skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me know if you find something. I'm in a similar boat, honors math undergrad, work experience with R/Matlab/Python, Incanter contributor, and I'm currently submitting a paper for publication in ICSME 2014 on machine learning, but I can't find an internship.

It seems like there's no interest if you're not a comp sci/software engineering student. All the people I've talked to want significant experience, even for an internship position (Stripe, for one data point).
If you want to define KC as the minimal length of some set of instructions to describe the string, then you still haven't gotten away from the fact that a common language must still be fixed in advance. You just changed it from a computer language to English (or whatever language your instructions are written in).
A ton is £100, you're thinking of an Archer.
But this just misunderstands the definition. In the standard definition you pick _some_ Turing-complete language, and then define K(s) with respect to that language. You can then go on to show that in the limit of longer and longer strings, it does not make much difference which language you pick.
Listen to this man. Going to a top school has a massive effect on your luck surface area.

Given that the best course materials can increasingly be found online, the only benefit of a school is its social network, in which the elite schools have a formidable monopoly.
No. That would be stupid.
I agree: "not now wealthy" is a perfectly valid construction.
> therefore that must mean inventions are on the rise...

Or that the level of incompetence at the patent office is on the rise, or that people are getting better at gaming the system...
It's a mathematical device for reasoning about compressibility. It's like saying "What's the use of Shannon Entropy of fixed strings?"

Algorithmic information theory also allows you to re-derive Godel's Incompleteness Theorem or the Halting Theorem from it, in a sense, it's a super-set of those concepts.

For example, we can talk about the compression of knowledge into finite sets of axioms and many bits of information exist in such a system.

Or we can reason about concepts like Omega, a truly random number in mathematics, incompressible in the sense then there is provably no shorter way to encode it other than brute force calculating it, but which is a real number, and which we can know the first few bits of it. (and a quite interesting number in the sense that it's an Oracle of knowledge and if you had it's complete expansion, you could solve many questions in mathematics with it)
It would be cool if this was added to the iOS parallax effect.
Your claimed definition:

"The overall Kolmogorov complexity of a string is thus defined as K(x)=|p| where p is the shortest program string for language L such that L(p)=x and we consider all programming languages."

is clearly wrong. You cannot take the minimum over all languages, or over all universal languages, because that leaves K() equal to a constant function.

You really need to fix L. I tried to define the simplest possible language on which to base Kolmogorov complexity and ended up with
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus
A beginner with a passion and goal to improve will eventually become a professional. You don't get to professional status by just research and reading, you have to actually do things and figure out first hand what works and what doesn't.

Then you eventually learn to see things on your own. I don't need to read a popular programming pattern book to know how to structure my code. I know how to structure it based on feedback of using it on a regular basis while having a solid base of information to work off of.

If something feels off, I fix it where the solution is it no longer feels off. Until it feels off I'll likely leave it as is because at this point I haven't experienced the problem.

If something isn't a problem to me then it's not a problem. It's only a problem when it causes me to react in a negative way or is causing the system to react in a way that is bad.

I wouldn't recognize first hand that red on green is a problem for color blind people because I'm not color blind. If this hypothetical app had to work for color blind people then I would open a ticket and flag it as a feature request and then get feedback from someone who is color blind.

That's a good example of it's not a problem until it's a problem.

You can still constantly learn and keep up with things while taking DHH's advice btw. I have been coding and working with his mentality for quite some time now despite working with rails for only a year.
The difficulty in judging any prediction is to the extent that it was true at the time it was made. For example, someone in the 1990s who predicts that there would be self-driving vehicles by 2015 would be correct, because there were self-driving vehicles already in the 1980s.

It's very hard for me to judge the 1960s, but that was the era of the TV-dinners and Swanson frozen food delivery trucks. Certainly my grandmother had single-purpose kitchen devices, like a pressure cooker, sausage maker, and gelatin molds that I haven't seen in most modern kitchens, along with a mechanical knife grinder/can opener and grapefruit spoons, which I only rarely see these days. Also, my parents received two fondue sets for their wedding - apparently fondue dinners were the in-thing then. My rough sense is that there's no increasing trend towards gadgets, but only a change in the details.

Which is why I conclude that Asimov meant something more than a bunch of kitchen gadgets and a more diverse selection of TV dinners.

FWIW, I do think that the life expectancy in Japan definitely counts. I just don't think that pacemakers and dialysis machines contribute enough to be notable.

What's amazing about satellite phones is actually how wrong the prediction was, despite being 100% correct. While it's completely correct that sat phones can reach everywhere on earth, the economics behind Iridium failed because it turns out to be easier to set up cell phone towers and lay down transoceanic fiber connections. People generally don't want to direct dial "any place on earth" but rather "any place on the earth where other people live". It's also possible to provide cell service underground, like subway stations, where satellites can't reach.

