skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same excerpt, starting from "One can also speak" describes how that "almost all" terminology is applied to integers (or, by extension, to any countable set, that is already measure zero). The example statement is "almost all prime numbers are odd", because there is a finite number of primes that are even (only one number 2).

Put another way, if we stick to the definition of "almost all" as elements not having the property forming measure zero set, then you do not need the video to prove the title: all integers are already measure zero. So, for subsets of integers, "almost all" means something else in jargon.

I could not watch the video, but I found (I believe) equivalent text. And "almost all" means that as we extend the reach the share of numbers not containing 3 goes to zero. It is mildly entertaining (albeit a bit too obvious) result, but my point was that usage of "almost all" is confusing because _I_ am used to a very specific meaning of it.
I didn't see anything related to Harry Potter there?
Please read this Wikipedia article that seems to have been written about you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

I don't think those companies are throwing money at you just because they think you're a swell guy with a rabbit's foot. Give yourself a little credit, would you? :-)
Economic competition implies massive waste of effort. Not sharing work and ideas is one of them; others include the psychological/sociological effects of competition and pressure, and also all the resources poured into advertising (which itself does not particularly give us better products/services).

This isn't unique to Google Maps; the same goes for competing pharmaceutical companies, educational institutions, and everything else. Imagine if they were all cooperating rather than competing.

However there are also some benefits to competition. Notably, the impetus to take risks of private capital in order to build new things / try new ventures. Also, the presence of choice in the market (in this case, you can choose which maps you consider more reliable).

I'd love to see more exploration into economic systems involving cooperation and choice, instead of competition. Can we have independent organizations motivated to produce different-but-similar goods, while simultaneously sharing their efforts?
For me it was
1.Influence:
http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert...
It talks about how the brain has certain preprogrammed sequences for situations.
2.Predictably Irrational
http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-D...
Again about the hidden mechanisms with which we make decisions and our reptile brain.
> You can turn any "flop" into a "fantastic idea" if you devise a sustainable business model for it.

Not all, but many of the failed dot-coms can be summed up as offering Service X at a price that people were willing to pay that happens to be less than the cost of delivering the service.

If I can relax the price > cost constraint there are any number of fantastic ideas that I can come up with. Private jets for the price of commercial. A driver for $1/hour. Etc.

Grocery delivery can be a perfectly fine business but, like most services that fundamentally offer convenience, it's also a premium service that people need to be willing to pay for--and the business plan needs to recognize that fact. And, as is often true, grocery delivery seems to make the most sense when it can piggy-back on a standard self-service grocery business.
Are there any small fishing towns in the US?
I think you can repost about a year. It could have changed tough.
Statistical Physics of Adaptation [pdf]
> ... seemed to me startups in the 90's went a little too overboard on advertising. Expensive Superbowl advertisements, TV ads, radio and outlandish publicity stunts.

They did because they could. I'm sure you remember the ungodly amounts of money that were being thrown at everyone with a two-bit idea back then.
Oo so that's why you're so pissed. ah well
Thanks so much for the answer!
Node.js is forked, not f***ed
So capitalism has problems, he failed to determine the cause (the state) and failed to propose efficient solutions (more taxes, austerity for the people, more interventionism) and you praise it as true science? That book is a marxist pamphlet in a thousand pages.

For the love of god, never read Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt or you would consider him the bastard son of Einstein when he was fifteen.
I was having a lot of problems with CPU usage on my Drupal base website, so I wrote some Python scripts to track and display the latency over time. The source is on Github.
How I Got into Networking
THere's a very consistent inaccuracy in NPR's (and maybe everyone else's) reporting on the torture report.

By this point everybody knows that the CIA tortured a pile of people, probably illegally. The report won't reveal anything that we don't know generally about.

The inaccuracy comes from saying or writing that "the report" will cause unrest and danger to US personnel overseas. A policy of torturing is really what causes that danger, not a pile of paper, or a "word" document.

