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Also, what kind of market does he expect to have after he takes away so much disposable income from workers?
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It sounds like the real problem is poor programming - maybe game developers need to use better algorithms and profile their code.
Unless you enjoyed all the years of usage instead of waiting for a interoperable open standard. :-)
True, but it doesn't matter - here are some scenarios:

- If I suspend my laptop with FF running and then restore. FF will be running / trying to update even if I don't actually use it (or try to use it explicitly).

- If the upgrade mechanism is not secure, you only need to capture all the traffic and fake a new version being available. I may have the newest version X, but someone captures the updater query and returns a new version X+1 being available.
They're just relocating/centralizing their headquarters in Luxembourg. The IPO is from their Luxembourg office on their US office. Not a big deal.
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That's what irks me. I am actually quite disciplined in exercise and my diet but when it comes to the instant gratification of computer games I just got no self control :)
There is a biological pressure to have grandchildren. That is why there is a social pressure to have children.
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If you can't find 10 people who say they'll buy it...
To be sure. But it is nice, once in a while, to be reminded of how insane the numbers actually are.
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My fear would be something like a friend or family member being in some emergency situation where they have lost their phone and need to reach me on someone else's phone but I never see the call/text. There's a danger in micro-managing your life without fully thinking about all the ramifications. This is why in my opinion it's better to just deal with the 1-2 seconds of annoyance to dismiss a spam call/text. It's not the end of the world. A child/SO/friend/family/co-worker not being able to reach you in an emergency is much worse.
http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html

lists 345 Putnam award winners to date.

A far portion of them will have passed on, so the number of Putnam winners is less than that.

So, the chances indeed quite low, what made it extra funny is the way the OP made his remark. I figure the chances of something like that happening to be between 1:1,000,000 and 1:2,000,000 given the number of Americans alive of the right age at the moment relative to the number of putnam winners, but then again, probably the chances are much higher because there is some correlation between hackers and math, so the chances of running in to a Putnam winner on a hacker forum are better.

Now the paranoid guy in me is wondering if it wasn't a set-up ;)
I think it is possible to auth through the api too.
> Because, you know, no Scandinavian women ever kill themselves at double the rate of Americans.

Is that true? All women or only mothers? This would be a strange bias. General suicide rates are not that much different?
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I think the author is trying to remember the name of the island in Lost. The native people there, "The Others," do not fish either and in recent times have taken the idea of cargo cult to a new high, simulating nearly all aspects of the Dharma Initiative company.
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Has anyone written a bot that pretends to be a real person on facebook? Adding friends adding comments? I think this would be an interesting project.
I've never heard anyone use the word "skyping."
yeah but then I'd have to ask for the user's twitter password, which I don't want to do.
Presumably he is contracted to pay Sally $59,000 gross + some level of benefits. But his costs to pay this are higher ($74,000). Presumably as taxes rise, he will still have to pay Sally $59,000 gross + the same level of benefits, and his own costs will have increased. He is unable to pass on the full cost of a tax rise to Sally.

From what I understand, the health insurance situation has arisen due to buying power. It is impossible for Sally to buy her own insurance at the same rate that her company can do it (even ignoring any tax breaks).
The New Yorker for fun reading. The Week for a light digest of the news. National Geographic for my wife. I'll likely subscribe to NYTimes when it goes behind the paywall.

Work provides the technical publications.
Why is tobacco smoking a good idea if you're old?

I've read that it can fend off alzheimer's according to some studies, but I've also read that if you exclude the studies funded by tobacco companies then the remaining studies show that smoking actually increases your chances of getting it. But obviously "smoking bad for you" isn't quite as sexy a headline in the "man bites dog" sense.
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And as pointed out in Wargames, whoever strikes first still loses.

MAD (mutually assured destruction) is not a pretty thing.
> Many attempts have been made to construct public-key encryption systems based on problems known to be NPC, but it always seems that adding the necessary trap-door reduces the difficulty of the problem to sub-NPC. RSA and Diffie-Hellman-Merkle-Williamson key negotiation rely on the difficulty of factoring and discrete logarithms respectively, but these are known (or believed - not sure of the current state) to be sub-NPC.

A clarification here is that these rely upon the existence of one way functions, of which discrete logarithms and factoring are conjectured to be in. A proof of the existence of one way functions is actually a slightly stronger result than P!=NP (as it relates to languages with only a single accepting state rather than many. The name of the class escapes me and Complexity Zoo is unresponsive at the moment)
Yes. I know a few people who have done it with so-call "social media experts" using a Markov bot that's trained on a handful of known SMDs. Scary part, most of them garnered over a thousand followers. :-/
Let's Skype,
Skype me

Very common for me.
Discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587405

As randomwalker says, it's not entirely obvious that Aaronson is betting against the proof.
I would inform the registrar that the email information in the WHOIS is incorrect.

