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> Whether oppression and coercion were part of it is not something I can or would like to comment on ... But that does not detract from the quality of the engineering.

Jacques, you're one of my favorite posters here, but I really disagree with this sentiment. In the top post you wrote:

"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"

-- That's a terrible sentiment. The reason American things cost more is they can't just grab a scientist or engineer and say, "Build this for us, or else..." Yes, we can admire some Soviet weaponry and machinery (the Kalashnikov rifle is amazing for what it's good at, in particular) - but we should also mention the very real costs and atrocities they committed to get these projects done. Saying that they did it on a smaller budget than the Americans is false - their budget was less cash and more violence. Some amazing weaponry came out of totalitarian states - Nazis with rocketry, Soviets with durable machinery - but we should remember the very real costs of human misery, literally human blood, sweat, and tears that were forced into the production of those weapons.
Sig, we live in a Republic, not a democracy. Things like that are the reason we do so.
I am curious, what is so appealing about the speedcubing hobby? Doesn't it become boring and repetitive after some time?
It's very hard to make a proper judgement on this without knowing what will happen in the future, beyond your natural lifespan. If the mental and physical limitations of age are eventually transcended, and one's peers are still alive, I wouldn't be willing to bet against it being worthwhile.

Interesting article: it seems seeing all your peers die off is perhaps the hardest thing about living longer:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/aug/08/alex-horne...

Ridicule isn't much of an argument, though.
I find it strange that he doesn't explain his confidence with at least a general description of the way in which he thinks the proof will fail.

I suppose he could have safely claimed this with Wiles's original proof as well, since it did have at least one non-trivial flaw that required amending. It's quite possible that the proof contains flaws, but will still hold up in the end, because the flaws can be corrected. But I feel that's a bit of a lame gamble.
I certainly agree that they take it too far. I don't see what's so great about a planet with no people, and how it is it better than what we have now.

What I do find interesting, is the idea that having a child can be seen in an environmental and altruistic light. For me, it was a new thought that not having kids might be a good choice for myself, my girlfriend and the world in general.

An empty world would be a horribly sad thing, but perhaps a billion fewer people would make the world better for the remaining six billion. (And for the record, I'm talking about voluntarily getting fewer, not any forced methods)
Don't get me wrong, I'm about as anti-war and anti-violence as it gets.

But we're talking about a piece of pretty heavy artillery here, a nuclear submarine meant to kill people, wholesale. Now, I didn't set the stage for that, someone else did.

As far as the methods and the means of the former SovBlock countries goes, I lived in Poland before the fall of the wall for a while and it taught me a lot. For one it taught me how the people in a country like that are to some extent complicit by refusing to stand up for their fellow man when it matters.

The Nazis, the Soviets they were pretty bad in their days. But don't overlook the small detail that we today are pretty bad in many other ways, and we are also complicit.

We should remember, I'm very much in favor of that. So lets work to create a world in which weapons such as this will be reminders of the period that will hopefully be called 'the crazy years' when looked back at from some arbitrary point in the future.

But don't confuse the engineer with the puppet master. Those guys did their jobs to the best of their ability, what pressures were used to make them do their jobs are not part of that story. In fact, I can feel some sympathy for an engineer producing a work like that under duress, but I can find very little sympathy for someone doing that just for money.
True - and what a fantastic boom to humanity that would be. Create a world in which we don't have scarcity but true abundance? Count me in.
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who is doing c++ application here ?
It's not a new startup looking for traction. It's an existing community adding a new offering to their user base. The usual "registration wall" critique doesn't apply.

I also didn't register even though I wanted to Dive In ...
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Why wouldn't retraining be a possibility in Brazil but be possible in the US.
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But that does not detract from the quality of the engineering.

I think the quality of the engineering is tremendously overblown. It's expressed in urban fables like the one about NASA spending millions on space pens while the Russians used pencils. Straight paste from Wikipedia -

In commission:	December 12, 1981
Completed:	6
Active:	1
Scrapped:	3
Preserved:	2

There's an order of magnitude more Soviet diesel/electric subs sailing the world's oceans.
"I'm something of an enthusiast... but what do you get out of a history class that you don't get out of a history book?"

Some people (myself among them) prefer to learn by initially getting taught the subject basics from a person that knows the subject matter. This allows you to get direct feedback to your questions, gives you an idea of the overall scope of the subject and sets you thinking on the right path.

