skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that is right. Don't juggle knives while standing near your Aeron.
Journal of the ACM has a P/NP policy too:

The JACM frequently receives submissions purporting to solve a long-standing open problem in complexity theory, such as the P/NP problem. Such submissions tax the voluntary editorial and peer-reviewing resources used by the JACM, by requiring the review process to identify the errors in them. The JACM remains open to the possibility of eventual resolution of P/NP and related questions, and continues to welcome submissions on the subject. However, to mitigate the burden of repeated resubmissions of incremental corrections of errors identified during editorial review, the JACM has adopted the following policy:

*No author may submit more than one paper on the P/NP or related long-standing questions in complexity theory in any 24 month period, except by invitation of the Editor-in-Chief. This applies to resubmissions of previously rejected manuscripts.

Link:http://jacm.acm.org/instructions/pnp
Let's see what happens with each of those reactions.

CO2 + H20 + CaCO3 yields Ca(HCO3)2 + energy. This reaction turns calcium carbonate into calcium bicarbonate, which is water soluble and floats off.

HC03 is unstable, and only exists in a stable form when combined with a metal ion. Such as happened above in a reaction that came out of destroying calcium carbonate.

C03 is unstable, and only exists in a stable form when combined with a metal ion. The supply of such metal ions at the present time is relatively stable and is uncorrelated with temperature.

And when you dissolve CO2 in H2O, there is an equilibrium balance between C02 + H2O and H2CO3.

So half the compounds you list don't exist on their own. And even high school chemistry is enough to tell you that adding CO2 to a marine environment with lots of CaCO3 is going to have an inevitable net effect of dissolving some of the CaCO3 that is there.

You'd have been better off falling back on the fact that the oceans are large, and that ph is locally more affected by ocean currents and upwelling from the deep ocean than it is by anything in the atmosphere. Because it is true that the yearly variation at any given location exceeds the total rise in the 20th century, and also exceeds the projected rise in the 21st century. (That said, the problem appears at the peaks, and high peaks can cause die-offs even though ph levels spend most of their time in a good range.)
I have a love hate relationship with Ikea. The rule I've worked out is "buy nothing with moving parts" which would rule out office chairs.
I am obese [1]. When I sit in one of those cheapy ($150 or so) office chairs from the office stores, I find that the gas cylinders last about 6 months before my fat a@@ squeezes the gas out of them. Since they're cheap imports, the only way to get a replacement gas cylinder is to buy a new chair. So I was spending $250-350/year on office chairs at home.

I've had my Aeron for 4 years now. No new cylinders. So the $800 I spent more than paid for itself. If I had stayed using office chairs, I'd have spent more than $1k on them.

Notes:

1 - Getting run over by a car, and being unable to be as physically active as I used to be didn't help.
I agree with the author's point. An organization that dismisses telecommute as an option, is closing doors on a whole bunch of "10X" programmers. Which probably means that the current lot is not "10X".

I wouldn't want to work for a supervisor (and a team) that needs to "see" the team members everyday to make sure they are doing their job. The military Command and Control management style doesn't work on programmers.

One comment I do have is that author shold run spell check on the atricle and correct some of the grammer. But the point is well taken.
Free intranet usability testing ( limited time, only some selected )
How I thought I solved the travelling salesman problem
I think this is getting unwanted publicity. The author never released the proof in public or made any announcement. He only sent it to his expert friends so that they can point out potential flaws. May be this needs more research and putting him in spotlight is not helping anything.
it should provide food and housing for those people who can not get either

Agreed. That's very different from paying the large majority of everyone's food and housing costs, which is what the left wants to do with health care.
In some ways, this post dovetails with William Easterly's paper, "Was the poverty of Africa determined in 1000 BC?": http://aidwatchers.com/2010/07/was-the-poverty-of-africa-det... ?

Notice this, from the post:

"1500 AD technology is a particularly powerful predictor of per capita income today. 78 percent of the difference in income today between sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe is explained by technology differences that already existed in 1500 AD – even BEFORE the slave trade and colonialism.

[...]

