.

On a related note, it's amazing how little the underlying WCML issue gets mentioned in HS2 stories.
I am pretty sure that's what happened to Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Interesting analogy from the author, considering she's also a woman. A poor attempt to force their point across by being hyperbole.
It's an amazing speech.
I can already tell you that no tree can ever compare performance-wise to a well designed hash table (like python's.) "costly string compares" are much cheaper than cache misses. And for class attributes and the like Python doesn't even do the string compares, just a quick pointer compare.

cache miss = 100 cycles

cache miss + tlb miss = 200 cycles

memcmp compares many bytes per cycle, it's clear to see that the cache misses will dominate the runtime, and trees involve O(log(N)) cache misses. A hash table is typically two cache misses. For interned python strings it's only one.
Edward Snowden's 'open letter to the Brazilian people'
I know. Like I said, mismanaged and myopic. They were the Amazon of their day, and they completely missed the boat on the Internet.
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Frustrating, isn't it?

To be fair, subway travel in dense cities like NYC tends to be substantially cheaper than road travel in most cases. (Think taxi vs. subway -- the taxi can sometimes, but not always, get you there faster, but you'll pay a lot more. If you have multiple people in the taxi it becomes more competitive though.)

Also, are you counting the cost of the car? If you don't have to buy/rent the car then road travel might look cheaper than it is.

Nonetheless, in general I agree with you. I suspect there's a greater demand for rail travel, pushing prices up. Nearly everyone I know prefers rail when they can, since they don't have to drive or sit in traffic, but chooses road often, primarily for cost and convenience reasons.
Yes, quite near me, as there is a Section 8 housing zone just two blocks from us.

And you have to define your terms here. What do you mean by "living"? If you mean, "able to feed themselves and live under a roof", that's not living, that's subsisting. I'm talking about being more than just a serf and actually making forward progress in life. Sure, the bartender at the insanely overpriced place a few blocks from us probably only makes $60k, but he also probably lives with a roommate in a tiny apartment, still owes money on a 7 year old car, has no assets, has no savings, has no health insurance, has no chance of retiring at ANY age.

At this point, I don't think there is anything within our current distance to her job (20 minutes) that A) we would be eligible for, and B) would be cheaper. I telecommute. If we both had to drive an hour to work, then we'd have to buy a second car and the increased transportation costs would certainly eclipse any savings in housing.

Mind you, an hour away in DC is 15 miles on a good day. There are people who work here for half of what we make, and they commute 2 hours to work every morning. I hope you're not suggesting that that is a livable scenario. "Well, it is for them." Maybe for them (I'd argue they are sending themselves to an early grave, but I digress), but not for society as a whole.

At that point, if we're living 2 hours away, we might as well be working for less where we lived. Thus my point: we can't live and work here for much less than we're already making.
It was a bad analogy WRT not using technology, its a fail as I believe the push up is considerably higher tech than the padded, or at least a more respectable mechanical engineering challenge. It is a perfectly good analogy as an example of not using mere larger numbers as a success metric and not trying to maximize shallowness of interaction as a success metric. So about 90% correct but specific word choice was not ideal.

That and the commentary on condoms made it look like he was aiming for a dating scene series of analogies and changed his mind half way thru without completely changing the tone of the article. It does appear to have started as a post about dating advice and morphed into a networking post. #1 is about one night stands, #2 is about putting notches on the bedpost, #3 is a bit of personal bias about not liking adult toys or group activities, which is his loss. This analogy also makes the self-selection bias assumption that is probably wrong, in that most of the people participating are either exhibitionists or those who enjoy taking a harmless look at exhibitionists, and most definitely are not a self selected crowd interested in church approved premarital counseling and abstinence only young adult education, so pushing those unpopular outlooks is unlikely to interest the audience. In both the article or my dating analogy of the article.
Right now I can go to one of many websites to encode a program into a DNA sequence[0] and then to another website to paste that sequence into a text box and order that DNA.[1] This is all doable right now by every one of us. It's just not useful yet.

[0]http://www.sgidna.com/translator.php
[1]http://dna.macrogen.com/eng/service/seq/standard/standardseq...

edit: Let me add that I think this is crazy interesting and even if the DNA is never executable itself, it's a very very interesting way to store a program that can later be extracted.
Facebook is testing a new way to watch promoted videos in news feed
Exactly what I am doing. Gotta log in from time to time to check if they haven't changed the email given as contact to facebook one again though :)
The Bitcoin Payment Terminal
This UI reminds me of Encarta 98.
I disagree that it doesn't actually do anything to impede peoples' ability to earn more for themselves. If someone handed you $50 million of tax-free money, you wouldn't go volunteer somewhere or travel or whatever instead of going into the office? Maybe ever again?
I expected jeans too tight to carry a wallet.
I use my phone in the lift even on my own, because I enjoy it. Sure, I could avoid it, but why would I?
Darpa wants you to play video games
There are pros and cons to both approaches. If I see a junior developer trying to reinvent the wheel, he's probably going to build a pretty shitty wheel. The whole point of using dependencies isn't laziness or cowardice, it's leveraging others' work to save time, energy, and potential headaches caused by subpar custom implementations. Of course, that doesn't absolve us from learning the guts of our dependencies, but chastising developers for avoiding unnecessary work is absurd. The key is in learning when to import and when to DIY.
Computer systems and methods with projected display
I'd say that being able to interact with a readable implementation designed for pedagogy, while it works on data chosen by me, would be an excellent supplement to reading this document.
Who are you to decide what is enough?
Roads are certainly "subsidized" in the U.S., but given how much economic and civic activity they enable relative to the general revenue required, I don't think it's fair to call that subsidy "heavy". I doubt it's outrageous when considered per passenger-mile relative to, say, the non-fee general revenue that goes to the TSA, FAA, airport improvement, etc.

