skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most real numbers aren't even computable, although you almost certainly haven't ever dealt with a noncomputable number. The computable numbers are countable, and the proof of that is pretty trivial.
Few points worth noting

- Taxi business is heavily regulated in India and anything like Uber is likely to be illegal.

- India does not have any consolidated crime database. Background verification generally means asking the person to get a certificate from local police station. (Which anyone can get by paying a bribe).

I am surprised that Uber was actually operating in India. Clearly they were staying under the radar and as usual the government officials were too incompetent to understand what Uber is.

I think in this case Uber is clearly liable for a civil suite and must compensate the victim for lack of due diligence and fraud.
I don't think it's quite that bad. I've been an expat for some years, and I pay about $200/year to a CPA to make sure everything's filled out. At least for regular employment income it's pretty straightforward, if slightly tedious: report your income and foreign tax paid, run things both with and without the AMT, and declare any foreign bank accounts (declaring again, another way, if any had over $10k in a year). I could probably do it myself, but I figured I'd pay a CPA just to make sure it's done right. Things do get more complex if you run a business or own property, I suspect, but just as an employee I haven't found it difficult to do the annual "$0 tax owed" paperwork.
The message gets lost in performance.

The difference between engine optimized for certain platform is simply massive. We're talking at in the worst case 10x the performance difference.

Why is this? Let's take modern console game for PS4. It uses mantle like API where you can simply spam drawcalls like no tomorrow. Port that to DX11/OpenGL and you'll choke.

Or move a simple OpenGL game from PC to mobile, it does nothing fancy and uses ES2.0 subset of OpenGL so it should work nicely? Not quite. All your scenes are built using effects that cause massive performance penalty in tile based renderers. Sure it works fine on Tegra K1 but everywhere else it's horrible.

On the other hand there is a way of doing multiplatform development. It means using Unity (or other multiplatform engine), limiting yourself to a common subset and leaving the optimization part to be the headache of the engine developers. However even if you use Unity you have to manually consider the effects you are using on per platform basis.
For those of you who aren't familiar, Brady Haran, the creator of numberphile, produces a ton of awesome videos of experts talking about science and math. Besides numberphile, he does Sixty Symbols (physics), Periodic Videos (chem), and computerphile (comp sci) [0].

[0] http://www.bradyharan.com/
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> ... because the probability of a number has
> three is P(n)=1/10^n and as n->∞ P(n)->0

Er, no. The probability of an n digit number having a three is P(n) = 1 - (9/10)^n, and as n->∞, P(n)->1.

I don't understand why you say it's a moot video. The result as stated in the video is complete and correct.
"On the other hand, new employees with a degree should earn more."

Its the other way around, if the jobs don't change but the number of degrees granted increases, then assuming degree holders cluster at the higher end, building downward would have to result in average salary of a degree holder decreasing over time.

Another interesting statistic is lifetime income. If you have a job that does not require a degree, and spend 10% of your working life earning a degree instead of earning income, your lifetime income will be about 10% lower. Its actually worse because starting wage for a coffee barista or waiter is the same, but presumably toward the end of your career you'll make more at a better job, but a degree holder will have retired for years 36-40 whereas a non-degree holder will continue to earn income for the full 40 years at the higher 36-40 yr rate. You'd see this a lot more in the trades, obviously 4 extra years of union master payscale is worth more than 4 extra years of journeyman.
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Automated returns would work in simple cases, but not for expats. Expats have to navigate a complicated maze of tax exemptions, tax credits, and foreign currencies, systems and deadlines which are hard to reconcile with their US counterparts.
They settled on Unity for future projects. Existing projects (like Origins) were all written in platform-specific code.

(At least, that's how it sounds to me.)
You felt the need to say "Where ↑ is the knuth uparrow notation," so I would argue that those symbols (as well as all the symbols in an article describing Knuth up arrow notation) should also be counted.
So why don't we keep all laws hidden? One could expand your argument at any and all laws. Why write down the laws for "money laundering" as it would 
 only allow people to skirt the laws 
. If you don't right down the law and keep its enforcement procedurally, the laws are often misapplied to constrict those that are undesirable by the state (either through political resistance, the politically unconnected, or disrupters)
Detroit's mismanagement goes back long before 1967. It goes back at least to the 1920s and very likely much farther than that. The success of the auto industry in the area just papered over those problems for a long time.
Yes. Hence 'miraculous' Word2vec.
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> Erring "on the side of caution" in this case basically means denying someone a job, a livelihood, based on mere allegations that anyone can make

Congratulations! You've just repeated the argument that lead to the Catholic Church preotecting pedophiles and Jimmy Saville getting a free reign over children, mental health patients, and corpses!
Also, almost all numbers contain any given finite sequence of digits.
It might also be illegal to deny employment to people just because they are accused of something and not convicted. Indian law assumes the culprit is innocent till proven otherwise.

