skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, despite air travel being so safe, the primary cause of fatal airplane crashes is pilot error[1]. And I see no proof in those instances that the pilot isn't being blamed.

1.http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm

EDITED to add "fatal."
The fabrication plants are highly automated. The cost is mostly capital costs for equipment.
> non representable states

Far off-topic from medicine. This is something that has only possibly occurred to me over the past few weeks: this is a healthy perspective of software. We work in computer science and so far as science is defined today, it is about quantifying the incorrect. We spend far too much time talking about what a system does, instead of what it doesn't.

I've found that documenting constraints (before they occur) results in a clearer and more obvious path to valuable results.

Your tone indicates that you might see this as a personality flaw - I've recently discovered that it's most certainly the exact opposite.

To tie this back into medicine, it makes complete sense that epidural equipment should have the constraint of being incompatible with IV. This would drive up costs but life is priceless so far as I am concerned. To a far lesser degree, nobody should have to live with the guilt of making a mistake when the mistake could have been so easily avoided.
Anecdote: I have logged 3700 hours on oDesk (before they merged with Elance into Upwork) for about 20 clients. About half of that was for two biggest clients. I think there's power distribution in play.

While browsing Ruby on Rails jobs I often saw client profiles with more $50.000 spent. Yes they have some big fish to cater for.

Those clients (and freelancers like me) might consider higher commission for first 2-3 months of work (to reach $10.000 threshold) as kind of recruitment cost. Then, 5% commission is acceptable for payment and accounting automation.
I'm not sure my son was even 6 yet (he may have been five) when he learned about subtraction. We started by talking about things: to illustrate 4 minus 2, you start with four marbles and remove 2 of them, leaving 2. For a couple of weeks he would ask me to subtract numbers, then he moved on to asking me to ask him numbers (and writing down simply arithmetic problems to solve).

Then, one day, out of the blue, he asked with a look of incredulity in his eye: "Daddy. What is one minus TWO???"

He clearly realized that he had come up with a question which had no representation in the marble-based construct.

I was so proud.

I sat down with him and drew a number line...and then showed him how we could extend the number line to the other side of zero.

He does know about infinity now (he's 7) -- and his most recent revelation that there is no such thing as an infinite number of any physical object. Even germs. Even atoms -- no matter how tiny, an infinite number of them can't exist in the universe (which he certainly pictures as finite).
The form no longer contains a question on religion.
> humans don't have a huge skin surface

That's easy to solve. We just start growing leaves.
> So noble. When people see others spending their money in ways that they wouldn't, do you really think notions of 'worthy' and 'unworthy' will go away?

Its not so much to make the notions "go away" from existence in society (which is a harder problem), but to make them "go away" from producing the inefficiencies the particular current reflections of them in public benefit programs and their administrative rules do in the application of government policy and expenditure of public resources.
Does it get us the advantages of arithmetic coding without the patents?
Nobody said success was easy or didn't involve sacrifice. Just sayin'
It also has high winds with airborne, highly abrasive sand. Panels don't last long there unless you clean them daily. I can't immagine that happening for utility-scale installations.
I read an article about the U.S. military's research into AI. Their conclusion is that AI isn't reliable or creative enough to be put in charge; a human needs to be in charge who takes the AI's input, but overrules it as needed.
Robotic surgery has way lower error rates, but people are so scared of anything new.
There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but not too many old, bold pilots...
If I say yes .. what does it imply should be done about it?
Panels would be build elsewhere, installation is once in two or three decades, maintenance is minimal and low skill. The only profit is land lease, which will only benefit those that have plenty of money already. So I think no, this won't bring jobs or wealth to North Africa.
Both flat tax and sales tax disproportionately tax the poor.

The very rich spend less money relative to how much they make, which puts higher burden on the poor than with our progressive tax.

Flat fax is bad, because 40% of the guy making 20k per year is going to severely change quality of like. 40% from the guy making $40 million has much less impact on his quality of life. This is the whole reason for having a progressive tax... Impact of money on quality of life doesn't work on a linear scale, so neither should our taxes.
Is there any way to read notifications on mobile twitter?
> And why, when it really is pilot error, does the pilot not get blamed?

Because he's dead? The airlines (the hospitals) do get blamed: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/08/asiana-....
Wow, I am about to have a baby any day now, this is scary. I really hope they are better in Canada with these things.
Thanks for the links. I'll also try to contribute to this thread where I can.
Variable costs are scary, but they are scary because they may change at a future date, not because they are variable. With a cryptocurrency backed API call, you can enter into contracts over variable periods of time to lock in price. This will give consumers of the API calls a way to predict costs moving forward. It essentially builds a futures market framework as well, and that's pretty well known to us by now. We can manage it with existing toolsets.
Amazing, if I click a tweet, and go back, I don't lose my place. Wondering why desktop twitter had this problem (until they made that pop-up UX).
Looking for art in artificial intelligence
You are indeed being too demanding, as can be seen when you know the general pattern of how the prediction was made.

