skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you are still watching this and want more feedback, let me quote someone else here:

> it's like airbnb but with less privacy?

A lot of these "nomad" ventures have a huge focus on networking, socialising... I'd like to see something catering for introverts as well. Something that ticks all the boxes - self contained room + kitchen, Wifi. Desk, with chair.

Kind of like Airbnb apartments but with a more razor focus, a place with quality control where I know I can get work done. The Airbnb of (small, low budget!) serviced apartments.

General "serviced apartment" facilities might fit this, however they all appear to focus on the premium end - large spacious apartments fit for well salaried business travellers, not freelance tech guys just scraping by.

Heck, all I want is a sound proofed box with Wifi, bed, and a tiny Kitchen. Somewhere I can work in absolute peace, self cater if I wish, but also venture out from now and then.

I understand this is not what you are aiming for, but if you ever need any other ideas... ;)
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Sets without any associated storyline or franchise still exist as the "Creator"-series, and seem to be quite popular.
Well, the type of punishment is also a question of policy - I guess jail is the most common one. Btw, would you trust him around your (grand-)parents after all the fraud he's committed?
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That isn't a refutation of the paper, it is a proposal for an unworkable idea along with mumbo jumbo (weak subjectivity) justifying adding centralized mechanism.

The fundamental reason his punitive system doesn't work is because of the nothing at stake problem. More specifically, in this case he assumes that he can punish people making forks, but you cannot punish people who are no longer part of the system (or have anonymized and separated themselves from their funds) nor can you punish someone who makes a fork and attempts to attack, but is unsuccessful and doesn't broadcast.

Once again, this isn't a refutation. A refutation would involve going through the logic of the nothing-at-stake paper and saying why it is wrong.
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I have been thinking about this problem for a year or so now. I was introduced to the concept watching a Numberphille video and several hours later read this article.

I've been taking a somewhat metaphysical approach to thinking about it. Instead of thinking about a Turing Machine as just a head on an endless tape, can we not consider the Universe to represent the upper limits for our calculations? Just as Turing suggested that we can take the two dimensional representation of a mathematical equation and represent it in one dimension, can we represent the entire state of the Universe in a similar way on a hypothetical Turing Machine? The halting problem is then a question of whether or not the Universe has a halting state.

To extend from that, any machine that can be conceived must fit within the bounds of the Universe. Of course BB(Universe) is incalculable, but I think that it defines an upper limit. It is pointless to consider a Turing Machine that features an endless tape if an endless tape is an impossibility.

In not sure if this adds to the discussion, but I haven't had anyone else I could discuss this with until now.
This is seems more like a cool drawing than actually a technical concept of what the future of Formula 1 can look like.

Adrian Newey did a real concept for a "no rules" F1 car for Gran Turismo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Red_Bull_...
1. Crashes about twice in 5 minutes.

2. Tiny cache, compared to the previous one, so totally useless offline

3. Intrusive UI

4. Much slower
In your notation B(n)=A[n](n), where [] denotes the number of iterations. So C(n)=B[n](n)=(A[n])[n](n)=A[nn](n), so really iterA(n)=A[n^n](n). I you repeat this procedure with iterA, then you get iterA2(n)=A[n^(n^n)](n) . While n^n, n^n^n and so on are definitely fast growing you are better of putting A into []. So you can write an extremely fast growing function as f(n)=A[A(n)](n). So one can improve your strategy by using the [] notation, resolving the recursion and putting large functions inside.

And of course my method can improved with iterations that also can be resolved by creating a new notation. It's really never ending.

A[A[A(n)](n)](n)

And it's all computable, so the Busy Beaver grows faster than any* of these.
Unlikely. It's a step backward in terms of safety, and it looks more like a nod toward some of the open-wheel racing inspired road cars like the KTM X-Bow or the BAC Mono.

In short, I think it's a pretty picture of a car that looks "futuristic" but has little to do with F1.
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We released our Node.js Library and added Box.com as a connected service plus a lot bug fixes. Open for any comments and feedback :)
There's a lot of different kits out there, but you can still buy big buckets of just Lego, such as http://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-6177-Basic-Bricks-Deluxe/dp/B00...
I think the real problem is the disposability attitude you just described. It's prevalent in our real world consumerist economy and it's killing us there too.

Building software that's to be thrown away is a waste of mental resources and physical resources. Society and civilization advances on top of our lasting creations, not the ephemeral ones. Reinventing the wheel doesn't advance the state of the art. You want to build one good set of tools that will last a long time, so you can stop thinking about them and be free to tackle the next truly new challenge. Doing anything else is just a waste of life.
> PS. I also don't understand why the different HTML tags have to use different names to properties that have the same functionality."href" vs "src", "value" vs "content", "name" vs "id"... it's chaotic, inconsistent, and needlessly complex.

