skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Illegal is a very lose term...so many projects "overrun" their contract price...I don't believe that these companies that have decades of military and government contract experience cannot budget for overhead expenses and project delays. They just end up charging more later on, rather than be upfront with actual costs.
It might be easier to think of it this way: Are there more natural numbers than there are even natural numbers?

The answer is no, as illustrated by the Hotel paradox[0], in which we have a infinitely many rooms and want to accommodate a (possibly infinite) number of guests.. To summarize: For any finite number of guests, you can always find an even-numbered room to correspond to that guest (assume the guests are numbered sequentially, then double their number and put them in the room that has that number.). This creates a one-to-one correspondence, which means that the sets are the same size.

You might say, 'well, that only works because we're dealing with a finite number of guests. But we're talking about infinity'. There are a few different ways of answering that question. In my opinion, the easiest way to look at it is to remember that there is no such number as 'infinity' - when we say 'infinity', we're really trying to express the concept of growing without bound. So, the above strategy (double the person's number) works for any arbitrarily large group. At no point does it stop working, even as the group size grows larger and larger, so we can say that the two sets have the same size.

On the other hand, we have no such strategy for putting every irrational number in one-to-one correspondence with the counting numbers. That proof is a little harder, and the analogy with the hotel guests breaks down, unfortunately, so it's a bit tougher to explain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand...
What better way than to force it down their throats.
I think the story is popular because it resonates with how we need to manage our personal finances.

See http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2014/04/21/the-econo...

I don't agree with everything Krugman writes, but it's pretty clear to me that treating an economy like a household is short sighted.
Watch Lytro Change Cinematography Forever [video]
Google Fiber hits its fifth city, with a limited deployment in Nashville
Splendid! Been doing game purchases for Bitcoin through Humble Bundle, and Kindle Books through Gyft, I hope more providers of electronic resources will get onboard. It even works out better financially, as credit cards charge such a high "foreign currency conversion fee" here in Taiwan.
Looking at the demo content, I wonder how the system will ensure that I receive quality content. My cost is not just the money, it's also the friction of paying and the risk of rewarding and encouraging the creation of low quality content.

I think it's great that there is a working demo, though.
A group which SpaceX is a member of raised concerns that launches by ISRO are allegedly subsidised by the Indian government and therefore the pricing is anticompetitive but have also acknowledged that the market served by the PSLV is badly serviced by American companies. They're not the only ones to raise the same concern but no-one's seriously crying about being undercut.

Even as it is, the Falcon 9 and PSLV price per kg to LEO are pretty much the same with newer Falcon 9 winning out slightly.
Exactly. It's just like communism. It always fails because of some implementation problems, not because the idea itself is idiotic.
I'd like to see some YC people (dang? kevin?) go through the entire list and find 25 or so great ones. Then, ask those people to flesh out their apps a bit more, then have discussion and community voting.

I'd be fine trusting YC to make the first pass, and community make the final selection.
I don't think the work-life balance issues at Amazon revolve around whether they pay for your transit or negligible medical fee
They were already colluding to form a monopoly, I don't think antitrust prosecutions are going to be forthcoming.
When there is a missing airplane, and I just want to know relevant information? I'll get the relevant information in a straight forward, to the point fashion.

Local news? Straight to the point, no sensation, build up. Just what happened, what it means.

Military skirmish between two nations that the state has no stake in? Straight to the point.

You are concerned about the human rights abuses and political dissidents. If you need that to rationalize why you prefer to put up with privately owned news sources that can't monetize worth shit, then keep it up. They aren't exactly effective at turning people against about the establishment.
Multiple API docs in a fast, organized, searchable interface with offline mode
Why not? If Apple's management and investors believe that the market is not pricing AAPL fairly, it makes perfect sense to go private.
Have you met Google? (Said in my best NPH voice)
This!... is why we can't have nice things.
If I was Bill Gates I wouldn't want to go back...he's so rich He can fund any idea he wants. If he goes back to Microsoft he would be under scrutiny of investors. I would say f Microsoft, f investors and do things my way for my ideas.
Slide Show: Darwinian Doodles (2015)
Name one way on which it's _solely_ a propaganda organ?
Hopefully Brazil will too.
It's more likely that the response will be too slow than fast and overwhelming. ULA likely took advantage of their monopoly to underinvest in lower-cost technologies, and the lead time to correct that could be very long.
Warren Buffet is 85.
F-35 funding is through congress and involves congressional oversight and is a multi-branch project. It's not just the Airforce that has the F-35.
Colony Graphs: Visualizing the Cloud
My gut feeling is that YC wouldn't want to some how alienate those with low karma points, but they could do something like only allow those to vote who have commented on Apply HN posts (or something along those lines).
It's socialism as much as a common mugger is Robin Hood.
Why would you want to do that in Common Lisp?

