skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he's referring to how mturk and other things like it don't allow the use of AIs, it has to be an actual person.
If you're in a plane crash, you're trying to evacuate, and the guy ahead of you is trying to grab his carry-on and the bottles of wine he bought in France before exiting, I am pretty sure it's perfectly OK to punch him in the face.
This is a disgusting piece of propaganda, a rant full of name-throwing, misconstructed straw men arguments and easily spotted lies. I can see no reason to have this low level pseudo journalism in HN other than talking about how low are they willing to go.
I think that both you and svantana are talking about countability, which is not the point of this post but just a tool used to prove the theorem of indescribable numbers.
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The Danger in Demonizing Male Sexuality
I remind myself that the vast majority of people who fly and steward planes all day, every day, live to a ripe old age.
I was in a very, very bad accident at 16. I pulled myself out by the steering wheel (I was in the front passenger seat) and walked over to the other vehicle to ask if everyone was okay, before finding out that I was severely injured myself. The other driver kept telling me I should really sit down, and I couldn't comprehend why he'd be saying that when I felt perfectly fine.

The brain is quite incredible at blocking out bad things.
Ah -- I was copying from the airliners.net thread where someone initially said it was a 777-200LR. It is amazing just how safe the 777 seems to be. I wish they'd done the KC-777 plan for tankers instead of a KC-767.
> Consider the fact that underground trains have drivers even though technically they are not needed.

The London DLR[0] has been automated since it was opened in '87. It travels on the surface too.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway
If you're interested about the kind of harm Amazon can potentially do to the publishing ecosystem (or good, depending on your position), than definitely check out the Melville House Publisher's blog. They've famously fought Amazon numerous times over their terms and write frequently about Amazon issues.

http://www.mhpbooks.com/archive/
This is a hugely nitpicky thing, seeing as you clearly know at least two languages more or less as well as I know one, but you used 'heart' a couple times when you meant 'heard.'
They already force retailers to not give discounts for using cash. If they've figured out how to make that legal, why do you think BTC would be any different?

What we really need is for the justice department* to explicitly include the goal of making markets competitive in its short list of (un)official objectives.

* Or any branch of government. I mention the judicial because I think it is the branch least susceptible to bribery. Since competitive markets are bad for business, that makes it the most likely candidate to promote this kind of change.
> It is well proven that Aleph one, which is the infinity of the real numbers, is undeniably bigger than the infinity of the natural numbers.

This language really aggravates me. Thus far, there is no definition for what it means for one infinite series of numbers to be "bigger" than another.

> bear in mind that the set of real numbers is “even more infinite", and that’s the closest I can give you to an intuitive description.)

Again, there is no definition for what "even more infinite" means.

It seems like it's standard practice to talk to newbies about math without defining all your terms, and as a math newbie, that really turns me off. Sometimes it feels like math people are trying to "get away with" something, like politicians.
There were slave states (even Southern slave states) that did not secede from the Union though. Virginia is perhaps the most exceptional case of that, the western counties of that state seceded from Virginia itself to re-join the Union as the state of West Virginia.

Either way though, bikeshedding about the name of each belligerent is to miss the whole point of that wonderful long post. I encourage you to give it another look once you return from dinner before you give your fully-considered response.
I'm really interested to see how the Google Shopping Express [1] thing will play out. I really like the idea of challenging Amazon's control by enabling local stores rather than just trying to create another behemoth.

It seems like it's right up Google's alley, given their experience with long-tail markets in the advertising business. I hope it's a success.

[1] https://www.google.com/shopping/express/about/
The number of people, globally, using the internet, is still on that same near exponential growth curve that the first world nations were seeing in the late 90s. It really hasn't subsided; only gone to lower income brackets.

Heck, half of the US didn't have reliable access to the web until I think 2002?

And these late adopters, they are both non-english speakers and non-technical people.

Additionally, the early adopters, let's take my parents, who had Prodigy in about 1990, are now using the web more for things like shopping and content consumption, then they did in 1998.

If they wanted to watch the latest TV show, they can do that now online, AND they know this. Compare that to 2004. That will be reflected in the search terms.

Also, there are internet phenomenons that are at the order of that which we have not seen. Psy's videos on youtube for instance; 1 ba-ba-billion+? That's insane.

So yeah, Linux is left in the dust. Also, it's much easier than it used to be - take that from someone who's been using it since 1996 (?)

