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A while ago I read through a book called "The Millennium Problems[1].

According to the author, its unlikely that anyone driven by the money would be the ones solving the problem. If you really want money, and you are good enough to solve these problems, there are much easier ways to make a million.

Of course, that doesn't mean that whoever solves P vs NP wouldn't take the million, but looking at it this way, Perelman's decision doesn't surprise me too much.

[1]
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ofw6ru8cHOUC&dq=the+mil...

P.S. I wouldn't recommend this book. It attempts to explain the problems but I didn't feel that it did a good job. Reading the P vs NP section (the only problem on the list I understand) I was depressed at how poorly it described the problem.
It was truly painful to read this comment. When you read books like Atlas shrugged, you see them talking about a horrible kind of moral - but it is hard to believe there really is such people (I know better, already, but still..) - and here it is, on display.

Let me list the stupid assumptions contained on those lines:

* New knowledge is simply a gift - not a product of effort.
* People that produce knowledge have obligation of giving it to society.
* On the top of it, now he is now "as good as dead". So let me see if I understood: leeches like jimmyjim (who probably never produced anything useful in his life) should be allowed to go on, while people like Perelman - who already given us a very valuable gift - should now die? Because he is tired, or refuses to continue to do so? Is he some kind of slave to humanity?

> Imagine if Ramanujan had went back to India and given up just after the Ramanujan conjecture.
Maybe he would have a happier life for himself and his family? Maybe he would change and become a great writer? A mass murderer? A drunk? Who fucking cares, and why the fuck does it matter? It is his life, and he can do whatever he wants with it.
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Benjamin Pierce's pict is the main one I'm aware of, but I think it was more an exercise than anything else (in practice if not intention): http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/pict/Html/Pict.htm...
I have to wonder if the guy actually wants to turn his life around. If you look at it rationally, he got off pretty easy - 2 years imprisonment, and some probation - and there's no way to be sure that he actually told them about everything or gave back all of the money. With the kind of stuff he did, he could easily have had enough money stored away to pay reasonable 'restitution' and still have plenty left over in offshore accounts. The video recordings suggest he probably wasn't that cautious, but it's possible.

It'd be a happy ending to the story if the guy ended up as a hard-working security consultant trying to stop the bad guys, but based on how he's depicted in this article - a patient, methodical crook with a knack for manipulation - he could easily just be waiting patiently until he can go back to what he was doing before. If he actually does work as a security consultant for banks, that would be an easy way to stay in the loop on new security improvements and procedures.

Hopefully law enforcement keeps a close eye on him.
It's not over. I got rejected from nearly everywhere I applied as a freshman, then transferred to Cornell as a Sophomore where I'm now a very happy junior.
Looking back I'm actually very glad I transferred as opposed to entering as a freshman. I've instead taken so much more advantage of opportunities compared to where I went my freshman year (UCLA) after essentially getting to 'restart'.
That takes the Tom Sawyer scam to a whole 'nother level.

I mean, my first computer job, I worked for less than minimum wage (piece work, you know.) but I didn't pay for the privilege. So not only do these people work for free, but they pay some middleman a fairly hefty sum to get you the job? I just can't imagine people falling for that.
Why the flurry of submissions on the exact same subject, instead of picking one or two good links, or writing up a blog post or Tell HN consolidating them?
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I agree with your point, and I knew that - giving drugs away is distribution and a person will get into just as much trouble for it. What I aimed to express was how amazed I am at the way things work out in the criminal world, and how talented AND lucky that fellow is. I mean, no violence at all, all that money, and two years (once again, I know of cases where people have done that long, in installments, for traffic tickets!) plus the very real possibility of landing a well paid job afterwards . . . just amazing.

You know what I like about this guy? that he did not prey on the weak. He preyed on those bigger and stronger than him.

Ah, to think that he could have rented that van under another name, and taken steps to make sure there were no prints left anywhere, which is actually very easy to do . . . this goes to show, no one, not even someone like that, can be a one man Army . . .
What about:

- Documentation
- Testing
- Support
- Competitive analysis

All areas that technical people often hate to get involved in.
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His picks are not random events; therefore, you cannot calculate the odds of his picking the 48 winners so easily. Did he also pick the play-in winner (Arkansas Pine Bluff)? I doubt it. This could be a hoax unless he registered his picks at the start, and where he could not change them. Perhaps we've all been had.
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My favorite: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful." ... I've seen this attributed to Seneca however.

