skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, unlikely ways.

One woman I knew died in tandem certification training. She had a primary chute malfunction, then deployed the 2nd without cutting away properly. They got tangled, and she and the instructor both went in. The instructor had > 10k jumps and was very well known.

Another person I knew was the DZ safety instructor. During an AFF course, she had to pull the student's chute because he failed to respond. When his chute deployed, his body flipped and she was kicked in the face. It knocked her unconscious, and her parachute auto-deployed. That AAD would have saved her life, but when she landed still unconscious, she hit the only rock in the field with her head and died.
This is off topic for this post, but astronomy, space and space missions always have a way of putting things in perspective and showing how much humans have progressed and learned, and also the magnitude of human achievement (in the past) with what seem like completely unusable equipment today.

I look at the Voyager (1 and 2) data whenever I feel like comparing things to what we have today, and I always end up being overwhelmed by the facts, figures and what humans have achieved. I can't help but be awed.

Quoting from the Voyager FAQ [1]:

> Question: How fast are the Voyager computers?

> Answer:Not very fast compared to today’s standards. The master clock runs at 4 MHz but the CPU’s clock runs at only 250 KHz. A typical instruction takes 80 microseconds, that is about 8,000 instructions per second. To put this in perspective, a 2013 top-of-the-line smartphone runs at 1.5 GHz with four or more processors yielding over 14 billion instructions per second.

Quoting from the Voyager Interstellar Science page [2]:

> Science data are returned to earth in real time at 160 bps.

Just imagine sending data to earth at 160 bps from a distance of 20 billion kilometers and 17 billion kilometers^ [3] , respectively, for Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The time it takes light to travel between earth and Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is currently about 19 hours and 15.5 hours^, respectively. (Some other communication is collected and sent at 115 kbps)

^: These figures are rounded since it doesn't make a huge difference to me at this magnitude, and also, the distance from earth to these two spacecraft does sometimes decrease due to earth's revolution around the sun.

[1]: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html

[2]: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/

[3]: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/
There actually was a "war on drugs", and while drug sentences are not the cause of mass incarceration (prison sentences are dominated by violent crimes, followed by property crimes), there are many tens of thousands of people in prison for drug offenses.

Are there even 100 people in prison for "cybercrime"?

Does "cybercrime", which includes credit card and identity theft, occur only rarely? Is that why almost nobody is in prison for it? No. The reason nobody is in prison for "cybercrime" is that despite what us message board nerds think, we are not in fact part of a persecuted class.
His conjecture is correct, but his conclusion is not.

Advanced mathematics are rarely used for any professional position (including software engineering), but that doesn't mean that technical degrees are irrelevant. In my experience, such filters (like an MIT degree in CS) are invaluable for two reasons:

1. Math does teach you to think logically, which is an invaluable skill in all careers and essential in some (software engineering, specifically). He claims that "transference of mathematical skills is unsettled," but in my experience that's totally untrue: try teaching programming to a bunch of math majors and a bunch of sociology majors, see how learns more easily. Of course, math is definitely not the only way to learn this—philosophy is also an excellent way to learn logical thinking, and I wish that more CS departments required some basic philosophy courses.

That being said, what would be a better way to teach logic skills directly? The sports analogy is pretty bogus because athletes typically spend the majority of their time practicing things besides full games of their sport.

2. For almost any professional field, having smarter employees is an advantage. Unfortunately, administering and/or requiring IQ tests is cumbersome and potentially illegal. A technical degree from a top university is a convenient proxy.
Walmart is cutting 7,000 jobs due to automation, and it’s not alone
Apparently it was not product placement, but meant for laughter. I thought it was placement when I saw it.
Dnsimple SSL defaults to simple, not secure
> ...as a subscriber to USPA magazine..

Somewhat you missed the safety section in USPA's website:

"According to the National Safety Council, a person is much more likely to be killed getting struck by lightning or stung by a bee."

http://www.uspa.org/facts-faqs/safety
If memory serves, Win 98SE fixed many vanilla 98 problems before the love. Same with XP pre service packs; #1 fixed many stability issues, #2 fixed many back-compatibility issues(or vice-versa). Same comparison can be made about the Vista & 7(aka Vista SP7) releases. What also came with each new release was bloat, poorly implemented features(some initially, others perpetually) and phone-home functionality: XP=4, Vista=32, 7SP1>40. Win NT was the last OS MS created, it's been feature rich-er iterations ever since.
Under the federal sentencing guidelines, a person charged with many counts of the same offense serves only the sentence associated with the most severe of those offenses; the sentences "group" by charge, and the grouping rules are part of the sentencing guidelines.
> They need to have strong, fluent understanding of the very basic (imagine if a developer can't perform without look basic list manipulations).

Why? Basic arithmetic is almost entirely useless as a skill.