The federal highways that represented the majority of that Boltbus' trip could easily be funded by gas taxes and other essentially user fees if you raised them marginally and removed the requirement that something like 1/6 of that funding be redirected to subsidize public transit. With a few regional exceptions, Amtrak absolutely could not exist without general revenue: As you raised fares, passengers would vanish. And I'm skeptical that Northeast Regional fares really do cover any more than the operating expenses. Are they sufficient to cover capital expenses as well?

State and local road funding is trickier, because it's inefficient to build toll booths along small roads and local gas taxes can be evaded in border areas by driving to another locality. But almost everyone uses local roads, so paying for them out of local taxes isn't a terrible solution. Regardless, if we could switch to GPS-based taxation without too much of a row, I am quite sure that state and local roads would continue to exist and grow without any "subsidy".
It's about time.

Facebook's ad inventory has historically been worthless. It doesn't matter how precisely you target the ads if you don't have the attention of the audience. Facebook had none of the "intent-harvesting" opportunities of search ads: they were just sticking text in the middle of the content you actually wanted to read.

Facebook ad inventory needed to be more like TV. Like Facebook, television advertising has no "intent-harvesting," but it has pretty good targeting. The nature of TV ads gives them a chance to engage the viewer.

Using full-motion video ads, with or without audio, gives advertisers a fighting chance for your attention. The ability to interrupt might be enough to make Facebook's valuation work.
The dialogs definitely look nicer than your standard Gnome dialogs.
I both agree with and practice this approach. It works very well for me. The features I use exclusively are messages and events. It's the path of least resistance for many of friends outside my core circles to contact me.
LOL. Last time I was in Italy (on a trip across Europe), I wanted to get a ticket to get to France. I tried one of those machines… wouldn't let me buy tickets for the route I wanted (commuter rail to Paris). Actually tried two or three; there were several kinds.

Stood in line for an hour plus. Guy at the desk claims no-one there speaks English (fine, but that was a lie as the attendant next to him was). We use our phrasebook to order tickets. Walking away from the counter, we realize they're for a train that leaves in ONE MINUTE. Of course we don't make it. Eventually we found customer service tucked away in a dirty corner. They were able to right everything, but seriously… my experience getting train tickets in Italy was NOT as rosy as you paint it.

(Only place worse was France, where the damn airport tram ticket machines needed 18€ of COINS.)
The article mentions that the ads will only load over WiFi. How do you do that? Is it functionality specific to mobile apps?
RSA Animate: Re-Imagining Work
Designing E-Commerce websites properly
Bitcoin Falls 20% on PBOC Rumors, Chinese Exchanges Reinstate Fees
I understand that. I just moved back to my home town from Nashville. I am paying the same amount for my 3 bedroom home as my studio apartment. I must say my wife and I are much happier, and it will be great to have our parents around when we have kids.
For those who don't want to RTFA, the upshot is that the presence of spandex makes the denim waste stream unsuitable for paper-making.

Esquire has a much better story about this:

http://www.esquire.com/features/benjamin-hundred-dollar-bill...
Yes. At least in the U.S., where the Constitution contains vague language like No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. and No State shall ... pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law,.
Given that murder specifically refers to an unlawful killing it's kind of an impossible thing to happen.

If we change murder to kill however then there are already conditions that allow you to go free when killing someone.
Just the regular one. The seats were surprisingly comfortable - but I have been told that I could "sleep on a stick"
Except that a nasty ramification is itself evidence in favor of a broad critique of the business model.

I guess, but it doesn't necessarily mean that. You can probably extrapolate any small point into a larger one if you want, but it'd be disingenuous to paint any "this thing isn't perfect" point as broad critique.

And what's wrong with socialists?

I didn't say there was. It's not uncommon for people to loudly dismiss things that even hint at questioning their world view with eye-roll-educing cries of socialism. If we're not actually discussing socialism, this can be a time wasting distracting and it's often worthwhile to nip that tangent in the bud.
"Get FREE Access to Our Inbound Marketing Course"

Gross pop-up you have there.
Yes, of course. That exact thing happens not infrequently. A common condition is "I had the reasonable belief that he was threatening my life". Or even "I had the reasonable belief that he was threatening the life of a third party unknown to me".

