skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be all about public transportation and trains, but I cannot reconcile that anymore with advancement in technology. It simply does not make sense to me anymore to try and build high speed rail on the ground, on fixed "rails" in order to not even get close to even slow airplane speeds.

With the roll-out of more sophisticated air traffic control systems that will allow denser traffic, higher frequency landing / take-offs, I don't see the sense in fixed systems like rail.

It obviously makes a lot more sense in places like Japan or even parts of Europe, but in the USA, where you need to traverse huge swaths of uninhabitable and even inhospitable and unpredictable land, it simply makes no sense.

Take Texas for example. All the idiots that have been moving to Texas from self-absorbed and myopic cesspools of self-importance keep crying about public transportation and high speed rail to connect the San Antonio, Dallas, Houston triangle; but no one wants to address the question as to why. You could and already can travel those paths by air and it will only get faster and cheaper with the improved air traffic control system when fully rolled out.

Do we think that high speed rail will enjoy the freedom that current AMTRAK does where you just drive up, hop on the train and off you go? No! You will have to also go through the TSA security bullshit and you will still have to go to specific locations to get on. It just makes no sense.

I would much rather see some sort of automated flight between regular airports on regional hops like the Texas triangle.

Edit: ... If at all. Something somewhat related that has baffled me for years now. Is why do people, especially in the tech industry need to travel so much? Of all people, why has the tech industry not solved the remote working issue? It's like we are using steam power to make electricity. Again, it makes no sense.
Beautiful knowledge: Complicated numbers made simple
This article is actually a good attempt to answer the title question (or rather, show how the question is the wrong one to ask).

...so if the work itself doesn't drive you, you will burn out or fall by the wayside or your extreme competitors will crush you and make you cry...

TL;DR for all who need to ask the question: Don't try this at home. “Being great” is not something you decide and then attain by planned steps.
Eh that's pretty common in the US too, the usual explanation being that they're reinvesting their income in growth. For example Amazon typically trades at multiples of 700x earnings or more. In Amazon's case they claim that they could make a bigger profit if they wanted to, and investors appear to believe it.
Support Icarus by Shopping at Amazon? Sure Why Not
Media would have me believe that it can be abundant in some places. Never for me where I live though.

I must say that in my case I didn't find LSD, it found me.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you keep a certain type of company you will increase your chances of running into a good connect for LSD.

So from that perspective, I believe LSD finds many of its users in a very organic way. Call them hipsters, outsiders, whatever, they are people who believe in a moral code but not necessarily the code of laws presented by their government. People with these views tend to congregate together so sooner or later you find someone who has grown pot, mushrooms or even knows how to get LSD.

But it's important to point out that this is not always the case. I've also seen teenagers treat DMT like it was a friday night beer, and young people using LSD to be more like a fictional character portrayed by Johnny Depp and Bill Murray.

Those types definitely chase the substance, they're lucky to get it, and they're even more lucky to keep it or stay out of jail with it.

I was not talking about them, the ones I'm thinking about are the ones who don't chase the substance, but get it anyway. The substance appears to find them.

And there's little point in trying to be someone you're not only to fit in with a group you believe would fit that first description. Then you're just one of the many people chasing a substance that does not want to be found.
It absolutely is option 'B'.

While have always had search history disabled, I regularly see "targeted" results that is obviously based on past searches.
I guess if the worlds young population wants to live and hang out in the centre of trendy cities (London, NY, SF etc) then the only options are packing them tighter or excluding more.

I think the tight packing thing can work if with some downsides.
I think it's inner-city transport the parent is referring to. It really is fantastic in Berlin. Nothing beats a good metro for inner-city transport, and Berlin has it. Tokyo and New York is better, though, but then again those are vastly bigger cities.

And yeah, long-range train passenger transport generally sucks but it's not really relevant, as it's not inner-city.

Besides, train travel doesn't need to suck - Maglev may just go fast enough and be cheap enough to maintain to fix most of the problems. The train in the article will go for 40 minutes - that's far less than you need just to check in at the airport. And it will cover 330km - that's 4 hours by car. it would be foolish to pick any other means of transport between the two cities. It could go from SF to LA in 1h15m. Depending on how bad the airports are, it could even be competitive with air between NY and LA. But it won't become truly interesting until these trains go faster than planes (and I believe they will do so, eventually)
Physics you say... how much vertical space is available but not in use?
The Steam Locomotive That Went to Eleven: The C&O M-1
JavaScript CPU cache snooper can use L3-cache for keylogger and mouse events
One extra note for those who may run their Magento install on a shared host.
You will likely not be able to use the patch as is. It is distributed as .sh file that requires SSH and permissions that are not available on most shared hosts.
This is a serious shortfall of this patching method. You should create a trouble ticket with support and they should be able to run the patch scripts for you.
A New Way to Use Appium/Selenium with Real Devices on Cloud
Your Guided Tour to the New WSJ.com
Things I learnt diving into Haskell
I don't like RPM or Yum. In my experience with using it, it has usually done more harm than good. What other companies use is up to them, but it isn't suitable for me. Argumentum ad populum is a fallacy.
Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
The intended purpose of stars is bookmarking. "Starring a repository allows you to keep track of projects that you find interesting, even if you aren't associated with the project." [1]

