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>congestion-free and at higher speeds

Neither of these has any chance of being true. Highways near any sort of metropolitan area, or near a spur leading to a metropolitan area, or even often near a connector leading to another major highway, are already massively congested. Autonomous automobiles making even more people want to use them will only make it that much worse.

And even safe, self-driving cars operating outside of traffic can only travel at a fraction the speed of rail.
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There's a bathroom on the train in a train commute. And other people. And space to get up and stretch your legs.
NYC system is not slow, nor unreliable. Yes, dirty-ish but I'd trade some hygiene for reliability, 24/7 access and speed. It's also not expensive especially if you work in the city and get a pre-tax unlimited card. It also costs way more than $100/month to own a card in NYC.
I live in the middle of Nebraska. I don't need it either.
I live in the middle of Nevada. I don't need it either.
I live in the middle of North Dakota . I don't need it either.

I'm just messing with you. Do people ever stop and think before adding noise to the conversation? You seriously don't have a point.
AFAIK Netflix contributes back all their changes to FreeBSD, so I don't see how the license matters.

My impression is that companies that don't like the GPL either deal with it (Android) or just violate it (almost all embedded devices). Nobody is actually willing to switch to BSD for licensing reasons.
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> (at 100$/mo owning a car in almost any other city in the US is cheaper)

Where do you live where gas is free and so is maintenance and car insurance and parking?
I mean judging your own happiness against the mean or median of 300 million people who live in vastly different locations and climates, with different population densities, prevalence of poverty and opportunity, availability of social services, access to education and medical services, etc, is a meaningless exercise.
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I was expecting a [2002] or something similar after the headline. I have been pretty surprised at the amount of revenue I've seen some businesses generate through Yahoo Stores and, really, the only reason they left the stores was because the merchant support was awful and the cut was way, way too high.
This is like saying "I don't respond to advertising." It sounds good in theory but pretty much falls flat on its face in reality.
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It's hard to say given that 1.) We're talking decades from now and 2.) We would have to make a lot of assumptions about things like how widespread self-driving car availability would affect congestion.

What I can say is that driving from my house in Massachusetts to Manhattan today is both cheaper and faster than taking the Acela by the time you count getting to the train station and getting to my hotel on the other end. I still usually take the train as it's more pleasant--at least if it's just me. If I had a driver (AI or otherwise), probably not.
I remember that! I think "This Developer's Life" or a similar podcast interviewed them about trying to game the walmart hdd rationing (2 per customer) and stuff.
If I could upvote this twice I would. I still haven't gotten to the point where I can be polite all of the time. However, I find that when I try to be pleasant to people on principle, it takes away a lot of stress. I stop worrying about whether they are treating me well, or if I should start pushing back, because I've already made the decision to be friendly and polite. If they choose not to take advantage of this, that is unfortunate. However, I no longer have to react to their perceived bad behaviour in kind. It is remarkably freeing when I can do this.
>> we have a political system in which the federal government, having devolved virtually all decision-making power to states

> That's definitely not true. Just look at the ACA.

Well, if the author studied history he would have known that our political system is that where states came together and decided to devote some decision-making power to the federal government. As time passed this federal government usurped as much power as it could but apparently for some people it's still not enough.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
> they’re just out to steal cows.

What does this idiom mean? I've never heard of it before.
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Cross-border yes. The European railway network isn't very integrated yet (though the EU has some initiatives underway), so cross-border ticketing is generally bad: inconvenient and expensive. Only Deutsche Bahn's bahn.de even has a semblance of an international online ticketing system, and it's far from complete. International tickets also have a habit of ending up charging you full fare, which (like with full-fare plane tickets) is way too high.

Within individual countries is where rail has the most market-share in Europe, and advance-ticket purchases are priced like planes, with steep discounts from full-fare prices, varying with demand. People take high-speed trains on routes like Barcelona–Madrid and Lyon-Paris, and without the German ICE network. And many people do prefer the train on those routes: the Barcelona–Madrid air shuttle lost half of its passengers after the AVE line to Barcelona opened.
Nice. Will be particularly useful to manage all my vim bundles from one screen.
It's a benchmark for the brain. It's not close to everything, but it measures something and that something is significant. I'm sure you agree, but I need to get it out.
YC used to get a lot of criticism for only funding "trivial web companies". You don't hear that so much these days.
The problem is that it makes sense in the densest areas of the country, but because it's so dense it then ends up being the most expensive areas of the country to implement.
Stock certificates may also be subject to dilution at the whim of the majority shareholders.
We use liquibase (http://www.liquibase.org/) for our postgresql and SQL Server databases. It works very well.
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On my browser (Safari), pressing arrow keys scrolls, making the game really hard to play. You should be able to `event.preventDefault()` or something to prevent scrolling.
And the reason why the rail cost from central Jersey to DC is so high, is that NY to Washington is the only route where Amtrak (with existing technology) is a serious competitor to air travel.