For example, I find trying to learn a new programming language from scratch from a book very challenging. Whereas if I attended a basic course on it (even for a few hours or days just to cover the basics), I learn it much better and faster. I then go off and buy the necessary books/search the web to augment my knowledge. Different people learn differently. I just happen to prefer human contact at the outset, whereas others will pick you a book and teach themselves to become experts all on their own.
In this case someone actually paid over $1000 for those assets, so the valuation is warranted.
Spoken like a man whom has never been to university, or maybe a man whom did not spend much time at one when he was there. The signal to noise ration of the Internet is just about inverse of what it is at my university.
This sounds like the old fascist idea that there are groups of people who are genetically inferior and cannot participate in a modern society, so should be sterilized or otherwise removed.
> It's expressed in urban fables like the one about NASA spending millions on space pens while the Russians used pencils

Yes, that's one that's been doing the rounds from before the web.

But it looks like the ISS will pretty soon be relying on Soyuz for its provisioning until Elon Musk will be in a position to provide an alternative for the shuttle flights.

And that's not a mere pen or pencil we're talking about, and it's not a fable.

That's 60's technology still in use today.
if the hot/cold idea is deeply rooted in you, it makes sense that you are able to tell what is what, but that does not mean it's not arbitrary, just that you have assimilated the method on a deeper level.

Consider italians, and pasta. Basically everybody knows "instinctively" if a sauce makes sense with short or long pasta, but in the end it's still completely arbitrary :)
Discovered it today from a previous thread on HN, and was immediately sucked in to reading nonstop.

Our minds are the most important program we have any control over modifying, even if the interface is pretty bizarre.
Basic income aka perustulo is popular topic in current Finnish politics. I believe the Green League (which is unusually large party here - nearly 10% share) adopted it first.

Recent polls indicate that the idea of Basic income could be favored by 30% of Finns.

More about the lengthy Finnish debate on Basic income:
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

marvin commented about Norway's "uførepensjon". Finland has it too. If you aren't able to get work for years and are deemed unemployable, you can get "unemployment pension" much in the same way as sick pension.

But basic income is another thing. Everyone - including the employed - would get a lump sum of basic income. On top of that they could earn extra by working (taxable income) or just live off with the basic income. It is seen as a way to drastically simplify the welfare system, where some money is simply lost to bureaucracy. The caveat is the possibility that too many could choose not to earn extra money by working.
Sometimes there are also flaws which can not be corrected.

But I cannot make a qualified guess if this might be the case here.
Ask HN: Limited Liability Company while operating in another country
This comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1585844
spawned some discussion about placing your company in a foreign country.

I'm currently living in Italy, opening a limited liability company here would cost us at least 10k euros as starting capital (2,5k euros at least at the beginning) and roughly 4000 euros as costs for incorporating.

Most important to me, every change of shares would require another 3000+ euros in cost.

So I won't be able to give my startup employees shares easily - we may have a contract written that says (at the end of 2 years or when we sell you'll have % of the company) but that sounds like a pain. Or doesn't it?
Also, I couldn't be vesting shares if I done the written contract I said.

I would be still paying taxes in Italy so I would have no legal troubles in opening a foreign limited company.

I was thinking about an English LTD for the low cost and very low starting capital.
Also with similar low costs there's Ireland but I've been told companies aren't favorable to receiving ireland companies invoices because of some VAT issues (don't really know about this to be honest).
But I haven't found anything on the possibility of easy changing shares ownership.

So, I think it would be great for europe entrepreneurs if you could list these 3 things about your country limited liability companies:
-incorporating cost
-minimum starting capital
-cost for passing shares
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But, there was no prize for solving FLT other than being able to list on one's CV "Proved FLT."
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He didn't even use a Tech 2 frigate, meaning (IMO) he was going for a super low-tech ship hoping nobody would notice.
I guess per-player costs are significantly less than the full amount. For one thing, CCP wouldn't make any money if $1000 worth of subscription cost them $1000 to serve. Moreover, a part of the maintenance expenses go to fixed costs like development, which are independent of the number of players.
Still sucks for games that need text and encourage chatting.
As are just about all of the rest of them.
Isn't this even worse if you use a TFT monitor?
So, what do you do?
The premise of the choices, which you conveniently left out, was that a significant percentage of people would be unable to provide a sizable income for themselves, because they lack the intellectual capacities. From that the binary answer is quite reasonable; the inbetween would be that people would be able to make themselves non-poor, and we started out by saying that that would not be feasible.

