skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that more basic things like setting up proxy settings would be more like the spark plug replacement or oil change that you mention. Things that you don't need to know, but that you probably shouldn't be paying a professional for either. Just like with a car, if you don't learn a few things, expect to spend more time and money than you need on getting the little things fixed.
It lacks the touch of a good designer. Everything seems slightly off... from colors, to fonts, to text placements, to 20 other small touches. It all adds up to an amateurish feel. Some examples:

1. The colors. Ugh.

2. The formatting of the content boxes should be more consistent. All pictures should go to the edge and have the same height. Logos should have padding, not stretch to the edge (e.g. YouTube). Even once this is fixed, the different palettes in the different pictures are what's contributing to the clutter. Maybe make all the pictures b&w... not sure. Do you need the chrome for these? Boxes with shading and extra lines is a bit dated. Check out digg.com for a better example of this style. Generally this is the biggest issue.

3. The "Popular Lists" graphic should be half/half on the area above/below. Right now, just a few pixels lay on the green area. Plus the white is too close to the off-white of the section below. If not for the shadow, I probably wouldn't be able to tell you were going for.

4. Something looks odd about the font in Chrome. Certain letters seem bold, or somehow "stretched" a few pixels too tall. (e.g. The "E" from E3, the "B" from Best Viral Videos)

5. The anti-aliasing is inconsistent. Text isn't being anti-aliased at all. The logo is anti-aliasing unnecessarily (at the top/bottom of squared letters). The pictures seem to be low-quality JPEGs which contributes to this issue.

Assuming all the formatting is done via css a good designer should be able to fix most of this in a few days.
Your blog post shows that doing software/IT is "not just another job". It can be very demanding and make you question things. People will say "but (every job has it's caveats)..." and NO. My dream is to sell entrance-tickets at the nearby Zoo until I retire with 67.

Live could be easy
That's what I thought, only most recent timeline counts. From my experience anything older than 15-30 minutes is not noticed anymore. So I agree, that's a good amount of time to use as the grace period. Just intuitively I think people wouldn't care to remove their retweets. I might be wrong though. Need to get more data on this.
I read Twitter ToS pretty carefully, and I didn't find anything that my service would violate. As for Apple, still need to look into that.. It is something I see all the time though. And I do it for my own apps without any issues so far.
I think the thing about freelancing is: you're never going to have one source of leads. There'll never be one thing that makes someone think "Yes, I should get in contact with this person," but it all helps create a good impression. Good portfolio demos, useful & well-written blog articles, an active Twitter following/Github account/Stackoverflow profile, talks & engagement with the community, etc will all help. But there's no magic bullet.

In general, you'll probably find that most work comes from you reaching out to people pro-actively. At that point, they're definitely going to check out your website. If you can link them to your best work and give them some well-written blog articles to read, you'll definitely see the benefit in later conversations.
As with most basic science research today in neuroscience, at least, many of the TDCS studies are based on small sample sizes and many of the effects, although "statistically significant" are in fact modest effects. So I guess the answer to your question is, sort of.
This idea reminds me a bit of insulating concrete formwork, where you use interlocking bricks made from something like polystyrene to make a form. This is then filled with concrete to give it strength.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulating_concrete_formwork
Lots of good discussion in this thread -- but no suggestions relevant to the author's problem. Is there a better solution?
I rather like it but how the heck did you manage to spend $200K on it? Would you mind opening up about exactly how the money was spent?
Let's just say that I'm happily using a language where I don't really have to search for bugs in the first place ...
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Actually, that is where the argument goes wrong. You cannot have a function that maps the infinite numbers in [0,1] to a finite subset (which is the 'finite initial sequence'. So the argument collapses to the conclusion: after an infinite number of or incorrect guesses, everyone guesses correctly. Which is to say there is no such point where everyone starts to guess correctly.
You can get the EPUB version by signing up for the Meteor Tips newsletter (free) or simply buying the book on Leanpub. :)
I'm afraid it's already a thing people say, and has been for a while. But unlike "Web", Bitcoin may actually reach a version 2.0, and at that point, the confusion will probably be a constant source of amusement.
A mathematical axiom cannot be wrong, since by definition an axiom is always true. More accurately, a system of axioms can be vacuous, in the sense that it leads to conclusions that are logically impossible.

To ask "Is the axiom of choice true" requires that we agree on the meaning of 'truth', which is of course a very complicated philosophical question.

The author tries to make an appeal to our intuition by describing an example that (supposedly) takes place in the real world, but the real world is the realm of physics. In physics, truth derives from the result of experiments; whereas in mathematics, true statements are derived from a set of axioms.

