skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bad behavior does get reported disproportionately. Most cops are good cops. For everyone like this, there are ten cops who find a lost cellphone and personally deliver it back to the owner, as happened to a neighbor of mine a few months ago. That doesn't make the news."

1. Name the town? (Make the news?)

2. I'm not going compare good/bad cops. (It's impossible to
argue, unless the Federal government just finished an investigation. A investigation that didn't get much attention?)

3. I live in a low crime county, but I am seeing cops doing
things they didn't do 15 years ago. My town is Marin County.

4. I'll start with Revenue collection. Yes--it's not about safety in my county anymore--it's about Tickets. The amount
of tickets written is staggering. Many people honestly don't
know what law they broke. It's gotten ridiculous.

5. "The broken window theory"! Yes--every town in my
county is putting that theory to the test. They are stopping
people, frisking them, and digitally taking their picture. They are harassing people. It's beyond disturbing to watch
a group of officers swoop down on a female for sitting on a curb. Watch them frisk her.(they used a enthusiastic female cop for the frisk)
Empty her purse. Take her picture. And then let her go??
(I won't bring up the metaphors.)

6. As to good/bad cops, I don't care; I don't trust any of them anymore. Yes, I can say that because I live in a low crime community, but I don't think it needs to be this way?

7. As to self preservation, just a name and address, but I'm
polite. I do have front and rear cameras that turn on when
I put the key in the ignition. When walking, riding, or running I always have a smart phone with video app queued up.

8. I am a middle aged white guy, and I feel like this?

9. I feel sick just writing about this. I might understand
the mentality if crime was going up, but every decade it has
decreased in proportion to population. It's about Revenue, and Gentrification, and yes--I recall a cop retrieving a lost
cell phone. It made the paper. The kid said he found the phone. The cop accused the kid of lying. I don't know the outcome, but it did happen once--it's in the marinij.com somewhere. What's ironic is it only seemed to happen once? I wonder why? It's like getting a cop to come to the swap meet to retrieve your stolen bike--good luck! No revenue in the end? As to gentrification, it's even more ironic because local cops can't even afford to live in this county?
For those who like mate, I recommend also trying guayusa [1]. It is a close relative of mate with more pronounced flavor. At least in the US it's pretty easy to find in health food stores and the like.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilex_guayusa
Thank you for this information, I wish I had thought about it in that manner at the time of purchase, and it is something I think more modern techlectuals should consider.
Road fee for cyclists? Bring it on. Calculate how much wear and tear I cause to the pavement and send me a repair bill.
Joke pull requests waste the time of people who have much better things to do and demeans the immense effort it takes to drag projects to open source at large companies. Being called a prick for doing prickish things is a very light response, and in a functioning culture (one of which which software developers rarely do more than pretend to aspire to, but that's nothing new) it might even be enough to teach him to not do so again.

You know the best part, though? I've probably perturbed more electrons on why MSBuild is a horrible build system, and how its integration with Visual Studio will happily destroy many types of changes in .csproj files, than most people here. My life is worse when I have to deal with it. But despite that, I somehow manage to not cape up for jerks who hurt people. Isn't that weird?

And not one of your "pretty notably respectable people" is a person for whom I had the time of day before you alerted me to their penchant for screwing with other people for fun. A list of meaningless names to buttress the case for hurting other people is remarkably unpersuasive.
I find it really interesting that NoScript users seem so vocal and adamant about their plugin on this site, at least. Many sites that don't work with NoScript have condescending comments from NoScript users, and they don't hesitate to proudly let their makers know. They often make comments like this, too. What is it about this plugin that seems to be correlated with these comments? Is browsing the Internet with such a big chunk of functionality missing really so much better? (Real questions, here.) I've heard HN doesn't even work with NoScript, which makes this all the more interesting to me.
As founder of openrev.org, a platform to share and discuss research papers openly (or privately), I am very pleased with this announcement. It is more than just baby steps towards an open, scientific communication system.

In physics we do already have that with the arxiv.org (though there are no public discussions) but it works darn well in my sub-field and others. We cannot wait for most other disciplines to have an epiphany. So grant agencies forcing publishers AND authors to open access their material will bring us a huge step forward towards solving the most challenging problems of our time.
I was using a good CRT the Apple eMac. At one point it stopped showing colors properly, red of RGB came and went. Started using another CFL monitor more often.

I was 18 so around that time I started college and used iMacs and those gray standalone screens that matched G4 towers. All the lighting in computer labs came from fluorescent lights. And all those screens were CFL backlit.

This is when I started having pain in my eyes and became nearsighted. Only needed 0.5 correction at first, progressed to 3.5 since then.
I don't understand how the thought experiment isn't simply begging the question. It states in its premises that (A) Mary already has all physical knowledge and (B) she later gains new knowledge. If the conclusion (that not all knowledge is physical) wasn't true, the premises could not be consistent.

