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Meaning is like a whole bunch of other things very relative, so I agree with your point.

But I understand OP as well. Some other potential entity only a dozen light years away might not care much about our human art, love, war or suffering. Maybe the interest in alien life is unique to us because we are social in nature. We don't know other civilization's cultures. Maybe they know where we are but actively choose to ignore us. We can't even deal with or comprehend cultures a few hundred miles away from us. It makes no sense to try and preemptively comprehend the intent of the rest of the universe.

But for us as humans, our lives are usually maximally meaningful often to the point where it's egocentric and selfish. I am sure you can think of a few people who deserve to die rather than you. After all the selection of ostracized or hated people is very large. However, in the grand scheme of things you can only claim to look at local optima and we walk through history like a greedy algorithm.

Only when the full scale of events are known, when humanity's history becomes static either by ending or stagnating, we are truly able to make conclusions whether events in our time are good or bad. And even then it doesn't mean that it actually matters.
Everything rests on the consistency of ZFC, which we can't prove. In some sense even results like 2+2=4 are provisional, because if ZFC were inconsistent (and we can't prove that it isn't) then it might also be true that 2+2=3 and 2+2=5.

(Well, strictly we can prove that 2+2=4 in Presburger arithmetic which is provably complete and consistent. But any result that we prove by contradiction and that uses the higher axioms (e.g. Hilbert's basis theorem) is implicitly assuming the (unprovable) consistency of ZFC).

Mostly this doesn't bother working mathematicians - ZFC seems reasonable, corresponds to the models that we do have, so we just take it on trust. People who care explicitly about these issues might work in a "higher" axiom system to prove "metamathematical" facts (e.g. ZFC + weakly inaccessible large cardinal, under which we can prove that ZFC is consistent and also that this particular Turing machine doesn't halt).

((Of course the whole point of Gödel's incompleteness theorems is that there's no sharp line between mathematical and metamathematical; any unproven proposition might turn out to be an unprovable landmine. But this doesn't tend to bother people. After all, the proposition might just as easily turn out to simply be very difficult to prove, and the practical impact would be much the same))
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It is a very interesting concept
Couldn't you secure yourself by say running an OS image with a truecrypt partition?
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I actually think that the "Lego Movie" set is a perfect example of unbound creativity. Pretty much every set uses parts which do not match with their original use,and yet they are all used to build interesting things. The worst Lego bricks are the ones which have something painted/written on them, that usually does limit the applications.
And every since has that poor kid believed that "Five hundred and one and one" was a valid number.
Fair call, however I'd argue in that case your objection is to the word sound, not Photoshop.

How about "The Photoshop of acoustic spaces"?
You don't just wait, you prove that they all don't halt. There are only finitely many of them. You can't provide a general algorithm for proving that Turing machines don't halt, each one is going to require a special case - but it will be a fact that the physical instance of the machine halts or doesn't halt. (Or if it halts in some models of ZFC but not others, that would be even more interesting).
No I'm just telling what I read from an article a few years back when new brands started to pop in stores. I wonder if parents/kids may see the quality rightaway. LEGOs were an expensive gift in my days. If I was asking for more toys, I'm sure my parents would be tempted to buy a lower priced brand.
I don't have sources but I'm sure I've read studies against praising achievement. I'm sure if combined well with praising effort it can work well, but it should be a way of helping judge effort, not praised for and of itself. For example if a child constantly gets Bs in a certain subject then getting an A can be an indicator that they've put more effort in - but the A itself shouldn't be the reason for the praise.
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Consumers could have demanded products without corn syrup in them. It turns out they don't care.

If people did care, those other factors probably would have had to take a back seat to consumer demand. So I don't think you can say that it was irrelevant to the rise of HFCS.

(You can argue that people are ill informed and blah blah blah, but that's still them not caring enough to demand whatever it is you think they should be more informed about)
> I assume you're in the USA.

Europe. This kind of thinking probably originated in the USA. But all the tech CEOs I met so far idolize Silicon Valley. It was only a matter of time until they adopted the american way of thinking.

> I care about our team and their wellbeing more than I do profit - although the two can go hand in hand if you reinvest in your people.

Are you hiring?
If you're interested in big numbers, David Metzler's "Ridiculously huge numbers" sequence on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXliQvd1vW0) is well worth a watch.

He gives great explanations of things like the Conway chained arrow notation and the fast-growing hierarchy and just keeps on making bigger and bigger numbers.
The copy is a play on the first thing an adult would say to the girl: "What is it?"