Also: blatant plug for my BibleThumper iPhone app for atheists: http://www.glacierbird.com/apps/biblethumper/ ;-)

How prevalent is atheism among hackers?
What I've come to realize about the "elite" universities is that they can make an average performer into a slightly above average performer, but the people that are really going to stand out from the crowd will stand out no matter where they go to school.
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I got the idea for this a while ago while writing a comment on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032135 and it's done now :)
شاهد مباراه بترول اسيوط و طلائع الجيش بث مباشر
شاهد مباراه بترول اسيوط و طلائع الجيش بث مباشر, مباشره مباراه بترول اسيوط و طلائع الجيش, شاهد, دوريمصري, تابع, اونلاين, شوف, ماتش, هدف, حكم مباراه
This statement is remarkably light on fact and heavy on sensationalism. Apple have received numerous patent disputes for technologies included in the iPhone. They hardly "threw the first punch."
I also wouldn't call this an abuse on the patent system - apple's current action is -precisely- what the patent system is useful for. Abuse would be similar behaviour to IBM in the 80s where they would racket money from start ups threatening them with the weight of their patent portfolio.

Also numerous browsers are available for the iPhone.

I'd really be more swayed into believing apple were this big evil company - if the other companies weren't as bad, if not worse.

I'd say they are all a little rotten, however by far I recognise that Apple is reasonably clean for a company that has had more than 30 years to make big public mistakes.
This is very interesting. Has anyone seen any models of HTTP in pi-calculus? A quick search didn't turn anything up, but then http is a tainted keyword.
And to think the guy is actually a geek if I ever saw one . . . I love this! There are Mafia/Gang Baboons who commit violent crimes and prey on the weak who can't DREAM of as much money as this guy made.

What do you know? Our very own geek criminal mastermind :-)
FYI: first link 404
I'm not sure about that, unless you're talking specifically about undergrad at Yale and Harvard. The prof at my previous laboratory worked on the admission committee for the MIT and told us that having research publications done before graduate studies was a large factor. So was doing special stuff like going to Africa and building a library, getting a grammy award, etc. Everyone who applies has excellent grades, so they can't really use them to distinguish people.
Hmmm. I thought that all you needed to get a story going is a girl and a gun.
(I did a similar calc and from memory it was)

1mile ~ 1.6km
1cubic mile = 1600 * 1600 * 1600 m3 ~ 4.1 bn m3
1m3 = 1000 ltrs & 1 ltr (pure water) = 1kg so 1m3 ~ 1 ton
1cubic mile ~ 4.1 bn tons so 1g / 100m tons ~ 41 grams per cubic mile

The 41/47 is probably a better weight for seawater than my 1kg/ltr.
Ebay created the market for online auction services. They created a new category of products and services which satisfied needs not fulfilled elsewhere. These startups are not directed at market creation activity and are not disruptive.
You can return 404 with python as well.
Neat, but what's with the "password" protected page for Zopte?
Farmville has more users than twitter. Why twitter? Why not facebook?
The FAQ does list several languages based on the pi-calculus.

My favourite is Mozart/Oz (http://www.mozart-oz.org) - it is based on the pi-calculus (using dataflow variables for channels) and also encodes the lambda-calculus. A wonderful concurrent functional programming language is the result (leaving aside its distributed and constraint capabilities, which build on the pi & lambda calculi base).
Posting doesn't work.
It doesn't work on the zopte demo blog either...
'friend' ... know your LotR :P
Isn't that just because in ye olden days before grade inflation relatively few people got 1sts in CS?
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Where do you as founders fall into this scheme?

As founders, we get the lowest full-time salary possible on the scale (currently $65K).

if you screw up, you have to be willing to face up and let the person you screwed up with go

Absolutely. That's one of the benefits of the open system - it prevents the company from keeping bad apples.
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Anyone else think of Anathem when they read this? Although avout would probably calculate fractals by singing...
> You know what I like about this guy? that he did not prey on the weak. He preyed on those bigger and stronger than him.

Oh please with the righteous Robin Hood ethics. First, they were not stronger than him, that how he got in. Second, just because you're a bank, it doesn't mean having hundreds of thousands stolen doesn't impact anyone, or is somehow just, for that matter. Third, what do you call framing the Brink-guy for smoke-screen? Fourth, or withdrawing from thousands of pirated credit- and debit cards? Fifth, or stealing a national treasure from the people of Austria, only to stick it in a cellar, to be lost?

Even though he didn't exploit personal weaknesses in the same way a drug-dealer does, he did indeed inflict harm on actual people.
Its not ready yet. Under active development and pre-alpha testing. You could get in though, if you can crack the puzzle :-)
So if I'm ever in an ironman race, I shouldn't follow another cyclist too closely...
First, don't send bugs. It's not going to tell you anything worthwhile when people don't detect it and it's just going to annoy people who do.