> Isn't this why you would hope that congress would be a diverse group of rational and ethical people?

This is, to say the least, not a common viewpoint.
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Exactly. This article brought back memories. Actually I realized, why not just put this stuff old time onto Github. There is no real use if only to remind people how different it was back then when you wanted to make a game... Some people will relate.

Here https://github.com/gorhill/rayoid

So much time spent on counting CPU cycles... Atari ST's pixels layout was really tricky.

There were better games out there, I will always remember Llamatron, my favortie (I wonder if the sources are available somewhere.)
Requires login? Why?
Designers and product managers have taken the reigns from the engineers.

Recall that Google at one time never had TV advertisements. Now you can't turn the damn thing on without seeing one.
It would be, but realistically any liquid ecosystem on Mars is just too small for respectable evolution. It'll be a miracle if it's more complicated than Earth's prokaryotic microbes. But then, it'll be a miracle if we find anything at all.
That seems gently stolen from visual.ly — referenced in a recent HN submission [1]. Explanations?

[1] http://visual.ly/origins-common-ui-symbols
The funny thing is that with the current implementation of auto-play ads on the mobile FB apps, the moment I see a video animating from Instagram, I scroll past it even faster because it's distracting and usually not worth the 15 seconds.
The train subsidies differs greatly by region. For "my" rail company, the fees were flowing in the other direction over the last year - Southern paid an average 0.6p per passenger mile.

For my part at least, my travel card is a bargain compared to what owning and operating a card would have cost me.
Oddly enough, Facebook is finally starting to live up to its under-promising name: a digital yearbook that I occasionally thumb through when I'm curious about an old friend but otherwise let sit collecting dust.

Really exciting and controversial stuff doesn't happen much on Facebook anymore, at least not on my news feed. People are too concerned about maintaing their constructed image. My friends with babies use it as a family album. My friends trying to go into acting or modeling practically use it as an online professional portfolio. A lot of my coworkers are connected on Facebook, which naturally limits the extent of their expression; they might appear to be great friends, and to a large extent they are, but if one of them is mad about work they for sure can't post it to Facebook.
Objective-C in the Cloud
Hear hear. But you're not doing it properly. Please be consistent.

"what about being human when it matters most? In person" - doesn't this exclude people with social anxiety disorders?

"mix of knock-off stilettos" - doesn't this exclude people who wear flats?

"people bumbling about who looks a hair too much like Dwight Schrute" - doesn't this exclude people who do look like him and may have body image issues?

"You have just entered the land of networking hell" - this imagery is deeply offensive to some religions

"Screw the schmoozing" - using sexual imagery? No thanks.

"The people who hand out business cards like they are condoms in a high school sex ed. class" - alienates those with a conservative upbringing

"Disclaimer – keep those condoms, kids" - again, pretty offensive to Catholics

"They want meaningful relationships" - again social anxiety

"And people respond to kindness." - not everyone. Exclusionary to those on certain parts of the autistic spectrum.

"The same philosophy goes for networking" - I can imagine quite a few real philosophers getting offended about the belittling of their profession

"One good conversation is better than five quick ones every day of the week" - not the Shabbat!

"It’s for people who will never be more than middlemen" - think of all the middlemen out there, feeling excluded at this hate speech and switching off

"when you remember to be human" - deeply insulting to robots
There are many types of private tracker that would love to see this - for instance consider gaming trackers, where you may have a single .torrent for a large collection of ROMs, or DLC for a game. Consider TV trackers, tracking a whole TV season with a single .torrent file, or music trackers with discographies.

More importantly, a key concern on private trackers is swarm size - an extension like this would have the potential to expand the available peers on a given file, if the file exists in other swarms on the same tracker. Not a very common use case, but one to consider nonetheless.
Dark Souls 2 is a sequel to Dark Souls, which is a semi-sequel to Demon Souls. All of them are "trial by death", so to speak, and you can pick up Dark Souls on Steam today if you want a taste of it-- though I'd recommend just watching some youtube videos of the game, as the PC version requires third party tweaks to actually work (and uses the terrible Games for Windows Live DRM scheme). It is by far my favorite game of this 'generation', and it is a true challenge.

It is not an MMO, however. The world is both offline and online at the same time. You are the hero of your world, but other souls drift in and out of your world, whether to obstruct your passage (ie, they invite themselves), or to help you (you request their assistance).
Orwell was an optimist...
The government has the same claim on their wealth as any other level of income, as part of the social contract of living in the US. I am a little confused on what your point is. Should people making $50k/year be exempt from the government's claim on the wealth they created, too? What about people making $25k/year?
I don't even know what I'm looking at here.

It renders incorrectly, had zero info and just shows me pictures of Hollywood celebrities.
This is true. But afaik it's frowned upon and it's not really a big deal in serious communities.
Correct, but unfortunately, WebKit (and Safari) has not and introduced lately (read: this quarter) new properties with prefixes.
Has there been any study on the effectives of video ads. Just wonder how many people close tabs because of video ads; At least I do.