"What it is, is beautiful."
What makes blue more boy-specific than guns are, objectively? For whatever reasons, whether through child instincts or society, both are generally preferred by boys over girls.
PopcornTime is performing badly on my machine, I actually have to shut down the browser to use it, I usally have 50+ tabs open in it, -that I use.
You misunderstand the concept of Falsifiability. It.It isn't about whether something is verifiable or not. But what it would take for a fact to be dismissed or not. It's not about whether a fact is true or not. For instance, the "fact" that Mohammed talked to angel Gabriel,which would imply angels therefore god exists according to Mohammed isn't falsifiable. You can't test that, or experience that.

It isn't about the holy books being full of inaccuracies, historians know they totally are full of shit already,from an historical point of view.
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Why would "nuclear weapons and material" from Pakistan and Iran "likely" end up in the hands of terrorists? What's so special about the other countries for which this is not the case?
Given the other comments I wonder whether the Meta-Algorithm for big numbers is basically:

Compose a state space that expands as quickly as possible in terms of the argument(s) and define some property of the state space as the result.

Looking at it this way, I'd say:

"Hyper-exponentiation" (Ackermann, tetration and so on) is basically counting the number of states in a well-defined state space.

BB(X) is equivalent to generating automatically the state space (via a search over all possible state spaces that can be constructed with a TM with X states) and returning the size of the maximum.

This means that BB(X) is smaller than the sum of the sizes of all possible state spaces constructible via that TM.

But BB(X+1) is aware of that trick (summing state space sizes) and uses it already (or more probably something better), so it doesn't really matter and you might as well just increase X by one to include all the tricks you had in mind for BB(X).

Anyone thoughts on that?
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As a kid I used to have tons of Lego. My dad would always bring a set or two back after being abroad for a few weeks, so I had boxes full of Lego. And they were all specific(jigsaw-like) sets - bulldozers, cars, castles, Indian forts, spaceships, that kind of thing. And you know what? Just because the instructions say you have to build a spaceship,doesn't mean you can't disassemble it afterwards. I remember that I would build something,and next day it was back in pieces, contributing to my huge Lego city or whatever it was that I was working on at the moment. For me, sets were just a fun thing to assemble for a day,and then a source of parts after day one.
A subtlety which is not mentioned in the article: Why do we like the ad? Because it it targeted towards grownups! This is due to the understanding in the Lego company at the time, that parents decided what to buy for their children. Therefore ads where aimed towards parents, explaining how Lego help the kids develop and learn and so on.

But better market analysis later showed that it was a mistaken belief. Actually it is kids that decide what they want, and parent oblige. Therefore Lego does not make this kind of ads anymore. They make marketing directly towards the consumers: The kids.
Lego.
The toy of my childhood.

My brother, sister and myself are the youngest of our cousins, and ended up inheriting all their Lego.

We had a whole verandah (grew up in Australia in the country) filled with our Lego city.

It became all encompassing.
We had no close neighbors(nearest was 6 km away) and no console until the n64 was old so it was Lego or helping Dad on the farm.

We had the most detailed alternate reality you could imagine.
Characters, occupations, a little economy (each of us had a primary character . And then all their accessory characters, and we would have a million dollars... Learned a lot about closed economies from that little experiment!) We made cheque books with little bits of carbon paper, and would reconcile the transactions.

We would start a 6 month long session by determining the rules- is space allowed? Western? Only one character? Combine with the train set for transport?) And then play out until our 'dump' of all the remaining pieces was left with nothing but the rejects... Then tear down our civilisation, rub of the chalk Marks from the floorboards that laid out the streets (we only had for pieces of road and they were all corners!)

I dislike that Lego only comes in kits now... The glory of Lego was in getting a massive rub of pieces and doing whatever you dreamt up out of it.
We had a Lego police station and helicopter and a restraint, and they were great centerpieces, but the beauty of our playtime was that it was a creative effort of the the of us.
Through out we learned/discovered economics, banking, made mini newspapers, the rules of society... I ever created my first computer program in vb so we could do our bank statements on it.

So much love for Lego.
Maybe Minecraft fills a similar role in today's kids?
Reading the article reminded me of this: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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That's weird, I read about it really not long ago. Maybe they tried to delay things through legal means. That said yes, the LEGO company put a lot of thinking in their 'toys'. I think it's also the way things were done in those days, now it's all ship often, ship cheap.
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Your response has absolutely nothing to do with the point the parent poster makes and completely and utterly misses the point.

