skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you were going fast enough, you couldn't take one and crash it anywhere you like.

Into the platform at Grand Central, maybe. Into the WTC and Pentagon, not so much.

Some kind of automatically enforced speed limiter when the train detects that it's near the end of the line would probably not be hard to implement, or maybe has been already. IIRC many trains automatically slow for curvy areas of track.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_train_control
How do you define "successful"?
> Trains still have an "end of the line." So, yes, you could if you were going fast enough.

You can overrun the buffer stop (happened last year at O'Hare, a blue line train overran its buffer stop and climbed up an elevator) but you're just going to go a bit past the buffer stop (relatively, most likely a fraction of the train length), at best you'll get just outside the station Montparnasse-style (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montparnasse_derailment). That's hardly a guided missile with complete freedom of movement in the same way a plane is.

You can't drive a train into the white house no matter how often you try, because there's no rail leading to it, or even ending in its general direction, which is anywhere near enough the white house for that to be a concern.
The internet of things means this issue is coming to every single product in the world. If it's possible to add electronics to it, it will have a chip.

And that means that software IP rules now apply to hardware. Those rules need changing.

It's more urgent with physical products than with traditional software because tractors need repair on a regular basis. Copyright is taking away the independence of farmers.
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No, we ran into the same issues. When dealing with mid-sized Node.js projects in particular where the dependency tree may include something like 70k source files. `npm install` can take several minutes, builds on-save could take several seconds. We resolved to simply doing everything inside of a VM, using sshfs to "persist" the data out to the host machine on-demand for those uncomfortable using vim/tmux inside the VM.
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I agree that productivity & cheap energy played a major role in the devaluation of the traditional worker but I find it highly suspicious that the blogger does not consider at all another remarkable phenomena that started in 1971: "free floating fiat currency" and the tremendous increase in the money supply. This amazing currency is "free" but chooses to float only one direction: devaluation. Maybe the increase in productivity was the perfect cover for the massive increase in the money supply and the masses had no feeling of high inflation while still paying the hidden tax.
Hey, flatjaf. We don't offer first-party delivery but we do allow you to delegate work to "executor" organizations through our connections feature. For example, Meadow uses this feature to assign tasks to their partner dispensaries. Likewise, this can be used to work seamlessly with third-party executors like couriers.
Official redis repo. Downloaded it and the "Home" tab shows 500 server error, the other two tabs work fine.
Film made in 1967 about 1999
Same here, the shit I put up with...
Or just go the other way around and let your toolchain reside on the host and your source code reside on a VM. I've always found that to be a more natural workflow: my VM remains a more pristine true-to-production environment and I'm not stifled by the oddness of doing 90% of my work in a virtual environment.
Why when any service tries to make the user experience and looks better, people try to tell them that the changes are bad?

> now it's a big mess ... for smartphones

This would have been very much appreciated if you pointed out specific things in the new design which you don't like.

In-fact, as a developer, I even think that styling the website from dev-tools to make it look (almost) like you want is a very good idea and helpful to the site developers. It can be a good way to "thank", since you "really want to thank".
"System" is a rather grandiose term for something that can essentially be described as: choose what (not) to do (or in one word: prioritize). May I ask why we have submissions like this so often? I genuinely can't find any purpose in those stories.
Are you saying you can't install the software you want on your computer? You can't replace the OS? Are you suggesting that this should be acceptable?
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Land being unclaimed is an unstable configuration, whereas land being claimed is a relatively stable configuration. Probabilistically speaking, any given piece of land is therefore more likely to be claimed than unclaimed.
The way to end this nonsense is to write and distribute a worm that bricks every single iDevice on Earth.
Also, due to the notion that is being put forward that the reason for this distinction is for safety then all maintenance liabilities for the life-span of the vehicle should rest with the manufacturer. That means all fluids, wipers, brake pads, tires, emissions equipment...I'd like to see that condition tacked on.
How is ending the "gold exchange standard" connected to the decline in labor bargaining power?

I buy your argument that the rollout of computers doesn't quite line up as it ought to if it were the primary factor behind wage-productivity decoupling, but I'm much less familiar with Bretton Woods so I'd appreciate any dot-connecting you can offer.
Funny, when DRM first came on the radar over a decade ago enlightened individuals noted that the same principles of deny-of-ownership could be extended to physical objects ... precisely in the way described on this article.
Best junior hire I made was through SO Careers. Kid w/ ~2yrs experience looking to transition from corporate to startup job. Hard worker, enthusiastic learner, awesome team member.
> GM went so far as to argue locking people out helps innovation. That’s like saying locking up books will inspire kids to be innovative writers, because they won’t be tempted to copy passages from a Hemingway novel.

