skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Operations and infrastructure are not cheap either. If you require a massive pad, buildings, cranes, transporters, cryogenic infractructure, clean rooms for payloads, areas for hazardous fuel filling... And lots of people on the workforce with very specific skillsets.

And the kicker: launch only a handful of times per year so all that cost must be put into those launches.

Look at a modern airfield gate, all the activity when the plane rolls to it. See all those special vehicles, all the personnel. Some are putting the wheel chocks, some are waving guiding lights, someone connects the electricity line and then come the baggage handlers, the cleaners and the food people. The airplane requires more care on land than things like buses or trains for example. Or look at the people operating the security infrastructure. And the huge buildings out in the distance with the maintenance infrastructure and the workforce.

Think if there was just one flight per day per gate, what would the ticket cost be? Or one per month?

Actually flying used to be more infrastructure and labor intensive like that, and few people could afford it.

The amount of work per passenger mile has to be small for traveling to be possible for the masses. Otherwise we are in an old class society, since only a small elite can be served by a large amount people.

It was only with more efficient streamlined mass operations (as well as more efficient and more reliable aircraft) that flying became available to the common people, and finally even cheap. It's grown about 20 to 100 fold since 1950. Fuel cost is a significant portion of airline expenses by the way...

With rockets we are at an even worse starting point, since they cost roughly as much as an airliner (about a hundred million), yet are used only once.

That is the first point. But like demonstrated, solving the first problem is not enough. If the rocket must be "refurbished" after every flight and thus flies only a few times per year, nothing is gained, since all the other costs make the cost per flight so high that launches stay at their almost unusable price.
Hence real transformational reusable launch vehicles must also be cheap to operate per kilogram to orbit.
We don't yet really know how to do all that.

Sources:
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/sub...

http://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/2013%2012%20Month%20Docum...

http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities

http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/pressreleases/press-releas...
That's not much of a feature, it's more like a common courtesy. Call me entitled, but I would expect that to be the case even without them explicitly saying so.
> Doesn't sound like a good idea? Then shut up.

Your comment is needlessly mean-spirited. The top-voted comment on the recent Show HN thread would seem to apply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984826
Having used both, I'd say yes. C++11 does some wonderful things, many many improvements that were a long time coming, but D put those improvements into the core language and their standard library. This makes D much more readable and hackable than C++11. Not to mention the metaprogramming support is significantly easier to use (though not more powerful, as they're both technically turing complete).
Let's not cite anecdotes to set public policy.

You give one example of a pedestrian killed by a cyclist in SF last year. Also last year, 21 pedestrians and 4 cyclists were killed by cars[0].

That's still not a fair statistic because there are far more cars than bikes. So in 2012, 1.14 people were killed by cars in the US per 100 million miles driven[1].

I can't find similar bike stats for the US, but in the UK there are about 3.7 cyclist deaths per 100 million miles. How many of those deaths were caused by cyclists, and how many were caused by cars?

[0] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Streets-of-S-F-a-road-...

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit...

[2] http://www.ctc.org.uk/resources/ctc-cycling-statistics
Phone not charged? Sorry, you can't board the plane.
This isn't the case. Embedding a non-image as an image is only used to trip the CSP. If the X-Frame-Options header is not set to DENY or SAMEORIGIN, you can equally iframe the contents. CSP restrictions are capable of controlling almost any kind of content on a page. Here I used images for my own convenience because it makes the requests more simple; you can write similar rules for frames, scripts and other content and come up with similar category exploits with those rules.

When it comes to Embedded-On, that is what the Origin header that is used in most modern browsers is for. It supersedes the privacy impinging Referer header. What you are describing is essentially 'hotlink' protection for generic resources.
Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva
Business idea: signature database with web interface. So download from anywhere, and look up the signature on the database to verify its authentic.
Vehicles must yield to pedestrians in crosswalks in many states. Illinois is one of them, yet I find in practice anything without a stop sign you're as likely to get buzzed while someone lays on the horn as you are allowed to cross. I regularly have cars honking at me and trying to pass on the right when I stop at crosswalks on some streets in Chicago for pedestrians. It's as if I'm being a jerk for following the law instead of "the Chicago way"
Ha ha! I clicked on this article's HN comments thinking "Wow, this sounds a company ready for their Incredible Journey to begin." (c.f. http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com) And lo, the most upvoted comments here are all expressing the same sentiment.

I do not recall before today just looking at a new company's elevator pitch and muttering "Best wishes with the acquihire, y'all". Something subtle's shifted in the way we perceive startups, lately...

But the above is just my observations at my own behavior. I do wish the best for this company!
Harlem is in Manhattan.
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I have to contribute to this because I have this deep pent up rage against most bicyclists in Sacramento...