Why should I spend my time learning something which computers will always be able to do more reliably and faster than me?
While I agree with some observations:
a) most only use basic maths at their daily jobs)

b) math and computer science degrees are used as a filtering criteria, by recruiters hiring for actuary/stats/finance and programming jobs

I disagree with what appear to be a conjecture, and the subsequent conclusion:

> Acceptance of the conjecture should have revolutionary
> educational implications .
> In particular, it undermines the legitimacy of requiring higher mathematics of all students.
> Such mathematics is actually needed by only a
> minute fraction of the workforce

Being able to abstract business-specific/domain specific problems into something that already has well-researched, validated and implement solution -- is critical, and gives a business an edge.

This is the type of capability (together with knowing a broad universe of solved topics), that the graduates with CS and Math degrees should bring in into the workforce.

I do agree with the author's implication, that there is a 'placebo-style' filtering that's going on by most of the recruiter.

And it is unfortunate, because it brings into Computer Science, especially, a huge number of people who have neither the passion, no life-long perseverance to be current in the subject.
A old friend of mine and I visited a corn field in Nebraska ten years ago in search of some wreckage left behind from a crash in 1966. With the help of a metal detector we located metal identification plates, various small pieces of metal, and an ash tray (smoking on planes was once a thing). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braniff_Flight_250
Fine, saving civilization. Saving the environment. In the case of India, saving their kids... What's 2 more Celsius going to mean for droughts and heatwaves in India? Worst-case scenario we're talking about hundreds of millions f refugees fleeing countries that are no longer suitable for human habitation.
Descartes?
So, it will make sense to make Int64 the default even in 32 bits?
“Right now, wingsuit BASE jumping is, globally, the hottest thing going for the impressionable, 18- to 35-year-old single-male demographic.”

I used to do free-climbing. The first time that I climbed with ropes was with friends. It was also their first time with ropes. They didn't know how to tie a knot. The first time I repelled off a cliff was with a gold line with partner feeding from below. The knot slipped. I felt a vibration and hands instinctively grasped. I was 4 stories up and hanging on literally at the end of my rope. I was 22.

I started to look at my body as a resource. Climbing helped to fine tune a sense of balance. Kept the mind sharp. Then read that Chris Langton (an A-Life pioneer) had a hang gliding accident. Started to make risk-reward assessments. Changed sports.
Small Indiana county sends more people to prison than SF and Durham. Why?
Paypal Working Capital is another choice. Five minutes to get approved and the funds into your account, then payback 10,15% or other of credit card receipts. If you have a SaaS company then this will be very predictable.

I have personally got a PayPal WC loan for $75,000 in 5 minutes, which I used to buy some small tools and machines, and some other warehouse infrastructure. I didn't want to pay cash, and I didn't want to go through the process of leasing the stuff (would take weeks), so this fit the bill quite well and was paid off without really noticing.
What was that person trying to find? Dowels? Awls?
"Is there a pilot on board ?"
In most countries, the central bank is not privately owned at all. Even the Fed is only partially privately owned, and that's mostly a historical artefact.

Regulatory capture by private banks still tends to be a problem, though.
I imagine you could accomplish the trails with some triangle strips in WebGL and let the GPU do the heavy lifting. I wonder if that would perform any better.
There have been recent situations here in Canada where very ill people were literally on the doorstep of the ER asking for help but were refused any help.

In nearly all the situations the staff in the building told the sick people outside to call 911 to get transported inside two feet inside the door.

The hospital workers and by that I mean nurses and doctors were unwilling to help even though the people outside were very ill.
I doubt many are suggesting they do wait more time, just that they do it a bit better.

It is in the interests of Indians, as well as the rest of the globe, to try and short-cut past a lot of development that went on in the first world - precisely to avoid the horrific pollution that resulted from our lack of knowledge or greed. The first world should be assisting this.

By avoiding a lot of the smoke-stack development that the West went through they'd end up in a better overall place.

Meanwhile developing nations need to stop accepting our old crap (ships for scrapping, old TVs, stuff collected via roadside "recycling" such as UK cardboard) for disassembly on beaches. The sooner the First World owns the whole problem, the better.
If I ask lowebot for help, does that make me lando calrisian?
For "parallel construction" to apply, the intelligence community would have had to create the conditions in which a search authorized for some other reason would have uncovered evidence of the kernel.org rootkits.

The common example of parallel construction (because it's simple to explain, not because there's evidence it's happened) is: unauthorized electronic surveillance reveals that a drug transaction is going to happen at such-and-such corner at such-and-such time. The surveillance is shared with the police, who then station officers near the site of the transaction, and who are therefore able to observe the crime as it takes place --- giving them probable cause to effect the search themselves.

In other words, parallel construction is a way of allowing the police to be at the "right place and right time".

