skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What plot? The US transports more by rail percentage wise than Europe and the percent of people using trains while significant still isn't a percentage for anyone to point "see over there".

Now public transportation, ie mass transit, is a financial mess whereby the riders don't have to pay the full cost as its been acknowledged they would use the service if they did; oddly some studies have found the percentage increase if fares were removed didn't increase significantly.

Dollars spent on mass transit have increased from 1.6b in 1970 to over 20 billion today. The twenty plus billion of subsidies doesn't include nearly ten billion to maintain it or almost eight billion for improvments.

The problem is light rail is super expensive, you could get more bang for your buck with dedicated bus lanes and double decker buses. Consider cities like Portland were expansion of the light rail is costing nearly a hundred million a mile.

The only plot against trains for mass transport is there exceptional cost to build and maintain versus ridership which even subsidized doesn't pay for it

As for the article, attempting to capitalize on a tragedy and then completely ignoring already know facts is not journalism and its tasteless and unprofessional
With Lyft Line the price is fixed ahead of the pickup, I don't see an estimate for the standard Lyft.

With Uber the price is either fixed also (SF), or there is a fare estimate button after you set your pickup location.
Wish they would make a hacker-themed phone. :(
I would note that this is expressly at odds with the model of government enshrined in the Constitution (and I mean, even the original text + bill of rights, not later amendments), which clearly envisions even the federal government as having a much larger role than as "the collective extension of our innate right to self-defense", at least as one would normally conceive that phrase.

Agreed. But I never said I thought the Constitution was a big deal, or the model for perfect government. As it happens, I have a LOT of issues with pretty much all aspects of our government as it exists today.

That said, I do wish they'd at least play by their own rules, as a federal government strictly bound by the Constitution would almost certainly be smaller and less corrupt than what we have now. But nobody really seems to give a shit about the Constitution these days.
All I get is a link to Brendan's twitter account. WTF?
Just do systems development on narrow hardware platforms, and you won't have to deal with JS at all.

I don't mean to be snarky, but the reality is that JS is the common interface available to all browsers to access internals in a consistent API. In order for anything else to come of age it would take the cooperation of at least three major browser vendors along with a decade for older deprecated versions to disappear. It's not going to happen, get over it...

JS is a pretty nice language and with sourcemaps and tooling, there are a number of other languages that target it. Evolution is happening, and fighting it is like trying to pray to your devine entity to be saved from it all.
> Even then, it’s all the more important to find the questions with the highest entropy

Also see http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity for a discussion of information theory in identifying people.
Right arrow....Dumb.
Can Hackers Commit the Perfect Murder by Sabotaging an Artificial Pancreas?
I do and I appreciate it, but are you suggesting we don't correct people as long as we can understand them?

As a non-native English speaker, I certainly appreciate being corrected. So... thanks :)
Not that it's not amazing, but can't i'm pretty sure most languages can do that same thing.
So when I port the compiler to use newlib nano this goes away?
Just as a quick disclosure of my personal opinion: I'm of the belief that Snowden's disclosures were reasonably well managed, and a net good for society. I wouldn't advocate for a pardon of Snowden, but I do think the current charges against him should be dropped.

> "I personally am of the belief that the government is entitled to zero secrets"

While I think the government absolutely has abused its privilege to hold secrets from the public, I think it's pretty clear that the government is entitled to some secrets.

Information that — if disclosed — would lead to a clear and present dangers to specific individuals seems like a clear-cut case of reasonable government secrets. Some examples of this:

* The names of police officers working undercover-cases and the names of their targets
* Specific troop position and movements in a time-frame that would allow a reasonable adversary to extrapolate current positions (e.g. information from 10 years ago is not necessarily relevant)
* The names of targets of ongoing criminal investigations

Some examples of things that I think are inappropriate uses of government secrets:

* The legal-justification of some FISC rulings
* The legal-interpretations of government attorneys that support ongoing government actions
* A high level overview of information that the government captures on its citizens (who have no suspicion of criminal activity).

> "I fail to see any downsides that the release of any of this data might cause."

I think it's very likely that the data that Snowden leaked to responsible journalists contained the names of undercover agents in the field. If one of the journalists irresponsibly leaked these names it could easily be responsible for the deaths of those agents.

I don't think this is likely, as I think the journalists that Snowden leaked his documents to have been — on the whole — fairly responsible. However, it is certainly a potential downside of the leak.
Rust does static linking by default, because it's more bulletproof and hard drives are cheap.

If you want tiny binaries using dynamic linking then you can use "rustc -C prefer-dynamic".
3.4+ would be preferable.
What vaccination risk are you referring to, other than people with identified risk, immune deficiency, ec. There is no risk posed by vaccinations.

