skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a confusing post by Aaronson. A commenter on that post interprets the offer to mean that Aaronson thinks the proof is almost certainly flawed, arguing that if expressing his certitude has a value of (say) $100 to Aaronson, then Aaronson believes the probability that it is correct is 1/2000. I originally read it this way as well, as did Eliezer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587295

But then Aaronson responded by saying "If I were a Bayesian rationalist, I’m sure I’d agree with you!" and instead claims that the rationale for the $200k is that "If P≠NP has indeed been proved, my life will change so dramatically that having to pay $200,000 will be the least of it." and that "If P≠NP is proved, then to whatever extent theoretical computer science continues to exist at all, it will have a very different character."

That almost sounds like the justification for a reversed insurance bet, except of course that if the proof if wrong then Aaronson doesn't stand to gain anything. So yeah, confusing.

Bottom line, I would caution against interpreting this to mean Aaronson is betting against the proof.
While that's fine for simple, information-appliance apps, more serious apps need to be coded natively if you care about user experience. At least for now, but I hear the HTML5 train is a'comin'.
none. as far as I can tell, the sort of thing I'm interested in is delivered faster, better, and in a more convenient format for free here online. I occasionally read the IEEE "computer" publications my girl leaves laying about the house, but those are mostly about things I don't care much about. Occasionally they talk about new networking tech.

Paper is just so hard to deal with. I mean, I keep books, but periodicals are somehow more... disposable?
I think hygiene is important, but Zed was not remiss in leaving it out of a health article. A separate article about programmer social issues would be great, though.
I read your link, and you are basing memory based on an experiment [...]

No, I'm not. I'm basing memory on a large, varied body of research, of which the link was just one example.

My point is that the research, as a whole, is not supportive of the idea of infants remembering their birth or in utero experiences.
my roommate who is more into the "Marina bro" scene

Can you explain what "Marina bro" is? I did google it w/ no luck. I know where the Marina area is, but that's about it. Sorry, East coast here.
Housing markets in different areas and countries are not necessarily synchronized with respect to cycles.
Having been out to Assembly a few times (not in the last couple of years though, flying to Finland is just too much hassle now days), I have to say that there is very little that can compare to the atmosphere of 1000s of computers inside a huge arena, screens lit up, no other lighting... and then these demos playing on the huge screen. Great event.
I would use Powerdns instead of BIND. It's opensource and already comes with a geo backend (among others).

http://doc.powerdns.com/geo.html#AEN6738

The doc says, Wikimedia uses PowerDNS' geo backend.
There is no Nobel prize for Mathematics.
got an iPhone to test it for a week, and the first thing I did was to msg my friends, got some replies, and some SPAM. If I needed to delete the spam, I had to press the msg line to get into the msg, then 'Edit' to edit the conversation, then touch the msg then 'delete' button below. Still the conversation albeit empty, stood there.
Usability sucks.... I did all these with two clicks in my N72 Nokia, and the Nexus or HTC Evo is far better for me to use than iPhone.
I love the way iPhone handles things, its fonts, its colorfulness, and the easier input (size and accuracy of touch space) but I would give it to a girl who needs them to be 'cute' pets rather than a work horse and easy to manage organizer/'get your work done fast' device a nerd like me would need. Android anyday, but then iPhone is the mother of all smartphones since they were the reason the smartphones entered mainstream, and we are having this conversation. Apple is the best for 'cute/beautiful' UI, usability?? - nah
In the discussion page of this article is a link to a schematic drawing - although it's obviously hard to tell how accurate this depiction is: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Typhoon_class_Schema....
> Naturally, I can try to get out of paying for the shoes in step 1, but then our story would simply be one of fraud.

Well, the story still is simply one of fraud. I think a judge would easily side with the tax authorities if it came to delivering an opinion on this cute little 'hack'.

Sounds like an urban myth, anyway...
1. Encode the data into a stream of bits
2. Send the data using a laser and bounce it off a planet 25 light years away.
3. Recieve the data in 50 years
My body sure agrees on avoiding dairy. I suppose I'm mildly lactose intolerant, but once I stopped eating dairy I started feeling a lot better. Less gas if nothing else.

Anecdotal for sure but most of the people I know who take diet seriously agree that dairy is bad.