Considering that an axiom is a rule that is made up by a person, and that there are an infinite number of consistent axiom systems, the question of the "truth" of a set of axioms has no meaning, unless we are actually asking, is a given axiom necessary for an accurate description of nature.

As far as I am aware there is no part of physics in which the axiom of choice plays any direct role.
That was a nice read, and using bash was cute.

I setup a simple service which allows dynamic dyns to be configured via curl at http://dhcp.io/ - the source is available on github.

That too uses Route53 for the back-end, as does the git-based DNS host I setup at https://dns-api.com/
Yes, you mention it. Time.

Time is a real property just like IO, effects, values and types.
If people stop hand-waving, we would have fewer bugs.
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I personally strongly dislike the term "Bitcoin 2.0" although I still use it quite frequently, primarily because I don't know of any other succinct way to describe all of the second generation functionality that is currently being built on top of the blockchain.
Would also love to know where the money went specifically. Seems insane (also do you need another website built for 200k?)
Sure :) We're basicly two founders that have done most of the design and project management of the site. In addition, we've outsourced some design and all of the programming to Ukraine, including the mobile version. The outsourced development itself runs into the 100k's over the stretch of 1.5 years, and in addition, we've done some marketing (40-50k) and had some administrative costs (lawyers, offices, etc.). I don't have an exact sum, but it's anywhere from 190-220k.
yes, but the arrow is much more noticeable with this void. That's what I meant to say.

I did want to mention that the visual style matches perfectly with the target audience - cartoonists. That's a very good point.

I agree it's the perfect mix between content and style. For me it still boils down primarily to great, simple copy.
Is this adjusted to account for people who age out of the workforce? Presumably, as baby boomers reach retirement age, more people will exit the workforce than enter it, even in good times.

EDIT: Yes, this is among working-age people. But still, I'd assume early retirement would increase the numbers as baby boomers get older.
"Who cares that this abstract object exists?"

The form of this question is "Who cares about X?" so I would put this back to you, "who cares about answers to questions of the form, 'who cares about X?'?"

"The hats and such are just a way of dramatizing the actual claim about the existence of a particular abstract object."

The hats are about binary representations, and calling out the hat colors is about being able to compute binary representations. I don't know how to interpret the word "strategy" without implying "algorithm". The setup is that an interrogator sequentially queries the prisoners, and the prisoners have to come up with answers.

If you're criticizing the idea that computability should be injected into talk of what a "strategy" is, then we have to get to the heart of the problem: are the prisoners different people or are they all "manifestations of the same underlying strategy"? (I'm saying that the ability to make a prior agreement about an infinite amount of information is tantamount to the prisoners losing their individuality and being "merged" into a kind of consciousness that speaks for all of the prisoners simultaneously). If they are different people, then we have to be able to formalize somehow the concept that information available to one is not available to another.

So I turn the question around: how do you propose to model the fact that the prisoners do not have insight into the "raw visual sense data" of the other prisoners, yet the "raw auditory sense data" is shared?

Now, back to the original problem: the hats are an attempt to hide under the rug the very difficult concept of being able to evaluate/compute the binary digits of a particular real number given some mathematical description of it. The key word is "agree". The prisoners have to "agree" on something, and in this context, we aren't sure what that means, but I'm taking it to mean that there is a finite alphabet they're using to communicate, they can only communicate finite sentences, and other similar practical assumptions...

Since there are uncountably many real numbers and only countably many computable numbers, there are (in ZFC) plenty of real numbers whose existence and uniqueness have been proven, but which are not computable. This is going to turn out to be an insurmountable operational obstacle for the prisoners.

For example any Chaitin constant will do. I've added a comment to the original blog post explaining the details.
>> "Long term thinking is a big potential advantage startups have over public incumbents that have quarterly expectations"

I completely disagree. If a public company has a poor quarter their stock price might fall a bit and shareholders might get pissed off. If a startup has a bad quarter that could be enough to put it out of business. Startups can't ignore the long-term but naturally all new businesses live day-to-day, especially when relying on venture capital and not a reliable revenue stream.
According to the article, the owner of the domain was not taking advantage of the buyer's trademark...because it didn't exist. So no, by simple definition, the owner was not a domain squatter.
I like it, and I like the machine.

I guess the only thing I disklike is that the title is "These bricks are like Lego for full-sized buildings" rather than e.g. "Lego-like bricks for full-sized buildings".
The business model is divided in two:

1. affiliate revenue from product sales, tracked via Viglinks.com (usually 6% commision off one sale; and remember, our lists are basicly shopping guides - or well, they should be)

2. straight up advertising, Google Adsense to begin, then setting up our own sales team (if we succeed, that is)...
From my experience two years is a reasonable time for a startup to find a viable business model. If it hasn't by then, you really should quit
because you shouldn't confuse people by naming things the same when they are different
No, we just work as SEO consultants (to cover costs), and the Alexa traffic numbers are mainly because of this - the SEO traffic.
I think Scala especially excels at prototyping.