One other point, is while a local population might be vaccinated, you don't know who is coming in and out, i.e. going through town, one of those could be carrying the disease, so it's still irrational.
The two essays of Tony Judt regarding trains mentioned in the OP are:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/glory-r...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/bring-b...

These were published a few months after his premature death in 2010. Judt was a prominent American/European historian and intellectual who wrote a series of serious, elegant, and spirited essays for the NY Review, all of which can be recommended.
>Once you've done something that has a public impact, or even, involved in something that is now in the public attention, a U.S. news organization can make the case that information about you is of public interest.

Except there isn't evidence that this guy is Satoshi. So there isn't evidence that he is a public figure.

Also, choosing not to reveal someone's identity is not censorship.
Lots of corporations that don't have your best interest at heart write software that doesn't live on the web, in any number of languages.

Conversely, I can write open-source javascript that does something useful for you, that does not mine your data or do anything of that sort.

I don't see how this relates to javascript.
The East India Company was a "private company" in the loosest possible sense. It was operating with the explicit sanction of the British Empire and was effectively a government in its own right.

I find it amusing that you would cite that example as an argument FOR government, as I think it stands as a classic example of the worst of what government enables.
He's way off on ridership numbers for the LA-Chicago route. It's around 350,000 per year.
I have a tendency (which I think I've overcome) to keep working on something until the last minute so I can sympathize.

There are plenty of times when being late isn't a big deal. When others have to wait for you however, you are signalling that you don't value their time. It is perceived as selfish. I'm not saying that you are selfish, it is just that it can be perceived that way.

If you're lucky, people will start telling you that the meeting is at 8:45 just to get you there on time. Some places lock the door when the meeting starts. I had a friend who would always be late to our lunch appointments. When we instituted "late guy pays", things improved. ;-)

You can try to find a job where your problem doesn't effect others but you would be better served if you just learned how to be on time - at least until "habitually late" becomes a protected class. ;-)
This is so true.

I happen to make a living because this dichotomy is real. I run a bootcamp to prep engineers for interview skills (http://InterviewKickstart.com). We routinely have sad moments, thinking and seeing how little correlation there is, to what technical interviewing tests for, and what is actually required to ship a product.

Because I've also been on the other side, I clearly understand why it's so. There is just no good way to predict future success with what's demonstrated today. Human beings work differently in different contexts.

(BTW: Aline, who blog this article is from, is awesome)
Not just a microphone but an array of microphones, use a parallella to deconvolve signal. Based on known mechanism designs one could almost image the lock internals in realtime.
The story for rust in embedded contexts is not quite finished. There are dozens of people writing kernels in rust, there's zinc for arm microcontrollers and I've seen projects for raspi and PSX, so stuff works. It's not great yet, though. Once the allocator api is added to the stdlib it'll be much easier to use the standard library in embedded contexts. There's probably other stuff I don't know about but I know for sure that this is a priority for the near future.
So, in general, Rust should be good for writing VMs. If you want a JIT, though, Rust may not have any super huge advantage with it, specifically, as it would basically be all unsafe anyway.

There was a really great blog post about writing a Scheme implementation, including a GC: http://fitzgeraldnick.com/weblog/60/
Evolved Excel was Lotus Improv on NeXT
I love that this comes from the perspective of game development.

Also, I am surprised elevation wasn't taken into account more by the British and American forces. You'd think that would be one of the bigger issues when doing ballistics.
Why not both? Though the difference between the two is over hyped in my opinion. Most of the time its rather easy to go back and forth.
Wow. Wouldn't this also significantly reduce the likelihood of cancer?
I can't suggest classes, but the single most important factor for me in learning to swim (in a required survival swimming class where I was one of only 2 people who didn't already know how) was learning to relax. Lie on your back or front and float, holding onto the side of the pool if you have to. Get used to water in your face, up your nose, etc., deeply understand that it won't kill you and relax.

I realize (trust me!) that it sounds much simpler than it is, but being tense actually makes it harder to stay afloat, so relaxing accomplishes much more than keeping you calm.
He's an ass who has a long track record of basically destroying businesses, chopping them up, and selling them off. Fucking over anyone who isn't himself in the process.

There are others who do this, too. He's just the worst at it.
My girlfriend and I are starting to play around with proof assistants (avoiding the coq joke as best I can...) and it would be great to have something like this to go along with that endeavour.
Christina Farr (KQED, former VentureBeat journalist) gave a talk on how to get good press coverage.

The main takeaway is to find someone at Venture Beat (or Fast Company, WSJ etc.) who is interested in the that industry. Her main focus is Health, and she would be significantly more likely to respond to a personally written email on a Health startup. Also, don't send out mass email blasts to journalists.
> they will use parallel construction to avoid letting the public know their true capabilities.