I think your "lucky few" interpretation is valid. Really I'm complaining more about the vagueness of the prediction. It could equally well have been made 100 years previous.
I think this issue is that it might be the case the hardware isn't even supported on newer OS X releases.
I'm a recluse and I've actually considered one day retiring to a state like Montana, Wyoming, or Idaho. This infographic just made my eyes light up. "Oh my god I can finally get away from everyone" I thought.
That's why ReplayGain doesn't do that. It takes the quietest song in your library and makes it louder.
As someone in your personal social network, I appreciate that.
And any Mac software you buy that still supports PPC is almost certainly not vendor-supported with security updates.
Assuming you are in the US, try applying to national laboratories such as Los Alamos/Lawrence Livermore/etc. Many offer bioengineering-related internships on the regular search portion of their "jobs/careers" site, and they often get few applicants.
I think it's fair to say that's a reasonable coping mechanism for staying sane. QM notoriously has no everyday analog, whereas determinism holds up reasonably well in daily life!
Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
But some of it was just math -- a large company with many teams that need to coordinate slows things down. I like this anecdote from a Microsoft engineer about how it took a year to design a really crappy shutdown menu with nine (nine!) options.

It turns out there 43 different people who had a voice in the feature, which was hashed out over a series of grinding meetings involving teams responsible for kernel, shell, Tablet PC, Longhorn, and (drumroll please) "Windows Mobile PC User Experience"."

"In Windows, the [repository] node I was working on was 4 levels removed from the root. The periodicity of integration decayed exponentially and unpredictably as you approached the root so it ended up that it took between 1 and 3 months for my code to get to the root node, and some multiple of that for it to reach the other nodes."

http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-c...
Twitter for Reporter RE: Ostrovsky
Twitter thread for "Brit in Ukraine" who has talked to the "Mayor" that's holding VICE News reporter Simon Ostrovsky hostage
Was the CPU pegged at 100% when using Python then?
curtainymous
> I am terribly sorry for the ad-hominem,

That was a bit cheap but ok. Let me add more.

Here is the same data that I have reploted

http://imgur.com/fdtc0tH

This chart is less biased (y axis starts at 0) and the correlation is less obvious.

The correlation is actually -0.6557, which is significant but probably not as high as you would expect from the first chart. But ok the correlation between game software revenue and juvenile violence is probably here (we're talking about ~20 data points...). To go further and conclude anything about violent games, you would need at least the proportion of violent games among games, we don't have it here.

Here's the data that I've extracted from the pixel position. It's not 100% accurate, but it should be good enough.

1990 412.999995
1991 430.999995
1992 448.999995
1993 469.999995
1994 495.49999995
1995 487.99999995 3.2
1996 432.49999995 3.67407407407407
1997 384.49999995 3.74179894179894
1998 355.99999995 4.55449735449735
1999 322.99999995 5.43492063492064
2000 298.99999995 5.5026455026455
2001 291.49999995 5.90899470899471
2002 276.49999995 6.92486772486772
2003 285.49999995 7.06031746031746
2004 270.49999995 7.33121693121693
2005 279.49999995 6.92486772486772
2006 297.49999995 7.26349206349206
2007 286.99999995 9.43068783068783
2008 288.49999995 11.6656084656085
2009 261.49999995 16
Interesting. Is this the Omega you're referring to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant
Although it feels likes a one programmer effort, there have been a few of us contributing consistently over the years:

https://github.com/slavapestov/factor/graphs/contributors
I keep hearing this book is a must-read: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/07/venture-deals-be-sma... If you don't want to buy it, you should check out the Venture Hacks Bible: http://venturehacks.com/friends I'm not sure any of them mentions SAFEs because they're very recent, you can read more details in YC's announcement: http://ycombinator.com/safe/
Exactly; ideas are only worth the work you put into them.

If I have a great idea, and somebody implements it and goes bankrupt, am I liable? Why do idea guys deserve to get compensation for the successes of their ideas without shouldering any of the risk of the failures?
Still using the AWS master key? Try this IAM policy simulator guide
3D printing solves watery-ketchup conundrum
The AirPort 7.7.3 update is actually the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, CVE-2014-0160: http://osdir.com/ml/general/2014-04/msg39413.html

The OP is about a Secure Transport bug, CVE-2014-1295.

So I guess Apple must have been using the OpenSSL library instead of their in-house Secure Transport library on the Airports!
Gotcha. I knew about it for other apps but missed it on OS X. But then, I was in the Mac dev program by then so I wouldn't ever look for/need an invite.