Indian law takes infinite years to resolve a case. 1 year to actually frame charges, 10 years in lower court and 10 years in upper courts.
What this scenario means is that there should be a way for a module to depend on polyfill modules, only for particular engines. So on IO the dependency would not be in effect, while on e.g. node v0.10 it would. I don't think this is possible now, but you could just publish two modules.
There is but a small problem, nothing prevents any soon-to-be rapists from getting guns themselves.
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definitely but you should have a good plan to monetize - at this point an amazon affilliate or a blog of cat pictures can make u 10k/mo so maybe thats a better site. but if you love the idea and the business you should do it for sure :D
Wind up was very good - 1Q84 had some nice moments but too long imho
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Conflict_of_Visions
http://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Visions-Ideological-Political...

Really good read, though a bit longish. But that could be due to the fact that I listened to an audio-book of it.
From another article: According to the suit, Apple began its own internal investigation of Devine in April, and uncovered the trove of e-mails he purportedly sent to alleged Singaporean accomplice Andrew Ang and several Asian companies containing confidential data and instructions on how to pay his kickbacks. This occurred when Apple officials discovered a Microsoft Entourage database of Devine's Hotmail and Gmail accounts "on the imaged copy of Devine's laptop hard drive."

src: http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/08/17/paul-shin-devin...

Also, most employers will tell you that they can (& will) monitor any activity done on your company issued devices (laptop, phones, anything). That seems pretty standard.
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I actually tried that, it's kind of hacky and is not well integrated with google maps or android. Also, if your phone is off or the screen is locked for a few minutes it doesn't work.
Ask HN: Left unprofessional employer. What to say at interviews?
Hello HN:

After a few years of service, I recently left my employer as I couldn't work in the unprofessional and toxic environment anymore.

However, as I look for new employment, I do not wish to sound unprofessional. I was planning to just be honest when asked why I left my previous employer but I am not sure if that will hurt my chances.

I do not want to say negative things but I am not sure how to answer the inevitable question of why I left employment without having anything lined up.

Have you been in a similar situation before? If so, how did you handle it?

Thanks!
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Hmmm..shouldn't Uber banned in whole of India instead of just Delhi, till the Govt of India figures out how to allow Uber to operate with better safety measures.
After Dark is next on my list (finishing up Colorless Tsukuru Tasaki now). I'm super excited for it.
Greed; it gets you to the top, but it's a fickle and volatile nature can quickly spin out of control.
Another similar idea is the Kempner series.

If you add 1/n for all natural numbers n, then the series tends towards infinity.

However, if you leave out any integers that contain a digit 9, then the series converges (to just under 23). (It would also converge if you left out numbers containing a digit 3, just to a different limit.)
Shop Class As Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford completely changed and focused how I think about work and mental healthy.

The Accidental Creative and Die Empty by Todd Henry provide excellent tools and background for adding practical discipline to creative work and life in general. As of now I can't prioritize one over the other. Either or both are well worth the time invested.

Toxic Charity by Robert Lupton takes a critical look at how charitable giving and service are done by the modern church and provides a better plan distilled from decades of experience helping troubled neighborhoods in Atlanta.

The Permanent Portfolio by Rowland and Lawson preaches Harry Browne's Permanent Portfolio but fills in all the implementation gaps left in Harry's rather thin original.

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. This classic on what Christians believe cuts as deep today as it did in Lewis's day.
At least MS Office 2007 and later support ODF import/export.
we should take a moment to think about the motives of a commercial for-profit company such as Docker, before we embed it into everything. Shykes seems to take issue with me pointing these things out, as I would expect him to.

What about the motives of CoreOS, also a for profit company?

I'd argue that a single, universal standardized container format specification is crucial for such a piece of technology that will soon be (is?) at the heart of all application deployments, both servers and desktops.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the new container proposal do the exact opposite of this? Why not collaborate with Docker on a container format?

From the Github post: But here's a suggestion for you. If you were to complain that Docker's image format and runtime specification, as massively adopted as it is, is not appropriately documented, and it could be made easier to produce alternate implementations - then I would completely agree with you.

You state that Docker has absolutely zero intention of collaborating openly on a standardized container format however they explicitly invite help into standardizing and documenting theirs, which is currently the most commonly used.