I need to do a write-up some time soon of how good we have it now - for my own memory.
Is the metric system cool now?
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AJrnBhwp...
The clear difference from your typical wistleblower case is that Snoden allegedly downloaded significant classified material, threatened to release this material, and has traveled to a cointry that would be a primary benefactor of this classified information. So, Snow den created this very unusual case.
I suspect that's more or a contractual thing than a legal thing. I know gas stations around South Florida are now advertising cash and credit prices (so my thought is---the gas companies have enough pull to get favorable terms from the credit card companies).
The whitepaper describes an approximate nearest neighbor algorithm, but I thought this would use some form of signal decomposition...Discrete Cosine Transform or Fourier Transform.
By all accounts, Unity continues to improve and actually innovate across releases, but the Canonical guys need to fix one simple thing - the out of the box appearance of Ubuntu is frankly hideous. They are doing some very interesting things w.r.t. human interaction, but the design is nearly an immediate turnoff to everybody I've shown it to.

I'm well aware that it's infinitely customizable, but that's not a solution. When a large fraction of your userbase makes their very first action after installation to change the color scheme/theme of your OS, you should go back to the drawing board with your designers. The actual paradigm they present to the user is fantastic, but the color scheme is repugnant.
Ah well done, is it possible that this is because the contract is to a private company?
There are several different definitions for comparing infinite quantities, and I've used one of them.

If I defined all the terms, my article would be twice as long (and it's too long as it is.) Whoever wants precise technical terms is welcome to go on Wikipedia.
You're looking at history somewhat oddly. Until the outbreak of war, the Union was the entirety of the US states. It was when Southern states seceded that the Union became the North—that is, those states upholding preservation of the Union of states and resolving the slavery issue. Once the war is underway, the Union is used interchangeably to refer to the army and the states. Among historians, pro-Union isn't a tenable position of historiography. This isn't about victors writing the history. The pro-Union nature of the conflict had everything to do with keeping the states united under the Constitution. The stupid semantics of calling the Civil War the War of Northern Aggression is far more a pro-South political statement than is prevailing historiography pro-North.

That the war was regionally divided does not lend credence to equating pro-Union with pro-North. This is key. Those who fought against state secession were motivated by wanting to preserve the Union and resolve the slavery question, not by wanting to preserve the North and destroy the South. War broke to preserve the Union in the face of Southern states wishing to break it to persist in determining their own right to perpetuate enslavement of Africans. War resulted in resolving both the status of the Union and slavery.
Where did the U.S. Constitution define "war"? For that matter, where did the U.S. Constitution mandate how exactly Congress is (and is not) allowed to handle declarations of war, other than that Congress is to do it?
I'm a big advocate for the Linux desktop, but at this point, as long as Canonical has Ubuntu ship off desktop search results to Amazon by default, I would even advocate for users to use other operating systems, even Mac OS X. It's no bastion of freedom respecting software, but at least doesn't ship off your desktop search results to a third party for profit.

Ubuntu is no longer freedom respecting software.
Actually we do have a overall decrease in the number of states over the past few centuries. The USSR is a special case because it was actually based on ideology and not just strength.

We can equally ask why, if your libertarian philosophy is so naturally stable, it has not emerged into the world yet?
> it was proved by Cantor and Cohen

Goedel and Cohen. Goedel proved it might be (constructible universe); Cohen proved it might not be (forcing). I think Cohen's on record as saying he suspects that with the "right" axioms, mathematicians might come to think that CH is obviously false.
Thanks. That is impressive.

The whole thing now makes me wonder if there was some very deliberate reason for their egress to be delayed. Something having to do with fire or the risk of fire? (I really have no idea)
2 confirmed fatalities, and 60 people still unaccounted for, according to the SF fire chief in a press conference just now.
My first try, with a hockey-stick growth pattern starting 2007. Expected a match with "twitter," instead got "baby poop."

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:iOj8ICadD...
>at the behest of the president that, assuming you are a US Citizen of voting age, you had a part in electing...

Fixed that for you.
Article seems to be inventing a need in the banking set for yet another crowdfunding meets YC knock-off. For them I also have a bridge for sale, low mileage and runs great.
I have never understood why it has such enormous fonts out of the box. The default size of the launcher fills up about 1/4 of my laptop screen.
well...... the military and the 'national security apparatus' is at war, that much is for certain. Certainly Congress's authorized budgets seem to agree with the idea.

But the nation itself is not at war, if that makes sense. So any changes in the day-to-day routine for the average citizen (or the governors of the average citizen) should not be evaluated as if the whole nation is on a war footing.
No EE would ever forget to mention i, sqrt(-1), that is my favorite, it makes what we are doing right now possible.
Now saying 60 people unaccounted for.
I know gas stations around South Florida are now advertising cash and credit prices

It's not just Florida. Every state I've traveled to recently now proudly advertises separate cash and credit pricing.
I suspect this is what makes people feel that a car is safer: they themselves are in control, and can believe that they'd miraculously dodge any crashes through skill and luck.

I don't know if that sense of control is transferable, though; paranoid backseat drivers are still a thing.
The counterpoint of course is that with open source there can always be forked versions with egregious features removed.