However, I rarely browse my list of starred repos. I use star as a way to show my appreciation. It is sort of "Like" button for me.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/about-stars/
NSA Chief: Rules of War Apply to Cyberwar, Too
That vastly over-estimates my food-processing skills. Restaurants can do better than me, to a high statistical probability.
Those are not the only options. It could be

C) Google stores search history, but it is not associated with your Google ID.
Features of Vim
Blue Origin Completes Acceptance Testing of BE-3 Engine for Suborbital Flight
Stand for Trees: Protect a forest
I'm not sure I understand you correctly: are you saying that animal experiments would be ethical if they removed all suffering for humans?
What do all the controls in an airplane's cockpit do?
I don't know, poor documentation? the toolchain check works for me on Fedora 20. I think it was a silly reason to stop reading the article so early at the mention of "yum"
What's interesting, the speed record for conventional bullet trains is 574.8 km/h, about 30km/h less! This was a TGV train, largely unmodified (although they did increase the tension in the caternary). The wiki article about the speed record is interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_world_speed_record

Makes you wonder whether the overhead of maglev is really worth it.
> 160,000 people want to live there

I just put my name down. It's a laugh. I'd probably be willing to fork over $30 for a passport. I don't actually want to live there. I suspect many of the 160,000 are similar.

On a more serious note I could see an argument for setting up a new country that was open to all comers a bit like the US used to be when the "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.." thing was happening. The US and EU could maybe buy the land off some hard up African country. You could govern it a bit like Singapore.
It’s Not Your Job to Figure Out Why an Apple Watch Might Be Useful
That's a very good point. Obviously the only way any country can be bootstrapped is with military power. If Liberland is serious they should immediately engage Paraduin with a show of force. Secondly, I think the best course of action would be to secure funding for buying a protectorate like situation with either Croatia or Serbia. Though I don't know what the political consequences of such a situation would be.

Imagine if from those 160.000 signups they could get 5.000 people to pay $1000 in taxes per year, that could fund a Serbian police/military officer and a small office. Just his presence and his commitment to engage in violent conflict with aggressors could deter any other party. (Killing him would be an act-of-war or at least a criminal act against his country)
A better dichotomy is: would you rather have a better process, or hire better engineers? I choose better engineers.
No, That Meeting Could Not Have Been an Email
It's not baby boomer telling younger people that they'd be happier living in smaller places, it's today young adults who choose to live in a smaller appartement rather than be far from their city center.

You can live in a house for the same price as a small appartement if you accept to go outside of your city's downtown.
FParsec is a port of a Haskell library, so not really reflective of F# culture.
Disney Research 3-D printer can combine fabrics, wiring
I wouldn't call your second case unit testing, but rather integration testing.

Part of the point of unit testing is that you keep the 'unit' under test to be as small as possible so you don't have these sorts of problems and can run tests as frequently as is useful. It doesn't remove the need for other types of testing suites, but they can be isolated and run at separate times.
The comments only say that it is the OS you need to build the distro.
New tabletop detector 'sees' single electrons
Ask HN: Is a good looking web important for product validation?
I am developing Conan Chrome extension which has its own pretty self-explanatory page at Chrome store. Is the investment into good looking website viable if I am in the MVP phase?
> But you can win any argument by first granting that it must be true, which is what you do in your second paragraph.

If we disagree on that point, then we will obviously reach different conclusions and there is no point in arguing with each other. That is why I stated it as an assumption.
The average company does not behave so genially. They want to see who is opening adverts.

All I care about is myself getting the confirmation, if I have a problem I will contact the company. I do not care if they know about me receiving it otherwise, and I certainly do not care to help in the inevitable but unfortunately legal flood of spam after any online purchase.
The article by Kiyotaka Matsuda in Bloomberg Business[1] makes the important point that "Whether any of this makes a shred of economic sense is another matter." Japan has a declining population, and the level of investment required to build a maglev train line is enormous. Countries with growing populations have decided against building high-speed rail lines, and Japan does not appear to have any export market for this technology. Even the first phase of Japan's proposed maglev train line project, running from Tokyo to Nagoya if built, would not be completed until 2027.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-21/world-s-fa...
With Cheap Food Imports, Haiti Can't Feed Itself (2010)
Zoning laws and neighborhood associations actively fight vertical density which would bring down cost for new owners/renters all in the name of preserving "character."