This is the last thing I'm going to leave here. http://xkcd.com/927/ It may not be the most credible of sources, however it makes the point I am trying to make quite well. Making an additional standard when there is already something well established does nothing but fragment the ecosystem.

You may be questioning the motives of Docker, Inc, however that leaves the rest of us to question the motives of CoreOS. I did not seen ANY efforts at collaboration by CoreOS before they released their own container format/runtime. Especially in the passive-agressive (mostly agressive) way in which they did it. If their motives were truely to create a "single, universal standardized container format specification", the first step would have been to at least attempt to work with Docker to create this. Instead of this happening, this whole argument has turned into a pissing match between the two companies. Seriously, both companies need to set aside their differences and have a real discussion about this, not just doing things on the internet to piss each other off.
plenty along floridas cost, depending on your definition of small:

jupiter, pine island, hudson beach..

pretty much take your pick along the coast, avoiding the major metro areas like Tampa/StPete/Clearwater/Miami/Jacksonville (all are more city than "town").
I used to work for a company called "Going". We had no alternative internal code name. (I swear, if I heard one more pun about where I was "going"...)

That being said, you'd be surprised how little you need to refer to your own company by name internally, especially in an ambiguous manner. Usually its just "Hey, can you put this up on the site?" or "It would be cool if the product did X."
Whoa.

I note that "shared academic governance" is a requirement for accreditation; one wonders if RPI is too big to not be accredited?
Delhi Police file FIR against Uber cab service for alleged cheating
I'd add a somewhat related #3: Do the underlying economics as they exist today support a business based on that idea? [1] There are lots of things I'd jump at spending some money on but not nearly enough money to cover the cost of providing me with the service.

[1] Obviously, companies often do have some runway before turning a profit but normally there needs to be a viable path to get there at some point.
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I've had a great experience with Apple Maps, which are based in part on Open Street Map (giving data back too) and TomTom. I've found it's accurate enough to just trust it, and it's excellent at detecting and rerouting when I can't do what it wanted me to (eg: traffic in the way, or I just miss the turn.)
I typically say "here maps". What I like about it is the URL is easy to remember. here.com
Thanks, this is really helpful. My goal is to learn as much as possible about various things to open up more job opportunities.
Yes, in practice it tends to be a humble-brag when someone mentions their dependence on coffee.
In real life data sets, Benfords Law shows that the digit '1' occurs with much higher probability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDZs0S7qd64
How does your offering compare to KX ? http://kx.com/ . Do you see as a direct competitor or rather a completely different product? Do you see yourself competing in the financial sector soon?
Being a US citizen certainly benefited him when he was abroad yet he was selected to be a Rhodes scholar.

I support a reduced tax bill when you are living abroad but to say Americans should pay no taxes is ridiculous. They most likely had some direct/indirect benefits from being American and also can always return to a vibrant and economical strong society. It is like insurance, they should still have to pay some premium.
The issue is that the PTO did this secretly, and did it by stalling. If the PTO put a transaction in the history saying "Referred to SAWS for more detailed review per MPEP section X.XX", then it would be legitimate. The applicant could then argue with the SAWS team via the usual procedures.

Now that this has become known, the PTO will probably have to do that.
I mean, don't you think that Apple deserves to take at least a little of the blame for this? If they can't negotiate a better deal with their data sources, find a better data source, or find a way to feed corrections back to their data source, that's on them.
This topic is deeply offensive to my people.
Thanks for releasing! It would be awesome to see your toolbar / UI released as a separate project also.

Also check out Scribe - https://github.com/guardian/scribe which is similarly very light weight - has no UI built in. Mostly exists to fix browser inconsistencies with contenteditable.
Aurora 0.6.0 Released
Apache Aurora is a Mesos framework for long-running services and cron jobs, originally developed by Twitter and today an open source project at the Apache Software Foundation.
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I live in Fresno County, it's very representative sadly
I meant to say doesn't have 3 and have updated the comment to reflect the equation I believe is correct.
Absolutely, the question presupposes it's even up to the hiring company to make the distinction and that it hasn't already been made for them by the law.
My two cents: Some screenshots of the Dashboard and webapp interface would be nice. I want to sign up - but not knowing what's behind a walled garden login screen is annoying.
A good/experienced developer will pick up any language quickly...

...within the same paradigm. Give a good/experienced developer of imperative languages Prolog or a pure functional language, and it may take a few months to get productive.