Second, send resumes in the format expected by the recipient. This is still occasionally a .doc file. PDF covers most bases but not always. I think, statistically, nobody ever failed to get a job because they failed to produce an HTML resume. Send what the person on the other end is easily going to read. Consider figuring that out your first interview question.
The Mathe genius who refused $1M
Ok, I'll admit it, we've had unpaid interns.

When we first started out (i.e. when we were based out of my living room, and were funded by my line of credit+credit cards) we couldn't afford to buy the fancy kind of ramen noodles, let alone pay anyone salaries. So we posted a job for an unpaid internship and were able to get three students to work with us for 4 months.

The students were all freshmen and barely had enough knowledge beyond the "hello world" level. Over the course of the internship they were exposed to several languages (Python, Objective-C, C, C#) as well as frameworks and libraries (Django, OpenGL, Unity3D... bunch of others.) We pushed them hard, but not in a "work harder or we'll beat you" kind of way, rather in a "we're all working towards a common goal, and you'll get paid when we get revenue" kind of way. By the end of the term they all had several serious projects they were able to showcase (a couple of iPhone apps, web work, a browser plugin...) and experience with proper programming practices as taught to them by top notch engineers. And by the end we were actually able to scrounge together about $2k apiece to give them as a thank-you for their work.

The following year when these guys had finished their 3rd semester and were looking for their next internship they all got between 22-25 interviews - with Google, Microsoft, Apple, Qualcomm, RIM etc. And all of them got highly prestigious internships that normally only go to senior students in their last semester.

We still use those guys as references for when we hire interns because they have nothing but great things to say about their experience with us.

Today we're funded and we have revenue, so we're able to pay our interns somewhat more reasonable rates ($18-25/hr.)

Anyway, my point is that not all unpaid internships are created equal and in many cases it ends up being in the interests of both the company and the student.
We've had good luck with the iphones in our family. Two teenage boys and wife have them with no problems. I don't have it yet because my mobile is my business line and their ability to get a signal, until the newest model, has been crap. The latest version seems almost (but not quite) as good as my old Razr. When we're all somewhere with poor signal, everybody borrows my Razr.
A tale of two coffee machines - Weapon of Influence in action
my bad, it doesn't handle special characters well. Can you try posting something without quotes or any other special characters..

You could report it at bugs.zopte.com.
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Good work!

I've been wanting to do something like this ever since Tornado was released and I started playing around with it. Now I don't have to!
I honestly believe that you don't have a firm understanding of what a monopoly is, nor how they are expressed in the market. A large market share does not automatically make a monopoly. (However a large market share can be a key competitive advantage in establishing a monopoly.)

For example, the iPod makes up a large market share of MP3 players sold to date - but this doesn't prevent a consumer from purchasing a music player, music or other services from another company. This is because the iPod(in terms of music) is not a console device.
There is nothing apple can do to their iPod product that would prevent (for example) Amazon from being able to sell music. This is why Apple spend much money advertising - their lead is established by brand marketing. There are numerous other devices of various qualities/prices/capabilities which could replace the iPod.

Like the Amazon example - there is nothing Apple can do to their app store to prevent a developer from developing software for the Android platform. Apple's strict "quality" policies actually force many developers onto the Android platform. In that example Apple's policies have sponsored increased competition which is the exact opposite of monopolistic behaviour.

Just because the only way you get new software onto the iPhone is via the app store does not mean that Apple has a monopoly over their app store. This is simply a closed system - identical to any "console" market. The misconception mostly occurs because the iPhone is almost entirely unique in using this approach for smart phones, versus other manufacturers which allow software to be run in a fashion similar to modern PCs.

Microsoft on the other hand forced manufacturers to not support/purchase a competitors operating system software or face grossly increased wholesale prices on their windows OS product. Additionally they were able to abuse their operating system monopoly by leveraging this against competitor's software from unrelated categories. The IE vs Netscape saga is a good example of this. (However MS was found guilty of enacting this behaviour on numerous other companies, including Apple.)
Taking away someone's fear is always a good thing, but I'm afraid any conclusion from that article would be an exemplary case of survivor bias. Any conclusion other than that success is possible in spite of rejection anyway.
That's why I believe in the eventual coming of the virtual business.

9-5 cubicle life will look as obsolete in 20 years as the first Ford assembly line looks to us today.

And I did something about it: I started a virtual company host: http://fairsoftware.net - for now it applies to smart workers only, people who spend their life behind a laptop screen, writing software and apps.