Torture is a bad policy. People that advocate for torture are glossing over a huge pile of problems and immoralities.
That's very unfortunate. I hope you can find someone more welcoming (and hopefully who's also in a mentoring mood) to ask whatever you're curious about. Off the top of my head I can't think of any conline communities which would be particularly welcoming (though the general community around Ruby is quite fond of saying how nice they are); do you have any friends or relatives who write any code?
This piece is (by far) the best written on the io.js fork and its ramifications. As I have said many times before, we are forkaphilic[1] -- forking is healthy because it allows (and encourages) experimentation with divergent ideas. The primary idea that io.js appears to be experimenting with is "more frequent releases", in particular very closely tracking V8. This is somewhat ironic because the close tracking of V8 has been a major contributing factor to the delay in 0.12: despite good intentions, V8 breaks node.js frequently -- and debugging those problems is a time-consuming and arduous task requiring a great deal of technical sophistication. We have made clear that our technical priorities for the project are production-grade stability and performance; to the degree that other have different priorities, forking should be encouraged. In part to allow cross-pollination from any fork, we eliminated our CLA earlier this year[2]; the community can rest assured that good ideas from either will be able to be in both.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8P4oCIY3g#t=23m43s

[2] https://www.joyent.com/blog/broadening-node-js-contributions
Saturday at the 2014 Logan Symposium: my highights
Indeed everything enters or leaves via Israel...
I still don't completely grasp what this is. Is it actually a database application that is specifically built to scale-out (shard) time series data?
YUP! -- when I heard it got forked my first reaction was "great, good luck to them, I'll continue to use node, imagine moving to Go and maybe in a year I'll hear about iojs if it goes anywhere"

Cheers to the iojs guys.

(ps. I have to admit, I hope to see more blog posts on these subjects creatively include "motherforker" in their titles)
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> In this case there is no measure to speak of, so it is normal to talk about taking the ration in a finite initial segment and then letting the size go to infinity and seeing what happens to the ratio.

Indeed it is normal to talk about it, but this condition is usually called having "density 1" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_density). I think that "almost all" is not terribly common in this connection, except possibly in a community where this is the only kind of nearly-true statement that one would want to discuss.
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy

Not sure I can explain in an HN post...
Ex-Apple executive jailed and fined for selling secrets
Something like this? http://www.socialexplorer.com/
But the company that invested the billions essentially gets no added value. That's not an effective business model.

You are right because there would be a huge boon. This could be said for many other things too, like drug research for instance.

Rather than pining over a wish, we should come up with a better open source/crowd sourcing method if we really want them.
McDonald's will now allow its customers to build their own burgers
Bad example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Game_Boy
Visualization of HTTP/2 Priority
An interesting consequence (since there are only finitely many digits) is that, in this sense, almost all numbers contain every digit—a phrasing that, I think, makes the statement less surprising.
Patterns which could have been just as easily implemented using another more explicit technique for dynamic binding (like simply passing the dynamic parameter to the function as a normal argument) without fucking up the entire language design with invisible implicit magic, and dooming millions of programmers to repeatedly make difficult to detect, subtle mistakes, bugs and security holes.

Please give me one example of using "this" outside of lexical context, that is impossible or tangibly inconvenient to do by some other technique that JavaScript already supports.
Thats all well and good but some of us have families and kids.
Bobler app: the Vine for Voice
I am genuinely surprised that a flash game is so tightly coupled to the underlying hardware.

That's amazing.
"Asymptotic distribution" or "density" probably. Check out this, for an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem
Definitely not the case. I have played through all the Kingdom Rush games, fully and doing all the bonus objectives, without spending a dime beyond the initial purchase. I had a great time too, and I have a pretty low tolerance for grind. I think the KR games are exceptionally well designed in this regard.
Hachette partners with Gumroad to sell books directly to readers
Yahoo to hold its first mobile developer conference
Second that. I don't use them currently, but have in the past. dnsmadeeasy are solid.
The completion of executing the less valuable (as perceived) idea may lead to the ease in execution of the more valuable (as perceived) idea.

It's more humorous to consider maths and programs as ideas. And when I say humorous, I mean that very seriously.
Singling me out for nonsensical comments based on a wild misreading of my posts has reached the point of silliness. Why do you bother?
I'm not sure about numbers of those business, so I can't really speak to how prevalent that is, but I'd imagine that sort of fraud is pretty small in both number and dollar value compared to the higher-profile and the larger tax breaks given to the Ilitches and the like. There just isn't the same amount of money going to minority business owners/neighborhoods vs. white business owners/white(r) neighborhoods in a city that is 92% Non-white.
Been flowing InfluxDB for sometime now and used it to do some analytics work few times. Loved it and will use again every chance i get. Also plus points for being written in clean idiomatic Go.
It's easy to talk about "boosting global wealth" when it's other peoples' money.
When my company was faced with a sudden 40% drop in revenue I saw a way to make a turnaround in "from worst to first" by Gordon Bethune, a book about a $400m turnaround done in 12 months : http://www.amazon.com/From-Worst-First-Continentals-Remarkab...

