skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the quoted parts explicitly distinguishes between "startups" and "nonprofits", pointing out the latter may "benefit from the same techniques [they] use to help" the former.
I'm sorry, but that makes very little sense.

Which is a testament to its power, since a valid reason broke your brain's entire sense of "reasonable." You don't get it because you can't get it, you simply don't have the cognitive capacity for the idea, or else you would have allowed for it to make some sense, even if it didn't appeal to you.
The 3 trans/per second limit is an inherent limit in the protocol right now.

Fixing that is being discussed but will require a fork (and has already lead to a lot of religious warfare). Even after the fork, the requirements of supporting humongous blocks just to support more than 3 transactions per second will lead to even more centralization of Bitcoin than what's already happened, as full nodes are forced to move onto server-grade hardware instead of an actual decentralized swarm.

You don't trust the USG? Great! But now you have to trust China and GHash.io instead, it's been years since Bitcoin has actually been "decentralized" in any meaningful sense.

But even with the low current block size, money supply inflation, and plummeting Bitcoin price, the network has still failed to scale as judged by the only thing that matters: Cost per transaction is still $10, and it would be even more expensive if Bitcoin price ever went back up! https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction
Actually, I am reminded of an error that happened which was similar to this. After I left a past company, an engineer flubbed a validation which allowed a subtle bug to go undetected for 10 days which cost the company $500,000.

$50,000/day is an expensive lesson!
>...the express ferry takes 1.5 hours.

I take this ferry every few months and it takes a minimum of 1hr 50mins on a good day.

>The other option might be ferries that carry trains.

Not between Ireland and England.

My point is, I can get a train direct to any major airport in London and fly to a significant chunk of Europe in under 2hrs and continue my journey via train so why not factor in those options too?
If you're an EU citizen, you can settle just outside of Switzerland and commute across the border. It's very common. Anyway, it can't be that hard as a quarter of the Swiss population are foreign residents[0]

0:http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/having-a-say_can---and-should---...
The question is why? Why should the U.S. spend billions on a great passenger rail system? High speed rail is almost always a serious money loser. What are the benefits?

Japan and Europe's high speed rail is nice, but it hasn't necessarily resulted in a greater share of passengers taking rail. "Since Japan introduced high-speed bullet trains, passenger rail has lost more than half its market share to the automobile. Since Italy, France, and other European countries opened their high-speed rail lines, rail’s market share in Europe has dwindled from 8.2 to 5.8 percent of travel. If high-speed rail doesn’t work in Japan and Europe, how can it work in the United States?" http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/highspeed-r...

And some environmentalist don't like it either. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/california-hi...

Most people don't know that the U.S. has a great freight rail network. U.S. passenger rail obviously isn't great, but U.S. freight rail is the best in the world. http://business.time.com/2012/07/09/us-freight-railroads/

I just don't know why the U.S. should build high speed rail, other than the fact that it is fun to ride.
I'm sure Theo understood too. But Theo didn't say 'I don't share your definition of free', he just said the parent was wrong and that it was free, which doesn't seem like a very adult way of conveying his disagreement.
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Economies before were different from economies today. It may be possible that whatever worked naturally when everyone was "living in the mud huts" doesn't work in today's globalized environment. And no, no matter how poor you are, you can't ignore that the rest of the world is much more developed; there's no practical way to isolate your economy until you get on your feet.
Not saying it's truth, but a lot of people believe in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
Have you been to India? You'd understand pretty quickly where that loathing comes from.
We did look into that. Bellhops provides packing/moving personnel (mostly students) but no vehicle. Think of them as professional apartment/house moving helpers (they don't cal themselves movers by the way). You need to procure the vehicle. Uber just enables the interaction between you and the bellhop. Fleetzen will dispatch a helper plus pickup truck in real time to location of your choice (think IKEA, Home Depot, Craigslist purchase etc.,)
Unless you're hiding them, I don't see how it's dishonest, particularly if not used with that particular intention.

I'm sure clean-looking people are better regarded as well, does that make regular bathing dishonest?
This is all true. I worked in a medium size (400+) fully "agile" organization There was constant short term thinking and seemingly nothing was properly designed or actually engineered.

External facing APIs changed regularly, affecting other teams and leading to slow and painful integration. By regularly, I mean just about every sprint. How about thinking more than 2 weeks ahead?

It didn't help that there were lots of inexperienced guys just out of college (who probably thought this was normal.) Along with a "manager" with extremely poor communication skills (not uncommon in development) this was basically a disaster.

We did, however, have lots and lots of unit tests. We spent about half of each "iteration" rewriting them due to the API problems.