Good to see they've expanded it to everyone.
Well my contention is that K(x) is constant, in fact K(x) = 0.
The problem with fixing L is that it 'biases' the complexity based on the language chosen.
You’re More Than Your Last Few Tweets
This is great. I'd love to see this extended for natural images with whatever algorithm Google uses for OCR in streetview - http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/street-vi...
Surely Alaska is the least densely populated state. 1.7 million km2, with a population of around 730,000.
Thanks for the detailed reply, I'll ponder upon it and reply in a bit :)
America's Bitcoin Boulevard set to launch May 1
Although not RAM, but shows my age, how about Stacker?? (HD compression when I had a 20mb HD)
Kind of a generalization, no? Do you mean specifically for startup success and/or raising VC money?
Perspectives: Shared views on client or server
>That your computer is so old that you no longer look hip in Starbucks. Plastic MacBooks are so noughties!

I was actually thinking more in terms of security and support.

PPC architectures are not very well supported nowadays, and haven't been for over 5 years. Perhaps longer. Sure, you can still run your machine on 10.5 and it might run really well still. That's no reason to trust it for mission critical tasks. God forbid if someone was using a OS X Server 10.5 and users trusted it with their credentials.

Vanity was pretty low on my list, but I understand everyone's priorities are different.
that's what I'm assuming but Apple PR hasn't responded with clarification. Pre-release doesn't have the same stigma as some of the builds, so that's encouraging.

I'd assume it's not just for bug testing but also user-feedback on specific features/functions/usability issues. For instance, the 4K scaling in 10.9.3.
I'll give it a shot.

EDIT: So far, so good (on Arch Linux + GNOME + Wine). Thanks for the tip!
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PS C:\programming\Kolmogorov> ruby .\interpreter.rb "puts(\`"ab\`" * 20)"

abababababababababababababababababababab

So even with this universal language, we still have
Ksilly,x2(x2)=0

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So you input string "puts(\`"ab\`" * 20)" into a ruby program, and somehow Kolmogorov complexity is 0 and not length of the argument you passed? I don't buy that.
It's funny, I never had this about programming. I have it about writing and is part of why I forced myself to pack up the last 3 years of my blog into a "book" that I put on Amazon, but programming has always been easy for me to start.

Perhaps even too easy. I think at some point, every creative person needs to learn how to finish a project. I've only in the last 3 years (actually, maybe a little less) gotten to where I can say with fair certainty "if I start this project, I will finish it." The prior 10 was near-certain I would not finish.
Purple Haze isn't purple at all!
Ember is for the children
"This issue was addressed by ignoring incomplete HTTP header lines."

I hope they've taken into account the fact that the value of a HTTP header can span multiple lines (RFC2616 section 4.2)
Same seed and arguably easier to install (assuming you're using your primary system and not a machine dedicated to betas).
So what are the average sizes of these census blocks? Assuming an average is at all indicative of anything, I'd guess that it was perhaps around 1 km2 on average (going by number of census blocks). I can imagine that pieces of 1 km2 of land being totally uninhabited would be fairly easy to come across a lot of places.
I've been meaning to work more on this, but my free time is fairly limited. At the very least I should probably put my script on GitHub (although it's far from groundbreaking).

For me, one of the pain points is quality of metadata. It's all very well collecting genres, tags, and similar artists from a service like Last.fm, but you need to be reasonably confident that they align with your own ideas about music. Since everyone's ideas about music are different, this puts you in a tight spot.
The short answer is no. There's honeysql which basically lets you express sql in terms of Clojure's datastructures so you can get more reuse than you can with straight SQL strings, but it's not really an ORM as I understand it.
This is cute (and cool for the students), but I don't understand why the mushroom shape is important---it seems like the key innovation is the stem that extends past the watery stuff and deeper into the ketchup.
Outsourcing design/dev doesn't sound like a good idea (nor does credit card debt)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null-subject_language
The 7.0.2 update came at the same time as OSX 10.9.2 which had the fix for the "gotofail" bug (CVE-2014-1266). So that's a bit weird. Could it be a typo and they meant 7.0.3? But 7.0.3 was released on april 2nd, while today's update "Security Update 2014-002" claims to fix CVE-2014-1295 ("triple handshake attack"). So maybe nothing was fixed in safari until today?
Many commercially-plausible ideas coming from research labs are in fact patented and owned by the university. Companies which use these ideas are required to pay licensing fees or to purchase the patent. (Most research universities have a "technology transfer" office for this purpose, which famously are said to either lose money or make all their profit from only one or two patents.)

As a grad student, I was required to sign documents stating (in effect) that discoveries made by use of the university's resources were owned by the university.
Thanks for showing me this, I was greatly misguided.
It's kind of sad, I think, that what you said needs to be said... that knee-jerk reactions to strong opinions on religion can (in some people's minds) invalidate everything else a person might want to say.
Welcum 2 'merika.
Startups for Startups, they will get back way beyond what they gave away. Great things will come to you if you're not asking for anything in return, because people do remember.
If you want an excellent example how to not run a company, go through this guy's post history

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276848.msg4602313#ms...