So, to move the ball forward on the conspiracy theory that some 27 year old doofus who rootkitted kernel.org with stolen credentials was so important to the NSA that they monitored him and conspired with the FBI to ensure he was charged, you must first come up with the set of circumstances in which the NSA could have shared something with the FBI that would have enabled FBI to de novo generate probable cause for a search.
Twitter's turnaround could come through acquisitions. If Yahoo were willing to sell Tumblr to Twitter, and if Twitter were able to pick up Gawker Media it could form a real powerhouse.
Use Maldon you heathens
You asked if you were a bad person for not having sympathy for a death.. I believe this to be true.

I totally agree that walking down the street doesn't carry the same magnitude of risk, but there is measured risk there. Just because someone is participating in an activity which carries more risk than you consider acceptable, doesn't mean we shouldn't sympathise for their death.

My analogies were pointing out other activities, which also carry risk... and you've latched onto the one which obviously has the least risk. The point is, any activity has a calculated risk.

You made the identical mistake.. by your own analysis, playing Russian roulette 6 consecutive rounds would guarantee a fatality...

However, just 3 off the top of my head (for the avoidance of doubt, these people have died 0 times):

- Miles Daisher has over 4000 base jumps.
- Chris McDougall has over 3000.
- Dan Schilling did over 200 in one day back in 2006.

Talking of banning, If you think that my statement broke the rules of HN, then I ask that you make a complaint against me.
If you have actually checked out Steve Keen's presentations and/or writing you would have learned that what is being presented as "Keynesian economics" is more correctly "Samuelsonian economics". This after Paul Samuelson that sat down and basically rewrote everything Keynes to fit it into the very economic models that Keynes was attacking.
Something about this story seems off to me.

>Mr Kern, who heads Austria's Social Democrats and the country's coalition government, also said Facebook and Google had sales of more than 100m euros each in Austria.

I'm not an expert on Austria but this suggests to me that this person can propose and possibly pass laws in Austria. He is not just an activist who only has the power to give interviews to BBC. If he thinks that Amazon and Starbucks are not paying enough tax to Austria, why doesn't he change Austrian law to charge them more tax? Don't give me some bullshit about how corporate lawyers will find loopholes - you run the government! Do your job! Change the law! Or at least make a show of trying.
My data is me. If someone makes a buck off my data, I want my cut.
Reading this reminded me of one interceptor variant that was canceled. Same specs as the A-12, but armed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_YF-12 ). The second seat was added to operate the fire control system (radar/weapons).

Very cool read though.
2-3 years is the sentence he's most likely to get. Look at the sentencing guidelines; they're public.

FWIW: 2-3 years is also too harsh for a first-time offense. There's no corrective outcome you get in year 2 that you don't already have by the end of year 1.

But regardless: the sentences in these press releases have absolutely no connection to reality.
I've tried it. I find duktape to be more feature complete and easier to use and embed.
> What more do you want then?

I'd like the Federal Reserve to control overall fiscal policy as well. The Fed tells Congress exactly how much it can spend each year, and Congress divvies it up however it likes.
It's kind of a running joke at my school that you learn Calc I in Calc II and Calc II in Calc III, etc., etc.
The trainers on first aid courses I've attended have all said similar things. Yes, you are quite likely to break a casualty's ribs if you have to give them chest compressions. However, if you're a trained first aider and you're considering giving them chest compressions in the first place, presumably it's because you have ascertained that their heart isn't working properly and their life is therefore in immediate danger. Unless giving the compressions is getting in the way of something more important, like calling professional help as soon as possible or using an AED if one is available, it's practically impossible to make things worse for the casualty by trying.
I just read the wiki about fuel dumping. Based on that it seems less likely that most of the passenger flights have fuel dumping capabilities. Nice read though.
"Cost" isn't a scalar where you can compare one source of capital against another of unlike structure (no matter what sophomore ec majors might say).

If you have a $1M term loan to Bank of Bankerton, and your payment this month is $100k, if you have a big miss in revenue (lose a couple major customers, switch billing models, big delay in onboarding new enterprise client) and can't make the payment, you're dead.

If you had the same $1M from a Revenue Based Finance deal, payable as, say, 10% of your monthly revenue (expected at $1M, so identical $100k payment due) but then had a huge revenue miss by say half -- well, you just pay 50k that month and stay alive to fight another day.

So -- to most small entrepreneurs without deep pocketed equity owners to fall back upon for a recap, the flexibility in a Revenue Loan can be an existential matter. What is the "cost" of that?