Space isn't conserved, it's increase is being opposed.
I did animal research for a few months before I couldn't take it anymore. The standards are for PR, are hardly enforced, and nobody cares beyond not looking bad. I don't care what they say they do, if they are taking the initial step of choosing to use animals theyre a poor choice for self-enforcement of animal welfare.
Is there any way to generate this algorithmically, or otherwise view the most upvoted comments on HN?
Don't be such an idiot. I get it, you enjoy European infrastructure and social democracy. Remember though that you will pay half of the taxes you pay in Germany ... oh, did you just enjoy all the benefits of German infrastructure and society without actually paying any taxes, let alone your whole life? No one is keeping you from remaining in Germany, are they? I can guarantee you they will approve your work permit and you can become a resident and eventual citizen.

Sure, we have a "primitive" public transportation system, but owning a car is cheaper, and also remember Berlin's system is essentially new and was rebuilt after reunification so you are looking at a modern system. And also remember that it's pretty fucking expensive to link up places with public transportation in the USA. What? You want a double digit billion dollar MagLev train that connects Boise, Idaho with, St. Louise Missouri? That will be another 10% of your income since we maxed out our credit line giving free money to the crooks that robbed the vault. How about you simply enjoy that almost every single even moderately sized town in the USA has an airport and you can fly around for relatively cheap, even if the airlines have used regulatory capture to artificially inflate their revenues outside of market conditions.
I would agree that the latter is less 'nasty' in that it is a query written in a DSL designed to make querying tabular data more understandable. It would be a major failing of SQL if that were not the case.

However, what the former does that the latter does not is provide a mechanism to build up and modify queries. It can be very helpful to pass around and affect partial queries when you are looking to eliminate repetitive code for building multiple, similar queries.

This is probably why many abstraction layers have query builders that look a lot like the syntax that you call nasty to generate the 'less nasty' raw SQL.
Come back the next day or two and throw the remainder in the garbage.

How do you fit furniture into a garbage chute?
Phones can be a real struggle to use during those times. A simple watch with a clear display/face is very useful.
Steven A. Ballmer’s Inner Fan Finds Its Voice in a Corner of the N.B.A
I don't know, but I would be really surprised if moving millions of people is more efficient than moving sufficient amount of agricultural equipment & some farmers to get them started on using them correctly (remember that a lot of these people are already farmers, just not using modern tools/fertilizers).

Not to mention it's at least slightly offensive & like treating people like cattle to move them around wholesale like that. Ultimately the problem is not the climate or soil it's the (mis)allocations of resources.
Foreign investment is also a significant factor. That rope Lenin was talking about is tightening...
At university. Although we rarely interacted in the university, but happened to work on a project about 5 years later and realized we shared passion for startups.
Why does purpose/usefulness matter? Dumbing down and restricting a curriculum to what is obviously "useful" is equally bad.
Fairlife promotes that they do this:

http://fairlife.com/

I doubt it is cheaper than a measure and blend process would be, so I doubt the majority of milk is so heavily processed.

It could certainly be that some milk is being separated down to constituents and ingredients added back to other milk, but that would be to top off a blend, not the default process (because separation obviously costs more than doing nothing).
Animal experimentation is horrible and terrible. Even in the most ethical of studies suffering is inflicted upon animals that otherwise would not have happened; entire genotypes of animals doomed to additional suffering have been bred in some cases. But the alternative is far worse: to not perform these animal studies, or rather for some privileged group to use force to prevent others from performing such studies, and so bring progress in medicine to a grinding halt. Without animal studies there would be no new meaningful advances in medical science. It is a harsh and unpleasant aspect of the human condition that forcing suffering upon animals in the course of scientific studies is necessary to advance both human and veterinary medicine. A few suffer for the benefit of many - an equation that should make any sane and compassionate person uncomfortable.

Animal studies are even required to refine the science needed to move beyond animal studies. Ethics and morality aside, studies employing animals are expensive and time-consuming. Given the choice, scientists would much rather experiment on cells in a dish, or on slabs of unfeeling cultured tissue, or upon simulations of animals, if these methods would generate results of the same quality.

In comparison to what might be and what is possible, we live in a barbaric age of suffering, war, death, and sundry other horrors that we like to keep behind the curtains and out of the mind's eye. But barbaric as it is, this age is far better than the past by all such measures. We no longer absolutely, definitely need to slaughter animals for food to sustain the populace, for example, and rates of violence between humans are far lower than in the pre-modern era of tribes and universal poverty. The option stands open today for a society of vegetarians: it is practical from a technological and economic standpoint. That we have not moved rapidly in that direction is our shame, and our descendants will look back on us as savages for this and many other reasons.