This is one of the best analogies I've heard.
If the domain name is a common abbreviation, they might be able to generate royalties from domain name sales like Tuvalu (.tv) does. (Though, if I remember correctly, it hasn't been the windfall that Tuvalu hoped for.)
Sorry, I don't agree with the statement. Some of the HN apps are much better to use and I would be more than glad to use their Mobile Web version instead of the current HN desktop version.

In fact, I don't like the current desktop version as well. I mean it's clean and simple but the page is too wide, so when the comments are long, I find it hard to keep my eyes on the same line. And the tiny buttons - I have to point my mouse to that 10px by 10px button to upvote something. Is there something like Reddit Enhancement Suite for HN?
What's your motivation for pointing this out? Just curious.

Do you want people to go talk about it on the other thread instead of this one? Or, are you trying to keep duplicate posts or comments off of HN? Or, something else?
Sadly I wasn't! But I grew up in Ashland & lived in Eugene for years. Those places both get really hot in the summer, and rainy & (frequently) very cold in the winter.

SF by comparison is just more or less nice and temperate all year long. :)
> the game is to make monetary profit & control the market

What you describe, basically is monopolism. It is well known, that monopolies are killing a free market.

> They are just being good Capitalists.

When this is true, than something is very wrong with Capitalism itself.
I really dislike that they noted how many cab drivers are being put out of work, without noting how many new jobs were created by Uber. That's a dishonest and misleading journalistic practice.
I think we can all agree that the keyboard isn't the limiting factor here.

Individual programmers at their own keyboards can all focus on separate problems. Two (or more) programmers with a single keyboard can only focus on a single problem at a time, but they get the experience and perspective of multiple developers. It's really just a matter of breadth of focus vs depth of focus.

At a certain point adding more developers won't help and it will end up wasting resources. This may be as soon as you add a second developer, or maybe after you add 6 developers.
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Well, I have a hard time buying your history, or at least should be explained better.

The fear to touching flesh and blood of a dead animal is fine if you want to be florist, but not acceptable if your dream is to be a surgeon. No game simulator can provide you with the same experience; you need to fight against this fear and you either win or give up. Sooner is better to avoid to spend many years fading away in the wrong place doing things that you really don't want to do.

Your friend simply seem to be too depressed and unmotivated ("those experiments are useless") to see it coming and finally let this obstacle (and social environment expectatives?) to kill her dream of being a neurobiologist. A pity for her and for all the people that could have benefited of his talent.

In the 90's you could easily find a small guillotine to kill instantly and humanely a rat or a mouse in any lab. Not a lot of blood is spilled (because, well, rats are small animals) but some people just dismay and can't cope with the idea of seeing any blood. Probably the guillotine was so traumatic to her that she prefer to break the nek of the animals with a thin piece of granite instead. Guillotine fail less, but if you know how to do it, this is also acceptable. Farmers all around the world break the necks of rabbits and chickens to kill them instantly and most omnivorous people will name this as example of an humane way to dispatch them for our kitchens.

Please note that this is very different to the gross picture that you are trying to sell of a rock crushing the head of an animal repeatedly until dead. The idea that researchers squash the head of their animals with a rock before to extract the brain for study drug damages is surrealist.
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Infrastructure isn't a one size fits all arrangement. Passenger rail was once common in America. In fact, America has twice as much rail as the next in line. Why don't we use it for transport?

1) Because we all have cars. Aside from a few outliers (NYC, parts of Chicago, DC, Bay Area), US cities are designed with high car ownership in mind. Less than 10% of US households don't have a car.

Short train rides are less convenient than car trips. Especially since you'll most likely need a car at the destination.

Trains also only take you to limited stops. Cars can take you anywhere.

2) Flights are faster for longer range trips and America is a fairly spread out country. Chicago to Denver would still be a long highspeed rail trip.

3)Trains only make sense for intermediate range trips that begin and end in cities that people will stay close to the train station. Washington to New York, train is the best option.

But that sort of utility wouldn't support a robust nationwide network of passenger rail.
I understand that. It's not just tractors either, it's every implement from planters to bailers to rippers, discs and plows. Everything is chipped and controlled from the main-screen in the cab.

But the individuals who have the power, money, and influence to do actually change anything are the large-scale farmers. They are not invested in changing the system; it works for them.
How would RethinkDB's real-time capabilities compare to doing something like this with Mongo? (I'm genuinely curious about any shortcomings with the following implementation, besides scaling.)