I also believe the saying that humans are the only animals that drink milk after infancy.
Chrome Extension to add 'unread comment tracking' to HN
Ask HN: what happens when founders are in different stations in life?
I've been invited to found a company with an entrepreneur who is quite older and already established (has had startup success). He (I presume) would be majority owner. He brings experience as an operator and a wealth of connections; I bring technical skill. Given this dynamic, can anyone speak from personal experience on what this kind of partnership was like in practice?
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I'm certainly not claiming that infants have the equivalent of Korsakoff's syndrome. And there certainly has been research that indicates that babies respond differently to the speech rhythms of the language they are exposed to in utero than foreign languages, and that infants are calmed by recordings of the fetal heartbeat/mother's heartbeat combination. In fact, when my eldest daughter was born, I bought a CD ("Music to Be Born By", by Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead) designed for this specific purpose.

My point is that there is pretty broad agreement that 2 year olds do not have conscious memories of birth or in utero life, of the nature described by the OP's anecdote. In fact, the sound of the maternal heartbeat was presumably so constant that it is difficult to imagine a fetus forming a conscious memory of it, as it would lack the "novelty" necessary for memory formation.
> The way I like to think about NP is: are there certain types of problems which we, as smart as we might be, cannot easily solve, not because we aren't smart enough but because of the nature of the problem itself?

That's not entirely accurate. There are many problems that are untractable (i.e. can't solve them because of the nature of the problem) but have nothing to do with P=NP. Consider the halting problem, for instance.
On the subject of "Classics of Soviet Engineering", what about the Soyuz rocket family:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_%28rocket_family%29

Still going strong after 40+ and its first launch due from ESA's spaceport in Q4 2010:

http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Launchers_Home/SEMXN619Y8G_0.html
Defaulting differs in different countries. You may be forced to liquidate other investments to make up the shortfall. Nonrecourse loans are not usual outside of California, AFAIK.
The players were providing liquidity, what could be wrong with that?
Mimimum Viable Product-- something you should read up on.
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Upvoted this because I really like the format. I think there is a sweet spot between a typical long blog post and a tweet. At 188 words this seems to be it. If you write a single paragraph of text you can afford to go all 'spaced-out' (wtf. is LivGiv) & get away with it.

I'd love to see a bloggin platform that centers around 'paragraphs' of text.
I felt exactly the same way. I personally think (which is worth next to nothing of course) that if it's ever proven that P=NP (unlikely), the results will be mostly impractical.
FWIW: the dynamics of governments borrowing - particularly governments with control of their currency, and debts denominated in that currency - are in no way like personal borrowing.

If the country we are talking about was at or close to its richest point, and it is in a bad recession, I would expect its budget to be very large with a significant portion of borrowing. To do otherwise would be irresponsible.
Hey, what do you expect? He earned that "Top 100 Marketing Blogs" badge at the bottom right corner.
You're probably better off looking at pictures of an actual, unromanticized Typhoon/Akula, even if you don't read Russian.

http://community.livejournal.com/ru_submarine/17486.html
After having the same question and failing to find a good service i developed www.videolla.com for exactly this. It still not launched but feel free to get on our waiting list - i will be sending free invites soon.
For all the mocking you have to hand it to the Russians, they designed that thing on a budget that was probably a very small fraction of what the design of its American counterpart cost and it was just as deadly.

Don't underestimate engineering because it is done in a less than elegant way, if the problem got solved and the device fulfilled the requirements and it was within the budget then it was a good design.

As for the under water stab at the MIG 29, that was a design where the Russian designers probably outdid their Western counterparts in many ways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxx3T53TxM
I'm a hipster rubyist and I've only ever used vim as a serious text editor. I'm sure there are other hipster rubyists who feel the same way.
jacquesm said:

They explicitly state that they did not generate the
optimal number of moves

You say:

They state that they can solve random positions optimally

Those two statements contradict each other. However: AFAIK the existing algorithm, which they used, has not been proven to solve the problem optimally. It has now been shown that it can solve any position in at most 20 moves, but there's still the chance it solves a position in 20 moves that could optimally be solved in 19. Because the upper bound of 20 moves coincides with the proven lower bound of 20 moves, we know God's number. That does not mean that this must be God's algorithm.
Wanting to live forever is a childish fantasy, it's the big brother of wanting to eat nothing but chocolate. Grow up, already.
They cut it up into bite-sized pieces? I really doubt that. Notice only people who worry about etiquette tend to do that, and I don't think etiquette existed when we were cutting things with rocks. Perhaps chunks were sliced off, but I can't help but laugh at the thought of a Stone Age man cutting his meat into little cubes.

As a further argument, notice how most people eat a drumstick? It comes naturally.
Just to clarify, that joke is in fact a Russian joke. I think the MiG-29 was an accidental stand-in that telegraphs whenever it was my Dad heard the joke. I bet it was told about the Mig-21 before it, too (which even more clearly than its successor was far superior to western planes of its era).
I think you completely missed the irony of the article.
While your point stands, note that 60K are the number of symultaneous online users. Active subscriptions are on the low hundreds of thousands. While not in the league of WoW, it's still very respectable.