To be honest, I think folks imagine the wrong things when looking at CLOS. They think it's Lisp foray into statically-typed OOP like C++. But it isn't. Lisp stays dynamically typed. The task you're proposing is nonsensical "in CLOS". It's just not Lisp-y :-)

I think this discussion has gotten fairly far from the main point by now. There's no real use trying to twist one language to achieve every feature of another.
Curious if there is research regarding the use of kanban planning in classrooms under a general curriculum.
The most interesting tidbit for me is that Amazon would have reported losses without AWS.

The AWS business generated $2.6B in revenues in the fourth quarter, which is only 9% of Amazon's total revenues of $29.1B; but operating income for the AWS business was $607M, or 118% of company-wide net income of $513M.[1]

Without AWS, Amazon would have reported losses!

[1] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9N...
If you were Superman, would you rescue the drunk driver?
Yeah. I applied for Deloitte because a big-4 accountancy firm ticked the right sort of boxes for someone who'd been to a good school, a good university, got good grades, and was looking for a reasonably prestigious job with decent perks (and had no real idea what they wanted to do). I'm not sure the reality of having to spend the next 30 years going into an office and scheming around Sarbanes-Oxley had really occurred to me right until she asked that question.

I should note I have absolutely nothing against accountants!
Blendle: Radical Experiment with Micropayments in Journalism, 365 Days Later
AB already has story-like ads
Why does `cp`s behavior here under discussion?
`cp` is not being invoked or executed.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

Whereas the current dominant system (whatever one wishes to call it) doesn't have this problem, because it provides the elites with more highly nuanced, and much more effective ways of siphoning money, power, and hope from the disadvantaged -- and in covering its tracks whilst doing so.
My understanding of Economics isn't very strong. Could you explain how investing the revenues outside their own economy is the right strategy?
> They basically had no effort in their security,

This is clearly hyperbole. "no effort"? C'mon.

> no idea how long they were compromised, and couldnt even respond effectively.

The hacked .iso was up for less than 24 hrs, so that puts a hard limit on the worst part of the compromise. The forum issues they fixed in a couple of days. This seems like a reasonably effective response to me.

> I was a big fan of Mint usability who reluctantly had to ditch it.

Did you really have to ditch it? Or did you just decide to go with a distro that emphasizes security over convenience? (Which is, of course, a completely reasonable thing to do, but others may make other (also reasonable) choices.)
There are only so many jobs to be had at ILM and Pixar, and its been a while since I've checked but I think ILM is mostly hiring for its studios in London, Vancouver and Singapore.
Let's be honest -- South American countries are not short of corrupt politicians at the best of times. Look at what's happening in Brazil, where a compromised leadership is being replaced by an even-more-corrupt bunch. At that point, a slightly-unhinged but fundamentally honest-looking ex-general starts looking like an attractive proposition.
Nudity used to be far more common. Ex: Greek wrestling was a publics nude sport.

IMO, it's simply religions creating a totally artificial prohibition to create relevance from thin air.
Excellent I can learn from the best
Tell HN: Shazam picks up song from my kitchen light
So a friend and I were working in my dining room. He has the Shazam for Mac app where it's constantly running and it will detect songs. So it picked up this song:

http://www.shazam.com/track/133135249/coconut#referrer=shaza...

We weren't sure why it picked it up until we became really silent and I heard this from my kitchen light:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f49g53jcr5s8k2f/kitchen-light.wav?...
Do you really not see the problem with this scenario? Apple "goes private" and somehow ends up in the hands of "a small pool of insiders"? How do those insiders end up holding 100% of the stock?

Right now insiders hold maybe 1% of Apple stock. So there's a 99% transfer of ownership happening when the company "buys itself". Does the company lose 99% of its value in this or is there somehow a transfer of about 500 billion dollars into the hands of these insiders? How are either of these situations not entirely terrible?
Yeah maybe I can learn from someone on match.com
Shazam Song: http://www.shazam.com/track/133135249/coconut#referrer=shaza...

Kitchen Light: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f49g53jcr5s8k2f/kitchen-light.wav?...
CEO tests “crazy” genetic therapy on herself, claims it added 20 years of life
But I'm not Superman. And you can't save people from themselves forever.
Great work done!
> ensure humanity doesn't have to pay for every single piece of software

It is nothing to do with money, it is the freedom to have access to the source code of softwares.
They've done a very good job at that I have to say.
I do not like touchscreens though, too many germs.
It's understandable that you want sponsored content on HN, but could you at least mark it as such?
VersionPress 3.0 Released
Wow. I am very embarrassed about that. I appear to have broken something recently. The bug report and feature request are working again.

