skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I see it there will always be some percentage of people that mismanage whatever capital they have (be it earned or given), and have financial hardship that leads to a lack of food and housing.

With current safety nets, we have perhaps 15% [1] of Americans that for whatever reason lack the capital to have an adequate supply of food.

With Basic Income, perhaps we reduce that number down to 1%, but we still need to take care of that 1%.

With the government services program that I suggested (and there are many other models, and I'd be happy to discuss other models), maybe you get that number down to 0.3%. Yet, as a country, we still need to take care of those people.

Personally, when it comes to feeding and housing people, my answer to "At what point do we stop" is: Never.

[1] 48.1 million Americans lived in Food Insecure Households (http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hu... 317.3 million Americans in 2014 (http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2013/...) = 15.1%
The point is that even with 'rigorous methodology' and 'evidence' 538 doesn't do as well as Diggler.

Predicting elections is, for the most part, an easy task. Polls are usually good enough to get some picture of the election at hand. One major shortcoming of a primarily evidence-based approach is how to call races without much polling (small sample size). Silver has consistently refused to cover these races at all.

But Silver commits two sins that you ignore: he wants to show off his 'accuracy' and he wants to improve on the polls. These two problems kind of intertwine - the 538 'polls-plus,' which incorporates predictors Silver thinks are significant e.g. endorsements or Nate's gut, performs worse than the polls forecast, which is just a weighted average of recent state polls. What kind of rigorous methodology allows for two different predictions and then picking the best one, after the fact? What kind of rigorous methodology results in a prediction method that's shown to be worse than reading the newspaper, time and time again? Where's the evidence behind endorsements working this year?

As a side note, Philip Tetlock is the Wharton professor, and Dan Gardner (interviewed here) is some dude.
I love pdf.js. A lot of people complained about it when it was being developed, but it is such a simple pdf drop-in for node.js app-developers, web developers and everybody else on a javascript enabled platform.

I just wish they included it on Firefox for Android!
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"Whom are you going to deny and on what basis?"

A 1951 treaty, that most civilized countries are now signatories to, defines what a refugee is and what these countries' obligations are:

http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/1951-refugee-convention.html

Note that most of the people referred to as "refugees" by the media may not fit the definition.
> Possibly true in France, not so much in, say, Germany, where all the cool kidz want to move to the inner-city with their start-ups and underground parties.

The cool kidz inner city quarters, where the stalemate-like coexistence between hipsters and n-th generation migrants creates a unique slowdown to gentrification forces can't be artificially grown. Unfortunately, Neukölln does not scale.
> The original poster's comment can only be construed in one way: the Swiss do things this way, it is better, and therefore everybody else does it wrong. The claim (50% spent on planning) is clearly and demonstrably wrong.

That is correct, in my experience the Swiss way is the best way, and I have yet to work in another country (and I'm international) where they do it better or with more planning and forethought. The only other mentality which comes close to that is that of Japanese. This is obviously anecdotal, but to me it is perfectly understandable why the Swiss managed to do it within time and budget constraints. Everywhere else I've worked, and what I've seen, it was not as good.

I've put the Swiss saying that planning is 50% of the work to the test, and have had great results with it. Again this is anecdotal, but to me, it confirms that their way of thinking is correct, and I appreciate it.

By the way, the article in German mentions multiple times that certain challenges which were met were expected because they were identified during the planning and preparation stage.
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Since when did HN become reddit? Why is this story even on here?
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(a bit of port forwarding or VPN) + (VNC or RDP) ?

What you get from TeamViewer/LogMeIn/etc. is the zeroconf aspect of the experience, which in turn is because they provide of a central rendezvous/discovery point. If you know where your peers are, you don't really need an assisted remote management service.
can i donate to not have to use this ugly font?
ActionCable generators can now generate either JS or Coffeescript. This is relatively recent, but the direction is clearly toward decoupling.

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/63ac6255ba3553b529f4b2...
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Source: I am a nuclear physicist.

Full disclosure: I didn't play. I'm not launching a Java applet. So I'm just reading your description for physics content.

> (The independence of quantum systems from absolute phase is called gauge symmetry)

Gauge symmetry isn't the independence of the global phase---it's the independence of a spacetime-dependent phase. This is a much much bigger symmetry than the independence of global absolute phase.

> Until that question is answered, then we can’t rule out the possibility that consciousness does have something to do with it.

Are you sure you only read Feynman? This is an extreme fringe position. I don't know any physicists who actually holds this position, unless they're trying to get on TV.

> Interestingly, the Schrodinger equation states that a particle can’t exist at all in a place with more potential than the particle has energy. It will simply “jump” down any available holes to satisfy the equation. The same jumping behaviour is what gives rise to tunelling, when a particle jumps as if by magic from one hole to another.

That's exactly the opposite of what the Schrodinger equation says! A particle can exist in a place where the potential energy is more than the total energy. That cannot happen classically, but is allowed quantum-mechanically. However, the wavefunction dies off exponentially fast. But it's never 0 unless the potential is infinite. That's what allows tunneling---the exponentially small tail is real.

There is no "jumping" in quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger equation implies the continuity equation [continuity].
How does Australia give one the right to turn down a job?
You mean Guam, US Dollars and NSA?
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> Decoherence doesn’t explain, though, why the wavefunction collapses to a singular thing we call “reality”. So quantum mysticism still has room to flourish.