Most industries, most of the time, show exponential improvement over time on whatever their primary measure of quality is. Moore's law is the most famous simply because its speed has had such dramatic effects, normally improvement is smaller, for example the 7% increase/year in battery capacity for a fixed price that Tesla's future business plans rely on.

See this graph of the cost of memory storage in hard drives: http://www.jcmit.com/disk2015.htm. (Note that an exponential curve is approximately a straight line on a log graph.)

Every so often there will be breakthroughs which show up as sudden jumps. After the breakthrough is assimilated you'll often see a pause because research plans were disrupted by the breakthrough, and then the curves start going again. Sometimes at a different speed. As an example on the above graph, the sudden order of magnitude price drop between 1995 and 2000 is due to the commercialization of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR).

This pattern of technological advance is well-known, but the jumps are not predictable in advance. However even after such a jump, your best bet for projecting continued improvement over years to decades is the same methodology.
So do I understand right that whoever hosts this service is paying 0.0001 BTC (4 US cents) for each document as the transaction fee?
> Looking forward to when joins are implemented so I can try using it with something non-trivial.

these types of databases typically don't have joins. you'll be waiting a while.
Realistically? Not much.

But I just installed it and while Chrome is running, it's taking up an additional 57.1MB of memory right now.

That said, I've installed it and I think I'm going to keep using it.
Ah. Here's a simpler explanation:

> This makes Chrome always use the mobile web version of Twitter, which has a different UI to the desktop web version.
To be fair, it sounds like his family members were decidedly middle class entrepreneurs. It doesn't sound at all like he "came from money."

And as for "interestingness":

“I wouldn’t be here without my brother or the other guys at Twitch. That’s probably the most important thing,” he says. "Not just having an idea or executing on an idea -- it’s all about the connections that you have and the people you know and the people who support you.”

I actually appreciate the fact that the article tells it like it is. We might want to prefer to believe that if we just have the right idea, we can beat out the people who went to the right schools, and/or had amazingly successful family members -- without working 10x as hard. But in reality, it just isn't so.
It's not a nosql database if that's what you're thinking.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/2970
I'm not sure what your proposal here is. You want companies, which are government-created structures with the ability to acquire large amounts of funding, provide employment, etc. to have a free-for-all on just how strong their DRM can be? Why?
Otherwise we will run out of enemies

I'm sure the capacity for people to imagine ill of our fellow human beings is inexhaustible.
Do you have any pictures? Sounds interesting, I'd love to see it.
Let me be clear, I was perhaps addressing the parent more literally than I should have, in the broad sense of cross-domain learning for the sake of learning.

I agree wholeheartedly that the opportunity cost of that learning should be taken into account, but my earlier point was made with the implicit assumption that there are methods that don't come with such an overhead. (e.g. choosing to take Latin during my CS degree would not have meaningfully changed my costs had I cut it out, and the benefits have become increasingly clear over the years. Most of this learning, however, I'd say has taken place outside of any institution that incurs a monetary cost, and the minor time-cost is largely what I was defending)
It seems like a terrible assumption for this case.

Godwin's Law is largely a specific case of conversational drift (unless you start out talking about Nazis). Everyone starts out on topic, then gets more hyperbolic and distracted until you end up at some other idea, in this case Nazis.

So not only are comments in threads not independent samples, we're specifically looking at a proposition about non-independence.
It is not unlimited.

At the radius from the sun that our planet is, there is an upper limit to solar energy of about 4/3 Watts/(M^2) (projected across the curve of the earth during daylight... through atmosphere...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight#Intensity_in_the_Sola...

The most effective way of collecting sunlight is to use curved reflective surfaces and concentrate it on to points that generate useful work either from the heat or from the photon intensity.

Interestingly, such mirrors also offer anime/bond villain/scifi style focused energy delivery 'weapons'; which is why I am most surprised that the US space programs haven't put any in to higher orbit above the majority of the garbage floating about the earth.

It might also be possible to use the delivered energy from such a system to incite deceleration of existing orbital junk and force burn-up/re-entry.
Many years ago I worked as a geologist and watched as a very low-yield gold mine went thru cycles of getting funded, building some infrastructure and then declaring bankruptcy, until finally there was enough infrastructure there to actually make something happen (and maybe the rising gold price helped in the end).

