skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I got to pick between YC in MV and YC in LV, I'd pick LV hands-down (firearms, other regulations, being able to have decent housing; taxes are better but that's a very minor concern). But, I don't think this would be true for more than maybe 5% of the people in YC.

The main weakness of YC in LV would be the lack of investors. Within 10 miles of YC in MV are almost all the good investors, within 30 miles, basically everyone except USV and Mark Suster and maybe a couple more.

Tony Hsieh is awesome, but he's basically the only investor of note in Las Vegas. Even Seattle has slightly more choices.
Some sort of filter-by-country, or even just more than 10 results would be a nice addition.

And a 'minimum population' control.
This just reminds me that Prof. Fang Lizhi[1], who was a famous astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, a prominent activist during the 1989 student uprising in China, later hid in U.S. embassy in Beijing for months, exiled in U.S. and worked as Professor of Physics in Univ. of Arizona also suffered from Valley Fever [2], and was said to have died of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Lizhi

[2] http://www.csupomona.edu/~zywang/FLZ_NO6_2013-4-6.pdf
I have a bad feeling, that's how wars are started...
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The death of Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand was a major catalyst for the first World War, quite often these small events (when compared to the scale of a war) can be the little pushes which finally tip a country over the edge.
Also, an iPod or other globally-priced goods are cheap in high-cost high-wage areas, expensive in low-cost low-wage areas. Student loans, etc. are like iPods.

I think the ideal is to work in a high-wage high-cost area early on your career, to build up a high salary history and cover some of your fixed costs (student loans, etc.), while not incurring large recurring high costs (buying a house). Then, relocate to a low-cost low-wage area while working remotely for a high percentage of your original salary.

A $150k/yr Silicon Valley salary that became $110k/yr to telecommute from a low-cost, low-tax, low-wage area would be awesome buying power.

A lot of people do this with fixed retirement income (pensions, or even social security) -- retire to a low cost area.
Spectacular pictures of the explosion in Lac-Megantic (Canada) this morning
If this become a war, who will be blamed, Snowden?
US presidents with their terrible policies?
Osama Bin Laden for giving incentive to the terrible policies?
US presidents for training Osama Bin Laden in first place?
Russia for invading Afghanistan and giving reason to train Osama Bin Laden?

I think it all depends on who wins in the end. Too bad, the common people always lose.
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Have you considered adding a "recommend days" field to your product? Given the number of people per experiment and the number of conversions, you could potentially calculate a minimum time to run the experiment and simply explain that sometimes you are more likely to get false positives prior to the minimum time?

Also, it makes me very happy to know that you're aware of this problem and are trying to tackle it. It makes me more likely to recommend it to clients.
Sort of reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz...
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I was thinking it would be something like "headcount, top-line revenue, last valuation, and hmm I wonder what else".

Instead it's a bunch of self-help goo.
> "describe them in terms of what?"

Describe them (completely) in terms of any finite series of symbols.

Some numbers can be described as "7". Some as "pencil length". Some as "the fourth zero of the third Bessel function of the first kind". These are all describable numbers.

Yet there are vastly more numbers that cannot be described in this way -- vastly more numbers that we miss than that we hit.
Cool, although the recall leaves something to be desired.
My solution: https://github.com/vladstudio/Vladstudio-smart-resize-Bash-s...

The biggest problem of scaling down an image is to find right settings for resampling and sharpening. After many expreiments, I found it impossible to achieve good results by simply running convert with a line of arguments. So I came up with this script, which basically does the following:

* configures -interpolate bicubic -filter Lagrange;
* resizes source image 80%;
* applies -unsharp 0.44x0.44+0.44+0.008;
* repeats steps 2 & 3 until target size is reached.
This is obviously much bigger than the leak of some classified documents that expose secret surveilance programs. The reaction of the US government (in this case, the decisions are probably made by Obama himself) is a lot bigger than a random criminal prosecution.

Just look at the measures taken in order to intimidate or capture Snowden: In effect, the US government grounded the private jet of a foreign head of state. If a similar action was done against the US, it would be considered an act of war. A persecution is exactly what this is, under the plausible (even legal) guise of criminal proceedings.
On the contrary, we do have a choice! We could use computable numbers instead of reals. A computable number is any number which is output by some Turing machine, or, equivalently, any number which can be found by some algorithm. e and pi are computable. You are right that Riemann integrals won't exist, but if you modify definitions somewhat, derivatives and integrals can be defined just as easily for computable numbers as for reals and you can do calculus with them (see second link).

Unlike reals, computable numbers are countable, and are all describable. (That is, there are aleph-null of them, so there are exactly as many computable numbers as natural numbers, and fewer than real numbers). And while almost all real numbers aren't computable (by the argument in the article), essentially every number you'd ever stumble upon in a math class is.