I am also in the process of moving from a lamp stack to python/Django on AWS. I'll have to look at the ssl and see what's happening.
By variation I mean HN is based on http://arclanguage.org/install ... I don't know how much the code bases have diverged.

They do have an API: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api
Maybe i should had have added that I mean price control for products, not for services.
What exactly does "relativise everything" mean? It seems possibly like a straw man.
Reposted to avoid trolls:

Do they accept transwomen?

How about people who don't identify as either gender?

Do they set themselves up as arbiters of who qualifies as a woman, and, if so, what criteria do they use?
Youtrack backups you can't delete contribute to your quota usage
Does Mark Zuckerberg Want to Run for President?
I would imagine investors would prefer dividends to having their shares bought back, no?
It is called Dutch disease [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
I'm going to start using the Profound vs. Wankathon dichotomy as much as possible from here on out.
Except that, if you are not doing well, you need to raise your hand and ask for help in the form of scope negotiation or more resources.
Science Considered Harmful (2013) [pdf]
This has happened to me several times as well (encountering a problem which I felt like I had encountered before on a specific project).

It's a good memory exercise to try to remember when was the last time I hit that bug. At the beginning, I wasn't very good (and I couldn't remember the solution of the earlier problem - a journal would have been handy at that point) but after doing this for a while, now I almost always remember the solution to various regressions I encounter.
> Can karma, sometimes, be unfair?

I often say, "Karma is real. It just has horrible aim."

What I mean by "Karma is real" is that it is not some mystical gobbledygook, but a real a phenomenon as natural selection or the free market's invisible hand.

But most people discount karma because so often, as the line in the poem suggests, "bad" people seem to often get away with it and the "good" people often pay.

But if you consider that individuals aren't entirely responsible for who they are and what they do, that people are born into arbitrary places in a complex system (society), and how this has a huge impact on how they perceive the world and the choices they have, both perceived and real, then karma's "shoddy aim" may in fact be as accurate as it should be.

For example, we have social inequalities that result in many children having far rougher and insecure lives than others. Instead of fixing these inequalities, and giving all children an equally good childhood, we use violence including forced incarceration to contain the delinquents the unlucky children are more likely to grow up to be. The karma of all this violence should rightly fall on all of us. If anything it doesn't fall on all of us enough.
Personally, I read 'acqq' as showing that Hirst's credentials do match his claims, and that instead of being a typical armchair pundit, he is someone who could be considered intimately familiar with the situation in Venezuela.

In retrospect, I suppose it could have been intended to be just a neutral statement of fact, but it doesn't look at all to me like an 'ad hominem' attack. Unless you have outside knowledge of 'acqq' and are interpreting this in a context not visible to others, I think you are projecting a prejudice that does not exist.
That's the best bit, and makes reading blocks of code incredibly efficient. You can observe a method being called like

[table allowsMultipleSelectionDuringEditing:YES]

And even though you might not remember that UITableView method, once you read it you immediately know what it does, often saving you a round trip to the docs.
Note that "INT" stands for Intelligent Narrative Technologies, or AI for understanding and generating narratives.
>You're exactly right, except that I don't think ULA is going to have much trouble matching SpaceX's prices.

I do. In the '90s I was working for a company that was used to bidding cost plus contracts when DoD contracts pretty much dried up as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Management tried very hard to realign the company to compete in the commercial sector and failed miserably.

Changing the focus of a large organization like that from performance to cost is extremely difficult. Your people aren't organized properly, your finances aren't organized properly, and you have a cost+ culture that's hard to kick.

A much cheaper and safer strategy is to get Congress to wire defense contracts for you. ULA has manufacturing all over the place. What that means is job losses at ULA will be politically unpalatable. Beyond that, a logical argument can be made against putting all the national space eggs in one basket.
At this point, I'm pretty sure the Stargate must be real and the crazy cost per unit for the F-35 is to hide R&D, construction and launch of a space defense fleet.
I'm blaming the victims who welcomed their executioners.

They might not posses the clairvoyance that you were gifted with.
He negotiated an exception where he would retain voting rights in facebook in case he took a leave of absence to run/serve in office. Hmmmm....
>Your version is like saying, without the combination of the safe, the papers inside don't exist in any readable form.

That's just restating your analogy again without addressing my contention about random seeming data.
Because the culturally normative lifestyle in the USA is to own your housing, not rent it. You're thus supposed to count housing inflation as a rise in your asset portfolio, not a rise in costs.
Ask HN: Would you pay for a better Linux Desktop experience?
Professional dev. here; I am now using linux 90 % of the time. Mostly Ubuntu on a thinkpad.
While using Linux as a daily driver is WAY better than what it used to be, i think it still lacks some of the refinement of windows or OSx.

