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It doesn't because it doesn't use any mainline rail track. Imagine if the T-Third went onto the Caltrain tracks at Bayshore and continued down the peninsula instead of terminating …

I love this footnote so much: > This feature does enable a neat quine: the Perl program “Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1.”, when saved in the appropriate location,…

This article lost me at "Most homes are not wired to handle 120kW chargers, which are likely not cheap to set up." If the author had done any research, he'd realize that there's no…

According to Apple's support site ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587 ), the range of computers that support 4K at 60 Hz is a bit bigger: - MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Ear…

I have the same machine you do and I ordered the new machine as soon as I could. Two external 5K displays is a huge unlock for more productivity.

All airlines do this, all run by the same vendor: http://www.rewardsnetwork.com/earn/

Precedent: Facebook paid Caltrain a bunch of money to clean up those tracks a few months back. http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/Projects/Caltrain_Capi...

What was the downside to doing the same thing as before by default?

When I read > This means when you install Babel it will no longer transpile your ES2015 code by default. what I really see is "This means that Babel no longer works out of the box …

Comcast does this under the "xfinitywifi" network name as a default setup for anybody who uses the standard cable modem/router-in-one box, with thousands and thousands of access po…

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9132385

Carnegie Mellon is absolutely in the midwest. Pennsylvania is a big state.

The website they built is called ITA Matrix ( http://matrix.itasoftware.com ) and it's still available today even after Google acquired them. It's the most powerful flight search e…

This is so telling: GitHub had a blog post yesterday[1] about pull requests and now Atlassian does today with a very similar title. The one from GitHub was about social dynamics an…

I've been coding full-time in Swift for the last three months and at this point our source base is about 10K lines of code. Given this experience, if I had to do it all over again,…

Same place we were five years ago: nobody cares what API you're programming to as long as your apps are good. No, seriously. The iPhone SDK came out in 2008. Google Maps came out i…

Check out plus addressing! Not part of any standard, but supported by Gmail and many other email providers. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-m...

I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet: exactly this was one of the standard disasters in SimCity 2000, where "microwave" was one of the power plant types.

You can control this with the HISTCONTROL and HISTIGNORE environment variables: http://askubuntu.com/questions/15926/how-to-avoid-duplicate-...

I bought a car a couple months ago, and as soon as the sales manager saw a TrueCar page open on my phone, the negotiation ended and I paid the price on the phone. Pretty amazing ho…

The Square Stand actually includes a USB hub to plug the printer, cash drawer, and barcode scanner in via USB. It's much simpler than setting up everything to talk on the network.

"Runs the same tests as Xcode.app." If this works, it's huge. Mad excited about this.