It seems this strategy can be applied in different scenarios/fields and with money, people, money and people... Opens your eyes.
That's true for all bots though, isn't it?
and only 65% of hn threads
That's why I don't like the popularity metric. But that's what you get when you democratize too many things.
This is why we'll be using ACs to pay for things. Load up an autonomous corporation with $5, make its job paying for API calls. If something goes South, it's last job is to pay an alert mechanism that triggers a human response.

These models turn existing models on their heads, so be aware of other pitfalls. Productive paranoia is good, but only practice it after you innovate first.
I'd like to propose Godwin's Number: the number of responses needed to produce a 50% chance of a reference to Nazis.
A greasemonkey script in Chrome would take the same amount of memory or more, as Chrome just repackages it as an extension on install.
Because libraries are full of tomes written by cocksure counterculturists. If we knew what the future of media distribution looked like we'd be making billions pushing it there, not bullshitting about "how it's obviously gonna be, just you watch" on HN.
I just disabled our ad campaign on one of the online ad platforms mentioned in this article. We market to tech audience who are probably 90% covered with adblock. We're seeing some odd page paths from users who visit our sites through paid clicks. Very different from qualified lead paths.
Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st century (2015)
Google's OS having bugs is not really why carriers drag their feet to upgrade, that's just a coincidence.

It takes money and time to upgrade all their carrier-specific "value-added"(i.e. shit) software on top of the new operating system, and they hesitate to do it, because they've already got it working, and taking no action is much easier and cheaper than upgrading.

Besides there isn't enough customers yelling about it anyway (the ones who really care only buy the phones with known fast OS upgrade cycles, like Nexus).
I'm determined to show people that death does not need to be a sad or depressing thing. Loss is, of course. I know my kids are going to suffer. I know they're going to be angry, confused, maybe even self-destructive at times, when they realize over and over that the person who steered them has gone, and they have to learn to steer themselves.

Yet it's part of the order of things, isn't it? Loss forces us forwards. My kids are strong and they know it and they'll get courage in their darkest moments by remembering that I was never afraid, angry, or self-destructive, when I was dying.

This part, it is playful and joyful, and I'm so incredibly happy to be part of it.

And I'm not on any drugs, just a large carton of Ayran my son bought me from the baker this morning. :)
Of every address. There is no such thing as a bitcoin.
Edward: A library for deep generative models and inference
It was easy to give your customers the proper interface files (they were compilable), so they could code against your interfaces. They are much lighter than the object files (it was the time of the floppy disk and 2400 modems).

One point of having interface files separate is tools like `make`. If the interface file's timestamp did not change, the interface is the same.

It would probably be nicer to have two compilation artifacts, the extracted human-readable interface part and the object-file implementation part.

It (in my case TopSpeed Modula-2) was waaaay faster than e.g. Borland C++ wading through endless .h files.
I don't like that url. This one is better: http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2016/05/democracy-...
Prominent Democratic Consultants Sign Up to Defeat Single Payer in Colorado
Is it the government's job to prevent mis-reporting of science?

If so, why not just manage the reporters directly? Every science news story could be reviewed by a central government office prior to publication, to make sure it's accurate. Of course, the reviews would be done by political appointees and their staff, not the scientists themselves since they have a conflict of interest, it being their research and all.

This would never fly, of course. Canada has at least some semblance of freedom of the press. But for some reason the exact same system, applied to the scientists themselves, was OK?
I'd point out that that sort of conflict is a Hobbesian warre of all against all

The current structure of social media seems to incentivize people separating into isolated walled camps while demonizing the other groups and figuratively throwing rocks.
Agreed! His predictions were spot-on given all the information he had to work with. It's not like this guy was rabidly against solar power or anything; in fact it seems like he's pretty delighted to be wrong. Who wouldn't be? Solar's getting cheaper!

Everyone seems to be projecting their own egos onto this guy. Their minds say, "If I were proved wrong and had to admit it, I'd be mortified." These people aren't scientists. They're being emotional.

Again, props to this guy.
Our Brain Uses Statistics to Calculate Confidence, Make Decisions
Have you done the calculation on conversion rate you would need at your current SAAS subscription cost to find out how much you could afford to pay per click?
That last paragraph are my comments on the general tone of the post and this HN thread. That's why it starts with "anyone".

Regarding the article though:

> online advertising efficiency has been decreasing for years

> Alphabet/Google, who has 90% of its revenue coming from online advertising, will see its business scale back to the levels of 2010-2011, while its share price will crash to the $200-$250 area

> Awareness for fraud and the inefficiency of online ads grows past the point of no return over the next 2 years. The whole sector crashes as clients reduce spending and demand better reporting and transparency.

This is all very poor conjecture derived from reading a few dozen "news" articles. None of this is or will be true based on the facts and progress of the industry today.
I'm not opposed to UCT. I was wondering whether demand-side spending-for-spendings sake is a good argument here.