If OS X decided to record all of your search results you'd be SOL.
> It all has to go somewhere - it's just not going into bread.

for the time being.

On a related note, a globally deployed national currency used for savings, trade and reserves on a world-wide scale for about half a century now is historically kind of a first. "Price inflation resulting from quantity inflation" might well take a lot longer in the case of USD than any other national currency ever before took. What ultimately leads to the massive "wheel-barrow hyperinflations" is an exponentially exploding collective loss of confidence, as in "dropping by the minute". In fact, at this point the "famous" (as in Zimbabwe, Weimar etc.) absolutely massive printing at the late stages is no longer the cause but the result of that utter confidence loss.

This is probably more likely to happen earlier/faster in a national-currency-setting when exchange rates from trade with say your neighboring countries and their "stabler" currencies indicate a gradual loss of confidence first on their part, before that spreads to the locals?

But the USD has been / used to be / still to a great deal is "the yardstick" for all other currencies. "The US (Treasury / Fed) does not hold reserves against its currency" (apart from some Forex playmoney, those aren't reserves as such) -- whereas every other Central Bank does hold such "reserves against their currency", and those reserves are to a great degree USD (or USD-denominated debt "assets" aka treasuries etc.) as far as non-metallic reserve "assets" are concerned. Not exclusively USD but overwhelmingly so.

So that "absolutely massive, all-engulfing" chain-reaction-like global total loss of confidence should require a LOT more damage by USD managers than a couple quantitative easings and some fresh Fed cash for the ever-expanding USG and to bail out TBTF banks (aka ensure nominal performance of the financial system and hence all savings/pensions/deposits/insurances etc. regardless of "eventual real" performance).
Google Glass app lets Tesla owners check on cars from afar
I was actually curious, not whiny. I picked it up from the "new" stream before it was top story and before any details.

HN is whatever people up-vote it to be.
It's the third highest voted answer. "The fact that you can turn a sphere inside out differentiably.", 52 points.
To date it has been contractual. However, as a result of an antitrust lawsuit, Visa and Mastercard changed the provisions that ban merchants from charging a credit card surcharge. But states are now trying to bad adding those surcharges: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100485094.
It can get caught in a seat while exiting. That already happens all the time in normal deplaning situations, let alone an emergency situation!
Of course. I'm implicitly claiming that this kind of contractual requirement should be illegal since it's blatantly anticompetitive (my opinion, not the court's, naturally).
Also worth mentioning is the closure gotcha: when you create functions in a loop, the functions' context points to the context of the latest iteration of the loop. Other languages might have this issue as well and provide alternatives based on map-style constructs. In Python, you can take advantage of the behaviour described by the OP to make your inner functions have their own context, which is initialized when the function gets created.
I've been using Google Shopping Express (beta invite from a former coworker) for the past month now, and I love it. I ordered a toothbrush going into work yesterday, and the courier was at my desk by noon. I especially like that it includes a variety of local stores (including budget places like Walgreens and Target) so I almost always get the best price. A couple of potential flaws I see with the service are:

* The price point. Right now the beta gives me free delivery on everything. So I can order from numerous stores with tiny orders, which is great. But normally it looks like it will cost $4.99 for a one-store delivery, which may not be worth it for me unless I really need something urgent. Amazon Prime will almost always be worth it for me in that case, unless it's something I can't go two days without. Now, maybe if Google came out with a Prime-like one time annual fee for unlimited deliveries...

* The type of products available. Right now, you can't get a lot of the things you would normally go to the store for: perishable food items, alcohol, etc. That takes away a lot of the value of Same Day delivery. Amazon Fresh really has a big edge here, but I guess that's only available in Seattle.
Between any two rationals there are uncountably many irrationals, and between any two irrationals there are only countably many rationals.

Well, that's not surprising if you know there are only countably many rational in total. That itself may accunted as surprising (and is mentioned in the parent).
That's far too much effort when they can just monitor RSS feeds and reword someone else's work.
Tuples shouldn't be differentiated from lists primarily in terms of mutable vs immutable. They represent different usages semantically, even though their primary functional difference is in their mutability.

Lists are largely for homogeneous collections, whereas tuples are heterogeneous. When you mix them, you abuse what they signal to the reader.