You may argue that in music the people have already spoken and that Lady Gaga (or whoever is all the rage these days) is it, or that the Da Vinci Code had set the direction for literature a few years ago. But there's a whole universe of tastes out there. Not only the mainstream is worth catering to.
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I posted it as P!=NP originally but the editors changed the title (or are exclamation marks removed by default ?)
This, and P ne NP on the same day - clearly I can resign my post at the patent office now; everything has already been solved.
Do you mean you stopped eating fruit? Or just stopped eating processed food that contain fructose?
Makes me wonder if a good video transcription / summarization service would be something people like you'd pay for. Something like squeezedbooks for movies.
1) A good idea about which history books to read, and in what order.
2) A collection of knowledgeable colleagues with whom to discuss history
3) (optional) A pretty certificate.
Of course we aren't designed to digest French fries and soft drinks. But to say that, simply because our bodies were not created with the preconceived notion of digesting them, we should not eat them, is silly.

I'm not saying we should eat them, but 'because we weren't designed to' is not a relevant point. We sure as heck weren't intended to eat potatoes or wheat either (rather impossible to eat without cooking, which hasn't been around forever), and they leave the diet a little deficient, yet the Irish sure did survive on them, and most of Europe built up on wheat. Would you condemn them as fools for eating something that wasn't tailor made for their stomachs? I applaud them for surviving and growing where food didn't previously exist.

French fries and soft drinks are terrible food, but the idea that there are some small collection of 'right foods' that we existed especially designed to eat is simply silly. The only time that sort of 'right food' idea is relevant, is with some animals that can only get a given nutrient one way, or animals that can only successfully hunt one type of prey.
> the sound of the maternal heartbeat was presumably so constant that it is difficult to imagine a fetus forming a conscious memory of it, as it would lack the "novelty" necessary for memory formation.

That's a good point, actually. If something is repetitive enough it fades in to the background. I remember working next to an open window in Toronto while there was major construction going on to replace the road right next to the office. The windows were open because we didn't have money for AC and it was right under a roof. The first two days were terrible, after that we stopped hearing the jackhammers. Only when they finished did we notice...
Ask HN: Please review my new Twitter recommendation engine
Mofollow

http://www.mofollow.com

I tried submitting this late last night but Sunday traffic got zero reviews, sorry for the repost to those of you who already saw this (and if you did, where's my feedback?!).

I have been developing this site long before Twitter announced their user recommendation service but I've been hesitant to go public. There's a couple reasons behind my wariness:

1. It's currently only running on two linodes.

2. I wanted to ensure I had my MongoDB session handler working properly for scale out. If you notice any problems regarding sessions, please comment to let me know. I just enabled round-robin DNS and I had to fix a few hiccups along the way.

3. The number of API calls made to Twitter to generate a request is quite high, it's along the lines of ~105 requests if you have over 100 friends. Due to the sheer amount of data and handshakes being transferred, I was wary of both my bandwidth and the server load.

Oh well, here we go. It is quite likely you guys could get my servers to a crawl. If anybody is going to stress test my server, I would prefer if it's my fellow hackers to give appropriate feedback (and snarky comments) before I go entirely public with this thing.

I do plan on some form of integration with the new twitter recommendation API calls as well in the near future, but for now this is my completely custom version.

As a side note: I would appreciate it if you didn't tweet or blog about this as the site hasn't been stress tested and I'm just looking for some preliminary feedback.

I enjoy any and all comments and criticism.
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It is better to own your own home outright.
It's a real stretch to blame that on training/schooling rather than dim wits.

I'm not sure that's true. There is some evidence that literacy and numeracy rates fell under New Labour. That government was characterized by high spending on "trendy" methods, rather that the basic "3 Rs". Reciting the alphabet and memorizing the times tables might be "discredited" now but it's hard to argue with the observation that the generation(s) taught that way can actually read and count...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2534296/Lower-literacy-among...
May I refer you to my project Colorillo http://colorillo.com/ ?
Also drawing with HTML5 Canvas but with real-time collaboration--though no art brushes (yet).
Another bit of context: the ship that was carrying the time codes was a lowly frigate, the smallest and weakest class in the game. So whoever was transporting such valuable goods in that eggshell was hoping nobody would care to intercept such a worthless ship, or he was just plain dumb, or probably both.
Those are quite nice.

I like final photo: http://pics.livejournal.com/igor113/pic/001e72eq

Translation (not exactly direct, but keeping close):

Submariner!