I use it from quick and dirty scripts and ad-hoc data-processing (the stuff you would usually use Perl/bash/...) over exploratory programming, database work (SQL) and architecture sketches (GUI tools) to full-blown (web) applications (JavaEE, Python, Ruby, ...) and browser scripting (usually JavaScript).

I miss none of the "standard" technologies.
"it's amazing when the business people take over how rational they get focused on short term revenue and lose the long term vision"- on why Excite management was having difficulty buying PageRank for $350k (or $1.6m, not entirely clear).

I think this is a problem at a number of established tech companies as the management layer evolves.
If a page has zero images this is regarded as a failure:

"Your webpage has 0 images, 0 of them are unique and none of your images have the required alt attribute."
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I really hope this works. I am glad we have the BBC here in the UK. I am also glad that they have these guidelines. Not because they necessarily result in optimal news coverage, but because it helps to keep the private broadcasters in line. It's shame there isn't an equivalent for print publications really, given the state of the UK press.

However, their coverage of climate change is frequently ridiculous, giving equal airtime to views "on both sides of the debate". In reality, when 99% of scientists in the field would say that the "opposing view" is just BS, there is no debate.

Just because science has to revise its facts now and then doesn't mean any random, baseless opposing view has merit. However this is the fallacy a lot of anti-science types seem to cling to. Up to now, the BBC has only been exacerbating that problem.
Haha... That's a great way of viewing it. And that's one of our problems too. Perhaps we're biting off too much? At the same time, sites like Pinterest have success going for a pretty wide market (interiors, fashion, infographics, nature pictures, etc.)
You have every right to disagree. :)

I think erring on the side of the assumption that is bad for everyone is more likely to be true. Especially since its consistent with the NSA's overreach in other areas.

For instance:

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/318515-nsa-admits-analy...

or

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/nsa-often-broke-rules-o...

If they break the law over 2,500 times a year with no apparent consequences, do you honestly think its likely you are right? If so, good on you.

Personally, I'd rather assume things are more in line with the other abuses than dismiss them out of hand.

In what way is the assumption that they are tagging/tracking the sessions not consistent with:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2013/30_July_2013....

?

The fact some are US-based? But we already know they violate that regularly, 'accidentally'.

The volume of data? We already know they have datacenters large enough to store and analyze it.

I'm genuinely curious why you draw those conclusions.
Why the self-deprecating title? You could've said "Show HN: List blogging with Listnerd". This makes me wonder how you spent $200k and why you're so unhappy with the result.
I clicked a list. It had a list of ten little images. I clicked an image - I expected a bigger version of that image. I got the same tiny image and some text. I don't need the text; i do need bigger images.
The creator of the language here, ask me anything.
Please check my paper recently I put on arXiv.org.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0729
We covered this in my CS courses as well. I feel bad if anyone comes out of a CS program and isn't exposed to the Therac-25 incident even if superficially.
> "I love that these guys think of 4 years as short term and 20 years as long term. Young companies often set up this dichotomy as a couple months vs. a couple years, which just isn't enough."

You can think 20 years ahead, you can have your guesses, your vision, maybe also a cheesy vaporware "concept video" to prop up your PR.

None of this speaks about how your company truly operates. Because a modern tech company can't really execute 20 years ahead. 20 years is an eternity in technology. In 20 years the world will be nothing like what you thought it would be, and everything you thought would be cool to build up to would already be obsolete.

I've been thinking about Google X's "moonshot" efforts, can those efforts succeed? Their self-driving cars. Not impossible, but they move too slow. They're thinking like a giant corporation now, where getting up in the morning and putting their pants on takes 4 years.

Big carmakers have been playing with electric cars for decades. They were thinking "long-term". But it took Tesla to wake them up, and show them that their long-term vision is possible now.

And that's how it's with Google as well. Far more likely a hungry, angry, scrappy startup will eat their lunch. Someone who's not happy to imagine what it'd be like 20 years forward.

When you don't have a proven business model and a few billion dollars in the bank, you don't have time to think 20 years ahead. You want to have the future now, and you'll work your heart out to deliver it.
For some reason I arrived at the bottom of the page for the homepage and the auxillary pages I clicked to (the technology lists, then the "top webpages" lists).

I didn't realise until reading comments here about clicking the "make list" button; then when I went back and looked I realised I was scrolled to the bottom on page entry. Bizarre, never seen that before, presumably a bug.