While the time in the air between NY and DC is 35 minutes, the hassle of arriving at the airport early for check-in, actually getting to LGA, JFK or Newark and getting from Dulles, BWI or National to your location, make traveling by rail (Acela 2 hours 45 minutes) a real competitor.

The argument, I suppose, is that high speed rail could increase this competitiveness to other cities outside the northeast corridor.
What's the best way to revamp/update Apple's App Store?
It's a multi-factor authentication platform. The item, application, or website would have to integrate LaunchKey first. The users would be able to login without using passwords with far greater security. The implementer gets the benefit of not having the liability of storing passwords and an enhanced user experience for their users.
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True. We should consider helping because it's open source, hosted on Github. Great seeing this here. We can always do something.
Yes because those box aren't sufficient for 1M+ sub. You're better off using peering rather than cache boxes in your network if you're a large ISP.
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Hair touching aside, the amount of space required between people is bordering on the absurd. I'm sorry you feel uncomfortable but two arm lengths of personal space at all times is not something you're entitled to.

It's like we all want to live in a bubble. In non-western countries bumping into someone isn't the traumatizing horror it is in the US. It's just about expectations, if people didn't expect to have a vastness of empty air around them they wouldn't suffer PTSD for the rest of the day when someone stood almost within touching distance of them.

I'm not saying it's OK to be breathing down people's necks and people should consider the comfort zones of others, but it's kind of extreme in the US. If there's an empty chair next to you, I'll sit in it, and if there's a public urinal available next to yours I'll make use of it. Deal with it.
What's the plasma configuration of the machine? I think there's a research group at U of Washington working on merging spheromaks which create a field reversed configuration. Is this a spinoff of that group?

edit: looks like it is - this is the group: https://www.aa.washington.edu/research/plasmaDynamics/phdx.h...
An example from late 19th century Mexico: Tiendas de Raya.

The drill worked like this. You live in a poverty riden rural area, and an "enganchador" (lit. hooker, but its kind or a recruiter) comes town and offers you a job elsewhere. You sign up and leave with this guy.

Upon arrival, you learn that you have to pay for the recruiter fee, which is always more than whatever money managed you brought with you for the trip. So your options are either debtors prison or ask your new boss for a single early payment. It's day one and you start in the red.

You are new in town, nobody knows you and will not do business with you unless you bring money upfront. That is, nobody except for "la tienda de raya" your bosse's personal side business, that is happy to extend you a credit line with your paycheck ("la raya") as warranty. Everything is more expensive there, but they will give you everything you need because you are "one of the bosse's men".

So, you are down the hole and digging. An extremely unusual degree of self control over a lengthy period of time is required to cut down your consumption enough so that you will sometime pay your debt. If you manage to do that, you will be able to shop at the same stores as normal people does, and benefit from it. But you will always have the temptation of going to the tienda de raya again for special one of purchases (like that special dress for your daughters wedding), or if the inevitable event of life set you back (like if you need to have a tooth extracted and end up short of cash before the next pay check).

And if you ever try to quit, or loose your job, it is debtor's prison again.
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Here's a link to the original submission which hit #1 on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7151076

Per the comments on that submission, it appears that you baited HN. Which is not a "hack". There is no hack to hitting #1, just luck.
The entire point of OpenConnect was to help ISP's reduce the inbound traffic burden into their networks.

Normally, Netflix has a CDN and when a customer views a video, that CDN serves the content --> which comes in through the ISP's providers --> costing the ISP bandwidth.

With OpenConnect, Netflix offers to give any major ISP that requests it, a free (or multiple free) OpenConnect devices. They are hands-off zero maintenance for the ISP, and they put them in the ISP's data centers.

This means, when a Netflix customers goes to view a video, it gets streamed off the OpenConnect appliance which is already inside the ISP's network -- and in-network traffic costs the ISP's almost nothing.

So, with OpenConnect, the ISP downloads a video once, then serves it up locally. Netflix customers get lower latency videos, and sometimes even higher HD content (overall better service), and ISP's get to reduce their traffic burden significantly, which saves them money.

This should be/is a win-win for everyone involved, the ISP, the mutual customer, and Netflix.

(the problem as we've seen through the net neutrality debate, the Big5 ISP's here in the US have all refused the OpenConnect appliances)
Performance is not a strength of ZFS.
#Ferguson is also a net neutrality issue
Where can you own, and presumably drive, a car for less than $100/mo?