I'm curious if anyone knows where this will go for non-laptop folks. I can think of two options:

a) stays the same, there will always be people needed to do actual "physical" work

b) eventually all work will become digital, so everyone will be able to stay home (imagine what that really means???)
Do I understand well : is this something similar to what would be a good GUI for reStructuredText ? (I don't have OS X anymore to try it, unfortunately)
It's a beautifully useless metric since no employer gives a hoot that you did not get into Harvard. They might be impressed that you did, but I've yet to be in a hiring interview where the candidate has been responsive, intelligent and knowledgeable and a glance at their resume led to the question 'well, with all that talent, how come you did not go to Harvard?'. Nobody gives a whit about how good you were at competing in the Ivy League admissions process. People do care about how well you can contribute to their business.
Downvote me if you like, but what is that? 1. Nonsense article. 2. As described in another comment, the curser sucks. 3. And it links as a second source to another second source. Why link to them and not to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7503635/The-top-...?

Please guys, read the telegraph article. Even that one is a second hand source, but at least they add some value by combining some sources (and is better to read and makes more sense).
Nobody is requiring people to offer working unpaid

Effectively you are. There are people willing to work for you or another startup and you tell them they can only work for you for free. When you subsequently derive benefit from one of those people, they are effectively competing with payed labor, that would otherwise have been performed in the future, when you would have money available for it. You can twist and bend this all you want, but the outcome is that you are in fact breaking the law when you do such a thing.

What you could use as a defensen is saying: "So what if it is against the law?". Law does not dictate morals. Laws often cover things they shouldn't reasonably be applied to. If you find it morally acceptable and think the net outcome for society is positive, then just do it. Defend it based on the intended outcome, instead of attempting a legal justification.
No go, I'm careful about posting identifiable info here. But this is an Inc 500 startup. Reply to this and I'll email you if you're interested.
So what happened? This was written over 12 years ago, so did he win?

edit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Pierce

Claims the company has still has 50 employees, but I can't find a website, so maybe that info is 12 years out of date. Is that likely?

Also says he tried to run for Senate in 2006 but lost the Republican primary.
What’s different/better about an in-memory database versus STL or Boost collections, or even just creating my own memory-mapped file(s)?

Any database system goes far beyond giving you a set of interfaces to manage collections, lists, etc. This typically includes support for ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated and durable) transactions, multi-user access, a high level data definition language, one or more programming interfaces (including industry-standard SQL), triggers/event notifications, and more.

http://www.mcobject.com/in_memory_database
I stand corrected. Free speech is a joke here.

Any suggestion of sane country to move to?
tags are some what different from categories. Tags indicate a flat structure while an organization based on categories can be both flat and hierarchical. Keywords are used to imply important, descriptive and distinguishing words among other words in content. Since the content is visual Keywords loose their meaning. Lastly, Either way its just a matter of semantics pick the one that best expresses the purpose of the function to the common demographic of the user you are addressing. Do a small listening lab experiment or a usability test.
Oh, I got it, I just didn't get the point of it.
You don't need to have invented complex numbers with concepts like imaginary numbers to have invented a scheme isomorphic to complex numbers.

For example, you don't need all the concepts behind analytic trigonometry to solve problems with what amount to Sine, Cosine, etc. All you need is the concept of similar triangles, and you can build a scale model of your problem and solve it empirically. If you make your hypotenuse of length 1 in whatever base, then you'll actually be working with Sine and Cosine but not even know it.

As to Cartesian planes, if all that need be represented is a truth value, when expressed compactly in the form of a simple table, a picture should emerge, even if one has to stand back.

Speaking personally, I think the Cartesian plane is the bigger stumbling block to believability, as it requires a leap of insight to bridge the analytic and the geometric; but on the other hand, it's so well known that it might easily be taken for granted by the reader.
I can't see the requirement to share code with users on request anywhere in the GPLv3. It explicitly excludes interaction over a network in section 0:

"To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying."

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Affero GPL?
Whatever good was in the depression-era securities regulations, other parts were an overreaction, just like SarbOx has been. Now, much of their paternalism is obsolete. Non-millionaires of 2010 have knowledge and resources far beyond that of depression-era barons.

And irrational exuberance, not fraud, is how the masses lost the bulk of their money -- then and now.

We just lost trillions in real estate value. Should non-millionaires be prohibited from buying real estate, by law, because circumstances have shown they're just too feeble-minded to make such investments? That would be a modern equivalent to 'accredited investor' rules originating from depression-era biases.
I could be wrong, but the vibe that I'm getting on the ground is that there's a lot more funding deals being done.

I have a hunch that investor's portfolios have recovered from the roller coaster stock market of the past 2 years, and they are in the mood to start taking risks and writing checks again.

It's a good time to be an entrepreneur.
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What? This is strictly enforced law, when they catch you. 'Personal responsibility' is precisely about obeying the rule of law, rather than inventing scenarios to avoid it when you wish it didn't apply to you.
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wth - This wall of text is most certainly the reason you've gotten no feedback =(

Show don't tell.
I feel a bit sorry to ask but : how does one access a site in "console mode" ?