I gotta laugh.
I went looking for heel supports for weightlifting recently. I found out there are a lot of men who apparently wear very high heel supports to boost their height - obviously not the same as wearing a high healed shoe from the outside, but the same from the inside.
In the UK it's often cheaper and quicker to hire a car, so I'm not sure why you think UK trains are cheap?
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I agree with a lot of this. One thing I would add - it's your job to integrate development into the rest of the organisation. UX, design, marketing, sales. Failure to do so leads to animosity between development and the rest of the organisation. Animosity undermines the goals of the organisation. In my experience, the biggest issue to deal with when managing developers is that they feel like they're tasked with implementing stupid ideas created by idiots. its never that simple, and developers are generally rational people who, given all the facts, know when to digg I. And resist something, and when to swallow a bitter pill for the greater good.
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That's not as true anymore, plenty of news coverage in the past month of the last NSA limiting bill mentioned how the younger republicans are now more libertarian leaning and anti-surveillance. While the older republicans are still the hardcore national security hawks.

There is some hope for the younger generations it seems, The people who have a better grasp of technology than the older crowd.
>But based on my few days of travel to Delhi, I feel, this article is quite alarmist.

It seems strange to discount his experience living there based on your experience of a few days there. My experience of Delhi is that the visibility often doesn't exceed 200ft, and the smell of the smog hits you as soon as the airport doors open. I don't spend more than a few days a year there though, so I'm neither inclined to write articles like this, nor to criticize them.

>But, him being a persistent India hater

He likes India enough to travel to the other side of the world to live there, and subject his children to significant health risks. This tendency to brand anyone pointing out obvious issues as an "india hater" or a "hinduphobe" is one the scariest things about India's political climate today, and I hope it fizzles out before it turns really nasty.
I tried doing the whole works but the only lasting things from GTD were:

1) start each item on your todo lists with a verb

2) get lots and lots of folders and just keep creating new folders in a flat hierarchy to organize things all the time. Even easier on a computer on a computer.

A shredder is also good.
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Over the course of my trip in the UK, I traveled short-distance last-minute dozens of times, and trains were practically as cheap as coach about half the time, so long as you picked the correct departure time. This simply is not the case at all in mainland Europe. Dunno anything about car hiring, but the coach prices were certainly cheaper than the price of gas.
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This is a very patronizing and disrespectful attitude, not to mention a wrong one, based probably on an assumption that those people are poor in the first place because of being "financially irresponsible". If anything, poor people are usually much better at managing money that those well-off, because they only have so little of it and are one mistake short of starving to death.

This seems to be just one of those misconceptions like drug abuse, which AFAIR studies actually found more common in well-off people than in poor ones.
For me the leading video. The bottom banner is also an annoying distractionbut at least it's relatively minor (compared to the lower-3rd monstrosities employed on entwork TV in particualr).

The problem with the lead-in video is worse than a TV commercial, IMHO. On TV you go to watch a program, and the ads are an annoyance but you wait for them to be over and then the program starts at a fixed time, if you're not watching DVR, eg I usually watch a news program in the evening. But on YouTube, you make a selection of the video you want to watch next, and then instead some craptastic advert appears first. I don't understand why advertisers think this is a good way to reach people; yes, you get their attention by appearing as a surprise, but now consumers associate the brand with concepts like interruption and unmet expectations, before they begin processing any of teh semantic content of the ad. I frequently don't even notice what the ad is for because after the initial annoyance, my attention is fixated on finding the Skip button and counting down the few seconds before I can click on it. Many ads haven't introduced any product or branding by the time I skip away, and those which did so have already generated a reflexive mutter of 'Fuck off, Brand_owner!'

Now that I mention this, just thinking about previous Youtube ad annoyances brings several specific brands to mind, brands which I would otherwise feel neutral about because I've never purchased any products from them. Instead they're now firmly coupled with swear words. Think about that if you're ever considering a video ad campaign; the people who click out early are probably not just disinterested, but may actively resent your brand and your campaign might result in a net loss of business.
The real ones are supposed to come from Spring, not the Java stdlib.
Overpriced. Overcrowded. Unclean. Cramped. Occasionally unreliable. We don't have any high speed rail apart from the link to Paris, but our standard intercity trains have connected most major cities at 200kph since the 1970's which is faster than conventional rail in Europe. TGV style High speed lines are a real pain to build in the UK because of the high population density of the countryside coupled with the extensive and laborious public consultations required. We don't have Alps but we do have quite a lot hills between the main cities. Once the route has taken account of all these concerns there are often not many parts where the trains will go at full speed. This is why the new HS2 route will only save 15mins off the time from London to Birmingham.
I don't know, a lot of people I've met ditched CM for Times long ago because you can squeeze a lot more text in, which matters for conference publication page limits.
as a mid-20s straight man who likes wearing 5" stilettos

I think it's time to revisit your assessment of yourself as it seems to me that you're half way through to jump the fence and join the other camp.
Honestly, this is a kind of site I'd run away screaming from, based on how it looks, but a respected HNer vetted for it once, which is what made me stay past my first impression, and it was worth it.
Let's say I want to join a new company / contribute to some open source project. In winner-takes-all-world, I already know the language they are working in and am familiar with the framework they are using.

