skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I quite like this one, it's as though the environment deteriorates. Don't watch it to fast:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,1,0,2,1,0,2,1...

At one point, right before it goes over the "entropy cliff" it creates what looks like a lot of Sierpinski triangles:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,0,1,2,3,2,2,2...

I found it quite interesting that one as complex as this could stabilize:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,3,1,1,2,0,2,3...

This seems to end up like a frozen lightning bolt: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,3,3,3,2,4,0,2,2,3...

This creates a pattern almost like hair in the wind: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,2,3,0,2,4,3,0,3,1...

Seems as though it's many cats standing on each others heads: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,0,3,1,0,3,1,2,1,0...

Like waves on a beach: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,3,4,2,1,2,2,0,4,0...

Some otherworldly data wind: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,0,3,3,3,3,1,0,3,2...

Eventually, all clouds fade away: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,3,3...

In and out of phase: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,2,2,0,3,1,2,3,1,0...

Like sand dunes moving: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,3,3,1,0,2...

Saws on parade: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,0,2,2,3,1...

Scooty lightning: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,0,3,2,2,3...
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I've looked all over and nobody seems to know how to backorder .io domains. If you have any experience or advice I would love to here it.
Yeah, I find that a little wishy-washy, too. I guess that's part of the buying decision you have to make -- are you willing to risk the lesser cachet for the convenience and affordability?

I'd do it in a second, but then I'm probably the target audience (other than not having completed my BS). I'm almost 40 years old, with a wife and child, and the flexibility is crucial to me. This isn't an alternative to a traditional MS program; the traditional MS just isn't even an option for me. I see it as a way to get credit for the MOOC work I'm already doing for fun and fulfillment.
I had the same experience. Not sure how they generate them but perhaps not as random as one would think?
Are we talking about human culture, or geology?

What I'm getting at is that superficial modes of commerce are fleeting and culture isn't. Culture is as old as human nature.

Newspapers and their hold on the local ad market were swept away in a few years. But writing hasn't died. Why should anyone pervert the concept of owning and controlling a computer just to prevent the RIAA model of a recording industry and the Hollywood model of movies from dying?

That's a bit like laws to preserve 6 lane roads and big box stores because they should be a permanent part of the landscape.
I think it's unfair. It's not possible to hand-make everything and the definition of 'hand made' can vary.As a graphic designer, the client cannot ask me to give him the copyrights of the version of Adobe Illustrator I used simply because I used the software's installed features and didn't code them.
Ah Saurik, the most interesting man in the world. I dont make software, I just break yours.
Diversity visa lottery is for only national of under-represented. So I assume it is not for people from countries such as China or India.
There are very unique and laborious products for sale on Tindie, I don't think there is a requirement to produce in batches or minimum sales: https://www.tindie.com/shopping/category/robots/
That's easily implementable. But breaks lots of apps.

I have it currently on my nexus one with CyanogemMod7. standard feature.

Use it to prevent my closed source keyboard from talking to the web.
Well, there's no real scarcity of teaching faculty and other resources in a MOOC format, so that pressure will be removed. But I don't know how the standards will be set. I'm not sure Georgia Tech knows that yet, either.
I don't think capitalism is necessarily bad, and it's certainly better than Soviet-style (pseudo-)socialism.

Meritocratic capitalism I'd favor strongly. The problem is this who-you-know corporate capitalism based on conformity rather than excellence.

I agree that corporations create artificial scarcity, and that it's horrible. I don't know if that's a "capitalism" problem so much as an undesirable result of what happens when a small, socially closed set of people hog lots of resources.
I understand where you're coming from. My friend's statistics teacher said that if a flipped coin results in 5 heads, it doesn't owe you a tails – this seems to support the gambler's fallacy. Though looking at something like running: say I run the first mile in a race in 7 minutes. Odds are the next mile will be a bit slower given I'm bad at pacing myself and I'm now tired. This is an extreme example, but I've been trying to look at baseball with this approach, that prior games influence the outcome of the next game. And I know that I am simplifying my prediction by just accounting for streaks. I would love to lengthen the script to look at factors like how much the team has won/lost by, who's on the lineup, where the game is (home versus away), etc.

But at its least this was good coding practice.
Prezi adds nothing to the content I'm presenting. Its one animation gimmick and that's it.

The best slide presentation software I've seen so far is SlideShow, but its for programmers only :)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/icfp04-ff.pdf
My voicemail was hacked, and it pretty much sucked
Google "unit of ego" as in "I suggest we call the unit of ego the Wolfram"

http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2009/04/monumental_egos....
Are you living in a world where no one cares where you got your degree from?
See also: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Lahman/index.html

Baseball stats pre-molded into a nicely workable form, available from your handy R interpreter.
Your app doesn't work on my jailbroken iPhone I'm not going to leave a poor review but I will still think it reflects poorly on your software.
If I remember correctly, the gambler's fallacy is for fully independent events. I think the assumption here is that the team's performance in a game will impact their next result. After a win, they get on a roll. After a loss, the coach gives them a stern talking to and they come out playing a bit harder the next night. There's some correlation between games, but I'd say it's mostly independent...