After getting out on top after my turnaround, Simon Sinek's "Start with why" helped me figure out why I am running my business the way I am, and how I can use that to do even better : http://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/...
How to Install Debian on a TI-Nspire CX
That's valid. There's a quality difference for sure, but I'll be keeping a close eye on pricing and as we get more efficient I anticipate prices coming down.
The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130610.The_Divided_Mind?...

This book helped me get rid of the wrist tendinitis I had for four years prior, in four weeks. It also changed the way I view many of the chronic physical ailments many of us face.

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1963638.The_Untethered_S...

A great book about consciousness and awareness that isn't too "froo froo"-y. It definitely has had a profound impact on my relationship to myself and my surroundings.

To Soften the Blow
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16209280-to-soften-the-b...

It's hard to define the impact this book had on me, but it was also profound. It's an autobiography of Lynnie Vessels who's father shot her mother with a shotgun across their dining room table. As depressing as that sounds, it's actually a very inspiring and strangely uplifting book.
I agree completely, there are so many great features I think they could have added instead of changing the interface.

1.) Send directions to a mobile device. There are many times where I search for directions or map out an alternate route on my desktop. The only way I can access those directions is to email it to myself then open the email on the mobile device. Why not just store the data and let the user retrieve it on their mobile device?

2.) Better accuracy of property in rural/suburban areas. It's odd to say this but Bing Maps is actually much more accurate in rural areas.

3.) More fine grained control over street view placement.

4.) Offline maps! Not everywhere has good cell coverage.
> unless the community starts calling out their BS

? not sure what shykes is implying here.

> 3-day old unfinished spec

Actually it's been in the git repo for 13 days, been public for 8 days, and has been getting developed since January 2014 (Docker is not even twice as old).

> no working implementation

Actually, Rocket is the implementation, ACI is the spec.

> a controversial background

How so? Because Docker disagrees with it so it's controversial?

> sponsored by a small venture-backed company

I think shykes is forgetting Docker just raised an excess of $40 million on a $400 million evaluation.

> with questionable motives

Again not sure what shykes implies here... Docker is a for-profit commercial vendor just the same.

The language and inaccuracies in shykes comment on github are shocking to say the least. Seems rather uni-directional "mud slinging", as shykes has previously put it[1]...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8683705
EDIT: Ah, I see. Totally different company.
Exactly. Threatening to ban Uber can mean only one thing-- The law-makers need a fund raiser too-- now that Uber is a $40 billion company.
Hard to say how accurate a comparision that is.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-officially-under...

> The National Crime Records Bureau, India’s official source of crime data, is systematically undercounting virtually every crime in India on account of a statistical shortcoming, The Hindu has learnt.

http://newint.org/blog/majority/2012/02/07/dowry-deaths-in-i...

> For every dowry death reported, there are dozens that go unreported. Of the 8,391 reported cases in 2010, although 93.2 per cent were charge-sheeted, the conviction rate was a miserable 33.6 per cent. The murderers and their families get away with it. What’s worse, they go scot free and bring back another bride.

I'd be interested in seeing murder rates for rural versus city areas. I know the tribal areas of Pakistan set up their own alternative courts, and wouldn't be surprised if similar things happened in rural India.
"The future of javascript looks bright, sunny, and full of callbacks. I’m excited." <-- Great opening
>"Rather than pining over a wish, we should come up with a better open source/crowd sourcing method if we really want them."

Here you go, one method for crowd-sourcing map data:

www.openstreetmap.org
It’s already 5 months from my first startup fail. 10 lessons learned(Part 2)
difficult to imagine why apple would have even attempted to get into this space ... they must realize they can only be a second rate player. maybe that's good enough for them? doesn't fit with their story/ethos though
Ok let's take your argument "You know what would happen if these were allowed to rise unchecked?" in the opposite direction. Your premise is rise of salaries should be checked. Now let's say once those salaries were checked by companies by promising not to hire each other engineers, if those companies decided well let's reduce the salaries of our own engineers since they are not going to get a better deal elsewhere anyways. Very soon those salaries will be plummeting because of this agreement between the companies. You contradict yourself by the end when you say "EVERYONE gets paid market rate" It is NOT market rate if all companies in the market got together and decided not to offer higher wages to someone to incentivize them to come work for them. That is what a CARTEL would do but with lower wages.
That's cold comfort when your startup has six months of runway left.
I do wonder why more people don't make use of a C physics engine (portable everywhere, including browsers via asm.js), and code the logic in a higher level language which can compile down to C (like Python via Cython.)

I guess the problem is that you need different rendering code? OpenGL works on PC and mobile, but you'd need to mock it out for WebGL. Has someone already done this for asm.js?