Judging by that seems like a bad attempt at trolling. Or a horrendous lack of awareness about outside world.
And I totally hate that they're wasting taxpayers money on all this crap.
What exactly is wrong with it aerodynamically?
In such case going for degree might be a good idea - depending on university you pick there are wide and narrow courses. Wide in the meaning that they touch many areas giving you a feel of what is it waiting down the corner if you decided to specialise in that direction. That's what I was studying - pretty multidisciplinary course and I'm happy with it even though I work in quite a different market than what I was studying for.
Looks like a version of valgrind but for reversing purposes.

The basic block stuff reminded me of this: http://www.gtoal.com/sbt/
With each passing day, Mozilla tries harder and harder to get me to stop using their browser. If not for Chrome being the only viable alternative, they would have long since succeeded.

Wreck the address bar algorithm? Ugh. Move the tabs on top? Ugh. Force me to keep download history? Ugh. Bury all the configuration options (like JS features) into about:config? Ugh. Turn the UI into a poor Chrome imitation? Ugh. Turn the new tab page into adware? Ugh. Promote a bigot to the CEO position? Ugh. And now turn extensions into a walled garden? ... I can't even muster up the energy to feign surprise anymore. I basically expect a new disappointment every time I hear Mozilla in the news.
One would imagine that raid cards would be an equally appealing attack vector.
Subtle. The alternative is biased commercial TV which prefers ad-spattered sensation over what the BBC produces. But I'm sure you prefer that.

Besides, the BBC amasses fortunes selling their programs abroad; Top Gear in its original form and in the formula license is shown in over 150 countries worldwide. And that's just one of their productions.
The Creator series are the absolute best bang for buck line they produce. In general they are 3-in-1 kits and they have lots of interesting blocks.
Is this an MVP from Ferrari? :)
Embracing the Gradle Build Engine
It's ok they're building a new site. It's totally not ok that they created a steaming pile of crap, again.
Though the only people "stuck" on IE8 are XP users, which is indeed in rapid decline.
Is this the future of Formula 1? Maybe, if they throw out the current formula and start over. The nose is way too high for current safety regs, wheel fairings were banned a while back, and it overall just looks like a hand drawing somebody came up with overnight.

I know Ferrari is desperate to change the existing Formula until they stand a chance of winning (they certainly have the drivers for it), but this is a little over the top.
Kaspersky is getting a lot of PR today.
I grew up in India during the 90s when Lego had no proper establishment here. There was a very similar kit called 'mechanix' which I fondly remember to date. Would surely recommend still if can't find Lego or on budget.
I hear this a lot. Was I the only kid who would build what ever was on the box first, play with that for a day - break it and then have it all go into a big box?

And all the funny bits people moan about make excellent space lasers.
Hmm. While it's nice to push rendering out to clients for saving your server CPU, that can lead to a suboptimal mobile experience, requiring more CPU and battery power on the mobile device to work on the javascript and render the page.

How true is that though? Given that native apps render client-side too. In a much more optimized, device-specific fasion, I admit, but still - that too is client-side rendering.
Have you used the previous BBC android app? It worked. The new one is totally useless.
I think this is a really long article for a relatively very small hack. For the most part location cannot be obtained, at max i think the victims route maybe identified with respect to the cell tower its connected to.
That list doesn’t seem to be preloaded. I checked mine and it only has 187 items in it. So I guess they store the preloaded list somewhere else.
More to the point people argue these genderised versions of lego are bad, and that lego shouldn't sell them, deciding to not sell a product because of that and not consumer demand is an example of how a company can decide for its consumers.
There are always mudslingers following change - its so easy to hate.

I for one think it is fantastic the BBC are sharing this information and am liking the direction they are taking. It might not be perfect - I too have experienced some issues with the site over the past few months - but I'd much rather a BBC that looks to refresh itself and attempt to improve the experience for their users. Glitches happen - as long as they are fixed then it is all good with me.
I have no idea why anyone would downvote this.
It seems more like a car racing in Isle of Man rather than a formula 1 car. Notice how the wheels are retracted to the inside of the vehicle. I guess that could give a lot better aerodynamic resistance. And the exhaust seems ginormous, like a mini version of one found in fighter jets. There also seems to be a huge air vent in the front right under the nose. It would be nice to see some power output figures, that chassis seems robust enough to withstand a lot of bhps.
Hardware fails. This architecture has single points of failures which means if one of those instances fails the entire system goes down. This is generally not acceptable for environments with 1 million active users (which implies high business value)
I'm not against the licence fees. I'm not comfortable with the money being wasted on a project so obviously broken by design.
Instead of a walled garden approach, why cant they do a "Verified by Mozilla" badge for each plugin, with warnings if one doesn't have it BUT still giving the user control and choice of whether to use a plugin.