// plugins/replicate.js

var replicator = require('replicator');

module.exports = exports = function replicatePlugin (schema, options) {
schema.pre('save', function (next) {
// notify subscribers of save
replicator.notify('save', this);
next();
});
}

// schemas/game.js

var replicatePlugin = require('../plugins/replicate.js');
var GameSchema = new Schema({ ... });
GameSchema.plugin(replicatePlugin);
Lots of family farms own tractors worth more than $200K, and combines worth more than $500K. They're paying significant interest to the bank for the privilege, but owning equipment that can cover twice the land in a day is a lot cheaper than buying and maintaining two smaller tractors (and accompaning accessories) and hiring a farmhand.
Yup CTR on mobile would help the domain overall.
CUDA on consumer GPUs for workloads that execute efficiently on those architectures can provide about 2x benefit in energy efficiency and somewhat bigger in acquisition cost, provided there is enough work at each stage of your algorithm to amortize kernel launch latency and PCIe transfer latency and bandwidth. If you buy server-grade GPUs, the cost proposition is similar to power -- at best ~2x benefit.
Why Consumers run the enterprise
This article is really interesting to me as I just bought a John Deere (sure it is just a lawn tractor). During the course of the sale I was chatting with the salesman about their larger agriculture tractors as this store mostly does sales for farmers. He informed me about all the technological advances, soil sampling they do and data they collect and give to the farmer. Then the farmer can load this in their tractor and the sprayer or whatever attachment they are using can adapt based on the gps coordinates. So a previously identified area can be treated with a different mixture on the fly and the farmer does nothing but ride along.

The article mentions that farmers are opting for non-software based vehicles. However from the way things seemed when I spoke with the salesman it is the very opposite.
Article is just wrong. One does not own software on device he buys. Software ownership means that one can issue new licenses, which is clearly not a case here. One can not just start selling Windows, because he bought laptop where they are installed. You just get license to use software.

But other side is customer protection. One buys tractor with expectation to be able to fix it and modify it. If that is not true, John Deere is selling broken stuff, and customers should get their money back.
Perennial polyculture food forests reduces the advantage of high tech equipment. Nature does the work of growing. Replanting is rare. Harvesting is more of a manual process.
Here are dozens of existing themes: http://emacsthemes.caisah.info
> Not sure it's that cut and dry

Maybe not, but seems plausible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator#1970s_to_mid-1980s
I don't think this article should be considered a record-holder. It's effectively 1002 words long.
How do you know that's not what's actually going on? You may be different, but when I wear glasses, they're sufficiently far from my eyes that imperfections are quite visible as localized phenomena. They're not in focus, but they're nowhere close to spread out over the entire visual field. Specks of dust show up as blobs of dust. Scratches show up as fuzzy lines.

I'm going to guess that the person you're replying to is sufficiently familiar with his glasses to know what he actually sees.
A bunch of weighing schemes possible, including speed limit, distance, congestion and toll fees. The routing algorithms for electric vehicles seem to prioritize elevation (or rather lack of) as well, to preserve battery.
And in the meantime, everyone who exists now just gets boned. Sorry, everyone who lives in the present instead of some theoretical future!
Congrats Mikel and crew!
> Is there a magical breaking point (more than 500km's distance etc) ?

For modern non-maglev high-speed train (>300km/h top speed), 1500~2000km is the limit assuming "severe" airport security. HST is very competitive up to ~1000km, then it tapers off as the faster plane speed compensates for the security measures and lack of comfort.

Of course price is also a big factor, and barebones budget airlines can provide stupid low prices.
as someone who has taken a few hundred flights outside the US in the last years: people get to take their shoes off quite often, but mostly boots and worker's shoes, not sneakers.

Sometimes they also ask you to take off a hoodie or such clothing, of course your belt, put your laptop separately from the rest, get an occasional pat down, and the liquid restrictions ("don't take that mysterious bottle in here, but your totally oscure laptop battery and the liquor we sell inside is ok"). Also, check in usually closes 45 minutes before departure so you _can_ do online checkin with most companies, but if you have luggage you still need to e at the airport one hour early.

Still, the american process is heavier, but nowhere I've been in europe and asia there is a process as simple as getting on a train (get there, jump on, leave).

EDIT: possibly it's a function of the airport traffic?
Why do you think that the very idea of ownership is so good?
I'm an american living in Beijing working for a big american company. Everyone around me is a bit worried how the current "non-recession" will play out. Money moving from a crashing real estate market to a bubbly stock market doesn't really inspire confidence.

It was only a year ago that the Shanghai stock market was thought toxic given so much insider trading (you couldn't make money on it without guanxi).
Hi, it's Jason Scott. I work for the Internet Archive but I don't speak for them, in this case.

So, first I'd like to make clear that none of the underlying collections or data has moved anywhere. That is, all the items that are in a collection of, say, newspapers or music performances are still there - the URLs are precisely the same and were designed to be permanent. Nobody's shifting those around here. Google searches work, and the site search works the same, using the same criteria.