Even if you assume parking is free on both ends of your journey and that the car was given to you for free, there is no way you are spending less than $100 a month. Gas alone probably gets you close to $100. Then you add on registration and insurance and ongoing maintenance costs. I want to live in this fantasy world where cars are "cheaper"
Although the 'basic' at $323 seems less than Shopify's 'basic' as $29/mo. Not sure how the features compare. I agree with you about the free trial thing - surely they should do one?
Definitely changed the whole driving experience for me.
Having tested it, it seems to do a linear interpolation from the edges, often retaining the surrounding texture. Kinda like the smart fill from Photoshop
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It's relatively new. You can login to sites that support OpenID or directly support LaunchKey. You could also install a WordPress or Drupal plugin. Most businesses you wouldn't realize you're using LaunchKey though because it would be with their own branding. Also, it's much more enterprise focused for large companies to secure their employees' access while making it easier;safer;cheaper for everyone.
That's crazy. I don't know why people do that :-(

I don't know that I would take their numbers as gospel but to be fair in the tech industry it's probably more accurate when I think of it.
Yes, but not in the US. I've used the subway in LA (yes, they have a subway if you can call it that), Washington D.C., and NYC.

Go visit Tokyo if you really want to see what you're missing out on. US public transport is a sad joke.
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It's open source. https://github.com/STOPIS/STOPIS.ORG
Well, the boxes have multiple 10Gb ports on them -- so they can be as fast as the ISP will allow it to be on their network. And, Netflix will provide (free of charge) as many OpenConnect devices an ISP needs to serve all of their mutual customers.

Also, Netflix offered to change their distribution model into a P2P model as well -- the Big5 ISP's said no to that too.
http://www.debunkingportland.com/cost_of_transit_&_cars.html

http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/bp107.pdf
> We could artificially create demand by jacking up the price of petrol, but then we are taking choice away from the consumer.

Jacking up the price of petrol doesn't take away choice. It may be internalizing the massive externalities associated with the use of petroleum based fuels and making the choice better reflect net utilities (including disutilities experienced by people outside of individual purchase decisions as a result of those decisions), or it may be artificially creating a new externality so that the decisions less-accurately reflect real net utilities, but in either case its not removing choice.
> The best example of public transportation the US has is probably NYC and it really isn't all that great. It's dirty, slow, unreliable, crowded and surprisingly expensive. (at 100$/mo owning a car in almost any other city in the US is cheaper)

I'll disagree here.

If you live in Manhattan, public transit is fast and efficient. As for "dirty", well it wasn't white glove immaculate, but it isn't covered in filth or human waste.

As for $ of owning a car, I drive very little (my commute to work is a paltry 4 miles!), but just going around on weekends to meet with friends costs me an easy $40/week, making gas alone more than $100/month.

> Yeah let's just pretend that California's train to nowhere is an example other states should emulate.

Hyperloop makes more sense. Personally I'd love to see Hyperloop running down the entire west coast.
>The best example of public transportation the US has is probably NYC and it really isn't all that great. It's dirty, slow, unreliable, crowded and surprisingly expensive. (at 100$/mo owning a car in almost any other city in the US is cheaper)

You obviously don't live in NYC for saying such things.

I love the subway and love the fact that I don't have to take a car to work. It's green (runs off of electricity). I don't have to worry about oil changes, tires, gas, insurance, the initial outlay of a lot of cash for a car... etc. Did I mention its faster than a cab?

I'll give you that it's dirty and crowded (depending on the time). But nothing else.
What the argument is really about is whether there is a problem to fix. The diversity numbers clearly indicate that there is.

You can't draw a normative conclusion from a positive claim alone. You additionally need some normative axiom. No fact can tell you what you should do.

In the discussion you cite, the disagreeing parties have different normative axioms. Some people believe in statistical equality as an end goal, whereas others have equal treatment. If you believe in statistical equality (as I think you do), then the facebook numbers are a problem to fix. If you believe in equality of treatment (as I suspect the others do), then you can draw no conclusion - the numbers do not directly imply anything about equal treatment.

Similarly, consider a debate between a "meat is murder" activist and a carnivore. No one disagrees that animals are killed - the only disagreement is over whether that's a bad thing.
You need to realize that, if high-speed rail and the other discussed modes of transport compared poorly to highway travel in economic terms, governments would stop supporting them. The opposite is true -- alternatives to highway travel in individual cars are becoming much more popular, except in the U.S., where car ownership isn't a choice, it's a religion.
> Last winter I had a legal secretary ask me to help her convert a document to PDF. Gee, Molly, I said, Word 2010 and up saves PDF as one of its built-in options. No, she said, this is WordPerfect.