I a made a quick and dirty plugin for chrome a month ago only to find out i need to undergo an anal exam and give over credit card information to Google, fuck that! is that where Mozilla want to endup?
It's just a stylistic vanity exercise. It doesn't comply to any F1 regulations ever, and has no visible aero innovation to take advantage of breaking the rules.

The only mildly interesting part is the Indycar style wheel guards, but that would be way more interesting if projected onto an F1 car that would otherwise comply with current regs.

It's not a concept, it's just visual designer masturbation.
You can do joins on the same partition-key + indexes(with references) only inside the partition-key.
ad 3) indeed, you're right. Better idea: make the firmware act like a SATA hub and pretend two different disks (of course, the "second" disk is only visible after unlocking at boot time). This way, OS is used regularly - and all evidence on the system will point to an USB stick or eSATA disk being used.
And yet all I see in the article is off-the-shelf libraries and frameworks, and they came from a commercial CMS - where's the NIH?
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Of course it's easy to hate, when something that used to work is now broken and useless. It's not about glitches, it's a thoroughly broken design.
While it may be the case that kids these days demand and get the kind of toys they want, it is also the case (at least in certain cultures) that parents obsess a lot on what kind of toys make their kids 'smarter', 'happier', etc.

So, Lego could look at ads that target parents in some of their markets.
I really think that's too simplistic a view. As has been pointed out, plenty of countries that were not colonised lagged behind in industrial development. Many of those that were colonies (and I do agree colonisation had a pernicious effect) have been independent for several generations now.

As counter-examples, Japan went from being extraordinarily backward to being an industrial powerhouse in a single generation, in time to go toe-to-toe with Russia and the USA in the early 20th century, and walk all over Korea and China. For that matter, once it got it's act together China has surged forward, growing GDP by a factor of 20 in only 25 years. So why did Japan go through this revolution almost 100 years earlier than China? Why has India lagged behind industrially, while surging ahead in terms of IT?

There are a host of cultural factors at play here. Japan responded to US colonial interference by deciding to modernise to prevent that ever happening again. China responded to the humiliation of colonial aggression by tearing itself apart for 100 years. Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt have gone nowehere since the end of colonialism, while Israel is a technological powerhouse. Turkey always seems so close to finally truning a corner and becoming an advanced modern state, but never quite manages to get it done. 'Because colonialism' just isn't enough of an explanation for any of this.
Lego is expensive. As a former employee, I've heard this complaint many, many times. The thing that people don't realize (because hey, it's just plastic) is that Lego is really really high quality. Getting the right stickiness requires very high precision in those little bricks. Also, if like me you have Legos from your childhood you will probably notice that they last long.
> Tons of tech buzzwords, yet the blog intercepts middle-clicks

They broke the middle-click? Good god, shut it down!
Online code beautifiers, minifiers and converters for JSON, XML, HTML, JavaScript etc.
I wonder if it is also possible in elm to perform layout-dependent logic. For example: show a piece of text horizontally, but if it is too wide (in pixels), show it vertically.
True, but after that I'll still be stuck on IE9, and the trend will continue.
What I find interesting in old magazine ads like this, is how much text they have, today probably no one would read all that text on an ad
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If I remember correctly, LEGO was in a bit of a financial crisis not long ago, and as a way to deal with it was more focus on LEGO based on existing and popular franchises. That said, you just take pull the sets apart and children being children will build things, just as they always have.
"We also assume that enough communication is occurring for the signal strength to have an effect on power consumption. This is a reasonable assumption, since background synchronization of data happens frequently
in smartphone devices. Moreover, the driver might be using navigation software or streaming music. However, at this stage, it is difficult to determine how inconsistent phone usage across different rides will affect our attacks."

I don't find this assumption to be reasonable at all. There are plenty of days where my cellular data usage doesn't exceed 1MB because I'm either at home, at the office or moving between them. Most background synchronization happens while I'm using WiFi (and stationary). If your location tracking activity relies on me streaming music while on route, you would probably be better of waiting outside my apartment and following me around.

I appreciate the fact that other users have different mobile habits, but the authors didn't convince me that their scenario poses a feasible and significant threat to privacy.
I think that's called progress :)
That's quite an interesting way to put what I always considered to be immoral behaviour of the companies, exploiting lack of experience and short attention span of children combined with the love of their parents.
Yep but there's statistics that are pretty reliable.
Well, they have featured plugins, but it doesn't seem to be helping.
"That makes it vaguely more egalitarian than a complex and bureaucratic mechanism that tends to favour bigger, more established software makers, who themselves have the staff and bureaucracy to match."