Unless you have another middle of the road, which I would be interested to hear about. When claiming a false dichotomy the customary thing to do is to provide a(n) example(s) of other options, however short.
I'm really curious to hear if it's 100% ok to have a company in, say, the UK, and for all intents and purposes operate in Italy. I have heard differing opinions on this from various 'commercialisti' (accountants).
hmm, strange, does it work if you try again now?
Functional literacy is about the ability to function, i.e. fill in tax forms.

In Sweden functional literacy is in the high 90% range.
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We're also one of the few animals to actually prepare our food, too. Does that mean we shouldn't do it?
"taxation in the US is _definitely_ not harsh enough"

It seems to me that the US spends 46.5% of all money spend world wide collectively by all nations on military spending. China, France, UK, Russia, and then next 10 biggest spending countries spend less than the US when they are all added together.

In addition the US imprisons more of its population than any other country in the world, including totalitarian police states, and a much greater proportion than any modern western nation.

In addition, the US spends a fortune on education and gets very poor outcomes.

In addition, the US spends far more per capita on health care than any other country in the world and has far worse outcomes than most countries, with infant mortality now falling behind many third world nations, and the interesting reality that the life expectancy of an indigenous Lakota indian man living in South Dakota receiving free unlimited federal health care is now 44 years. This is lower than 187 out of 195 of the nations in the world and is only higher than nations which are afflicted with BOTH massive civil war AND endemic AIDS, Malaria and Cholera.

Surely there is a way to pay for a basic living standard for the unskilled without raising taxes.
I recently converted from various other graphical IDE's (Visual Studio and Eclipse) to start using exclusively Vim to develop with, and I'm loving it.

I don't think it really needs to be made more accessible, but what would have been AWESOME would be to have known about vim-tutor. I only just found out about it after I've spent a few weeks working in Vim, and have largely passed the time when vim-tutor would have helped. It REALLY should be on the main vim screen, not in the help.

Maybe I'm weird in that I have an inherent distrust the help in open source apps. Most of the times, they seem to be archaic, and targeted at the very advanced users (see man pages).

Thankfully, I've passed the initial stumbling-around period, and now know that the help is actually written in a very readable format. Maybe all that needs to happen is for that to be better communicated.

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I honestly considered down voting you just because you were in goonfleet ;)
OK, it appears that we both lack any argument to back up our positions, but my position is 'Hmmm. I don't know about that'. I feel like I'm more justified in taking my position than you are in taking yours. :)
The 50% with the schizophrenia will die or be locked up, and the rest will be smarter. So as a whole the species will become better with each iteration. Evolutionary selection will still march on, the source of improvements (natural variation or bio=engineered) is irrelevant.
a reply by fun2have in that sub-thread (about IRELAND):

"Separate corporate structure from where you base yourself. For example to start a limited company in Ireland with accountant fee's etc is about €300. Capital Requirement is €1. And that company can base itself anywhere in Europe. One of the advantages of the Single Market."
Some cows quite successfully milk themselves.
another reply by shedzi (about GERMANY):

"For this reason the german UG (Unternehmergesellschaft - Society of Entrepreneurs) was created. The investment can be chosen freely by the founders, the fees are very low (about 300 Euros) and the only drawback is that you have to put one quarter of the profits back into the capitalization."
vhemt.org seems like a wonderful Christian-fundamentalist right-winger site. Just persuade all the liberals to stop breeding, and wait a few years.
Cooking just denatures the proteins. It doesn't change that much. And highly processed food is indeed worse than fresh food.
Of course, but that's an even larger gamble, if you don't have at least a very specific hunch about the way in which a proof will fail. All in all, this announcement by Aaronson seems rather rash. I don't understand why he would do such a thing.
They seem to have two different algorithms. One is given a position and it gives you the optimal solution, the fewest moves to solve that position. This is the God Algorithm. And a different, much faster, algorithm that given a position finds a solution with 20 moves or less - lets call it a Mortal Algorithm. (It does not always give you the optimal solution, with the fewest moves, just one with 20 moves or less.) My understanding is that they have just run the Mortal Algorithm against every position to prove that it can solve every position in 20 moves or less. Their God Algorithm is much too slow to run against every position.

According to Wikipedia a God Algorithm only has to be 'practical', find the optimal solution to a position with a sensible amount of processing. So it can use search and back-tracking. We could term your algorithm that works without search and back-tracking as a God God Algorithm because it is an optimal sequence of processor moves that find the optimal sequence of cube moves. A God God Algorithm would be awesome, but a much more difficult thing to create. I imagine it would run orders of magnitude faster than their God Algorithm.