'Inaba' is the COO of Butterfly Labs. He also runs his own mining pool (prob with customer miners)
The major problem with the post is that it does not cover the complexity of the language itself.
L(p) should equal to L(d, p) where d is the definition of the language used to write p.
So it becomes a whole different question now.
And indeed for L(s) where s = (d,p) you can now find the most minimal language definition and an empty p such that it can produce x.
K_L(x) = |s| = |d| + |p|
And for input receiving programs we need to consider the input as part of the program itself as well.

But those are just formalities, the great beauty of Kolmogorov complexity starts to emerge when you start to consider archive utilities as an approximation for K(x).
Think K(x) ~ |Zip(X)| or K(x) ~ |Rar(x)| now you have a real tool to approximate K(x) and guess what it is already installed.
Now what about Kd(x,y) = K(x) - K(y)/K(x||y) ~ |Zip(x)| - |Zip(y)| / |Zip(x||y)|
It is a distance metric for how entropically far is x from y and that is very interesting and can be very useful for anomaly detection for instance or password strength comparison.
It hasn't been updated in over four years, but Cog (http://cogx.org/) is wonderfully simple.
There's a fork of Firefox ESR that supports OS X versions 10.4 and up: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
I don't have an IRA, and my funds invested in the stock market are under 10k. I set up an account with Ameritrade, and every so often put another $1000 in, so that the $10 cost is a smaller percentage.
In the case of "a son who loves to program", if the target is a Computer Science degree, if your son can get into any one of Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU or MIT, go for it. These are the top CS schools in the US and I gather the world, and there's a big quality gap between them and those below them.
Awesome, though it might take a bit of air out of the tech-as-a-solution-to-jobs when one hears the qualifier "BTW, they're university-educated CS majors." (At a university with an absolutely terrible career services department, even by the low standards of career services departments.)
I was hoping to see these comments more prevalent in the hackernews thread. The story struck me at first as being interesting but then it seems like there's more murkiness involved and it's not an open-and-shut case. Not that the veracity of this passage is great, but seriously I was hoping for more of a critical eye on the story:

"United Capital Partners, a private company registered in Moscow that owns 48 percent of Vkontakte, disputed Durov's statements on Tuesday, saying he had been seeking to “politicize the situation” because there were “serious legal claims” against him and he was suspected of embezzlement."

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/vkontakte-founder...
I hope so, I have some analytical code I really want to wrap for R and Python without the overhead other methods require.
Anonymity theatre?
Can anyone explain whats going on with Maine? It doesn't make sense for a coastal state to be so uninhabited.
Yes, apparently Wyoming only "wins" on the lower 48 at 5.9 people per square mile, vs Alaska at 1.3 per sq mile.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_populati...
nor does hoping/praying to get into YC so you can build the company of your dreams. take risks, calculated of course.
I might be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that Apple would reject submissions to the app stores that were built on beta systems.

If I'm right, that would explain a lack of uptake on the betas for developers, since that would be a bit of a dealbreaker unless you are juggling multiple macs daily.
Good point. Perhaps the mushroom part is to keep the cap from slipping out?

In any case, this seems to be a solved problem. Fast-food restaurants already have ketchup pumps, with a very long stem that goes nearly to the bottom of the container. For home use, there are ketchup squeeze bottles that sit on their caps, so the watery stuff is on the opposite end of the bottle.

It appears that the real problem is that ketchup companies persist in selling ketchup in bottles that are not appropriate for ketchup -- and consumers keep buying them.
The Revolt of the Cities
I feel the opposite... determinism does NOT fit with my day to day observance, because my perception is that I have free will. If I accept determinism, I also have to accept that I actually don't have free will, and that seems contrary to my perception of myself.
To be fair, all releases after the one cited by papaf don't have a corresponding portable release (and that's what this thread is about).
I wish they'd also remove the NSA
My understanding was that it was always common stock.

I believe this is the agreement: http://ycombinator.com/documents/YC_CSPA.docx
I'm donating my 31st birthday to this great org. Donating $150 will get you a signed copy of Without Their Permission and I'll take the highest donor out to lunch in Queens.

https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/donating-my-31st-help-c4...
A hack called "Lightboard."

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/all-series/photos-recap-and-wi...

https://github.com/vincentsiao/Lightboard
"happy to answer any questions you have" - well for now it looks like you are rather selective with answering them...
The article on Bell inequalities that Aaronson promised is coming should be of interest to you then. Determinism, free-choice, causality, and randomness all intertwine and could make appearances in that article. It's fascinating, but mind-raping stuff. I look forward to this article myself!