Am I missing something obvious? Why should we accept that the conclusion is true, rather than discarding one of the premises?
Does the Australian startup ecosystem have a racism problem?
Some people complain about privilege while others are out there putting in the hours. One gets to pick which group they belong to. He picked wisely.
Same here, rdio is a giant preview platform for me, and it's a surprisingly great experience when you follow a bunch of people with good taste (heavy rotation section, collaborative playlists, etc.) - however everything I like gets bought since I want to own my music and prefer to keep it even if the licensing deals or the service itself changes. However, that means that there's actually a lot of overlap between my own personal (digital, lossless) collection and the one I have on rdio.
As long as the bijection exists at all, the sets have the same cardinality. To prove two sets don't have the same cardinality, the most direct way is to prove that such a bijection is impossible.

Anyway, the bijection from counting numbers to the set of all natural numbers is easy:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...
0, 1, -1, 2, -2, ...
MIT DragonBot (personalized learning companion to children) become autonomous
I noticed sci-fi author Greg Egan in the comments.

Looks like he's still battling against Google using the wrong image for him when you google his name: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/ESSAYS/GOOGLE/Googl...
I'm actually having some issues starting games on it. Some kind of permissions issue I think.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?845038-de...
Simple. There are tons of these "good people" who apply, and they can only accept as many per batch.
People's appetite for news is so universal and intense that I have to wonder if it's serving some important purpose that the author is missing.

I, too, have moved away from most kinds of news. I only read tech news, and I could make an argument that tech news is more actionable. But even that, I spend less time on fewer sites. I used to look forward to a chance to catch up on HN, now I read it mostly during moments when I'm waiting for something else.

So, what am I (and the author) missing? Or what is society missing because we don't participate in the news cycle?
> I think the followup at the end is wrong

I think so too, but maybe not for the same reason you do.

The original argument of the article is that there is a one-to-one mapping between the set produced as the end result of an infinite number of "pixel division" operations, and the set of infinite binary strings. Since the latter set is uncountable (by Cantor's diagonal argument), the former must be as well. This argument appears to me to be correct.

The followup retracts the above argument, basically because of this counter-argument:

"just as there’s no way to fol­low 0.333... un­til you reach ex­actly one-third, there’s no way to carve a pixel un­til you get to the ex­act point rep­re­sented by a cer­tain in­fi­nite bi­nary string"

However, this counter-argument is incorrect, because it leaves out a key qualifier. There is no way to "follow 0.333... until you reach exactly one-third" in a finite number of steps. If you take an infinite number of steps, you do reach exactly one-third: that is what the statement "one-third is the limit of the repeating decimal 0.333..." means. True, you can't explicitly take an infinite number of steps, but you can calculate, mathematically, what the result would be if you did; that is how we know what the limit points are of sequences like 0.333...

Similarly, "there's no way to carve a pixel until you get to the exact point represented by a certain infinite binary string" in a finite number of steps. But you can do it in an infinite number of steps, and the article explicitly postulates exactly that--an infinite number of pixel divisions. And even though we can't explicitly do an infinite number of pixel divisions, we can still calculate, mathematically, what the result would be if we did. That result is the set of infinite binary strings; that set is the limit point of the sequence of pixel divisions, as the number of divisions goes to infinity, just as one-third is the limit point of the sequence 0.333... as the number of 3's goes to infinity.
> Makes me thing how maybe in the future we can have dynamic content like a Wikipedia article about a computer science topic that gets more specific the more programatically/academically inclined the audience is.

We already have a mechanism for this, which is simply to get increasingly nerdly as you go and let the reader bail out (or skip to the next section) as desired.

Newspaper articles are an extreme form of this, with the first paragraph a high level summary and then decreasingly relevant paragraphs with the explicit design objective that the editor / page layer-outer [1] can cut the article pretty much at any paragraph break. So the reader reads until their interest is sated and then stops.

Academic articles are (in principle) the extreme opposite of this, with a summary up front and then a largely coherent mass following.

[0] is the "d" in nerdly (or gnurdly) an MITism? The Mac's spell corrector doesn't like it.

[1] I have forgotten the word for this archaic job. This person did layout after the articles had been typeset.
The idea is that if there is any bijection at all between the two sets then they are the same "size". So you can make all kinds of relations between two sets that are not bijections but once you find one you have satisfied the definition of same size in this sense. Note that it is a way of defining size that corresponds to what we mean with finite sets and then extends that definition in a consistent way.

So yes you could define a "malandrew size" however you like and see what kind of insights you get.
DARPA thinks it has a solution to Ebola (and all other infectious diseases)
Can you actually grab it at all?