(PS. I don't think we can entirely rule out the possibility that the God God Algorithm might contain some small amount of search or back-tracking.)
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My two cents: make "seeks" into separate threads you can drop/save and continue at any time. Also the ability to sort and delete these hypothetical individual search nodes would be nice. Automatic forwarding to a previous thread of another user containing the term I was searching for would be intuitive, so that users don't have to pioneer search histories already made. You could even "adopt" a thread and pioneer it further for the community. The opportunities for education are endless: students can share their research threads for use by others to include in their own bibliographies and sources (somewhat perpetuating the inbreeding of stale thought in academia but convenient for aggregating it in one place and possibly a starting point for defying it). You can make a dating app to analyze users' data and make compatibility suggestions where there is statistically significant commonality. Also, take a look at http://www.pearltrees.com/ and learn from them. People aren't neat freaks, take advantage of all that is the "lifestream." You guys may have some of what was said in the works but personally I think the dating idea might be most ripe for pursuing in the future. The site as of now has merit to the social bookmarking crowd I think but needs to stretch into new territories that utilize the all important search history for focused applications. Last, don't listen to the nay sayers who insist on you spoon feeding them, it's a waste of your precious time. Best of luck.
My mother is a commercialista (I think it's safe to translate it as "accountant") so I might ask her better when I'll see her.

What I know at the moment is that:

- if you pay your taxes fully in Italy (if that's even possible of course) it's ok

- if you pay your corporate taxes in UK then in Italy you only pay taxes on your dividends that's called "esterovestizione" and is illegal
A lot of the signage is pretty hilarious but I was hoping (rightly, I'm very glad to see) people less lazy than myself would translate it.
You can use wget to download an entire site, but I really, really wouldn't pull HN like that.

If you really want everything then here's one way to do it.

Start with curl, pull http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 and then use Python and BeautifulSoup to extract the items that come with it. Then pick the smallest number that you haven't pulled yet, and repeat.

But I would be absolutely certain you've got it all right before letting it loose, and it is ethically required of you to throttle your bandwidth when doing something like this.

But think twice - there might be better ways of learning what you want to learn.
ITALY:

as I already said:
-incorporating cost: 4000 euros

-minimum starting capital: 10000 euros, 2500 to be paid in before incorporation

-cost for passing shares: 3000 euros
Yes.

But they have a habit of making non-bug fix changes in point releases and the implication is these would be installed silently.
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We know that the oceans are the largest global sinks for CO2. Not only carbonic acid is formed, you conveniently forget to mention that it disseminates as a combination of dissolved CO2, HCO3, CO3 and the H2CO3 you mention. The CO3, carbonate, is essential in the formation of coral atolls. Without carbon dioxide sinking and forming CO3, coral could not form. The relative mixture of what results depends on a number of factors of which ocean temperature is the primary one. The Orr article, which is the original source on acidification leading to coral loss, reports on a theoretical computer model about what might happen in the future and is not based on any actual observational data that this has happened to coral in the past or is happening now. Coral losses in the 1998 season were due to el niño conditions and are not related to acidification. Regarding computer models of global climate and global ecosystem interdynamics it is telling that none so far have succeeded in predicting anything beyond random chance. Because of this, it is not reasonable to assume that the computer model simulations that have yet to be compared against real life are the first ones that will finally be correct.
For the zillionth time: I moved to 1.4.0 after 1.3.3, and there was data loss on the stable version too. Seriously, what's up with everyone's reading comprehension?
I don't see what else it could mean. Why would P!=NP change his life dramatically? Maybe you're thinking of P=NP?
As far as I can tell, this is simply a (or more appropriately, The) re-discovery of the upper bound on Kociemba's algorithm. The authors apparently did not search for optimal solutions (which is not strictly necessary anyway since we have a lower bound), which you can assume it's equivalent to stopping Kociemba's algorithm when a solution of less than 21 steps is found, for all intents and purposes.
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Actually, I recently tried submitting this article, and HN rejected my submission: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

It had been previously submitted over 1200 days ago(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12964).

Anyway, thank you for telling me how I should search for articles. That's a great tip.
Clickables:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1579400

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=swytch

http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/swytch.html

http://www.swytch.net

Also, using Hackernewsers ( http://www.hackernewsers.com ) I see that tgandrews and ropiku are both in Manchester and both list Front-End web development in their interests.
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