Python doesn't do much for type safety. Either accept the pitfalls of mutability as a tradeoff, or subclass list to make a safer type.
roughly 60 unaccounted for
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In this regard, 10.04 was the pinnacle of the appearance of Ubuntu Desktop. Everything since has been a downgrade IMO and that tends to be the consensus on HN as well as other tech portals. Unity is a disaster, as is the forced Amazon search stuff (as you said, opt-out is not a solution).
I'm with you - I'm running a VM of 13.04 full screen 1920x1200 on a dual monitor machine. The Ubuntu desktop can fit about 40% of the content that the host MacOS install can in the same space. It's frustrating - I shudder to think what it's like in lower resolutions.
In other words, function definitions create scope.
Check the lower third on CNN "Fire Chief: Fire Fighters went to work right away" I mean really? they did not stop for some in and out on the way to the scene?
I find Skolem's Paradox to be a remarkable thing.

Uncountable sets are the foundation for a large portion of modern math but the sense in which they "really exist" is at least interesting.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-skolem/
>> that's something else entirely, completely separate to what I'm discussing.

Aha I see. The NSA and Stasi are collecting vast amounts of data on everybody living in their countries. Data that was and will be abused to ruin innocent lives. But you prefer to discuss in this topic something "entirely, completely separate".
What they need is a giant sliding bar (like in old jail cells) that locks the overhead doors shut on takeoff, and won't get released until at the gate. Last time I flew on a commercial flight, I got clocked in the head by some jerk who couldn't think ahead and put 'something important' in the overhead.

I think it would be fair to carry the small package under my seat (my laptop), but reaching for overhead is a joke.
Praha and Wien work, Baile Atha Cliath (local mystical name for Dublin) doesn't.
Show HN: My Marketing Page Before and After
A few days ago I put up the first draft of my marketing page for critique, and I got good feedback and enough visitor data to get me going toward a second draft of my marketing page. The advice and research I got from it was very good, and I'd like to show ya'll the Before and After.

Here is a link to the screenshot of how it looked before:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8EKDJz2xKNvRkhNLUdkMjBkMVU/edit?usp=sharing

And you can see how it looks now at:

http://ulisesrmzroche.github.io

What I learned was that the subject of your illustration is really important. If you don't have a remarkable idea for it, no stock picture can save you. It was literally getting in the way, so I decided to cut it out. I think the headline has more power this way, and pulls its weight, but I miss the visual impact anyway, so I was thinking of listing portfolio projects in a slideshow in place of the illustration. Though I'd need to get some good ones under my belt first. I also sold my capabilities more and honed in on my target market, as was advised. This I thought was a better idea.

Also, I adjusted the contrast of the call-to-actions. Now I just have a single call to action on the page, Learn More, which now opens a modal that contains more information about me. But I tucked the second one, Contact, into a small label on the bottom right corner of the Learn Modal, that contains my phone number. I feel this may work better, but I'm going to experiment more with the contrast and see if I can find some middle ground.

In any case, thanks again for your time! I learned a lot from this and it really helped a lot. If you have any critique, I would be very grateful and have a good rest of your weekend!
Clickable Links:

Before: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8EKDJz2xKNvRkhNLUdkMjBkMVU/...

After: http://ulisesrmzroche.github.io

Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5987762
“All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing...”
Unity runs terribly on my laptop that runs Windows 7 perfectly fine. It's probably more important in a technical sense that I can just use a different desktop environment, and Cinnamon works brilliantly for me. In terms of a less technical audience though, that won't be an answer and performance woes really should be a priority.
Absolutely right. I was bringing to the attention of the HN community a series of Korean airline crashes that occurred in the 1990s that can be directly attributed to this factor [1].

For the record, there are a number of countries worldwide that exhibit the same restricted cultural legacy. For example, there is also a High Power Distance ratio in a number Latin American and African countries [2]. See, for example, details of the crash of Colombian Avianca Flight 52 [3].

Whether this is a factor _in this particular incident_ is of course for the authorities to decide. Considering the provenance of this airline as being from a high power distance ratio country I felt this information might be relevant or at least of interest to others.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstede's_cultural_dimensions...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_52#Cause_and_in...
There is no sense in speculating about the cause until the official report is ready, though. Things that seem obvious immediately can easily turn out to be wrong. Unless we're just speculating for fun.
You can get them for MUCH lower than that - the line card & optics costs of 100G are falling pretty quickly. Newer routers with >4x100G (e.g. 10x) will be pretty interesting (CFP2).
I was supposed to be flying into SFO this morning from Seoul, though not on that flight (would've been AA flight 26). Suffice to say I had a surprisingly large number of people asking if I was OK.
A similar paper can also be found on PubMed

Increased childhood incidence of narcolepsy in western Sweden after H1N1 influenza vaccination.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23486871
I don't think so. I have a negative connotation and I am not American. I would more guess it is American propaganda around the war of drugs which is trying to make informant sound like a good thing.

When I hear informant I think of organizations like Stasi.
Regardless of one's opinion on the "Truther" movement (which does include some genuine crackpots), it's clear that the official investigation was an embarrassment, and such a significant historical event deserves more level-headed scientific scrutiny.