>The few studies that look at specific violations have found that people on bikes do roll through stop signs about 15% more than drivers do (at least in Oregon), but also that drivers roll through them almost 80% of the time

This is the source of all my aggression. First off, this is an incredibly high percentage, basically confirming almost all bicyclists don't stop at stop signs. Looks like I have reason to generalize. This statistic is deceptive in that it doesn't compare speed through a stop sign. Most drivers roll through stop signs (no source but based on personal experience), they don't blow through them at full speed. Downtown/midtown Sacramento has hundreds of stop signs and I almost hit bicyclists on a weekly basis.

There were lots of statistical goofs in this article but this one made my eyes turn red.

rant over
Again, the 'no debate' is more two-pronged: 1) No need to defend yourself, because no one is saying you're terrible, and 2) Keep the debate private, as opposed to long threads on the HS boards that just deteriorate into this.

The one time I was accused of being subtly-sexist, I disagreed with the commenter and I told her so (privately). She stuck to her point, and by the end I didn't 100% agree with her and I thought she was being a little sensitive; _however_ I'll still be more careful in the future. Whether or not I agree that she should have been offended is irrelevant: I said something that offended her, she seems like a nice enough person, and making that tiny switch in my language was a small-enough sacrifice that I was happy to err on the side of caution.
They will gladly shut the service down once someone offers them enough money in aqui-hire.

It's a bummer this is the status quo with startups. To me, it's the most disappointing thing about the tech world. I actually interviewed at other companies first, and only cofounded Inbox when I couldn't find anywhere else to solve this problem.

Probably the only convincing thing I can say is that if you wanted to build a company to flip quickly, an email infrastructure startup is certainly the most painful, masochistic way you could go about it. We spent the better part of last year reading RFCs and fixing tons of obscure bugs to get this far.
I am not disagreeing - in every sport there is going to be an outlier. We are referring to the majority.

Although to be fair, the stories of Rupeni Caucau are anecdotal. Contrast with the weightlifter and actor Carl Weathers who maintained he was just naturally muscled and athletic when he was in fact getting up at 3am to train and returning to bed at 430am so his co-stars never suspected his regime.

It infuriated Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarznegger to the point of on-set arguments. Weathers would just flex and claim "genetics does not need to lift weights."
The problem has already been solved a long time ago, but Americans just don't like the answer.

Driving a car means driving a vehicle that can easily murder an entire family in a split second. Drivers should have a greater amount of responsibility for traffic safety and that responsibility should be enshrined in the laws.

It's so hypocritical that Americans do apply that logic to guns and use it to justify responsible gun ownership, but any 16 year old can wield a car like it's toy and get away with it.

Amsterdam cyclist all act like anti-social a-holes, but over here that is not considered an excuse to just fucking run them over with your car. Period.

It's a pointless argument. Unprotected cyclists and pedestrians should not be held to the same standards as drivers because the consequences are wildly different.

It's like saying because people are hitting me with fluffy cotton balls it's okay for me to fire live rounds at them if nobody stops them. Insane.
The real pain point with E-mail is we're all drowning in it.
Many of the libraries you'd want to use are already ported or binary compatible (just need a header file) with D. Given that a fibre-based web framework has been written with it, and that it can use pointers natively, there's not a whole lot you can't do with it. Even writing bare metal code should in theory be doable with some work.
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A Whole New World
The government says suicide and everyone simply believes it. shakes head
The fact that the pitch includes a swipe at Google shutting down services kind of invites the "yeah but are y'all a future acquihire?" counter-skepticism. I think they could probably just have left that whole subject out of the pitch; it's an approach to competing with Gmail via "negative advertising" that I think has relatively little upside and opens up a can of worms. (On the other hand, it's an obvious enough counter-swipe that I'm not sure it's helpful for the entire HN discussion to be about it.)
Well, a hammer also makes a good consciousness switch. Especially when combined with needles and applied to nails. Seriously, how can you discuss a marginal case with absolutely no statistical evidence. Do apes have claustrum? If yes - run on them, then speak sense. Besides, brains are immensely resilient and damaged parts functionality can be replaced functionally by other brain regions.
I assume that HN just picked up the title from the page pointed to by the submitted URL. The page title contains the author name.
Yes, for caching+performance reasons.
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What is the closet BART to San Fran from Santa Clara that I can reach there with little traffic?
Names are always available when you have some money to invest in buying rights and domains.
I'm not a bitcoin apologist; the whole thing seems silly to me. Even still, this report is downright scary.

> During a raid last week on one of the suspects' homes, investigators seized a portfolio of Bitcoins - worth some 9,000 euros per unit - as well as credit cards and computer hardware.