I'm under the impression these kinds of designs are built for the Macbook monoculture and assume you scroll using a touchpad gesture.
Startups win by doing 1 thing well, Banks win by integrating the UX using APIs
So I fired up a doobie, and between flicking the lighter and firing the rubber bands, "fire an event" seemed like the phrase to use.

There's something strangely surreal and downright awesome about reading this comment from you, over 25 years later. Huge amounts of respect for what you and the team achieved.
This looks like a fantastic game. Two thoughts:

1. I bet hobbyists could come up with some garden city plans that would be genuinely pleasant places for real people to live, and perhaps city planners might take inspiration from them.

2. I wonder whether a game like this could produce a file format that could be used as input for a racing game or a game like Grand Theft Auto.
This guy is awesome. He has an online book about typography that convinced me stop typing 2 spaces after periods: http://practicaltypography.com/
well that's because it makes all the powdery crap sink to the bottom instead of the big chunks acting like a filter

Paraguayans (at least the Mennonite colonists) don't have a problem with touching the bombillia either
Since a lot of people are chiming in with anecdotal evidence I'll add some of my own.

There's circumstantial evidence to suggest that eating white rice can exacerbate myopia. And asians eat lots of white rice. I found my eyesight deteriorating and cut white rice out of my diet. I think it's stopped now.
Cops are an active deterrent towards good citizenship because good citizenship is punished. The citizenry is under no obligation, moral or ethical or it-would-be-nice-if, to help them when they have proven unwilling to help the citizenry in aggregate or, especially as regards minorities and those weaker than they are, in particular.

It's economics. People respond to incentives. I am not incentivized to help the cops because it's never going to be better for me to do so. I'll act differently when they are different, get me?

.

(You make a good point about traffic stops, though it speaks remarkably of the shitty nature of police interactions that somehow it's on you to make an officer feel safe. Never mind that an officer will regularly attempt to make you feel threatened or unsafe to get you to say something stupid...)
Also try drinking it with cold water. I prefer terere (cold water mate)
You may have missed this article about putting backdoors into computer chips by changing the amount of doping of the silicon:

http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf

Ars summary:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/researchers-can-slip...
These top-level guys try to climb when it's really cold and at night to prevent sweaty fingers.

Kevin Jorgeson climbing the Dawn Wall in Yosemite this winter for example:

http://www.climb.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/pitch15_crux....
Google Drive for Linux images leak after years of promises
For NLP. Presumably you could extract it from sentences with techniques like Socher's:

http://www.socher.org/index.php/Main/ParsingNaturalScenesAnd...

There was an example in Socher's paper of a tree of logic - ands, ors, nots (not shown on that site, but in the paper) - which logic, he showed his RNN technique can represent. The OP paper I imagine is more along those lines. Being able to capture full logic like that gets you that much closer to being able to extract the full meaning from language, not just words that provide a general flavor.
You can buy a kilo of mate for $4 from any decent latin grocery or mennonite vacuum store. Brew it, add sugar, ice. Totally not worth the $2/bottle for the Guayaki drinks.
> They are proposing a thought experiment -- you know, the kind lots of scientists did, Einstein and Shroedigger among them.

Neither Einstein nor Schrodinger "did" thought experiments. They used thought experiments (which is a really terrible name for imaginary scenarios) to motivate arguments and guide thinking, not to demonstrate anything.

No one who has been paying attention to the history of knowledge uses thought experiments for anything other than illustrative, explanatory or motivational purposes. In particular, the conceit that imaginary scenarios can teach us anything about the way reality actually is long outdated, as no such imaginary scenario has ever done any such thing.

Relativity was motivated by thought experiments, but so too have been numerous false ideas. Therefore thought experiments can do nothing to distinguish false ideas from true ones, so anyone who uses them for that purpose is doing them wrong.
I hope Microsoft knows this, but Open Source doesn't imply putting your source on GitHub (and vise-versa). If Microsoft dev teams served source tarballs along with their releases, we'd be just as happy. But perhaps they will actually use the GitHub issue trackers and other neat features, as they are pretty useful.
The set of pixels along the edge of your choice is countable. The reason is basically the same as was given, except it's simpler since you're only subdividing in one dimension. You'll never drop a pixel exactly at 1/3 or anywhere that isn't an integer multiple of a power of 2.

You can identify each pixel by two other pixels along your chosen edges (axes). The set of pairs drawn from countable sets is always countable.
How is this any different than say a phone bill format? that shows totals such as 'minutes' $XX, 'data' $XX' and then you can optionally view the entire logs
Ha, talk to me when you are 34, have a CS undergrad, a Master in Software Engineering, spent every second of your life programming since 19 and have been working on your startup for over 7 years, then get rejected flat out from y-combinator.
"My name is (name), what is yours? Nice to meet you. Am I free to go?"