This is FUD. Even Apple's App Store doesn't require huge amount of bureaucracy let alone what they seem to be talking about.
I agree with you on this. However i have also seen that alot of malware and adware does indeed make it to the browser to make it more pathetic and i think its a good direction in that regard. However i think that they really need to actually think what users are going to use then just build random features that nobody really cares for. And the imitation game is definitely not good, why be separate if you're going to keep on imitating.
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Why online product design software is worthwhile?
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The first release candidate for the upcoming Lazarus 1.4 is available
Haha has the internet groupthink gone full circle on 'flat' now?

Tech is fashion whether we admit it or not.
I don't think that big red thing is an exhaust it appears to be a rear light. If anything, with the new turbocharged power units, I'd guess we'd see exhaust sizes decreasing.
> I basically expect a new disappointment every time I hear Mozilla in the news.

Shitty suggestions that elicit strong reactions seem to be better for the Mozilla Corporation than being more and more ignored.
I am not quite sure how to express it precisely, but the fact that in our field the phrase "Rich Hickey is one guy and this is what worked for him" doesn't sound ridicules, makes me a little sad. Mathematicians don't say "Pythagoras is just one guy and it worked for him."
Malicious extensions are apparently the driver for this. So we're back to the problem that any sufficiently flexible platform is a vector for malware. The platform authority then institutes code signing as a checkpoint against this. Thus raising a big barrier to entry for non-malicious extensions.

It's hard to see how to get back into this particular Eden.
I think the results have to do with your questioning. For example, I don't want to spend my time testing, but I have to do it if I want to write high quality software. So some people give testing a 0, because it's not something you actively want to do. And others give testing a 5, because they know that whatever job they'll take, they probably have to test their code. I don't really see much difference to the classic self-made bullet-point-list of skills.
Its not about CS, Business or Mathamatics. Those who pursue what they are good at are not necessarily ones having supportive academic background. Just be yourself, and be the best at what you do. Also it takes time to find what you are good at. The best thing would be to talk to passionate people of their relevant fields. Then see what excites you most.
So, let's plug these shapes into a regressor / ranker / classifier, along with some possible target variables (career path, survival rates, yearly office peer ratings, salary after 5 years,) for as many balanced samples as possible, and see what predictive power these might have!

Or, I guess the graph itself could also be considered a resume differentiator / sales technique.

Edit: Oh, I see. They're heavy on the highly personalized matching angle.
Fascinating approach to the matching.

"No CVs" sounds awesome, but I think companies would ask applicants for their CVs in the end anyway.

Love d3 animations on the landing page.
By postulating an endless tape you're just stalling petty objections based on how long a tape would be required for any given task. The only point that's relevent, when considering Turing machines in the abstract, is that the amount of tape required for any given task be finite.
To understand the system start by ignoring the code.

1. Start with all the components as black boxes.

2. Draw the system design/connections/interfaces between them.

3. Follow the data and uncover black boxes by reading the code.

4. (If possible) Write tests and refactor code so that testing is possible.
Never heard of Taboola. Might want to choose a more widely known analogy!
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Yes, that's a great idea. Thank you.
BB_2(X) uses a different trick. It asks for the largest number computable by any program of length X that's allowed to call a BB oracle with arbitrary arguments. That's more powerful than any finite expression involving BB and computable functions, like BB(F(X)), BB(F(BB(X))), etc.

More generally, I expect there to not be any "meta-algorithm" for naming big numbers. Every big step will require a new insight. A similar problem is inventing notations for large ordinals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_notation
This particular government scheme is now under criticism and proposed overhaul, which includes shifting the focus away from dig-and-fill kind of activities to more permanent ones.
A pretty good way to find people that you want to hire. Perhaps if we can add some experience graphs along with these, we can get a good platform up that actually makes head hunting really easy for small companies who do not have the time or the money to do this properly.
Agreed. Cryptographic signing of extensions in this context doesn't seem to me to be significantly different from the signing done by your other package management systems.

One of my professors said "the browser is the new OS" about a decade ago. This seems like more proof of that to me — if we want fast, low power JavaScript in browsers, we have to have a reasonable chain of trust imo.
I suspect a physicist would say you're idea rests on an a view of the universe where everything is deterministic and knowable and encodable.

You also have to remember that some quantities are going to be continuous, while TMs are discrete. Even an "infinite" TM can't truly encode real numbers (I think) because its infinity is of the countable variety, while Real numbers are uncountably infinite.