I'm not a statistician, so I can't really speak to how 'valid' the analysis is, but I'd be curious to see how it does in different tests--unless I'm misinterpreting, the biggest check so far was done on 2012, which is exactly what was used to train it. It would be interesting to see what happens if you train with half of 2012 and test the second half. Or check 2011 (do you predict an end-of-the-year collapse, allowing my Cardinals to sneak in again? ;) ).
From the FAQ: This program has been approved at every relevant level of the University System of Georgia, up to and including the Board of Regents.
The course materials and participation are MO, just not the Masters degree itself.

At the next family-attending Georgia Tech Professional Education function I'm going to petition everybody who'll stand still to allow people without a BS to earn the degree. But I think I'll actually be preaching to the choir.

Anyway, it's a huge step for them to create this program as is. And once the concerns about "degree devaluation" have passed, and enough demand has become apparent, maybe they'll be ready for the next step.
Wow, this is like the Workflowy of feedback apps. Nice work.

One request: make it possible to edit a comment within a minute or 2 of posting it. Also, make it possible to reposition a marker.
I don't think Etsy is necessarily wrong overall - I think they just weren't clear in what they did or did not want in their market. I also think it was badly handled on their part - it seems like they could have communicated their concerns without making it sound like a cheap interrogation.

Lastly, from an outsider POV, Etsy doesn't really seem like the ideal place to put up a synthesizer shop anyway. If I was looking for electronics of any kind, I wouldn't be looking there (although, since I'm not really in the market for a synth right now, I'm not sure where else I'd be looking, either).
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Except no GRE, which is removing another unnecessary barrier to entry. The admissions process also seems to be an effort-based process of testing out of some initial curriculum. Much better than studying for a standardized test.
I'm 38 and have been weight lifting on and off for around 20 years, but never was very successful at it. I think I maxed around a 225 bench at one point, but now I'm much less than that.

Anyway, I just discovered HIIT training, which has made a world of difference. I'm actually gaining strength and mass every time I work out, and I'm eating less now than I did on SS.

SS works for some people, but I think it depends on your genetics. Or maybe your right and I'm not eating enough. However, my system just can't handle that much food without GI problems. Also, I was getting a big fat belly along with it.

HIIT training has been working for me and after 2 months the gains are still there and better than those I was getting on SS. There also is more evidence that it works than SS has, I believe. Like I posted on another thread, checkout the boise experiment: http://boiseexperiment.com/HeavyDuty/?page_id=308

Anyway, each to his own.
> They are only targeting people who've already gone through an accredited degree program. Makes the program more likely to be taken seriously.

I think not only that, but also allows the curriculum to be more focused. Likely they weren't prepared to throw in all the non-major related classes that typically go with an undergraduate degree. Its a great start.
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Seems OK to me. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and whatnot.
That's where basic fitness comes in. 10 minutes of high stress activity a day builds more muscle mass than 2 hours of low impact cardio. Or to put it another way typists don't build large muscle in there forearm but a bricklayer does because stress is far more important than duration when it comes to muscle growth.

That's not to say cardio is pointless, rather unless your trying to build stamina for some reason cardio takes a lot of time for little short term benefit.
Is this Microsoft's official Windows blog? What a piece of garbage.

Who labels their feeds (Atom??) as "Syndication"?

I don't know who works at Microsoft anymore, but it's a really weird culture.
Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver said: "Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher."

Baseball fan in me says that is correct but statistician in me would like to see more models like yours to quantify it.
Is barter against the law?
I can ask about that (my wife works at GT PE), but this video implies a pretty strong equivalence. The relevant part is right at the beginning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihmiLx3Xlk
I think dilution is less of a concern than reduced rigor, which is a completely valid thing to worry about IMO.
I appreciate this, but it's very simply a matter of being associated with something "artsy" or "techy."
I was an ExpanDrive user for a long time. I used it for painless SSH mounts in Windows. I don't have a need for it these days, but if I did, I wouldn't hesitate installing it again. Recommended!
I find Workflowy aesthetically clunky. This is all the usability goodness of Workflowy and great visual design. One of the best things I've seen on the web in awhile. Really impressed.
It doesn't devalue the prestige of my degree but it devalues the thousands of dollars I've spent and the opportunity costs paid by not having a remote option. It's de-moralizing being midway through my degree knowing future students will not have my debt or be constrained geographically and temporally. It's like an externalization of costs where my debt will be used to frog hop the next class(es) ahead of me.
Yes, exactly. He hasn't even written an app with 4 million active weekly users. The gall of that guy!