Relieved yourself?
Clean up after yourself!
And kindly requested,
Close the door
of the head.
People live in this section

(Violators will be severely punished!)

I'm not sure why I find this amusing.
If a proof has been reviewed there might still be errors in it...
This is very near to the diet prescribed by Dr William Davis - author of Track Your Plaque. The book is a lot more than just a diet book and is heart-health specific, though.
Maintenance isn't so bad, and it doesn't require every hour of every weekend. But I've got a small apartment with a small patch of grass. It takes me 10 minutes to cut the grass and 20 to trim the hedges, once a month.

Like any hobby, you get out what you put into it. I spent 2 weekends gutting and renovating the kitchen, put ethernet and coax in every room, and wired my garden for electricity and music.

My last rental had 3 fireplaces, none of them worked because the owner, rather than paying someone to clean and maintain them decided to plug them up. Ethernet? forget about it. Cable in every room, not an option. The kitchen was nice and new, but designed to someone else's specification, not mine.
Alas, science has the same trouble. Too many variables, hard to tell anything for sure.
Now you have conclusive proof that you are, indeed, not God.
We tend to have memories of dramatic experiences; it does seem logical that being born stands out above being given a toy.
It's surprisingly easy to meet a budget in a totalitarian state where even if not necessarily your life but your well-being, the education of your children and basic needs are dependent on it.

I'm a Russian and I imagine I'm reasonably cognizant of actual Soviet achievements. The notion that these were reached by plucky engineering and can-do spirit rather than, largely, oppression and coercion is absurd.
These two are decommissioned and are being cut apart.
You stopped noticing them, but you do all the same have a very vivid memory of their existence.
I found vhemt.org unfunny, bleating and dim-witted. The very dogma it attacks is on the basis of another dogma, almost entirely composed out of the naturalistic fallacy and appeal to nature. YMMV.
> It's surprisingly easy to meet a budget in a totalitarian state where even if not necessarily your life but your well-being, the education of your children and basic needs are dependent on it.

Yes, that's true.

> I'm a Russian and I imagine I'm reasonably cognizant of actual Soviet achievements.

ok

> The notion that these were achieved largely by plucky engineering and can-do spirit rather than, largely, oppression and coercion is absurd.

Whether oppression and coercion were part of it is not something I can or would like to comment on, I assume it was because of what I know about a bit of that from people working for defense projects in the 'sovblock' before the fall of the wall.

But that does not detract from the quality of the engineering.

I think that the budgetary constraints forced the Russian engineers to look for the simpler, and often more reliable solutions whereas their Western counterparts often took a more development oriented approach.
I guess I did, and I still do - I didn't see any irony there, just analyzing and poking fun at the original article. I might have read it a bit to quickly, but what I got out of it was that kids won't make you any more or less happy than you were: The original article stating that you will become unhappy, and this rebuttal saying that your happiness is determined by yourself, not your kid.

So my conclusion was -- though poorly worded -- that, if I don't really want kids now, I certainly won't be happier if I DO try to get one now.
In Milton Friedmans capitalism and freedom, he discuss (among other things) that proposal - he admits not liking it too much, but it is better than the current system of welfare and it is more realistic to create that than to kill the welfare system.

In addition you save the expenditure associated with paying for the enforcement, social workers, etc.
Credit card debt is a very US-specific phenomenon, and one that could disappear very quicky. Relying exclusively on interest collected from it would be like time-delayed suicide for the companies.
Every place I've, rented the association fees were in addition to the rent. It might be included in the rent but listed as a seperate item, or it could be the renter that pays directly. In any case, association fees weren't included in the deposit. In my case rent was 1500, deposit was 3000, but the check every month was 1700.
Tea is hot right now, no pun intended. A few months ago I did a bit of market research for doing a tea-based startup. If anyone wants to do it, there's money to be made by simply blogging about exotic niche tea products, especially because most people drink absolutely garbage tea: there's room for education here.
Yet it is still misleading a visitor to that site as "Draw Now" actually means "Sign Up Now" in case you do not have a DeviantART account.
La Fed podría extender su programa de recompra de activos financieros
Although the ISK name comes from the Krona, it officialy means Inter Space Kredit or something like that.
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As I get older - I'm beginning to really only play the AAA stuff unless I'm really passionate about something.. And that means Blizzard (who make Mac games), Valve (Who have ported Source to Mac and are releasing all new games on Mac), Firaxis (aka Civ V).. The mac can now pretty much cover all of my PC gaming needs.
A while ago this was posted: http://www.kk.org/quantifiedself/2009/10/the-false-god-of-co...

I found it interesting, if not very rigorous. It shows that one man's productivity did not suffer after quitting coffee.