Next, in the results pages, which include those "tiles" and infinite scrolling that is not to you taste, if you look in the upper right (next to the "Results" number), there's an icon that changes from tile mode to "list" mode. You can also turn on "details". That makes things into a list form, at least. However, for the moment, infinite scroll will still be engaged. Also note you can sort the list alphabetically, by creator, or by views.

After doing those two steps, is the problem at that point JUST the infinite scroll? Is that what makes it a mess for you? Or is it a different set of issues? I'm happy to hear it in this thread, but also, if you click the "beta" button in the upper right, and write exactly what you'd like, I guarantee it's read.
A. running Mac in a VM on Linux is illegal

B. Tower, Kaleidoscope. iTerm, and XCode are all Mac only

C. How in Earth do you draw the conclusion that I've stopped myself from knowing anything? I am running CentOS, in the VM. I'm extremely familiar with the inner workings of Linux. If I'm running in a VM or as the main OS has no bearing on how much I know about my deployment target. It's still the same steps to setup a deployment target VM or on my actual laptop. In fact in the case of AWS you could argue that a VM is much closer to my deployment prod servers than laptop hardware would be.
Open source answer is:http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

(I'm not saying it's a viable answer at this point but the work they are doing is intrguing.)
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9262743
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I'm curious to see real world deployments of Angular based apps, even without the source code.

FB's React is much younger and we already can see it used in lots of popular web apps, but given the Angular popularity among the devs there's surprisingly little.
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I agree with you. The graph is too sharp to be just technology: technology was gradually developed over years - from "nearly useless" to "automate everything".

What happened is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
That turns out to be a huge, huge technical issue but I can't imagine a future in which that doesn't happen.
Linus is from Finland, but of course RMS is from the US. So you're right, and wrong. :)
I take it to mean "get most of your nutrition from plant-based sources". Some meat, dairy, etc. are ok if you want, but most of what you eat should be plant-based food. Apart from grains, its hard to eat too much plant based food - whether measured in mass or calories.
I know I'm far from the only one but I just wanted to throw out there that my company is now using babel to transpile our ES6 to ES5. The conversion (which only touched the code we've written in the last year or so b/c the old code is just spaghetti so we only converted what was already JS "classes") took less than a week of 1 dev's time and has been flawless so far (been using it production for a little over a month now). We are using gulp to facilitate this process. Just wanted to add a data point to those considering using it.

I've found the JS to be much cleaner and easier to read and I've heard similar statements from the rest of the dev team. I highly recommend it. The best part is you can convert your code 1 file (or "class") at a time and your old JS will still continue to work perfectly.

Feel free to ask me any questions about the process and any potential issues and I can respond with how we dealt with it (if we did).
Huh. I have pretty much the opposite feelings about Uber as you, as a fellow non-driver and public transit advocate. I think Uber (and also car-sharing services like Zipcar) are great for transit advocates, because they make it much easier for city dwellers to justify not owning a car, to the extent that I suspect that they actually increase transit usage.

Many people in my city (Washington, DC) that own cars don't actually need them most days, but they do have occasional needs that aren't easily doable by transit (Costco trips, driving out to see friends in the less-transit-friendly suburbs, hiking in Shenandoah, etc.) so they keep a car for that purpose. But the problem there is the incentives; the fixed costs of car ownership (a car payment, insurance, scheduled maintenance, etc.) are high, and once you've paid them, the incremental cost per mile of travel is really low (certainly way lower than the per-mile cost of transit), so if you have a car, you have a strong incentive to use it more than you need to. Uber and Zipcar are alternatives that make cars available in the circumstances where you need them and thus could allow these people to ditch their personal cars, and they also flip the cost incentives around: low-to-no fixed costs, and comparatively higher per-mile costs, which means you only use it if you really need it, and use transit most of the time.
Sheesh... it's not that hard to understand. There is more to healthy eating than quantities and exercise.

And besides that consumables that aren't labelled dangerous by the USDA or FDA (I don't know how they factor into this discussion - not everyone lives in the US, and I see them mentioned in the article) can still be dangerous to an individual if you have a certain condition. Easy example: nut allergies. Others: Celiac disease, diabetes. etc.

And, eating nothing but something that might even be considered healthy can also be fatal if you don't supplement it, no matter how moderate your intake.
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I'm almost finished with the first season and had to force myself to go to bed at like 1am because I wanted to keep watching more.

It's not quite "Breaking Bad" levels of tension and machination but it's a good, slow burn that really picks up as it moves along. Doesn't hurt that I just got back from my first visit to the Keys right as this came out.
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