In super-diverse world, I have spend a few weeks getting up to speed. Cannot drive by commit easily.
"still"

They haven't updated that page, presumably since it was created over 10 years ago. That's why.
If I did the Mann-Kendall test correctly, we reject the no-ninja-trend hypothesis at the p=0.0002 level, and do NOT reject the no-rockstar-trend (p = .2)
Actually, if you reserve well in advance the surcharges are much smaller, even on high speeds. But I agree, it's situational.
Less cars on the road?
The problem with buses is that they're completely unpredictable. You might as well not even look at the schedule. There's also the issue of having to purchase your ticket; buses rarely have automatic kiosks as do trains and light rail, and you often have to talk to the operator to get your ticket. Finally, bus routes are byzantine and completely impossible to unravel by looking at a map. Rail systems are much more amenable to mapping, and if you're lost, you can always find a rail stop just by looking under your feet or giving your favorite mapping app a quick scan.
how about this for no excuse: the train between SF and silicon valley is a diesel train. Loud. Shaking and vibrating.

Romania & the Ukraine have electric trains all over the place. I'd bet that Albania has them too.

Why not Silicon Valley?

(for those of you asking why is electric better: lower Co2 emissions in sunny california. It's quiet, so you can get your work done in peace. probably missing another plus point. )
Yes, but why are they still using it?

Because it works, and transcoding would lose even more quality?

Digital video archival is a nightmare. Although the physical storage media problems are now going away thanks to cloud services and suchlike, there isn't yet an established standard for picture storage

MPEG, H.264, etc. are not standards?
We nearly left two years ago, after Bram’s first hospitalization. Even after his breathing stabilized, tests showed that he had lost half his lung function. On our doctor’s advice, we placed him on routine steroid therapy and decided that as long as his breathing did not worsen again, we could stay in Delhi.

So we fixed the symptoms, surely it won't happen again? Really questioning the logic here.
Since we're sharing our high heel stories, here's Truetone Stratoscope from 1972:

http://www.pbase.com/geary/image/86712900

I had a whole collection of hippie outfits back in the day. My mom thought I was gay, but I just liked colorful clothing. Back then, you were straight or you were weird - where "straight" meant "didn't do drugs"... I was proud to be weird!

I got my hippie nickname from the back of an old radio I saw at a garage sale:

Equipped with Truetone Stratoscope
Eliminates aerial and ground

https://www.google.com/search?q=truetone+stratoscope&tbm=isc...

Here's a photo from five years later when I took my mom flying:

http://www.pbase.com/geary/image/120224799

This was more of my disco phase, I suppose. I have very fond memories of the young lady who made the flying wings necklace for me! :-) And I still had some kind of eye for color - I didn't notice until a couple of years ago that I'd totally color-coordinated my clothes with the airplane!
When I was in my early 20s my immediate reaction to hearing about any new personal-development / self-help book was that it's probably BS.

Then occasionally a couple caught me. Seven habits, GTD, How to win friends... are the 3 books that left a lasting impression with me.

Now in my early 30s I look at new productivity / self-help tools like the way I look at any given religion. You probably don't really need it but it might just be the one that works for you. And if it makes you a better person without messing with anybody/anything else then go right ahead.

There's no one size fits all.
>Unclean.

Unclean compared to what? I wouldn't say that the trains or stations are particularly unclean on the whole.
What aspects of the train system did you find only work well in the south-east?

Curious because I regularly take trains all over the UK and have generally found the ones in the south-east and south in general to be the worst, as well as the most expensive, which seems reflected in customer satisfaction surveys at least – http://www.which.co.uk/home-and-garden/leisure/reviews-ns/be...
For a hospital manager, that's actually not bad advice.
And you can watch the entire 7 hour trip from Oslo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VYVjR_nwE

This is very relaxing to have on in the background.
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It's not a money loser. TGV is highly profitable in France. All the major intercity routes in the UK run at a profit and these operate at 125-140mph, which is high speed by US standards.
Then you'll have to explain why I see "You seem to have an ad blocker running. Would you consider turning it off, or subscribing" on many sites.
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Just came back from a business trip to Norway; the list of places I managed to see is: an airport, a bus, the office, the metro (and stations), hotel dining room, hotel room, few buildings in the city center during the three or four hours we had free because we arrived too late to start working the first day, the local Hackerspace. Oh, and tons of Teslas on the road, which made the trip really enjoyable ;).