"Please, I do not wish to talk to you."

"Please, if you want to talk to me further, I will want my lawyer present."

"Please, I do not wish to participate in a fight with you."

"Please, let us leave each other alone, or I will destroy you and your organization via technology beyond your understanding." (Be sure you can back this one up before using it).

Be polite, be professional, speak little unless there's profit in speaking much. Works with most everyone that is outside your monkeysphere, this includes cops.
But then Asians have been eating white rice for centuries haven't they?
Spy – A general purpose file system watcher
Simply one of the worst development tools that MS has put out. Its problem is that it's a hack-job - an attempt to make it in to a 'project' file that Visual Studio can load and also where one can treat as a traditional (n)ant-like build file. That's not to say that I think (n)ant is better, but it's certainly not hacky and far better documented.
They have been accepting community contributions on dotnet/coreclr, among other projects:

https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pulls
Ways of Sending Emails with Laravel
I only just discovered this drink this year. They sell it at a nearby supermarket. In the sugarless variety, it is slightly sweet and fantastic.
And so it's been for half a millennium:'

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." – Cardinal Richelieu, 1641

It seems law enforcement never really changes.
The President’s Immigration Orders – More Is Needed
Thank you! We always tried to have fun with the names.

Alas, my other favorite name didn't make it into the final product. VB Controls were called Gizmos in Ruby, and VBX was the Gizmo Interface.

I don't know what happened there - I think Gizmo was just not a serious enough name for the Microsoft of the day. But really, Control instead of Gizmo? Boring!
I billed 8 hours work to a company to fix a python bug that was exactly this problem.

After a lot of refactoring by someone inexperienced in python, something was indented inside of a loop that should have been outside it.

8 hours work for de-denting one line of code.
Lightweight Docker Swarm deployment tools
Would prefer if you don't dox my roommate (anand) and I by publishing our address..
nice so half the internet is broken for you
The very blog post which prompted this discussion explains the danger of assuming even impartial investigative intentions of cops, let alone "good" ones.
Philosophers typically assume certain "fixed points" in arguments that they then refuse to budge from under any circumstances. It is a mental dysfunction, a kind of inbuilt rigidity of mind, that is peculiar to the breed.

For example, there is an actual argument in the philosophy of science that is based on the supposition that there is a substance that is "identical to water in every respect" but "is not H2O but rather XYZ".

Philosophers take this "argument" quite seriously, and get rather testy when you point out that the premise is a contradiction: if something has "all the properties of water", then that must include properties under electrolysis, and under electrolysis water decomposes to 2H and O, not X, Y and Z (whatever those might be). If you say this to a philosopher they will reply, "Yes, but what if it doesn't?" as if that was a coherent statement.

So the answer to your question is, "Because if we allowed ourselves to discard one of the premises we'd have a much harder time motivating this whole ridiculous discussion, and since our livelihood depends on such ridiculous discussions, we're not about to let that happen!"
I have a "You can build my design, but you must send me a picture of the finished device, and let me post it on my blog" license for my stuff. It's surprising how many people don't even bother to do that.
> The set of pixels along the edge of your choice is countable.

It is for a finite number of divisions. But is it for an infinite number of divisions?

You are basically assuming that the limit point of a given sequence must have the same properties as every item in the sequence. That is obviously false; for example, many limit points of sequences of rational numbers are not rational numbers. So you can't just help yourself to the assumption that, because each pixel's coordinates have a certain property after a finite number of divisions, the coordinates will still have the same property after an infinite number of divisions.
The pixels are not points. The pixels are rational subdivisions of the screen. Rational numbers have the same cardinality as integers.

The article clearly shows how you can give a unique number to every pixel, no matter how small. You can't just ignore that because you have another argument, you have to show how one of two incompatible arguments is wrong.

The article shows how its original argument was wrong. Each specific pixel has a finite string describing it, not an infinite string. Therefore an argument based on infinite strings is wrong.
Yes, I'm aware that people in the South of Brazil are generally fair skinned due to the factors you mentioned.

I understood you were comparing Argentina as a whole to Brazil as a whole (and the latter has a much larger fraction of black/mixed/amerindian people, the other 90 million who are not white i.e. half of the population).

But fair enough, since you mentioned moving from Argentina to Brazil, I should have assumed shortest path :) and guessed you were talking about Rio Grande do Sul or Santa Catarina (obvious after reading your other references to it on this post).

P.S.: I need to update my "memorized demographics" - I remembered Brazil's population was 180 million but that's the number for 2002, today it's 200 million. An easy mistake to make coming from a country with a stagnant population growth...
Which is built on the MSBuild API. Which makes it a bit annoying to use without the pre-release Visual Studio right now, as Roslyn is built against an MSBuild assembly that doesn't exist on my machine.