(Ps I'm partially being rhetorical and partially serious -- I've been working on a paper on this topic and would welcome a quant-y collaborator.)
There are plugins for syncing to various cloud providers. For each device platform, there will be many apps available that support Keepass. Each app will vary in how useful it is to you (each one is a different third-party developer), but I've found the level of functionality is good enough that it ultimately became my password manager. I use it cloud synced with a Windows PC and Windows Phone app. I only install/use plugins/apps that are linked directly from the Keepass website as trustworthy projects.
I'm not surprised that something called "induction" doesn't succeed in achieving what "transfinite induction" can do, otherwise the latter couldn't exist as a separate technique with its own name. :)

> For example your strategy would show that the sequence of positive integers 1, 2, 3... has a finite limit!

How so? Induction is in fact the basis for the common proof that there is no highest integer: for any integer k, we can add 1 to find a larger integer. Every integer k has the property P(k) := "k is not the highest integer".
If I remember correctly, Intel CPUs had support in hardware for automatically saving and restoring the CPU state (doing a task switch) since the 386, and there was a way to query the CPU for how big that state needs to be. That would've enabled automatic forward-compatibility, but I have a feeling that feature got broken sometime around the AMD64 timeframe (by AMD, not Intel.)
Looking at some of the suggested features in the survey results, keep in mind that:

- You can collapse comments (click the `[-]` next to the comment)

- You can unvote (click "unvote", which shows up after voting)

- You get the downvote button after 500 karma
Musk urges Tesla workers to cut costs ahead of fundraising round
Upvoted so that you stay at the top forevermore. Same thing happens with comments after they pass a threshold of votes.
Arcan Update: auto-layouting, OCR, crash recovery, 'BSD, 3D models, and more
Great, now I can burn through my data cap in 8.42 seconds
This was a primary consideration in the design of the site. I should clarify the difference between goals on this site and the goals in your article.

This site is designed for you to share your goals on a daily basis (what are you going to get done today). The article is correct that long term goals, like in the article are goals that you should mostly keep to yourself.

Essentially the reason why you should not share your long term goals with others is that it lets you imagine how much better your life will be in the future (and expectation of reward is effectively the same as the reward itself).

However, short term goals aren't rewarding in the same way. If I tell you I'm going to get up at 5:30am tomorrow, there isn't really an implicit reward or a belief that my life will be substantially different for having done so (but if someone told you they are going to lose 50 pounds in the next year, there would be) . The site also doesn't enable rewards for creating a goal itself, but only for accomplishing it.

Finally, sharing goals with others in real life is different from using this site. In real life, your friend isn't going to call you out if you fail to accomplish your goal a day/month/year from now. But you will be reminded of your failure and others' knowledge of your failure on this site.
I used math once. Not for me.
"The Street" still exists??
It's simple. When headcount increases, hierarchy becomes a necessity. Democracy and collaboration have to pay the price of complexity brought by the greater number of attendee.

You have to choose one, do what is told, or collaborate on a huge scale, in other words meetings substituted works.

Beware there are certain personality enjoy meetings and collaboration. To these characters, the more meeting the better. Collaboration is redefining their work and value. They consider meeting is the job itself. After all, what can be done without collaboration.

collaboration has become the number one platform for visibility and getting upper management attention, translate into promotion and higher pays. After all, what else matters if you can't get ahead and earn more income.

Meetings are important. Meeting is essential to career advance.

Here it explains the mystery of your problem: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a62768/higher-iq-less-s...
Finland is 1.7x larger geographically than Nebraska, and its population is 2.8x larger. So while Nebraska is certainly somewhat more sparsely populated, the difference isn't huge.
Yeah i found that line about them becoming a big exporter right after the URV was introduced more interesting than trying to get people to think in static URVs than inflating Reals.

And the moment i read "Catholic university" i found myself thinking about the Chicago Boys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Boys
HN works because it is simple to use. Please keep it that way. Tagging introduces a whole new set of issues and off topic discussions. People are going to debate semantics, taxonomy and the proper labels for each and every thread. Every time someone dies, there are a few users asking the mods to put up the black bar. Tags are going to be much worse.
Unfortunately for this argument, the framers of the Constitution were pretty firm about the idea that for people to be sent to prison, they had to violate a law already on the books at the time the crime was committed, and that the burden of proof for establishing the violation was on the prosecution, not the defendant.
Shrimp?
Uncovering bad guys hiding behind CloudFlare
There seem some unnecessary austerity policies out there. I think that stuff could be done by professionals instructed to maximise national well being than the politicians.
This is not a solution, and it is not clever but stupid.

If someone in power is so stupid to do it, companies will stop operating on their country but the world will continue going around and tax heavens will continue existing.

Governments are bankrupt totally now, expending way more that what they earn, with 5% deficits or more and want to raise more and more money in taxes, but there is a limit on what they could extract, as people can stop working if they become slaves.
You are correct, but my point was implicitly that the default thing people reach for is assert, especially since the name precondition sounds like it is only ok to call at the start of a function.