Efficacy of UCT compared to CCT is a different (empirical) argument that I'd definitely like to see continued research on.
What do you think a job is, in this analogy?
It could get even harder for Apple to find its next China in India
If you read my book The Psychopath Code you'll see my discussion on "grounding", which is a simple (yet hard) technique for keeping yourself free of destructive emotions.

That book, BTW was absolutely panned on Reddit since I'm not a psychologist. I watched hundreds of comments telling me to fuck off, to kill myself, how did I dare discuss such things without credentials.

And at the same time I watched my book sales spike up to 10 times more than ever before, and I chortled like a gleeful madman...

Sometimes it's really just a matter of perspective and I'm usually good at finding the right perspective on things.
I'm also bothered by the fact that most copyright extensions are retroactive. If something is going to lose its copyright protection in a few years, that work should lose it even if copywright protection is extended.
Instead of the US limiting Chinese steel imports, the US Government should buy it on mass, and simply store it.

If the Chinese government are in fact subsidizing it, that's just free money into the US Government's pocket, and once steel prices inevitably rises once more the USG could just sell that same steel back to China.

It is win/win/win. US steel wins because Chinese steel goes up in price due to demand, it is a win for the USG because they make money, and it is a win for the international community as it stabilises steel prices.
I like it! It can be thought of as an LD50.
If you have some reference code for IOTA, I'd like to see it. I'm firmly against any type of closed source Infrastructure code, so I'm hoping that's the plan here. I would also mention that we're not QUITE there yet with this stuff, so over engineering solutions to be scalable to trillions of devices is probably overkill. Giving a simple IOT device a small wallet to pay for its infrequent API calls is probably doable with Bitcoin, even with transaction costs. For other use cases, I can envision proxy devices with keys that represent the smaller, low power, frequent transmissions.
protip: they don't favor white men -- Asians are vastly over represented in silicon valley. white men are actually underrepresented. your entire line of argumentation is off base.
Don't feel bad. You did not waste any measurable amount of electricity. We constantly waste electricity by not utilizing the networks we have built to their full capacity.

(Ignoring that servers being busier without a good caching infrastructure tends to ramp up resource usage and pull more power)
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This is exactly the reason why I don't want a Nexus anymore, getting updates slowly is a feature, instead of playing a beta tester for Googles "ship it" culture.

I switched to iOS on iPhone 5S last year after Lollipop being a shitshow, but iOS 9 has shown me that Apple isn't anything better, because they have to sell new hardware, so gimping older devices on purpose is the name of the game. I don't care about version numbers, if the OS is a stutter show after an update.

All those iOS update bragging would be interesting if Apple would allow downgrades to previous major versions of iOS until next one gets released.

Now a rule of the thumb is find the device/software you like right now and decide about updating it only after research of feedback.
>Unlike the majority of gas stations in Japan however, the 40,000 electric car charging points quoted by Nissan includes ones in private homes, causing some critics to cry foul. After all, if a charging station is hidden in a privately-owned garage, it isn’t easily accessible to the public.

>Yet while we understand that criticism — and it’s why we used an asterisk in our headline — the rise of charger-sharing sites like PlugShare.com means that more people than ever before are offering their private charging station for others to use, either as an altruistic gesture or for cold, hard cash.

oh wait its fucking nothing
I have to say, my interest was piqued by your hiring strategy.

It's a shame it's limited to just engineers. I've been looking for a recruiter company like this for data science.
Is arithmetic coding still patented? I remember hearing about it being patented along with GIF back in like the '90s, but patents don't last that long - it's 2016, even GIF is out of patent now.
Honestly, when I was told I had cancer five+ years ago, it was just the same. I understood the diagnosis rapidly, cooperated fully, and when they told me I would be operated (on my birthday, 2010), I realized I might live, and prepared myself for surgery. I never had any strong negative emotions about it.
Fantastic article, really makes concrete a lot of things I've internalized over the years(and the strife that can come from trying to find those global maximums).

The end takeaway really drives this home:

> Bottom line: we need to be strategic about our divergence (distribution of thought and assumption) and tactical about our convergence (seeking to build consensus for pragmatic reasons).

There's very much a time and place for both, knowing when to tow the line and when to set of in a new direction is something very worthwhile of focusing on.
Some of the technology and concepts developed in the Wall of Sound eventually got commercialized, via Meyer Sound, a Berkeley company that has an insane dedication to sound quality. You see Meyer speakers (especially Milo arrays) in nearly every amphitheater and club these days. They have very high specs for all their speaker components- including having a dedicated tract of virgin trees that are cut to make the paper for their speaker cones. http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/spring-2015-d...
Docker for OS X is using this, so not really that underappreciated.