I would also send a polite letter, in my experience that can get the ball rolling.

My gut says that if they have 70 domains registered, it's likely you'll have to pay an arm, a leg, and your firstborn for the domain. Good luck!
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You know, in all the time i've worked as a developer, I can honestly say I've never met a programmer who smelled or had obviously bad hygeine. Sure, I've met quite a few who dressed kind of funny, but never any that fit that particular bit of the stereotype.
The MaxCDN deal is $39.95 for the first terabyte or 12 months... Whichever comes first:

"CDN solution, starting at just 9.9 cents per GB and going as low as 3.9 cents per GB. (CDN allotment is good for up to one year)"

Doesn't make much difference to you, but for others with lower bandwidth requirements it's a steal.
I think the point is that due to network effects the winner actively holds back the losers, so you can't extrapolate from what happened in a world where Skype won to another world where they didn't. It would have been better for everyone if the winner had been an open standard and a very small change could have accelerated that solution to ubiquity rather than Skype, in the same timeframe.
Have you heard anyone use any other word for voip calling?
Very cool. I spend my days with django so I hope to see some django examples soon.
Ok, just to reiterate: there is a gym and a pool on board.
So, does that mean we'll now be looking at another 5 to 7 months of articles like this ?
Why would you be afraid to ask about something? Unless it's a trivial question that can be easily googled, asking questions is nothing to be afraid of.

Worst case someone will downvote or ridicule you. But the expected value of asking good questions in high quality communities is positive.
Ok heres my response to the 8yo watching a movie and the mother wanting the child to go do homework.

Parents NEED to understand the difference in age. Don't YOU hate it when you have to stop watching a movie you are interested in mid-way and do something you don't want to. Well a child has a harder time coping. Imagine your mother walks in on you fucking your girlfriend, and says in a pleasant voice (she ain't being a bitch) "honey, please get out of her and wash the dishes". Imagine the response you will have. Now imagine the request "honey, I know I'm heavily intruding but you haven't done the dishes in 3 days and I am hungry, so finish up in 15 minutes and wash the damn dishes!" I assure you the second scenario will make YOU feel responsible for the fact that this shit happened, maybe even embarrassed. But the message is VERY different. There was no painless way to get into the situation but it was as painless as possible given the circumstances and the blame now lies in the appropriate party.

You need to alert the child that "homework is coming" give em a few minutes to cope, make sure they understand they have a few minutes and let that brain work at the coping, it just takes time. Be consistent with it. Also important to let the child know why it's their fault they have to stop, if the child did the homework first the child would have the ability to watch the movie without interruption. (make sure to not go back on your word, because that will not help later on). Now if the movie is on disk, let the child know you can pause and resume later, if not, hell 5 bucks to download the movie and let your kid watch it is worth it.

With children every potential conflict can be turned into a learning experience one way or another. The problem is the going up to a child "turn of the tv and do homework". To a child that might be too sudden and too intense to immediately cope with.

I am 26 years old and already me and my wife noticed these little things. Most the conflicts with my 3.5year old is avoided. AND she does what we want her to do. Sometimes we turn chores into a game, sometimes we turn something she dreads into something "fun" because we join her. Also PICK YOUR CONFLICTS. Believe it or not, the child will want to do things differently than you do. Sometimes the way the kid wants to do it is alright, so let them have their way. The child NEEDS to feel some control over their life, give them inconsequential choices "red or blue shirt" fine it does not match, who cares.

You will have to dedicate yourself to the kids, but thats what parenting is about.
That could explain it, but it seems weird. In my country salary is usually negotiated pre-tax, and I think in this case it makes sense.

But is there a law to set up salaries that way? He cites it as a reason for not hiring, so presumably he could just negotiate salaries post-tax and do away with the problem.
I don't think it's possible to put together a visualization - by its nature, some kind of summation of the data - without putting a frame on it, i.e. editorializing in some way. If you have some question, and you break it down by age, or by sex, or by political affiliation, whichever you choose colours the data's interpretation. Invariably you can't choose every possible summation, and often when working with data about people you can't supply the raw underlying data without compromising anonymity.
Twitter uses OAuth so no need for the users password.

http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_faq
The article repeats an old canard about how Americans no longer manufacture things. In fact, American manufacturing has expanded a great deal since the 1950s and is doing very well. However, because of productivity improvements, manufacturing jobs have declined significantly even as manufacturing has expanded.
Same here. I was in Goonfleet for 2 years, it was a blast :)
If that's true then since the OP is located in Italy then this could be a perfect solution.