He is arguing that "percentage of winning" is not linearly related to "pawn or equivalent advantage". That has got nothing to do with whether those pawns are physical ones or positional advantages that have equivalent value.
Don't the scare quote you chose to use around democracy make you think that actually HFCS is a good example and that everyday people actually have very little power to change the way sugar and HFCS is regulated?
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We reward merit - if you muddle along and half-ass, we worry about how to better motivate you, and typically grant a small (5%) raise inline with cpi inflation.

If someone is working their socks off, then we're not shy rewarding it.

In terms of sustainability - if we hire a fresh grad at £24k, by year four they're on 45 or so, assuming all is well. Most we pay anyone currently is about 60k, which is a very respectable income in a small city 100 miles from London.

Essentially, as long as someone produces more and more value for the business, we reward them more and more.

It also helps to have a decent war-chest, as this gives you confidence to pay people properly, knowing you've a year or more of salaries in the bank.
That's a great way of explaining it, thanks!

I had read the solution but it still didn't make sense in my head how seeing the colour of unrelated hats could somehow improve the chance of you predicting your own hat colour. But as you explain, no one individual guess is better than 50%, it's just that the wrong guesses get lumped together.
Yes, for php and frontend devs.
I love your comment, but I think the reality is more that they already had all the hipsters on board, the technology choices just followed naturally from that.
The new "BBC News (Beta)" website is bloody ugly. They've gone for a "flat UI" thing, but it looks so clumsy that it reminds me of the internet from before people used gradients.
I think you need to have a few languages in your arsenal(but not too many), I like php, python and clojure for example. This doesn't make me an expert to all of them but given the proper time I am able to create any app in those languages.

Apart from this, it's true that you need to invest time in learning how to architecture staff... unix, networking, programming internals, keeping yourself up to date with whats going on in chaching, queuing, databases. Patterns and solutions to real life problems are have common solutions to any language/platform.
No, it doesn't include your email address.
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No, Lego still does. Mine just discovered them this past Christmas. They'll build them 5 times in a row and then trade with each other so they can build a new one.

I tell ya, as much as I remember loving Legos when I was a kid, there is absolutely nothing as cool as building them with your own kids. Also, they still sell those big boxes of random pieces. I think it's called the "Classic" line or something like that.
I was trying to describe things as they are, not take a side.

The interest generated by this change demonstrates your point well enough, OSRM has been available at http://map.project-osrm.org/ with worldwide coverage for quite a while, and the other projects are also up for quite a while.

I even see a bunch of OSM enthusiasts who were apparently oblivious to the availability of the routing services (saying 'wow, it works good' sort of indicates they haven't seen it work before).
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Look at Silicon Valley. Look at all the big players in tech. Which is more important, hard work or politics?

We live in a world where who you know is more important than what you do. You can have the shittiest product on the market. If you know the right people, you can push everyone else into bankruptcy.

Hard work doesn't get you anywhere. Being able to sell things does. And when you sell yourself instead of your work, you may as well start calling yourself a politician.
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Maybe classic Lego was meant for everyone, but actually it has always been far more popular among boys. While the old sets may seem gender neutral on the surface, the appealed much more to boys than girls. Lego have made many misguided attempts to sell to girls, but the recent "Friends"-line is the first time Lego have succeed in capturing a significant market of girls.
C++ is fine for complex software; it's bad for simple software. The problem is that it provides benefits that are irrelevant for most people, and the costs of making those benefits available is pretty high, so for the average developer, it seems stupidly complicated.
Eh, take a look at the smartphone market outside the Anglosphere.

Most likely the OS will be developed by Google in America, the CPU by ARM in the UK, those chips will be customised and fabbed by Samsung in Korea, the screens created by LG/Sharp/Samsung again in Asia, the radio chips designed by Qualcomm (USA) but speaking GSM or an upgrade of it (European-developed) in factories using precision specialised devices created in Germany or Switzerland and then shipped around the world on ships owned by Maersk (in Denmark), piloted by seamen from India and the Phillipines.

The USA has done a great job of developing the world's dominant operating systems and cloud software stacks, which gets a lot of attention here at HN. But there's a heck of a lot more to tech than that.
Linking is all Web 1.0, all you have to do is copy the URL:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&rout...
That's awesome to know. Still a while away for me but it's on the 'looking forward to' list!
It would be nice if you could include elevation with the option to choose how flat the route shall be.
Trust me, a kid the age of the one in the ad can take it apart and make something different. Mine do it nonstop.
... yet here we are managing that much quite nicely. Others, meanwhile, seem to be taking it all a little too seriously.
Yep, effort\achievement shouldn't be considered as independent. What I do think is important is to kill dead this notion that achievement is not a necessary consideration for how to praise. For example:

I would be cautious about praising:

i) High effort but low performance due to repeating mistakes that have been pointed out before.

ii) Low effort but high performance due to luck or the task being easy for the individual.