I prefer computable numbers to reals because I have trouble accepting that a thing exists when it by principal cannot be defined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number

http://www.amazon.com/Computable-Calculus-Oliver-Aberth/dp/0...
My hope was Snowden would pick a neutral or slightly decent place for asylum and exile, and it would maybe turn into the new US (i.e. "free place where people go to avoid oppression"), and maybe a startup hub for security (Berlin would be a top choice for that...) A protracted court case for extradition in Hong Kong would have been awesome for that, except for the high cost of housing.

But Venezuela is really not a place I'd consider. It's not Equatorial Guinea, but isn't even Argentina.
I agree with you about the design issue. I've had to create one myself (http://tenjin.ie) -- although I think the laws in Ireland are slightly different than elsewhere in the EU.

Regardless of the laws, though, when a site fails to function, it should tell you when cookies are the reason. It's not hard to do.
Yeah it doesn't account for a lot of stuff. I'm in a Mediterranean climate here and it's suggesting a lot of places that are very far from that. If it's supposed to be used for plant growing related purposes it's not going to be very useful.
I found this post to be an interesting description of Banach-Tarski, if anyone is as confused as I was: http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2012/01/06/the-banach-t...
I don't have anything invested in either project, but I just want to point out that dockerlite's last commit was two months ago and the Docker project has had twelve releases in that same time frame[1]. Docker has moved quite a bit in the last two months and is getting close to production-ready.

[1]: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/releases
If the US (according to Obama) wasn't about to 'scramble the jets' to catch Snowden, then I'm not sure they are willing to start a war over a country granting him asylum.
I agree, every single interesting and fascinating question on stack exchange sites seems to have been closed for some reason or another. This overzealous closing of anything slightly outside the box is really tiresome.
Without getting into what Al Gore may have said or meant, let me quote the following lovely little tidbit from Paul Ginsparg (who created arxiv.org). It's about physicist Ken Wilson, but Al Gore and Newt Gingrich make a fascinating appearance:

"He [Wilson] was on the NSF taskforce that pushed for the implementation of the early NSFNet, and I was told by George Strawn (one of the people on the NSF side shepherding the process) that Ken was the key person who argued for using the TCP/IP (i.e., internet) protocol, rather than the DECnet protocol favored by many of the other physicists, and we know where that has led… (George also told me that the absolutely essential people who moved the NSFNet through the senate and house, respectively, were … Al Gore, Jr and Newt Gingrich)"

http://quantumfrontiers.com/2013/06/18/we-are-all-wilsonians...
Seems to only show airpots.
In a class I took once, the professor presented a theorem he was going to prove (I think it was "surface groups are subgroup separable"). He told us "the story goes that when the great mathematician, Serre, heard about this theorem, he was so surprised he dropped his fork".

Edit: fixed quotation marks
They're sufficiently bad at security that I actively discourage people from using Dropbox for anything but personal toy stuff. Since their future revenue expansion seems to be tied to "dropbox for teams", not fixing security is a major problem for them, since any competent auditor would have similar concerns about dropbox (not just "dropbox can see your files", but the other access controls and auditing/logging dropbox doesn't support.) Box also sucks for security, but slightly less.

Everyone I know in a security-conscious environment uses something else. Sadly, often MS Sharepoint. There are some big advantages to a system like Dropbox, but aside from some small startups, nothing in that space I'd actually recommend for business use.
That's what we aim for
That will not happen. Whatever the US does, it will only bring the countries of South America even closer together.
As a non mathematician the most surprising for me is that 1 is not a prime number. It still feels like a kludge because it produces inconvenient results to have 1 a prime - so let's just exclude it.
I guess you have to be an entrepreneur yourself to understand the true value of the topics raised
Both docker and dockerlite belong to Dotcloud's github organization. Perhaps dockerlite is just a proof of concept.
No mention of the people who elect these leaders?
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Snowden should be called a "public informant", not a leaker, whistleblower, etc.
Typically, informants are insiders who help police, etc. "Informant" has a positive connotation. So if the government has their informants: FBI informant, police informant, etc. we the people should have a "Public Informant".
I'm really stunned by the amount of development on the tracking side.

Cookies, flash cookies, evercookies, local storage, favicons, browser fingerprinting... I'm sure there are several others.

It's stunning to me because the amount of redundant ammunition available for trackers seems way out of proportion to how many people actually know anything about this.
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I don't see US starting the war, I see OTHER COUNTRIES starting the war over US actions...

The entire south america is pissed off for example, and I've seen people here talking about trying to convince europeans to join us in a anti-US war, WWII style (ie: demonize the US and throw the entire world against it).