I have no idea what the facts of this case are, but this wording strongly connotes a carding operation or similar. I wouldn't be surprised if the "seized credit cards" were just the suspect's personal, totally legit cards.

It's also kind of strange that they delineate the "portfolio of bitcoins" and the hardware...

> The two suspects were being investigated on possible charges of illegal banking, money laundering and illegally operating a gambling website.

Again, the article is too light on details to know. But this sounds like they have no idea why Bitcoin is bad, but they just know it It Is Bad.
Hi there, Christine from Inbox here.

That's why we're tackling the problem from a platform level, not building one specific product---it's obvious to us that the ways folks are using email these days are so varied that no one thing solves them all.

A better toolset allows many different solutions.
Yup. I like your analogy about the cable junction.
It's fascinating how so many apps can be rendered useless by the simple mistake of tapping "Deny" instead of "Allow."
Absolute FreeBSD. Found it hilarious
https://www.michaelwlucas.com/nonfiction/absolute-freebsd
Being strict and verbose leaves less room for abuse or loopholes.
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Was the URL changed?
To boldly go where no APIs have gone before... ;)

More seriously, we're super focused on MS Exchange support for enterprises. Ping me if you'd like preview access to this: mg@inboxapp.com
This is something I've been wanting for a while now (a self-hostable REST wrapper around email) so I'm pretty excited. Thanks guys.
Sounds like an agent is failing at middleman-ing to coordinate all those messy contracts.

It sounds like a terribly complicated project for a startup to disrupt the agent market by providing the agent a set of tools both technological and legal to massively coordinate releases across all markets simultaneously and cheaply for like 1% of the agent's cut or whatever seems fair. Or maybe for free during the initial startup phase. Two "portals" (I hate that word) one that agents talk to and one that publishers talk to and some minor smarts in the middle.

Or if you really wanna be disruptive implement Charlie's helper to do all the good stuff he's previously discussed for a publisher. I don't know if becoming a book publisher is edgy web 2.0 enough to attract VC money, but if everyone in the biz thinks the current situation sucks, and there's some profit to be made in market disruption...

The TLDR is a lot of "startup" theory is about disrupting middlemen. How about trying to make middlemen effective again using disruptive tools?

(BTW I like his latest book)
There's a technique called Profile Guided Optimization which is a little like that.
Indeed. They've inadvertently refocused attention from an otherwise interesting discussion about problems and innovation in Email into one about acquihires and company lifetimes. There's a PR lesson in here folks.
What about the privacy issues of keychain-stored identifiers (iOS 7)?
For example Facebook stays signed in across its apps, even if they are deleted. So they could just put an Ad identifier inside the keychain storage and have an unremovable tracking identifier. An user can't remove that on his own. Even if he signs out, they can keep the identifier in the keychain for tracking.
I'm curious why I couldn't find any info on that in the internet?
Am I the only one who's curious why the poster specified an "eBook" instead of just "book"?
> with a contractual minimum duration you promise to keep the service up, and significant monetary penalties if you fail to meet it.

Take it down a few notches, you're solution will likely not work.

This is the company's only product. If the product gets discontinued, the company is likely broke. The "significant monetary penalties" is unenforceable because the company will not have any money to fulfill the SLA penalty.
> Learn paradigms and principles.

This. It seems to me that many authors are pointing to the importance of a balance between the long-term paradigmatic and principled knowledge and short-term tactical knowledge. Both are important and not to be neglected at the expense of the other.
I'm not directly involved with our intern program, but I work with the interns.

We're looking for intern candidates for Fall 2014. Details for how to apply are at http://numenta.com/company/#team.

If you'd like to talk with a current intern, email interns@numenta.com and the person running the program can give your contact info to the current group.
99 lines + angular != 99 lines
If the context is in the browser that is what counts.

Nice work anyway.
In that case, you should probably make a big fancy statement to that effect. It would be popular, people are very concerned about the issue of services being acquired and binned these days, it's such an obvious pattern.

If you are not legally/politically able to make such a statement, then these casual assurances are worthless, and ultimately misleading.
This talk is very unlike any RMS talk you may have seen, because RMS needed to meet TED limit and get it under 15 minutes. Moreover it seems that he has really tried to make it easier to understand even for non hackers.
:) Let us know how it goes! We're in ##inbox on freenode, or at developers@inboxapp.com
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I think you might be talking about tiered compilation, in which case, yes:

http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2010-07-16-tiered-comp...