No. Decoherence is the thing that lets you avoid the need to collapse at all. The point of decoherence is that many quantum particles interacting together looks like a quantum superposition of many classical systems. So if you "are" one of those particles and look around, you'll see things behaving classically---only if you are "outside" (ie. have full access to the wf) can you see anything quantum going on.

If the wavefunction doesn't collapse, why does it look like it does collapse?! Well, you're inside the wavefunction. Before the different classical possibilities decohere, you wait with anticipation. After decoherence, a version of you is in each branch of the wavefunction, each observing different outcomes, wondering how the wavefunction collapsed! But, it didn't---it's just hard to see that from where you're standing.

This is the claim of the Many Worlds interpretation --- the wavefunction never collapses. Everything just evolves according to the Schrodinger equation, forever. There is no place or regime where quantum mechanics breaks down. Every branch of the wavefunction is equally real and continues to exist forever.

So, why don't we see all sorts of zany, quantum effects in our every day life? Decoherence saves the day: even with a few dozen particles the different branches of the wavefunction have decohere enough that it'd take a massive, huge, gargantuan coincidence for two parts of the wavefunction to interfere. It's still possible! But it's extremely unlikely. Now scale up to Avogadro's number of particles, and forget it: things just look classical.
Report from I cited TomTom says SF in particular has second worst traffic in the US[1]. I think lots of other cities have terrible traffic and ranking would certainly change depending on how exactly one evaluates traffic and what are the limits of the metro area. Point here is just to show that traffic is already bad and public transportation is also impacted. Especially in SF where Muni is by their own report [2] the slowest and most expensive to operate public transportation of 10 comparable US cities.

I just appreciate top comment bringing up this type of infrastructure as I think there is room for big improvement in Bay Area. We really need it to support any increase in housing which is also badly needed to ensure a diverse and prosperous economy going forward.

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I feel as if this is an automated posting. I submitted an application after seeing one of these and heard not a single thing back. Is there no way to make sure that the resume does not sink to the depths of the pile?
Original story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11812488
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This Is Sega Test (1996)
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> You could also massively simplify particle interactions to make some reasonable gameplay; perhaps even simulate a quantum computer. Do get in touch with me if you want to do this; I’d be keen to help.

If you can find a way to simulate an arbitrarily-sized quantum computer with a reasonable amount of computing, you will get famous. A few particles should be possible but it won't scale well. You're right to worry about how to draw it. You might consider (fixed-in-space) spin systems instead, where you can draw the density matrix with (relative) simplicity. But then you lose the moving-around-in-space intuition.

> Feynman dedicates a lot of his book to two state systems, because these are ultimately responsible for the strong and weak nuclear forces.
> Nuclear forces arise when you vary the size of the system, and the two possible stationary states display slightly different energy characteristics. This means the system has a lower energy at a certain size.

Oy. This is wrong.

Two state systems are interesting in-and-of-themselves because you can exactly solve them, they have many actual instatiations in nature (in fact, anything you might consider making a qubit out of!), and they provide toy models for many kinds of other physical systems.

Nuclear forces do not arise from two state systems. There is a pecularity in nuclear physics---the proton and the neutron look (almost) exactly the same. OK, they have different electric charge, but nuclear force doesn't care about electromagnetism. What's interesting is that they have almost exactly the same mass: m_Neutron = 939 MeV, m_Proton = 938 MeV. Well, that's quite surprising! Why should that be? Most particles we know have dramatically differing masses (eg. m_electron = 0.511 MeV, etc). So, what's making these masses come out the same? Moreover, people noticed empirically that the interaction between protons and neutrons seemed to look roughly the same (once you account for electromagnetism).

This led people to hypothesize a symmetry called isospin symmetry---the symmetry between protons and neutrons [isospin]. You can make a lot of progress by assuming that protons and neutrons form two-state system and that the nuclear force doesn't care which state you're in. Then, you can incorporate the slight differences on top.

In fact, you can get a lot farther once you have this idea in hand. You realize that the pions form an iso-triplet, the delta baryons form an iso-fourplet, etc [fourplet]. Then you find particles with strangeness, and you really get going. You wind up recognizing deeper underlying patterns that reveal beautiful symmetry.

Isospin symmetry is not a true symmetry of nature, but it's a very good approximation, and it's related in some ways to weak isospin [weak].
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I assume you mean caret instead of a vegetable.
That would break copy file name after a grep, as the separator : would be missed. Different use cases, different wishes...

urxvt allows full perl regex for matching text[1].

[1]: http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/src/perl/selection?view=m...
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So many fascinating possibilities to this data.

It would be interesting to see the next hundred schools. Places like Michigan State or Minnesota have so many students that it'd be interesting to see how many congress members they've produced.

It would also be interesting to see trends over time as well. Congress is more heavily tilted toward lawyers than it used to be 100 years ago. I wonder if that's part of the reason why the ivy league schools seem over-represented.
Michael Dell Bought His Company Too Cheaply
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What gives you the idea that Harvard is high population? It only has ~21000 at a time, including undergrad, grad, and professional students. Cal has 38000.
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A very heavy article on insinuations, very light on facts.
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