And it might work, plainly because US policies since WWII mostly pissed everyone off, almost all countries have reasons to want to see US destroyed, and I am pretty sure that with enough incentive, you might end with the entire world attacking the US...

Other possible scenarios are EU civil war, South America vs EU war, or Asian countries starting their own already incoming wars during this chaos, hoping to drag one western country or another to their side.
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This was closed over a year after the question was asked, because it already had ~100 answers and they wanted to avoid being spammed with more answers. "Too localized" was just the closest reason they could find to close it with. Seems pretty reasonable.
I've lived in Bolivia for a year when Evo Morales was already president. I've also been to Venezuela.

Assuming the CIA won't try to actually abduct him there and Morales will stay in power, Bolivia is a perfect choice in many ways. Morales is totally trustworthy. The country is very safe and less militarized than Venezuela. Policy is somewhat more moderate, basically based on social democratic ideas as they are seen in Europe. There is a history of corruption, but this is mostly in the lower layers of government and police and elections are probably not affected.

Venezuela, however, can actually protect him once he is inside the country. Bolivia probably can't.
Honestly I would like to see some spectacular failures. Just as Gwynne stated recently, if SpaceX doesn't generate a few craters with this program during testing it means they aren't trying as hard as they can. I'm glad Grasshopper will have its flight ceiling lifted soon with the new testing facility.

Not to say a 100% flight record wouldn't be fantastic, but I'd really enjoy seeing the trend of doubling height to continue, or even greater.
It is EU that might breakup, or Nato, and so on... Those that I am refering as broken alliances.
Honest question, as I'm not familiar with the country: Isn't it still a "banana republic"? (In the democratic sense - as I suppose it's what you meant.)
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This would never happen. Even Venezuela is not stopping their oil exports to the U.S.
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Nice idea. I like the clean interface and it's very responsive. Nice comparison feature as well. I think you need some kind of canonical name resolution though.

For example, searching for 'Moscow' returns nothing -- but it is found as 'Moskva'. Also, nothing is returned for 'Nairobi', but it's there as 'Jomo Kenyatta International' which is their airport. Not exactly obvious.

Overall very nice work.
I like how the post reflects the excitement of discovering something for yourself, even if only to find out later that it's commonly known in certain domains. Sometimes in this day and age with search engines it seems useless to sit and think about a problem when you can just search and see if and how someone has already solved it.

For me, I like to wonder about the transition point in history where man went from not using numbers to using them. What prompted this? Were numbers used first to indicate order (e.g. my first born son) or quantity? How did someone first teach the idea of numbers to another?

I'm sure there are endless books and articles written on this topic, but I've never had the desire to see what others have to say on the subject. Sometimes it's just nice to let my mind relax and drift to such questions; I sometimes recapture the feeling of wonder and exploration that I had originally...
Things are a little different when you buy top-end products. I had a ThinkPad T43p which I was quite happy with from 2005-2009, and a T21p for a similar length of time. MBP2010-17" is also probably going to last until 2014 for most of the reasons mentioned in this article (and I'd considered the M6400 at the time).

Anything but top spec stuff means I'd want to switch after a year or two, which if you include the time to do so, is probably more expensive.
The USA on May 11, 1973. (OK, the ruling was not exactly innocent. But Daniel Ellsberg walked free after intentional theft of classified government documents.)

Sorry to have a somewhat real answer to a rhetorical question.
There is no right for such a demand as these protocols are just a technology that is not even necessarily related to the sharing of files.
They still have about 10x to go to hit the VTOL rocket record of 3140 meters [1], which they seem to be aiming for, so I assume some more doubling-or-greater is in the works.

[1] http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/x-33/dc-xa.htm
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One has properties that are significantly different than the primes. Doesn't it make sense that if it behaves differently than the primes that it isn't a prime, but something else?
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Bin Laden is definitely the Gavrilo Princip, but I disagree with the opinion that our leaders were just innocently and emotionally reacting to 9/11, as most of Bush's cabinet consisted of hardcore, , Team B[1], neoconservative ideologues.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Very interesting stuff. With the crowd sourcing market getting so crowded you really do have to work to get noticed it seems.
The other "exit strategy" is when to cut your losses and quit. At that point, what do you do? What criteria would you use to figure that out?
The important point for me is that one of the major adblockers has enabled a whitelist by default, and is curating it to allow non-intrusive adverts. That can affect enough users to make a difference, which my setting up a whitelist myself wouldn't.
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Now that Google Reader is gone, iGoogle is next.