Oh wait, I forgot about Cydia.
SolarCity’s earnings say the solar business is hard
%s/{Bitcoin,finance}/{Internet,communication}/g . Not to say you're wrong, but the same rhetoric is used for every "game" changing technology.
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What risk? They hold your money for half a week or more.
I guess you can say that about anyone if you don't provide any evidence.

Olympus, I'm sure you are an intelligent man, but I wouldn't assume that you're anything more than the average HN reader. I wouldn't call you interesting or say that you have many great insights.

But seriously, you don't think the CEO of Apple has insights about tech and where it's going?
Dear Samsung, please stop making stuff up about 5G
This is a huge step in the right direction, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm disappointed about the BS in CS requirement. Plenty of people with BS degrees in other technical fields probably could pass a fair placement/entry examination given the chance.
I too am happy about this. I received my BS in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech last year. I had a few friends in CS, and I can say the program is really top-notch and up-to-date. I really like chemical engineering, but I also really like CS, so maybe after graduate school I'll sign up for this program.

By the way, how is applying for software engineering positions as a chem eng. working out for you? I'm getting my PhD in chem eng. now from UT, and I am trying to find a job that when I graduate combines my love for both fields.
yeah for now... They're most definitely a thing, though I have a documents worth of baseball elements I hope to incorporate
My take: Mondrian scrolls. http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,1,1,0,1,2,1,1,1...

I really appreciate this art of randomness, and in particular the fact that it is theoretically equivalent to any computing machine (given much, much more memory and states).
Penrose, huh. I was reading the intro to Scott Aaronson's new book on quantum computing, and in it he says,

> More pointedly, one wonders who the audience for this book
is supposed to be. On the one hand, it has way too much depth for a
popular book. Like Roger Penrose’s _The Road to Reality_ – whose
preface promises an accessible adventure even for readers who
struggled with fractions in elementary school, but whose first few
chapters then delve into holomorphic functions and fiber bundles –
_Quantum Computing since Democritus_ is not for math-phobes.
This is actually very good compared to other findings; the pattern starts to disappear and then regenerates itself in different ways. Accompanying horizontal lines look like an ocean.
You might want to rephrase that :) "No adding up small costs/fees/charges [...] minus 46 cents"
Then they need to rework their rules. Fine if they want to focus on crafts, but they shouldn't be throwing out people based on "not handmade" and then allow 250,000 types of "fabric". Most likely 99% of which are not handmade.
http://www.etsy.com/search/supplies/fabric
Rather than waiting for data from future games, you should backtest on old data and see how it performs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtesting).

You might also be interested in checking out the book The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver (He runs the FiveThirtyEight political/data blog that notably predicted last year's election results with great accuracy.)
BTC transfer to CampBX and then out through Dwolla or any other method they offer. BTC trade for services or goods. BTC trade with private party. BTC to another exchange with different banking arrangements.
If someone did the exact thing you were planning to do and it failed, it's probably not a good idea. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." -- Albert Einstein

If someone did something close to what you want to do and it failed, that doesn't necessarily mean much. The success drivers for a breakthrough business are often really subtle, and if you miss one key aspect you miss the market. It's quite possible for a previous product to be almost there but not quite, and then someone to do it just slightly different and be a huge success. (See: Altavista vs. Google, GO vs. Microsoft Tablet PC vs. the iPad, LiveJournal vs. Friendster vs. MySpace vs. Facebook, Google Video vs. YouTube).
If game results were independent, yes. But lots of things in baseball aren't independent: teams play the same opponent repeatedly in short series, runs of home or away series occur, pitchers rotate, players get injured, teams may slack when overperforming or intensify their efforts to avoid extended losing streaks, etc.

Most of all: baseballers are fairly superstitious. They believe in streaks, lucky rituals, jinxes, and the gamblet's fallacy (being 'due' for a win or a loss). So some serial correlation could be a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Still, I'd expect tons of other available team stats to outperform the last N game results in predictive power.
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A waste of time, not a complete waste of time. Inefficiency implies you are wasting time.