Presumably there is some other huge hole in my thinking...
I recently started using the product and like it a lot. Voice is really an immersive way to share or discover a situation, cool to see a team working on this opportunity.
novel approach, and references to micromachines are too few and far between
I've been teaching databases this semester, and PostgreSQL's full-text search capabilities have been wonderful for allowing my students to build search into their projects without needing to learn additional tech (we're using PostgreSQL as our database anyway).
What a delicious pun!
The whole debate is over uptake speed. If async functions and lambda arrows land in IO and I use them in my package, people on node v10 aren't going to be able to use it.

If Joyent accepts new features as quickly as IO, there's no point in the fork.

Essentially, there's bound to be some level of fragmentation.
You don't have to do what? Make mistakes? Of course I don't have to make mistakes, but I do all the time, and so do other people.

You have to REMEMBER that you need to explicitly and inconveniently tell the function which "this" to use, by drilling down into Function.prototype.call/apply, even though it LOOKS like it will simply work like any other variable, which it doesn't.

Please consider that programmers are not perfect, and do not have infinite time or unlimited memory or perfectly focused and undistracted attention, and programming languages are user interfaces for imperfect humans, that should minimize the likelihood of errors, not set traps for less experienced programmers to make obvious mistakes, just so that more experienced programmers can gloat over how much smarter they are for having memorized every detail of the language spec. (-; I'm looking at you, automatically inserted semicolon! ;-)

And my point is that I AM an experienced programmer who has memorized every detail of the JavaScript language spec and uses it all the time, yet I STILL make "this" mistakes AGAIN and AGAIN. While on the other hand, I don't think I've ever made a "self" mistake with Python.
Well there's a difference between code reuse, and cross-platform code reuse. If you're porting a Laravel project to Rails or vice versa, you should be reusing logic, not code.
novel idea and interesting. Plus, the mention of micro-machines made me laugh out loud and smail
IO.js vs. Go for startup
I'm not sure competition is always the best model. For certain things it works well, but for things like maps, I think everyone loses out if mapping data is locked in different commercial vendor silos rather than combined into a non-profit, shared single source.
This. While it didn't change my life, it was one of the books I most enjoyed this year. Really great book.
no certified skills.

but skills i have that i get paid for are, linux sysadmin perl, html, js, css, sql, etc
Well Uber might still be the safest choice. I can't imagine Indian taxies being very safe in the first place.
>> but seemed to me startups in the 90's went a little too overboard on advertising. Expensive Superbowl advertisements, TV ads, radio and outlandish publicity stunts. Not to mention, the ridiculous parties CEO's would throw.

This.

Saw this first hand with several companies. I was with a telecom CLEC and we were in a building jammed with startups in the late 90's.

I would agree with all your points and also add most of the companies I saw guys who had been toiling in middle management their whole careers, suddenly got a shot at running their own show. They got drunk on the money and power and ran most of the companies into the ground by burning through their money and making asinine decisions.

The CLEC I was working for was a perfect example.

When I was brought on as a sales person, this was the pitch in the interview:

"We want our sales people to be the highest paid sales people in the industry. We're going to offer more salary and more commission then any other CLEC in town," This was a CLEC who had 15 employees, and were trying to hire three sales people.

Their commission structure would be outrageous for a fortune 500 company, but this was a CLEC startup in a middle tier market. Your quota every month was 60 lines. You got a bonus for hitting your goal, then each tier above that was additional commission.

Here's their tiered structure:

60 lines - $5,000

70 lines - $3,000

80 lines - $4,000

100 lines - $5,000

Let's say I land a nice commercial building with several tenets and the first month I land three companies all three of their contracts equal 70 lines. It would mean I get my $5K for hitting my quota and another $3K bonus for hitting the 70 line tier.

I thought this was awesome. Then after two months I suddenly realized something. I asked around to see what the margins were on the lines we were reselling.

On each line the company was making a pretty nice margin, around $20/per line. Now, you compare that with the commissions they were paying us. You do a little math and realize it's going to take them over 6 months just to break even on the commission they were paying versus what revenue they had coming in from our sales. More lines? More commission and longer wait times to realize a profit. Even though I was still in college, it was obvious to me this was not a smart business decision.

EDIT: CLEC stands for Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
Agreed, entirely. Neither country's reported rate of rapes accurately reflects the actual number of rapes, so comparing based off those official stats is absurd.
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How to land a great job as programmer
How are you accelerating Excel so much, in a way that Microsoft wouldn't have thought about? No trashing, I'm just curious, and the website doesn't tell much apart from "demolishing the bottlenecks".