However I know that laws in the UK state that a company is located wherever it's director resides; Italy may have similar laws.
You wouldnt actually need to put that in your CV
Wouldn't the exact same arguments also work for suicide? Just saying - there might be other aspects we tend to consider when deciding to stay alive.
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Definitely. I was hoping that this article would be of some interest to the HN crowd (figuring some fellow Eve pilots would be lurking), which is why I submitted it.
Not that it matters, but there was the Wolfskehl Prize:

http://www.simonsingh.net/Wolfskehl_Prize.html
EVE handles it fairly well though; there's a large area that's mostly secure in the center of the game universe for Empire space. Players can stick to that area and be almost grief free the entire time (aside from the rare suicide attack).

Having said that, the most fun in EVE Online comes from playing in the less secure areas where the interactions are almost all player-driven.
One aspect is that in Scandinavia winters are very long.
What reasoning leads to claim that E[Y/X] = 1.25 ?

It can't be the reasoning from wikipedia about two envelopes problem because it has error in steps 4 and 5 so results in step 7 and further are nonsensical.

I painstakingly shown how this reasoning should look like to be right and that in fact E[Y/X] = E[Y] / E[X] = 1
lists 345 Putnam award winners to date.

After eliminating multiplicity, I count only 268 winners.

Now the paranoid guy in me is wondering if it wasn't a set-up ;)

I can't speak for sanj, but if it was a set-up I wasn't involved. :-)
So if P = NP, that would be a problem for RSA as in theory there would be a quick way of factoring your big number (even if no-one has yet discovered how to do it). With P != NP encryptors can sleep soundly?
I really recommend using a web browser that can not only show you exactly what's being stored, but allow you to filter it out using expressions, or filter it "in" on a per-site basis.

OmniWeb (now free on the Mac) has one of the best interfaces for cookies I've ever seen, especially the site-specific part. I was absolutely amazed by just how much crap a single web page visit was attempting to store on my machine: not only from the current site, but for MANY other domains that I did not explicitly visit. And I wonder why sites load slowly on my phone...

I remember when I discovered how sites were using Flash a few years ago, and I was infuriated. I dug up the Flash settings manager [1] (not exactly an easy task, and NOT obvious), and reset the thing to store zero bytes on my computer.

[1] http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...
The amount of fuel used by a warhead is tiny compared with a power station reactor. A typical nuclear warhead contains less than 50kg of fissible material. A typical reactor contains 50 tons or more.
I'm surprised and disappointed at how many of the recommendations here are pure anecdote, intuition, or folk wisdom.

If I wanted to eat based on common sense or a fad diet, I'd do so. I was hoping to be pointed to something more scientific. Walter Willet's book is probably a good recommendation, but Pollan (as well as Taubes) have so impugned the track record of nutritional epidemiology that I think a resource that directly responds to those attacks is necessary.

I suppose I can continue the search on my own, but it's kind of amazing that with 74 comments in this thread, even a community as science-minded and educated as this one is relatively in the dark about this stuff.
This result is much more relevant than either Perelman's proof of the Poincare Conjuncture or Wiles' proof or Fermat's Conjuncture, both of which got huge coverage in the mainstream media. If you think this is relevant to "no one but computer scientists" you are naive about the ramifications of the result.

The proof is unverified but most qualified sources say it is one of the best efforts in many years, it could even be the proof. This was the #1 news in most technical blogs yesterday.
Waiting? Open standards exist, already, today.

SIP, STUN, RTP, XMPP, Jingle, all these are recognizable open protocols. Skype, if they were truly interested in not being a walled-garden, would have either built or migrated to a network based on these.

Skype will be dead in 10 years if Apple makes good on their promise to keep Facetime open.
From what I've read it's not proximity that matters. It's brightness at close range.

http://www.poynton.com/notes/brightness_and_contrast/ gives us a good setup procedure.
Been there, done that. Although, not on facebook, but a similar social network site, a good few years ago.

It was, indeed, an interesting experiment.
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Apartment buildings normally don't have HOA fees. I can't imagine why they would since no one there is a homeowner. If you are renting a condo then the owner may or may not include the fee in the rent. In my case this charge includes heat and water, 2 things that change frequently.
Those prerequisites are insane. There must be some standard practice Italians do in order to avoid such draconian requirements.
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Ah, my bad, I didn't realize you could win the prize multiple times.

> I can't speak for sanj, but if it was a set-up I wasn't involved. :-)

I believe you :)

It still is funny as hell though. Would have liked to see the look on Sanj's face when he read your reply.
Insane. Really? American taxes are VERY low by almost any measure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu...