As I already stated, parallel construction is completely unnecessary since everyone is already aware that the blockchain is a comprehensive public record of all bitcoin transactions. What secret technique could the government have that could give them more information than is already available for everyone to see? There isn't any more information beyond what's inside the ledger except for the link between wallet and bank account which everyone knows the government is capable of establishing.
It uses the Node Firebase client: https://www.npmjs.com/package/firebase
The site operator may like to know that the site is probably blocked by many corporate proxies; certainly by mine, which categorizes it as

URL Category: "Malicious Outbound Data/Botnets"

I assume because the domain name looks suspicious to a classifier that's been trained on evil domain names.
The definition of lobbyist seems to have become people persuading congress in favor of an opinion I don't share. Not to be confused with "activists", who are people persuading congress for an opinion I agree with.
Visualization of unbalanced append-only finger trees
I cringe to bring up such a trivial example, but it would seem like it's this easy to expose how ludicrous this opinion is...in whose ambulance, on whose roads, and in whose building would you receive treatment for any kind of medical emergency?
I'll add that timezone information shifts politically over time... It'll never be consistent... your best bet is to ship all dates in UTC as much as possible (which `.toJSON` does) and display in local (which `new Date(jsonstr)` does).

Dates are evil, even in C# with offsets it's not easy... and that's probably the best implementation of dates, with consistent updates I've seen.
The one that sees this as a slippery slope to further intrusion into private life...
For Two Years, This Kanye West Game Has Been Hiding a Disturbing Secret
Aziz Ansari sarcastically jokes about those who marry their high school sweethearts: "I don't think I’m going to run into anyone interesting in my 20s or 30s. I’m just going to lock this shit down now.”

I have to imagine that reasoning occurs more often with those from smaller towns than those from the big city.
I like how the news are displayed and that the snippets are synced with the origin website automatically.
Just today I looked at beta release , congratulations and looking forward to using Rust
Not a day goes by without an article about the redundancy of daily standups and about the fact that as a creative worker you can only work best at certain times and in certain environments.
Also see: https://github.com/kud1ing/awesome-rust
I think you're right some are stocked by owners, but many are stocked by guys on scooters who work for the guy who owns those things, so both will be hit.

But getting back to the article, yes, Japan is rife with redundant and inefficient jobs, but it keeps the population working. Those guys directing people into garages, for example.
Ask HN: is the login via mail outdated?
How the email login will evolve in the near future?

Any thoughts?
Countries shouldn't exist if they aren't profitable.

Well, personally I'd argue against the existence of "countries" as we know them today anyway. Voluntarily assembled, organized mutual defense entities, yes. But "nation states" with all these borders, and boundaries, and rules, and regulations, and controls? I say "give 'em the axe".
Some have the visual Arrows in a corner, which makes it easier to distinguish...
> The East India Company was a "private company" in the loosest possible sense. It was operating with the explicit sanction of the British Empire and was effectively a government in its own right.

Every company that exists as separate juridical entity (e.g., every corporation, for starters) does so with the explicit sanction of a government and is an exercise of government power.

The East India Company was a private company in exactly the same sense as any other "private" corporation.
I agree. Intellij and Scala work very well together.
This is blowing my mind. I remember Berenstein Bears as well.
Death Note Anonymity: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy
Show HN: CommonRegex
Not quite. Netflix was doing fine, and yet he kept trying to do his shit to them so that he could chop the company up and sell it off, piece by piece. I'm glad the Netflix board was successful in telling him to go fuck himself.
I'm looking for exposure, and support really. We have no budget for PR and a product like this needs to be used to be properly understood, so i'd really love for people here to try it out, give the CMS a go, see what they think about it.

There are some onboarding shortcomings, which I think is understandable with such a small team, but we're making it a little bit better each day.

Obviously the members of HN understand products and startups, so I welcome all comments and feedback on how it looks, but more importantly, how it works.
If someone cloned me, I'm pretty sure one of us would murder the other one. Similar != compatible when it comes to humans.
I have to use Uber as a Houstonian (Lyft pulled out), but anytime I travel, I use Lyft whenever possible.
> The subsidy the government has given American businesses a huge competitive advantage

This is specious. It's the whole Bastiat "That which is seen and unseen" problem of economic manipulation. You don't know what would have happened if trillions in resources hadn't been diverted. I find it very easy to argue things would be better if Ike had never taken over the highway system and federally subsidized it. We've wasted massive amounts of public resources spreading thinly used infrastructure out all over the land and it's been largely enabled by the interstate system. Also consider the absurd highway fatility/injury rate in America and how much that costs.
Rust was bootstrapped with an OCaml based compiler. Alas I don't think it has been kept up to date, so you won't be able to use it to compile the v1.0 source. Not sure how many generations in between the last OCaml compilable rust and the current rust you'd need to compile to bootstrap, probably quite a few.
The country's (and the author's) claims of "sound democratic leadership" are also disputed.