She must have had a very old version of WordPerfect. It's been able to not only create but edit PDFs for years, much longer than Word.
They may as well expedite the detonation of the planet through information saturation, a capability available to everyone & more.
We've already weaponized nuclear fusion into the most destructive bomb ever created. It probably couldn't get a whole lot worse than that.

I think there are other paths to sustainable energy, but certainly viable fusion power is the holy grail.
Some great comments here. I'll add a few favorite quotes that I think are relevant:

On doing great things:

"It turns out that for all their diversity, the strikingly successful groups in America today share three traits that, together, propel success. The first is a superiority complex — a deep-seated belief in their exceptionality. The second appears to be the opposite — insecurity, a feeling that you or what you’ve done is not good enough. The third is impulse control.

The way to develop this package of qualities — not that it’s easy, or that everyone would want to — is through grit. It requires turning the ability to work hard, to persevere and to overcome adversity into a source of personal superiority. This kind of superiority complex isn’t ethnically or religiously exclusive. It’s the pride a person takes in his own strength of will."

On resilience:

"They use difficulty as a catalyst to deepen purpose, recommit to values, increase discipline, respond with creativity and heighten productive paranoia — translating fear into extensive preparation and calm, clearheaded action. Resilience, not luck, is the signature of greatness.

... turn it into “one of the best things that ever happened,” to not let it become a psychological prison.

The 10Xers exercise productive paranoia, combined with empirical creativity and fanatic discipline, to create huge margins of safety. If you stay in the game long enough, good luck tends to return, but if you get knocked out, you’ll never have the chance to be lucky again. Luck favors the persistent, but you can persist only if you survive."

On finding happiness:

"Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems. Putting problems at the center of our decision-making changes everything. It's not about the self anymore. It's about what you can do and how you can be a valuable contributor. People working on the biggest problems are compensated in the biggest ways. I don't mean this in a strict financial sense, but in a deeply human sense. For one, it shifts your attention from you to others and the wider world. You stop dwelling. You become less self-absorbed. Ironically, we become happier if we worry less about what makes us happy. "

Best of luck to you.
Article seems kind of ludicrous. It weirdly blames Federalism, ignores the airlines, the auto industry and the rail freight business, all which would stand to lose if public transportation dollars and regulation moved to significant passenger rail investment.
To be clear:

You just launched a joe-job attack on someone who is accused (without conclusive proof) of launching joe-job attacks.
So true. I have been working in a corporate job (finance!!) for 9 years. I often dream of saving my soul and working on/founding a startup. The appeal of building something, working for myself, etc is great. But, so is the regular paycheck and benefits.

On which side is the grass greener?
Very cool. How accurate is the the "leash"? Is it reduced by line of sight obstructions?
Did you use them? Are they trustworthy?
> the government is corrupt, incompetent and beholden to interest groups

Which in turn is because of the 2-party oligopoly. Instant run-off voting, to give 3rd parties a viable chance of winning, is part of the solution.
Any references on the volume of paper that is confiscated and how it compares to $55bn/month? In any case, isn't drug money re-distributed into the economy? (I don't know, so I'm genuinely curious)
A broker offering leverage is earning interest nearly risk free. They retain control of the collateral and can (as observed) force close the position. Only in really extreme situations is their money at risk.
Looks very cool! Well done.
I'm 46 and rode the Web revolution to a great career, working for some amazing places, and I'm still worried about some of these things. I've done a lot of things I'm really proud of, and I still don't feel done, so trust me, this never goes away and maybe it doesn't even make you lost, just searching.

One approach I can suggest: in my generation if you wanted to change the world you went into nonprofits, which is what I did. You don't have to build a startup on one of your own ideas to make a difference. What are your causes? What do you care about?
I previously tried helping a software team deploy their .Net app on Windows VMs. As a Linux engineer, I was shocked at the lack of built-in remote deployment/management options, especially those able to be automated. FTP and SMB shares, the built-in options, are not appropriate for the Internet. Why does Windows Server not ship with an SSH/SFTP server? I ended up deploying a Windows build of OpenSSH just to get remote access parity with Linux servers. Unless things have changed recently, Windows really needs a better out-of-the-box application deployment story.
Am I the only one who finds the names in this headline SO FRICKIN AMAZING?!

They are all so apt -- A steampunk-sounding mechanism for combining things[1], a mythical element/alloy of magical powers, and a naked Helium nucleus. It just tickles something very artistic for me.

Edit: [1] ok fine it's actually a math function, but I like my perception of the name better.
The Islamic State are the most terrifying terrorists on earth. They behead anyone including children who don't conver to Islam. There is no way to stop them without violence. Help this innocent people. Not let another genocide happen.