Why do technological differences persist for so long? The ability to invent new technologies is much greater when you have more advanced technology already. James Watt had acquired a lot of tech experience in the mining industry which he used to invent the steam engine. Other people with the ability to make steel could then slap his steam engine on a vehicle running along steel rails and give us railroads."

Part of his (sobering | frightening | surprise) conclusion is that early advantages quickly become cumulative advantages that can persist for very long periods of time. The roots of Western Europe's success in the 18th and 19th Centuries might be in 1500 or even 1000. You have to look very far back in time to realize that. Likewise, the roots of Silicon Valley's advantage, according to the post above, might go back at least a century.

That's not the kind of advantage you can uproot with some tax credits, a five-year forecast, and a fistful of cash. You might need to play a game that works on the scale of decades or longer -- far longer than any politician or city booster thinks.

These kinds of ideas, whether about poverty in Africa or tech in Silicon Valley, shouldn't be taken as overly deterministic, but they should be useful to those who think about quick fixes for very wide, very deep problems.
Yeah, I tend to think of them as rogue cells.
Junkyard Coding
You get free health care in the UK though. Also, you pay much less for university, well for now anyway. It used to be free only 4 years ago!
I think this is a question of personality.

Are you more comfortable playing it safe or do you like to take chances and gamble? If you aren't comfortable gambling/taking chances, save yourself the stress and put the money in something low risk. As you are still fairly young, if you aren't risk adverse, swing for the fences.
Markham Panels
Get a Celle. I find them more comfortable that Aerons and way cheaper. http://www.hermanmiller.com/Products/Celle-Chairs
Study: 'Digital Natives' not so media savvy
Sorry for going offtopic, but: there are Eskimo communities in Wales? Or did you mean that they eat whales?
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

Can you elaborate some more on this? I'd like to learn more about this area. Are you referring to problems for which no polynomial time solution exists, and there is also no polynomial time method for verifying a solution?
How a near-worthless magazine beats Demand Media
Good observation. The decision to hire comes down to a very simple "will hiring this person cause us to make more money than the person costs us." He's blaming the cost side of the equation for all of the decision to not to hire. He could just as easily blame himself for having failed to streamline his company's old-school high-markup sales network.
I own a product design company and people come to us all the day with ideas for products they want brought to market

Folks unsure of their product/idea tend to not have a great product or are just not good at starting a business. But the people that know a market exists for their idea and just need it implemented are more than likely to succeed.

I'm racking my brain to think of any successful entrepreneurs that had to get validation before they started. Jeff Bezos? No, he had an idea for an online bookstore, quit his job, moved to Seattle and started one. 37Signals? I bet Jason Fried asked for lots of validation. Steve Jobs? No, they built the Apple 1 and started selling it. Henry Ford famously said "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Wow, thanks for the link!
Workers are replaced in industry by machines and computers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1157018 and they move to services.

Services are funny things. If I clean up your place for 1 mln dollars and you cut my hair for 1 mln dollars then we raised GDP by 2 mln.

As technology progresses economy becomes more and more detached from reality. People manufacture insanely advanced items almost for free and produce most complex intellectual property literally for free and money more and more represents just back-rubbing and gambling.
Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World
Can you quote how many hours Google founders spent talking to customers?

How many Twitter founders spent and why they still don't know the business model that will work?

Facebook started as somewhat of a ripp-off but actually people weren't willing to 'buy' it, hence these stories over IP that Facebook got into over the initial days
There's a great point here that the post doesn't really go into enough detail about: in many (most?) places, business and financial types are focused on the goal of trying to find ways of making money without actually creating any value.

The mentality seems to be: Creating value is hard! Let's find a way to just make money off "immaterial" assets, financial manipulation, pure marketing and reselling, etc.

In the valley, people still look for ways to make money by making things that people want.
Does anyone else find it interesting that the actual underlying bug causing this data loss is related to what seems to amount to a stateful variable? I.e., the "reference to [a] timer is kept in the updater state", and the actual bug being a process which "never cleared the timer reference".