[FF30.0 on Ubuntu]

Now looking at the main page I'm trying to click on the big "create a list" element ... but no the button is at the top of the page, you need an arrow pointing to the button and/or to activate the "create a list" element IMO.
Well, not sure. When he started Ceylon, he wasn't even aware of the existence of Scala.

Kind of reminds me of the quote from the Groovy creator.

Seems like most of the JVM languages these days are created because people are too lazy to research the state of the art...
There is too little info :-( What are examples of trips people have taken, where did they stay using your service, what activities did they do? There should be an "examples" section giving more insight into the travel offers available. And at the current pricing, I don't know if I should either expect the trips to be very local, or further away, or if the entire thing might be unprofitable, etc. More info please.
Concentric circles or ripples in a pond...

Mod4+Type and get the browser working

Then the names of the programs (and how to find applications in the activity view). Many people navigate by position in menu.

Then the change in Alt-Tab/Alt-` behaviour (could be fun) and the new workspaces (not many use those)

Then just being around when odd combinations of old workflow and new one happen. Minimising a window and forgetting the application is running. Nothing to click on to get windows back &c

I'm not defending anything here, just answering the original question.
Max linkage space-time permutation scan stats for disease outbreak detection
In a sort of self-referential loop, a large part of the propaganda value to many of these, certainly D.Z. in particular, is the fact that it was banned/censored in the USSR in the first place. Obviously that wasn't the only factor that gave it value. It had to have other elements to it (such as being written by one of the greatest Russian authors, provoking unconventional thought, etc. -- obviously banned garbage would have remained garbage). But a large part of its hit on the credibility of the leadership of the USSR, which is what gave it propaganda value, was essentially self-inflicted.
Already answered this, but I'll comment because you bothered to. Sure :) We're basicly two founders that have done most of the design and project management of the site. In addition, we've outsourced some design and all of the programming to Ukraine, including the mobile version. The outsourced development itself runs into the 100k's over the stretch of 1.5 years, and in addition, we've done some marketing (40-50k) and had some administrative costs (lawyers, offices, etc.). I don't have an exact sum, but it's anywhere from 190-220k.

I'm a designer and previous developer myself, but the site is actually quite broad. There is a lot more than meets the eye, such as:
- an administration area
- caching and indexing mechanisms
- web scraping robots
- various other agents and robots to update user feeds, top lists, etc.
- algorithms to calculate relevance and weight for the items on each list
- Wordpress plugins, possibility to embed lists, etc.
...and so forth. It's a pretty big site.
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The comment section on this blog post is spectacular. Many of the comments are by very accomplished mathematicians.
Excerpt:

Conclusion

We have successfully developed two new space-time permutation scan statistics methods with irregular shapes and improved computational performance. The results demonstrate the potential of these methods to quickly detect disease outbreaks with irregular geometries.
> The world is very much mutable

This depends on your definition of "the world". If time and memory are taken into account, you could easily make the case that the world is very much immutable. For example, if your friend changes his email address, its not as if his old address no longer exists. Even if it only exists in memory, it still exists somewhere, and you're still able to reference it.

If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend Rich Hickey's talk "The Value of Values"[1].

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Value-Values.
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I'll take a different tilt:

Your biggest problem is that you have 4 people listed on your team page yet there are two with the title 'Project Manager'. From what I can tell from playing with the site, it just lets you build 'top 10' style lists and allows people to vote/comment on them. Frankly, this is a weekend project for a good developer or for a better outcome, a good developer/designer pair. What exactly are the project managers doing?
I see this as an extrapolation of an expert system, which is an AI. It seems the more you know about how they work, the less they seem like artificial intelligence and more like some simple optimization problem. I suppose this is what the Chinese Room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room) is all about.
To add to that, Sweeney hasn't really been a graphics programmer since the late 90's. He's always been much more focused on engine infrastructure, leaving graphics to other very competent programmers at Epic.
I'm curious how much of a shock it was subjectively. Small shocks could be mildly pleasurable due to the endorphin response, similar to the mechanism that makes spicy food pleasurable.
Yes, and that threshold is the boolean I'm talking about. He says

"Marry the first person you meet whom you could happily be married to"

Which implies that for each person, either you could be happily married to them or you could not be happily married to them. My point is that there are probably many people who you could marry and increase your happiness, but that doesn't necessarily mean you should marry the first one you encounter, because of the significant opportunity cost.
Here's a Mark V. Chaney text generator in 16 lines of quasi-functional Ruby. Considerably simpler than the table method. if you keep all successors to a word (including duplicates) in an array, any random selection of the array works. No need to compute probabilities.

https://gist.github.com/michaelfeathers/2cf9e1599e06d0563f2e