What is everyone going to replace it with?
I just downloaded Astrid for the first time about 2 months ago. It's the only to-do app that I've consistently used. It's a shame to have received an email this morning about them closing their doors.
Adding in maps would also be interesting - seeing where these different "similar" places on the planet are.
Partly true. The FSF interprets "X linking Y" as "X modifying Y and therefore subject to Y's license," which is why Microsoft got to make so much hay out of the GPL's "virality."
I think it's great that it was disclosed my intention was not to give someone a reason not to disclose although I guess I see how that might be the result of a comment like mine. (As a side note that's not an entirely infrequent occurrence on HN "shoot first" (downvote) based upon agreement or disagreement not wanting to hear opposing views.

What scares me is that people get riled up by a rally in that way based upon crowd psychology http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crowd_psychology
Just for the record, the "unsharp mask" filter doesn't really sharpen but it increases edge contrast, which makes it seem sharper. It is something that you should only apply to the final version of an image, after all resizing has been done, however.
Actually mathematicians have gone back and forth on whether 1 should be considered a prime number.
I thought the BDB backend for Subversion had been deprecated for years...
I was going to throw a fit about that unmatched quote, but the second one canceled it out, phew.
NATO at the moment is basically just "U.S. + anyone else who wants to help"

With the info that NATO has been used to spy on the E.U. I definitely see incentive for a separate European military arrangement.
Are you just being ridiculous right now? Chile, Uruguay, and Mexico for instance are strong U.S. allies. Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, and virtually every other country that hasn't given Snowden asylum would back America in the event of "World War III", which would end fairly fast.
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This one seems reasonable to me; it's a blog or mailing list discussion topic, not really a specific mathematics question. Although phrased as a question, it's obviously a rhetorical one; what the asker really means is, "I would like to start a discussion in which everyone lists their favorite examples of surprising mathematics results".

It's a fine discussion to have, but StackOverflow wants their site to be about actual questions, not "what's your favorite X" type discussions, which seems like a legitimate preference.
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Yup, thanks it's on the bottom of the webpage.
any plans for an opera or chrome extension?
Did anyone use iGoogle at all?
mod_pagespeed (and ngx_pagespeed) can automate this for all your images. If you have inline width/height or inline style dimensions, it will do the resampling on your behalf: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/filter-...

The advantages of having correctly sized imagery are immense, but in short.. something like 70% smaller total byte payload for mobile, huge reduction in image decode & resize cost, better scroll performance, and faster relayouts when orientation changes or browser window changes.

(And I do think browsers themselves should resample scaled images like this to achieve equal quality, but your users will benefit way more if assets are delivered well to begin with.)
Elon and the SpaceX team are kicking ass!

2 months ago they hovered at 250m: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvbh-Z8Abk

6 months ago they hovered at the height of a 12-story (40m) building: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-NYeH-CEY

These guys are on a very fast learning curve. These near-ground tests are the hardest.

Elon said that they will be using a fully reusable first stage in 2015, only 18 months away: http://allthingsd.com/20130530/tesla-ceo-and-spacex-founder-...

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_reusable_rocket_launchin...]
This is awesome!! Can't wait to get my hands on one actually.
I think the script to apply it to a folder could be clear with:

for image in *.jpg ; do gm convert $image -resize "900x" -unsharp 2x0.5+0.5+0 -quality 98 `basename $image .jpg`_s.jpg ; done
Part of the reason rescaled images look dim and blurry is because rescaling software usually assumes gamma 1.0 instead of 2.2: http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html

There are many more good essays on image rescaling here: http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/
As a Londoner who recently got a 1Gbps up/down connection, I can't wait for this; the limiting factor in saturating my connection is now the rest of the 'net, rather than my own connection — which is actually oddly frustrating. Catch up already!
Sure, the revelations of NSA overreach are important.

But I think the Snowden story is important as well, perhaps even more important. It's not really about Snowden, personally. It's about the power and secrecy of the government. It's about individual conscience and defiance. It's about how we, as a society, deal with non-conformity.

Compare Snowden with Bradley Manning. Compare Manning with previous whistleblowers like Daniel Ellsberg, Mark Fein or Thomas Drake. Manning's leaks were much more consequential than those that came before him, but things turned out pretty badly for Manning himself. Snowden clearly thought about how to increase the impact of the information he released, as well as how to decrease the negative consequences for himself. The next leaker, whoever it turns out to be, will undoubtedly learn from Snowden's example, just as Snowden learned from Manning.

Snowden's story is important for the rest of us as well. Most of us will never have the chance to do what Snowden did. But we all face situations where doing the right thing could lead to negative consequences. Seeing what happens to Snowden, seeing how we collectively react to what he did, in the media and in person, who can avoid putting himself in Snoweden's shoes? Who can help asking, "What would my family say about me if I did something like that?"

I think the focus on Snowden's story can help us figure out what kind of society we want to have, as 911 recedes into the past. Ultimately that's more important than the news that the NSA, the government's largest spy organization, is actually spying.
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