The Azul JVM has been doing this for some time. The Sun/Oracle/OpenJDK JVM started doing it in JDK 7. I think IBM's J9 JVM has been doing it for some time too. I'm sure Microsoft's CLR VM does it, they're a smart bunch.
While there are lots of apps to find nearby gas stations, I wish there was more information available on which stations have diesel.

I literally have to street-view every gas station, or make lots of phone calls, in order to find a diesel pump, especially when travelling through small towns. Granted, larger (highway) stops are pretty good for having diesel on account of the trucks they service.
It took money to keep National Review from bleeding red ink.
I had somehow missed the news from WWDC that accessing the camera now requires explicit permission from the user.

I'm really surprised camera privacy took this long to arrive, and I wonder what the reasoning was for not implementing it at the same time as microphone permissions arrived in iOS 7.
I hear that argument a lot, and yet I have never seen real-life software that runs comparably in Java and C++. For example, a few weeks ago, I was looking at some (fairly simple) data processing code backed by SQLite. The Java version was too slow for the amount of data that needed to get analyzed and reanalyzed repeatedly. A rewrite in C++, with no special trickery, ran 3x faster.

After isolating everything in Java (including ditching the JDBC driver for lower-level SQLite bindings), nothing changed. It was likely JNI overhead, but frankly, that doesn't matter: Java was too slow. No sophisticated benchmarks here — just real-life production code that runs like molasses in the JVM and runs acceptably in C++.

Also, C++11 is not a low-level language anymore. (And I say this as a long-time Lisp and Clojure programmer.)
Odd, it looks like you're getting down-voted. I mean, I'm no more of a fan of "page layout complaint that has nothing to do with the article" comments than anyone else, but I don't know that it's down-vote-worthy.

Anyway, at the apparent risk of being on the receiving end of some down votes myself, I'm more curious why giant fonts are a trend. I'm old, I wear progressive lens (what used to be known as "bifocals"), and I still hit the Cmd⌘-+- combo a few times to crank it down to a readable size. Is it some attempt to capture the aging baby boomer market? (I ask with tongue somewhat in cheek...)
One complaint that applies to most other salary apps (and mainstream reported numbers) too: unclear definition of salary - does it include bonuses, RSUs, options, etc. amortized annually? Without that, it seems to me meaningless to consider two 180k salaries as equal when one is making only 60k in bonuses/RSUs and another (let's say more wall st oriented) making 180k in year-end bonuses.

Are the salaries I'm seeing on the site base salaries only? If so, how are you guys planning to address the above issue? Otherwise, I do love the idea of the Salary Fairy (and FairPay).
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I think you also need to account for stopping distances and acceleration.

A bike can stop in far shorter distances than a car can (and will be travelling at a lower speed in the first place).

Bikes are also slower to accelerate than a car. Allowing a bike to maintain more of its momentum gets it through the intersection quicker, especially on any kind of uphill grade.

Anecdotal, perhaps, but I know that my personal experience has been that the combination of those two things means that I'm evaluating whether it's safe for me to pass through an intersection and making the decision much sooner on a bike than I would in a car where the assumption is I need to mostly stop because I may not be able to otherwise.
One of the plans we have for the full hosted version is to create an auth flow that scopes permissions granted, kind of like how Facebook apps can only do certain things. So perhaps one app only has access to read mail from flights@virginamerica.com, and another only has the ability to create drafts but not read mail, etc.

As for what can be built on top of Inbox, it's really up to the developer. You can build a full-featured mail client, or just add a simple filter.

Check out the docs for more details. We also have SDKs for iOS and JS. https://www.inboxapp.com/docs
Well, the cable junction is also part of what really happens.

Not quite as much. If the cable junction fails, someone downstream of that junction won't have access to the calculations, but someone upstream of it still will. Whereas, if the clock in a CPU fails, there's no calculations happening anywhere.
It is helpful and appropriate to point out bugs, and his comments did help fix the Typeable exception problem in GHC 7.8. But he doesn't go through the usual tracker and mailing list to report these things. He goes off and writes these angry blog posts and extrapolates small defects to justify sensationalist claims about the whole language. On one hand you have a respected PL researcher, on another you have a guy who is like the axe-grinding "Zed Shaw" of functional languages.
That’s just the nature of different displays.

By default the font is about as big as what you get in your typical novel assuming typical reading distances (on a pretty standard 1440×900 logical resolution 15.4″ display, and that’s certainly not a display with an atypically high logical resolution). For me that’s just perfect and I actually think it’s just perfect for most people. In general the font size tends to be way too small on most websites.
Disagree. It's harsh to make a point that there is no evidence they're telling the truth, not to be edgy or get attention. It would be better without the 'shut up' but a bit of an 'angry' tone is fitting.

Really, I'm more uncomfortable with a link to a webcomic joke as an argument point...