I would find it important to praise:

i) Low effort but improved performance due to a change in behaviour e.g. learning from previous experience.

ii) High effort but low performance due to how novel or ambitiously challenging the task is for the individual.
Ok, I think I may have the ultimate answer to this, a sequence that grows optimally fast. It goes like this:

Imagine 2^(7n) copies of the judge of this competition. For every judge create a different bit sequence of length 7n. Decode it from ascii and ask if it is a valid entry of the competition. Take the largest valid entry of those imaginary competitions. That is my entry. In order for this procedure to be consistent, this entry must be longer than n characters. Hence it will end with some padding you may disregard: asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf.
We know that a lot of social psychology research is weak or wrong, and that a few mainstream researchers hold anti-science viewpoints. http://wjh.harvard.edu/~jmitchel/writing/failed_science.htm

We know that toy manufacturers spend a lot of money on research.

So, it's possible that they have a bunch of gently flawed research, and the flaws are magnified through poor reporting, poor understanding, and then implementation into product.

And now we're here, with toyshops segregrated into pink aisles and blue aisles there's no way back.
I've always wondered why men that are loosing they're hair don't just shave they're head. I think it looks good, better then missing chunks of hair here and there and eventually, you'll get used to your new look.

A friend of mine is 32 and has almost a full head of grey hair - he likes it, doesn't try to dye it and styles it appropriately and he's in marketing.

I have great hair but prefer to buzz my head to the lowest setting my clippers will go. I've never enjoyed the mindless conversation with the barber (nor the expense) - I do it once a week myself; it's always fresh and takes me 5 minutes.

You have options buddy - no need to get depressed about it.
> I don't see why there's anything weird about still listening to them

No, please listen to them. I should listen to more of them myself. I loved Morningrise, but never heard much of Slowdive's other stuff simply because getting hold of music was expensive and difficult at the time.

> or discovering them if you weren't there at the time.

That's the bit that feels weird. A couple of decades ago they seemed destined for oblivion. Watching Lost in Translation with no advance warning was a very odd experience.
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There are plenty of niche products on the market, from microbrews to eco-friendly dog accessories, whole specialty stores. Even more so now that you can order online.

And you can have things custom made. For items like suits or furniture it's not that much more expensive than quality pre-made lines.
I don't mean this as a slight, but to a kid there's absolutely nothing lacking from the modern kits. I'd say that the "half-hearted" part is solely in your perspective now as an adult.
Yup, someone with a CompSci degree.

No. I'd call the person who's done something similar before regardless of their qualifications. Experience is far more valuable. That's the point I was making - two people with 10 years experience are at the the same level regardless of their respective qualifications, because they'll both have seen the problems and pitfalls firsthand (at least, you'd hope so).

Possibly the CompSci graduate will have dealt with them better the first few times they encountered problems (which is why a degree can be useful), but after that it's down to the relative merits of the individual and how interested they are.
It was a beautifully absurd argument though, thank you :)
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Aerodynamically a joke. Most likely a quick render based on marketing drawings.
The only reason why there is low-hanging fruit is because you need to reimplement solution in the tech du juor to problems that were solved 30 and 40 years ago.
The pictures of only boys on the blue boxes and the pictures of only girls on the pink boxes is something that needs to be considered.

I don't care if more boys buy guns and more girls buy toy horses. I do care if those toys are packaged in rigidly gendered packaging and stocked in gendered sections of the toy store.
Delays getting OS/360 were a blessing, really - it prompted many universities to develop their own mainframe OSs, thus helping OS research flourish around the world.
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I think it's a bad example of a result of the type of factors that pavlov listed (supply chain, internal politics, competitor envy, random advice from consultants, need to meet quarterly growth goals, etc).

Legal restrictions in the marketplace are categorically different from internal company policies, and the lack of power that people have changing the former does not imply a lack of power changing or overriding the latter.
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Which really means "OUR stack developer, being a subset of the full-stack in our particular narrow domain, going as high as we go, and as low as we go".
Home page displays a bunch of javascript before rendering the rest of the page. Doesn't happen all the time though.Maybe you guys might want to look into that.
It might be a simple concept but it also might drive the future of F1.
It's pretty great, my house is occasionally quiet for the first time in years because they're all at the table building something. It's also pretty evident (to me) in this thread that the folks who are moaning about how Legos suck now probably are not the ones with kids.
I do not think so... It is just provocatory I think