Most of the discussion of Desktop Linux get lost into a usability war between unity/mate/gnome etc..., but i am more concerned about battery life, graphic performance, stability, application packages (like skype,viber etc...), stable wifi etc... which in my view are much more important and have more impact on my day to day. And on those metrics they all suck equally.

Moreover, getting the best experience as a Desktop user still requires too much tinkering (ie .why do i have to know about powertop to optimize my battery usage pattern?)

I don't see this mentioned often, but it seems clear to me that the reason Linux is still lacking (on this front) is simply that nobody is financing it. Most of the corporate backing focuses on the server/space and i can't think of any distribution which actually makes money from regular users (canonical ?).

I don't think i am the only person who is looking for a stable/better desktop experience and who is willing to pay for it.

So that got me curious, how many of us are out there ?

PS: i don't think that randomly donating to one of the thousand projects i use daily is a particularly effective way to go at it.
GPAs of Every Course at the University of Illinois
I'm just saying we shouldn't abandon or postpone progress on Earth to start an impossible colonization project on Mars.

Any opinion you or I have about how long Earth will remain viable is irrelevant. There's nothing else. Mars and every other body are not viable at all and we have no way to make them so.
ULA's only business is selling launches, almost entirely to the US Government, so the subsidy would have to come from their owners - Lockheed and Boeing. I haven't seen any indication that they are at all interested in giving ULA a massive subsidy to gain market share - in fact it looks more like the opposite, they have been reluctant to invest in ULA and have been funding Vulcan development on a quarter-by-quarter basis.
The Resource Curse. Developing countries that strike oil/diamonds/whatever actually do worse than countries in the same starting position who don't discover such resources. The theory is that governments can rely on resource revenue rather than true economic development to both grow their own coffers and feed the people. True economic development requires a good legal system, education, economic freedom, and reasonable regulations. Drilling oil really doesn't. It's why if the oil disappeared tomorrow, Saudi Arabia would quickly be reduced to impoverished banana republic.

I was under the impression that this phenomenon does not hold for so-called developed countries, like Norway and the UK. I could be mistaken.
Making cars is a capital intensive industry.
Hacking Slack accounts: As easy as searching GitHub
Show HN: DataTau iOS App
Wiseupshop spy shops with cheap and quality spy camera
Yes, but they can't do it with money that belongs to Apple, because the shareholders, i.e. the people that need to be bought out, already own that money.
Yes, because a bunch of people deciding that they need a GoPro that they'll never use or drop extra money on a fashion line that has some celebrity's name on it isn't a big deal. That is money that is gonna be spent anyway.

Sending irrational ripples through the stock market affects things like interest rates, retirements, and employment in a somewhat widespread manner.
Don't think that the new bunch will be more corrupt. And that doesn't invalidate the replacement.
> Why would you want to do that in Common Lisp?

This isn't a matter of this language or that language. Are you going to deliberately use a less efficient algorithm or a more convoluted design, just to please your language of choice? No idea about you, but, when a programming language doesn't let me express what I want, I don't force myself to want something else - I switch languages.

> To be honest, I think folks imagine the wrong things when looking at CLOS. They think it's Lisp foray into statically-typed OOP like C++. But it isn't. Lisp stays dynamically typed.

I never said CLOS is Lisp's take on static typing. I'm just offering an example of a use case for which CLOS isn't as powerful as other existing alternatives.

> The task you're proposing is nonsensical "in CLOS". It's just not Lisp-y :-)

This doesn't make sense. What I'm asking for is fundamental if you want generic programming to work: generic algorithms must be specializable for performance reasons, while still providing a uniform interface to users.
Many Indians project the image of zen calmness at work, as humility is perceived to be a major virtue in that culture.

But they are stern taskmasters to their family and mistresses, and often have a major "keeping up with the Jones' complex."

So it's all a charade.
A stronger analogy, falling between the two scenarios, would be: presuming the original key for a lock has been destroyed, but you have memorized the particular key-cutting metrics that would be required to produce a working duplicate, could you be compelled to reveal those metrics so such a key could be created?
He has more impact and reach at Facebook than being the US President, me thinks.
On the one hand, I can definitely see that happening. On the other, is the observed phenomenon of children following in their parents' (parent's?) footsteps whether they mean to or not (perhaps because outcomes are commonly the emergent result of different behavioral and attitude markers that are harder to shake). I don't know which of those influences wins out more often, but unfortunately (for disadvantaged children) I suspect it's the latter.
> And hoarding isn't a bad thing. If you aren't spending your money, then you aren't taking resources out of the economy. That means more resources for everyone else. Spending money, consumption, is what should be discouraged.

I'm usually pretty good at detecting irony, so I apologize if I've been bested here. But are you honestly suggesting that reductions in consumption and spending are favorable to nation's economy?

If you are being ironic, I don't think I understand your message. Would you mind explaining it to me?