Those people who criticize and take action against the use of animals in medical research should first look to their diets, and then to the practice of farming animals. Vast and expansive animal suffering is caused in the name of putting meat into the marketplace - greater many times over each month than in all the animal experiments in modern history. Persuade the omnivores of the human race to relinquish their participation in the meat market before savaging the medical science that will benefit both man and beast.

In short, the human condition is a rotted, cloying swamp, but we're closer to the edge than we were - no longer up to our necks in it, we now have the luxury of finding more of our surroundings to be disgusting and primitive. The way out to solid ground is forward, through more of the same, until our biotechnology becomes good enough to do away with the suffering we must inflict upon animals in order to build better medicine. Perhaps along the way, societies will arise whose members also reject the needless suffering we presently choose to inflict upon animals in order to eat the same diet as our ancestors.
Consuming RSS feeds with Rails
A Platonic Dialogue on Security by Benchmark’s Matt Cohler
I'm hoping Netflix gains enough market share with their original programming that it becomes suicide for other producers not to list their shows on Netflix too.

Even if to pay for this Netflix has a premium version... ($20 per month for example)
I live in a rural community 15 minutes from a larger city. Numerous entertainment options; scores of coffee shops and restaurants; international foods in great variety. My house is > 2000 sq ft. Also a garage and two outbuildings - an old cattle shed and a pole barn.

Big cities are a trap. Thousands of shops and theaters, sure, but how many does a person need? Try a smaller 'big city', of 100,000 or so people, and things get much, much better.
A Quantum Leap in Computing, Maybe
Full credit for the infographics to http://www.informationisbeautiful.net

Beautiful Infographics is something everyone needs to allow information to be ingested and be sharable across social media.
Sure, ad populum is a fallacy when you are arguing a point, but when you are trying to decide on a toolchain to use, why wouldn't you go with the one that most of your customers use? You might like another toolchain better (and I happen to agree with you about rpm), but that doesn't necessarily mean it is objectively better.
If that is Paul's belief system, he sold it out awfully quickly because he was "fascinated by one class lab". He is now "astonished that the daily grind of depriving, shocking and killing these animals did not move me to leave my job." He quit because he lost interest and wanted to be a programmer, stealing a lab coat in the process...

I don't mean to be too harsh, but the thing that comes through loudest to me is that, by his own measure, Paul may be a bad person.
Thanks, and sorry to be absent. That's more about work circumstances; it's been an awkward month or so, and I do intend to come back once things shake themselves out.
You mean like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

Linked via "lists" from the bottom of almost every page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
RPM is really a great packaging system. It has a lot of features that DEB's do not, for example you can roll back yum/RPM transaction's if you like (yum history undo ${id}). Another example is to get a list of the last packages that were installed "rpm -qa --last". DEB's seem to prefer to write things to files instead, so they'll write to /var/lib/dpkg/info/*

One place where I think that DEB's win, is in building a new package. It was pretty easy for me to make a DEB than an RPM, and the fact that I had a hard time finding which RPM macros did function XXYY.

I think the reason why many don't like fedora/centos is the fact that packages aren't easily accessible, because Ubuntu will enable the universe repo by default whereas fedora/centos you would have to install that on your own.

If I can help you, feel free to reach out to me.
It's the wordpress problem; Magento has made e-commerce accessible to anyone with a shared webspace and the minimum of knowledge (speaking as someone who's company integrates with small businesses who use Magento). So it's very easy for things to get out of date.

(or even worse; one-click installers on some shared web host... so they can't update it even if they wish!)
It got MBA'd. It was turned into something that the MBAs can run reports from and hold people accountable.

Now, I'm not anti-MBA. However, I do think that having people with engineering degrees be subordinate to people with MBAs is an outmoded business philosophy. They need to be more on par with one another.
Why on every aggregator does there have to be 'that guy' who thinks it's somehow his job to dig up duplicate posts? Do you comment on various news sites whenever they post an article that the NYTimes covered? It's just... silly.

This is the first time I've seen news about this particular 'country', and I'm glad I saw it this time because it is interesting.

Duplicates FTW!
I asked them if they are still pithing frogs in order to basically show the students the heart will beat once severed from the frog.

Well, that's one way to (mis)characterise it. Another way is to say that doing that to frogs gives the students practical knowledge in how real specimens behave, how to take care of specimens, and techniques in getting data out of an active specimen. You can watch every video and listen to endless lectures; it's still not going to help you learn to tie a ligature properly. Education involves more than the passive absorption of factoids.

Source: taught just that practical class as a TA.
Google's business strategy you see is to put their ads on other people's content.