I think this might suggest an additional criteria for extra code review scrutiny in systems (like CouchDB) that are built in functional langages: any code that "feels" stateful or procedural should probably be examined with additional care, as it is the most likely to contain exactly this classic sort of stateful logic error.
Ten years from now people who dismiss telecommuters are going to look like flat earthers. There are a range of forces which mean that telecommuting and telerobotic working will become more common, such as rising energy prices, environmental regulations and changes in demographics.
Thanks, you're right about the skills, at the moment merging duplicates is a bit of a pain, I'll have to make it easier.
Fermented dairy products, e.g. yogurt, kefir, are usually fine even if you're lactose intolerant. They're also high in protein and help maintain healthy intestinal flora.
Do it politely. I saw a massive banner on the side of an industrial building advertising loft condominiums. I called, only to be told, "Sorry, we're just gauging market interest." That was a major turn-off and when they did get around to selling the units for real, I wasn't interested.
This seems like a lot of whining to me. 33% does not seem high for total taxes for employment. That's the total that both the employee and employer pay together. Sure, they could do more without having to pay that, but they also wouldn't have, I don't know... roads, police, fire department, public education, an army to protect them, etc. What percent do they think they should be paying? Sounds like they think they should be entitled to get it for free.
Breaking free of the curse of the gifted
Or people just pay for healthcare themselves, like every other consumer service on Earth.
Ask HN: Review My (first) Startup: jummpp.in
http://jummpp.in

Dear All,

This is my ugly baby that I love very much. I know you guys can inspire me to make it better.

It's a way to discover things to do with your friends.

You make suggestions of what you might want to do. "I want to see a movie", but you don't have to specify when, where, or even which movie. Different from a traditional event invitation system, it's designed to handle more uncertainty. Because first, you want to find out if there's interest in a suggestion. If there is, you work out the details to make a suggestion actually happen.

It's like reddit for events. It aggregates interest among your friends, to see what everyone would want to do, without anyone having to call up everyone.

I'd personally use it for long tail ideas like "going to the flea market", which I am not sure if ANYONE might be interested. I'd just toss it out there, and see if it sticks.

It's a way to discover your friends. You might realize that a friend is also interested in art house films, but you didn't know, because you never thought of to ask.

jummpp.in

My page is jummpp.in/hayeah

p.s. It uses facebook connect. The app doesn't post to your wall unless you explicitly share something. It only grabs your email and name to create an account.
Mark Hurd's real legacy at HP: "Reverticalization"
I've done so elsewhere several times, but here you are: http://www.mathsjam.com

With the recent announcements about God's number (for the Rubik cube) and the possibility of advances, perhaps even a solution, of P vs NP, there's even more to talk about!
Actually, Apple did have orders for units they later built. Furthermore, as members of the Homebrew club they were very much in touch with what features their market wanted to buy and what they were willing to pay.
The funny thing is that the blog's author himself succeeded without talking to customers. Imagine if he talked, found out nobody wants it and quit without pivoting.
Health care, etc. are indeed covered by taxes here in the UK, but the bottom line adds up the same anyway.

Obviously, the services different countries "provide" for your income tax vary by country; some countries provide "free" healthcare, some offer high (perhaps sometimes too high) unemployment benefits, while others decide to wage wars instead to protect their interests overseas.
I see that cube21.org also resolves to the same site, so I guessed they hedged their bets.
I don't understand why anyone would think it would be impossible. I also don't see why you'd need to stack canvas elements on top of each other.
Eh? The Evo was release June 4th, a hair over two months ago.

Also, two Galaxy S phones were released in mid-July, less than one month ago.
Generally speaking, it's better to pay off your debts first, since their interest rates are usually higher than the return on any investment you could make.

Re: risk taking: don't forget, big risk == potential big loss. To figure out your risk aversion, don't ask yourself how much you're willing to profit; ask yourself how much you're willing to lose.

Re: expecting to make more in the next 40 years: Young people have a tendency to overestimate how much they'll make in the future and underestimate how much they will need (medical bills, for example, generally go up).

Do the math sometime to see how much you'll need to have in your nest egg: retirement means, almost by definition, supporting yourself for 20+ years with no monthly salary.
Is this just an example of how 'big media' is often held to lower standards than a blogger?

Blog posts are often labeled as flame-baiting or simply trying to promote self interest (eg - articles that knock 37signals / Calacanis / Apple fan boys, etc.).