Levitsky and Way, in Competitive Authoritarianism, (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=NZDI05p1PDgC&oi=...) describe it as a stable authoritarian government. Although the country does hold nominally competitive elections, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has held power since they gained independence. That the country's diamond industry has thrived over the last 40 years is no coincidence.
Especially because Uber pretty much created the market for ride sharing
Growing up in some places — especially liberal ones — makes people less likely to marry, new data shows.

Wonder why?
Simple stupid example. A lot more than 1/5 of the people would choose A for the following question:

How many people have you killed?

a) 0

b) 1-9

c) 10-99

d) 100-999

e) 1000 or more
That's assuming both sides brought an equal amount of equity to the union in the first place. However, if the man brings more to the union (which I suppose is typically the case, based on this fear existing in the first place), he stands to lose more when it dissolves.

The obvious solution is to separate the assets proportionally based on how much was put into it in the first place, though I'm sure that's much easier said than done (and a bit of an oversimplification of most situations).
I don't see how you think that question exposes anything. Unless you hold the unsubstantiated opinion that ambulances, road and buildings can't exist without being funded by the government.

And, even if they couldn't, my answer would only be to say that I don't hold that I'm entitled to a road, an ambulance, or a hospital.
A little off topic but but I took an online Globalization class last year from Wharton and the professor talked a lot how given a few decades to settle political problems, Africa would be the growth center of the world both economically and by population.
Yes, the NTSB requires any passenger rail car that is on a train network that is somehow connected to rail that carries freight to be built to standards for collisions with freight traffic.

This is ridiculous, because it means we can't import those high speed trainsets, even in the northeast corridor, where the tracks are Amtrak-owned, and do not see freight traffic, just because the rails do link to the freight network.
Its insane but press the right arrow button.
How does this compare to the reliability of RabbitMQ on the server side?

Can you have multiple simultaneous queues? And multiple listeners per queue?

What is latency and performance like, especially with third-party server workers?
As steveklabnik (see [1]) stated, there are 3 things missing: dynamic linking, link-time-optimization and the possibility to not link to the standard library. Each of these techniques will be able to reduce the size of Rust binaries.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9553366
>that from this ruling...this ruling is pretty dangerous.

A piece of legislation that hasn't even passed yet is not the same thing as a court ruling.
are you advocating that I don't post it?

I do believe you should post it, that is not what I intended to convey, so my apologies for being unclear. I simply think the author should be encouraged to use the appropriate word if possible, since I believe it is in everybody's interest.

If someone makes an interesting comment, but makes a word-usage choice you don't agree with, do you think the top voted response should be a correction of that commenter's word choices?

The way I see it, it's not a question of whether it is something I agree with or not, it's simply about trying to be precise whenever possible. And no, I don't believe the top voted response should be a correction, but that doesn't mean correcting someone isn't appropriate either.
> I own my body, and I have the right to defend it (me) from harm.

That's not a "right". That's just an "action".

Rights are protected by a legal structure. There are no 'rights' without a higher-power legal structure to provide it.

Anyone can say they have any 'right' - defense, speech, a Plasma TV in the bathroom, etc.. doesn't mean you're given that 'right' without a higher power granting and enforcing that right.
Yeah, it's a separate technology stack, with its own dev team, not directly comparable to the Rift SDK. But that's a bit of a red herring, since the Galaxy S6 at 1440p is actually pushing more pixels to the display than the Rift, per frame. (But at a lower framerate, of course.)

And John Carmack is working on it, and he probably doesn't care as much about OS X. Again, my point is that the constraint here is not the GPU, but Oculus engineering resources.
This is cool

Wish the problems would come with a sample datasets though

For example, the first problem "gloves" says you have a limit of 1024mb memory, 2s runtime, 100,000 max dataset size

How are you supposed to test that, without going through the motions of generating the data yourself?

EDIT: I do realise you're supposed to use the online editor thing and submit the answers to your server for the code to be judged, but I loathe writing code in my browser, would be nice to test offline in my own editor!
It's a bit early to even crank the bait headline machine up, but I love "Pill Savior" articles.

Deuterium-containing fatty acids supplant hydrogen-containing in cell membranes despite heavy fat intake being 1-2% of toatl energy intake.

Sounds like trying to fix joint pain with chondroitin.

This angle of attack on degenerative disease seem likely to be, at best, modestly effective, yet expensive - like much of the supplement industry.
....Expected a will it blend video
Like a ball of greasy dirt rolling through a jewelry market. Is the end result beautiful or just the individual features?
It's the final act for the Larsen B ice shelf
You're misplacing the blame.