Indeed, I was surprised how little time we had for anything except of working and sleeping.
The UI looks slick. I prefer the look of it to the one I've used. [1]

A good keyword for finding these "Don't break the chain" [2] apps on Android is "Seinfeld". [3]

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Some benefits of a functioning railway system:

- increased throughput compared to highways due to lower volume per passenger (something the US is trying to achieve with carpooling lines),

- increased reliability (there are no train-jams),

- increased passenger convenience (no need to look for parking or do maintenance on the train you ride),

- increased passenger productivity (you can work or read on a train),

- ease of transition to green source of energy.

Advantages of the car over the train:

- greater flexibility (generally roads offer denser network than railways, even in Europe or Japan),

- car is much more convenient for families with children.

I love trains. I love driving. I find that the latter is much more fun and convenience in places where the former works well. San Francisco's 101 could be one of such places if Caltrain was more like SBB.

EDIT: one more important benefit of the train:

- increased safety (much fewer fatalities per passenger; also no need for a designated driver when you go to a party).
It might be me, but it took me a minute to see the link for what cities you cover. You might want to make that more prominent and you should definitely have an email signup form to alert me when you come to my area (DC). It's worth it for the ability to track interest alone.
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Because the majority of train journeys in the UK are commutes into metro areas at peak time rather than intercity journeys. They tend to be overcrowded with variable reliability due to the fact the networks are at capacity, and are not cheap.
Well, we love our heritage steam railways.
The usual way sites do it is have a script that checks for any loaded ads and displays that message. This script itself can easily be blocked if sites decide to do more with it, and it has because the list is maintained by groups that decide what goes on it. They're willing to let simple messages slide but blocking the content has already proven to not work.
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I'm prone to motion sickness on buses.

Even for people who aren't, I can't imagine the joltiness of travelling in a geared vehicle that's not on tracks is more pleasant than a train.
Coming from a former colonial possession (Ireland), I agree that one shouldn't dismiss the injuries of colonialism, but I also think it's easy to fall into the trap of imagining that the pre-colonial era was one of benign harmony. It's easy to put the blame on a rapacious colonial power for a society's ills, but in many cases the only reason the external power was able to take over was due to dysfunction in the colonized country that limited its ability to respond to externally-imposed challenges.
I understood 99% of that. I have chosen the wrong career.
The only possible choices are ads that flash, pop up, and play music, or a paywall? That is a false dichotomy.

It is possible to serve tasteful, malware free, silent ads. Most sites choose not to. I, and an increasing number of people are choosing not to view the invasive ads.
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Very few people outside the "Conservative" echo chamber think this way. And I use Conservative in quotes because (based on my reading) very few true Conservatives would support military adventurism abroad, when our national security is not at stake.
I was on an America West flight to Phoenix in 1999 when David Allen sat next to me. The passenger compartment was bare bones -- no overhead vents, for example -- and I was in a pissy mood. Allen was not. He immediately struck me as the most seasoned, at ease traveller I had ever seen. After he got himself adjusted I asked him if he travelled a lot. He smiled and showed me his United frequent flyer card. It had his name, and "Five Million Miles" embossed on it. I asked him what the hell he was doing on this crappy America West flight. He was flying from Geneva to his home in California, and had missed his connection, so United put him on the next available flight.

He was a "CEO coach" at the time and, while I normally don't badger strangers on planes with questions, we ended up talking for a good part of the flight. When his book came out, I recognised his picture on the jacket, and wrote him an email. He remembered me, and offered to get together for a glass of wine when he was in Boston.

Of course I got his book, and of course it changed my thinking. I wouldn't be writing this if it hadn't. I have ADD, and am also deeply suspicious of self-help literature. I couldn't stomach the moralizing of Stephen Covey and his ilk. But GTD, and Allen as a person, work just great for me, and work with my ADD. I've tried variants, electronic and paper, but everything that works for me is within the GTD ecosystem.
If that service is succesful, Apple will get a whole new kind of super power
"Verification of a Cryptographic Primitive: SHA-256", Andrew Appel

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/verif-sha.pdf
Bah, one of the No votes was my house rep. Time to set aside an hour to write some letters of disappointment on Monday.
> Anyway, as a mid-20s straight man

It is not necessary to proclaim that you are straight to strangers, and making this kind of disclaimer before talking about clothes or hair or disco, or anything else merely serves to perpetuate stereotypes.

I can tell you that I take my children to Toronto Pride every year. Is it necessary for me to get into my sexuality?