Also within the same paradigm, there is a difference between learning the syntax superficially and knowing all common idioms, patterns, and libraries.
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If the AAA practices had been so bad then, by now, we had Agile-TDD-etc shops taking their lunch and driving them out of business. As of now there is just one studio practicing Agile, Blizzard. If it is not known, Blizzard is also famous for incredibly long projects and missing deadlines. I had personally observed collapse of two Agile AAA studios, who, while doing pretty well by the industry standards, did not have the super-profitable titles to hold them up during 5+ years of development cycle. So I believe we have the AAA practices not because game programmers are stupid but because studios that don't use them are not around for long.
Will you do stuff besides prints? Specifically apparel?
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I came up with three rules that I've found allow my students have better resumes than 80% - 90% of their competition. Would love your thoughts.
The only issue I see with implementing a ticketing system with a restaurant is how long people stay at the table. If you're having a great time you might stay at your table for a bit longer and have dessert and a few more drinks, while if it's bad you might box up your meal and head out pretty soon. I supposed this is not a huge problem since the only places likely to implement ticketing are these blockbuster restaurants with reservations months in advance.
They seem like a plus, until you see the remaining houses up close. They are usually in terrible shape, and decent ones are targets for crime in a city where emergency service response is often measured in hours.
>> It's loaded weight is around 1/10 that of the A-10, they aren't at all comparable aircraft.

If the primary mission is to carry the big gun, then they serve the same purpose. I would bet ARES could have benefited from being a bit larger with better armor, but the price tag was around $1M if I recall correctly, and the small size and composite construction may have given it a smaller radar cross section as well. Part of the weight savings is in the non-hydraulic control surfaces. It's nice that the A-10 could revert to manual control when both hydraulic systems failed, but that raises the question "why have them at all?". Simplicity is has been a major part of designs from Scaled Composites.
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"Superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom was the most interesting book I read this year. It provides a comprehensive but accessible summary of the research on the ethics and security aspects of prospective general artificial intelligence.

If you have ever enjoyed reading the Lesswrong wiki or any of the readings from MIRI/SIAI, this book provides a really great summary.
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You're missing the point.

This isn't about tax avoidance-- as the article points out the first $97k earned abroad isn't taxed and above that it isn't double taxed.

The problem is that the regulations are absurd, not well documented, and the fines and penalties for innocent errors (such as not filing the right form at the right time for bank accounts on which you owe no tax) are extraordinary.

As an american who has spent an extended time abroad, we also suffer from the fact that the rules for banks are so bad that many countries simply won't open bank accounts for americans, because they aren't prepared for the hassle.

It's often quite difficult to live and work in a country and not have a local bank account. It makes getting and making payments to people in that country much more difficult.
No, I'm saying it's foolish to criticize an action based on other actions. Criticize an action on its own merit. I think it's a slippery slope to start saying you won't look up to someone because one subset of actions of theirs is bad. If that's the case then nobody should look up to anybody for there are certainly reprehensible actions littered over everyone's past.
> No, but I do know you don't understand reporting and statistics

No personal attacks on HN, please. This comment has a good argument. Abrasiveness tarnishes it.
Ask HN: Anyone here did a large scale benchmark with big data graphs?
I'm doing some benchmarks between GraphX and Neo4j for a large amount of graph data. Would love to hear feedback from people who already did that. I read almost everything there is to read about it online but I'm sure the HN community has much more insight. thank you.
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We could note that Proofs seem magical to most until you understand how to think property about them.

I remember my professor writing an equation, doing the proof, then exclaiming "This obviously reduces to this, QED!" and the entire class staring in disbelievement. It really did seem like she was inventing math as she went, and took a long while to really get a grasp of how to think about a proof when doing one.
Yep, that's how I've always used/interpreted this same feature. I know the various different routes I could potentially take, and knowing Google has already calculated they're slower makes me feel better about the one I'm actually on. :)
Sure, debates between two extremely similar languages aren't important, but it's not like the people arguing between Python and Ruby couldn't include Haskell or Rust in that debate, and the difference between those is huge.
How is it out-of-whack?
For the sake of the argument if they have $1 billion to spend and if spending it on combat deaths prevention saves say 1000 people, while spending it on suicide reduction gets you 10 then it seems very reasonable to spend money on decreasing combat deaths.
> My concern is that if I was a US citizen, the bank might close my account for the reasons cited in the article. So now I won't be able to get citizenship (and e.g. vote, get a US passport) until my loans are completely paid off and I can close the account.

So when you're a US citizen, they will close your bank account, and you will not be able to become a US citizen anymore? I don't quite follow.
"The vast majority of people in the world would go to great lengths and expense to be able to have one."

What is that based on?
$200 is an awful lot of money for effectively nothing at all. You sound like someone who doesn't expect to be abroad very long, if you expected to be abroad for the remainder of your life (as many expats are) you'd likely find that $200*40 years to be less pleasant of a proposition.