You could argue that you don't get much for them, but that wouldn't be true either. Most government programs are very popular, but it is strangely still popular to hate the government. The logical disconnect there should be obvious.
As you might expect, it's not as simple as that. There are caveats about the degree of the polynomial (n^1000 is pretty fast growing) and we'e pretty sure factoring isn't in NPC anyway.

But if P==NP then there is a polynomial factoring algorithm that we haven't yet found, and that would probably be bad for current public-key crypto.

The current result seems to say that P!=NP, so at least it's still plausible, even likely, that there's no polynomial factoring algorithm.
This post comes across as cocky and unnecessary. Times have changed at F-secure, it seems.
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I'm interested but I am neither a hacker nor in the Bay Area. I live in Brazil where most of the research is being conducted (but not published).
Your assumption that only the evil Russkies would expose their population to fallout from nuclear tests is hilarious.

The USA conducted 331 atmospheric nuclear tests, at least 86 of them on US mainland territory.
"Taxes take money out of the private sector and thus reduce the pool of capital for private sector job creation. Our taxes go to fund bankers and wars"

This is a nice bit of sleight of hand but in reality our taxes that go to the gov't go back into the private sector, and according to our national debt do so at a greater rate then we take it in. Bankers and the Defense industry are in the private sector. Tax money doesn't just disappear from our economy. Heck even Mr. Bogen probably doesn't complain when he gets a contract for providing A/V systems for schools.
I try to restrict my intake of junk food. Apart from that, I believe a -healthy- human body is capable of working well on all kinds of food.
I'd agree with Dan, but would suggest getting an independent review of critical documents.

I'd also wonder what the lawyer's motivation for wanting to invest.
It's like the PHP of the cold war. Ugly as hell and patched together by barely fitting parts. But it gets the job done.
Would have liked to see the look on Sanj's face when he read your reply.

You should have seen the look on my face when I read the question. :-)
Yes it is, and there's nothing (in the UK) that would stop you from never touching the UK, so you could set up your Italian bank accounts and run everything from Italy.

I'd look to use a Commercialista that understands UK finances though rather than a UK accountant that understands Italian banking. That's where you'll see the problems arise.
As a number of other people have pointed out, the prevailing opinion on what is good and what is bad changes regularly. I'm inclined to go with Michael Pollan's advice of "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." as a good place to start. Skip most processed foods (ie, anything in packaging). Also pass on refined sugars (HFCS, etc). Drink lots of water instead of soda. Eat fresh fruit, vegetables, lean meats, eggs, etc. If you live in an area with a farmer's market, take advantage of it. Learning to prepare food for yourself is very rewarding.
I get your point, and I appreciate it. I could do worse than what you advise.

But I'd prefer to dismiss my anxiety through solid information rather than abandoning the concern and adopting what seems to be a "sensible" approach to diet founded on a cultural melange of how we ought to eat and drink.

If I can do something to reduce the chance that I get cancer--or that my wife gets cancer--then that's worth fretting.
This is in fact why I miss EVE sometimes though - because stuff like the article (and your situation mentioned) can and DO happen from time-to-time.
I believe it.
>to keep sales of in-game currency for real money under control, the publisher/developer for eve online a while back created the mechanism of redeemable subscription codes

Replace the word "keep" with the phrase "cash in on". Eve never really cared about isk farmers/sellers, they are paying subscribers after all. Sure they would ban a few hundred accounts every few months, but it would only be a small percentage of the total farmers.

Once they realized they could be making some of that money themselves did they create PLEX. And the farming continues as they don't want to stoop to the level of selling isk for money.
Unrestrained thinking is good for the brain.
Yeah, that's sort of how I've been leaning as well, but Taubes's book tosses a wrench in Pollan's indictment of animal proteins for me.

It would be nice to see direct treatment of each of these approaches by someone with expertise.
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My favorite part of the internet is the potential to archive the trivial. Looking back at history during ground breaking revelations you may be able to find an old news paper that may have published a few of the better written opinions. Today though publishing your thoughts is effortless, and storing data is (relatively) cheap. The potential exists to archive the thoughts, and reactions of common people (as well as experts) which provide a fantastic historical perspective. Something that never existed before. I hope someone out there (like wayback machine) is working on this :)
Why is this getting downvoted?

Read my original post, read the responses. It's not that I'm not appreciative that people are trying. I'm genuinely surprised that answers of the sort I was looking for seem to be lacking.
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Yep, move to Sweden and he'd be shelling out some 90k to put $44000 in his employees pockets (46% payroll tax, 5-15% social security, then 30% income tax on that).. And then there's the 25% sales tax.
Smoking has some useful mental stimulation properties.

I've been wondering if "the patch" provides them and what its risk factors are.