I agree that the part about "only real and lasting" is wrong.
I think that the evolution of 1998 hypertext to todays web apps makes sense, as in every step along the way was reasonable. And by the time that one could actually leverage the advantages of a VM concept, the browser was the entrenched incumbent.
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Similarly, Paul Wittgenstein (brother Ludwig) was pretty damn amazing as well. The piano concertos for left hand, written for him, are some of the most interesting works in 20th century piano music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wittgenstein
The way I see it, there two stages to money laundering:

The first is simply disassociating your money from the crime. If you robbed a bank this means swapping your bills for other bills. If you robbed MtGox or sold a bunch of coke on the silk road this means using a fuckton of mixers... but that is not a good solution as you have noted. Bitcoin does not lend itself to this at all. Honestly if I somehow found myself in the possession of a ton of prominently stolen bitcoins I would just write them off; the risk involved in recovery would be far to great. If it was just bitcoins I got from selling some coke on silk road then I would be more relaxed; a few (presumably) independent mixers over a few months would put me at relative ease. None of the money from this step is useful though.. not unless you are content with paying your rent in cash for a few years or blowing all your bitcoins on VPSs... For the money to become actually usable you need part two.

The second part is the traditional money laundering. Taking money that is assumed to be unconnectable with the crime and associating it with your identity in a way that appears legitimate. If you robbed a bank this means taking the bills that you got out of step one and finding a way to put them back into the bank. If you are selling coke in real life then this is actually the only step you need to worry about; take the cash you got for the coke, "spend" it at your bar, and deposit it at the end of the week in your bank account. If you mined a shitton of coins a few years ago and don't really care to explain that you are a miner, then this is the only step you need to worry about.

The idea of both the "freelancing" and "casino" ideas is to do only step 2; that is to say they are both just to associate money with your identity in an "official" way. Neither will work worth a damn for step 1... at least I wouldn't trust either of them for that.

The nice thing about bitcoin casinos is that they are easy to spin up. Just load one up, spam it all over the place over the period of a week. During that week you "gamble" with yourself, then you taper that down to simulate waning interest in your service. Rinse and repeat as often as you need more money, just rip off whatever the current preferred gambling/toy is in the community at the moment. Never keep them around long enough for them to be popular or unpopular, only new. With the freelancing idea you may eventually have to explain where you are getting your contracts, but with technically legal fly-by-night gambling schemes nobody would expect even you to know or care. Gambling sites involve far less fabricated story and background, which is to your advantage.

Which I would choose would depend on how much money I wanted to attach to my identity and how fast. For modest amounts quickly I'd make a gambling site. For large amounts infrequently but at steady interval, I would become a freelancer. That would be the better one to attempt to live off of. (Also I'm in the US, so a gambling site is a non-starter anyway.)
Excellent idea. And it will provide a much faster way to gauge its accuracy as I adjust the script to accomodate more areas of information.

I actually just started that book and so far so excellent.
You also posted '[and soon, Linux]' a while back (late April).

Any word on this? :)
That's a bad analogy. It's more like you have a big window in your house. Is it a crime for people to look in? What about take pictures from the street?

If you accidentally upload something and it's accessible with a simple URL, is the burden on you to secure it or on the person accessing it?

I would say the burden is on you; that's just my opinion though.
Can you tell us what tool you used? Or maybe share your results/conclusions?
I beg to differ, as the situation was quite different 150 + years ago.

Had you read the provided link you would have seen that affixing the title "Esq" to one's name is an insinuation of being qualified to practice law.

It's still used today.

http://www.linkedin.com/title/esq/in-us-70-Greater-New-York-...

http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/esq--title-624803.html

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&...

http://www.linkedin.com/title/esq/in-us-70-Greater-New-York-...

http://www.formsofaddress.info/Lawyer.html

http://lawyers.law.cornell.edu/lawyer/steven-j-scheinin-esq-...

If I tried to pass myself off as "D9u, Esq," I would be seen as even more of a troll than you already see me as, and if I were to dispense legal advice whilst masquerading as "Blah Blah, Esq" I could find myself in trouble.

The authority to practice law is *granted by any entity," and that entity is called the Bar Association.

The "Esq" is to denote deference to the "Honorable" Judge, or magistrate, etc.

It may not be a crime for me to append an honorific to my name while residing in the USA, but such is not the case in many other nations.

To reiterate:
Regardless, the terms "Attorney at law," or "Esq," are still in use in the USA today.
One is bestowed said honorific by an "entity," which is called the "Bar Association."
The beginning of my position was that such titled individuals were once prohibited from holding public office.

Signed, D9u, idiot extraordinaire.
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As a non-CS grad, could I really get an MS in CS from doing an online class? Seems pretty insane, but something I might consider for 7k.
Still in development, mostly a packaging issue right now. But it's working! 4-8 weeks out.
One point in support of this point of view is that with functional languages such as erlang and haskell you can generate unit tests using something like quickcheck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck
This is so very true, thanks for showering me with this wisdom!
Just to throw it out there, since we don't know won: it may just be a cool experience for the winner. If I had piles of cash, and didn't have to worry about making more piles of cash, I'd consider it a pretty cool experience. I'd likely be giving that or more to charities anyway; if I can get some time with the leader of one of the most profitable countries in the world, why not?