The original article was pretty shallow; Jennifer Senior, the author, followed the conventional Gladwell-style of anecdote and insight mixed with research. TLP's dismantling of the original New Yorker article isn't as rough as it could have been.

The original article got attention, was up-voted here and elsewhere, in many ways because of the provocative title, which wasn't well supported in the article. Thankfully, someone has pointed this out. Had this article been on LISP, geo-location, web2 business models, this community could have done it on its own, but here having someone who is a relative expert (assumed to be the case given TLP's title) was needed.

[Side note - I am the father of two kids under age 4 and my wife has a master's degree in education and teaches. I disliked the original article.]
Your strong feelings are evident. Thanks for taking the time to share your viewpoint.

I disagree with much of what you say, but I want to let you know that I did read it. Beyond that, we'll agree to disagree.
Really? Which country are you from? Because if you are in the EU we gave loads to Greece. We gave much more to banks some 500 billion on EU level, then there is the national level.

And Nato is in Afghanistan so I think loads of EU nations are fighting wars. Many Eu nations joined the Iraq war too, so I do not think any American is taking a moral stance over high taxes which a European needs not because their moral conscience is clean.

The guy, as said in many other comments has an agenda. SO it is hardly "Americans" but republicans, or conservatives, or democrats as they may be called in some countries.
Google, Verizon to hold conference call
In the US the employer shares the income tax burden. So If your boss gives you a raise the company sees its own taxes go up. I am not sure of the tax implications of health insurance.
Advice that basically boils down to you should have customers and revenue doesn't seem incredibly helpful.
I was not really commenting on the paper or its contents. That is beyond me.

Rather I was commenting on the fact that the blog post is not as neutral as some commentators believed it to be.
I think the legal system should deal with fraud where someone makes it appear that they are someone else. Individuals can't exhaustively research every little thing they do, that would lead to the most inefficient society imaginable.

This isn't a computer system, so there are other options than anticipating and responding. For one, there can be a deterrent if the penalty is large enough to overcome the possible upside of getting away with it.
Sight unseen I'm betting that the difference between the two sets of numbers from Demand Media is based on a belief that they have generated a lot of recurring revenue that GAAP doesn't let them fully account for. The idea is that they build some content out, pay for it now, then keep on getting paid for it over time. Newsweek doesn't have this structure.

If you agree with Demand Media on this, you are likely to think that they are a good investment. If you disagree with them on this, or you think there are significant risks that search engines will decide as a whole (as, say, Duck Duck Go has) to destroy their business model by discounting their crappy content, then you'll think they are a bad investment.

As for Newsweek, they have structural problems that mirror the broader media industry. I wish them luck, but they don't have a plausible story for why current losses are likely to turn into future profits. Hence their low valuation.
Windows vs linux as static vs dynamic typing
Good article - I remember seeing the original article / presentation and thinking it was pretty cool, but there weren't many "defense against this sort of stuff" things in the presentation that I recall.
Just without the "This"
Those articles are sad. They are the equivalent of the crackpot in sciences, in that they ignore the most basic rules of economics. Discussing about whether taxes are a burden for business or not without taking care of tax incidence is at best totally ignorant. Which part is paid by him and which part is paid by his employee administratively is meaningless - it all depends on the job market, and the elasticiy of demands and supply. Most likely, if he paid less in taxes, he would have to pay sally more.
Open-source tools turn WikiLeaks into illustrated Afghan meltdown
It is a very basic set of tests, but it does give you a rough idea on what may be possible to do with a dyno or two.
Patches welcome: http://github.com/tswicegood/travisswicegood.com/
The guys at Flattr are trying something similar to "PagePay"

http://flattr.com/
"works for me", FF 3.6.8 linux 32bits.
A new approach to mobile search
Quick meta question. Is this OK? I think a thread like this pointing to a Wikipedia article is kind of lousy, for three reasons:

- We have a huge P!=NP thread on the front page. If people need a primer or want to discuss the problem, shouldn't the comments be in there? It's nice to have it in one place, right? For example, I'm sure that RiderOfGiraffes's writeup would be well received in that thread.

- Since this issue is front and center, what's the point of the link at all? Surely anyone who wants context on P=NP can figure out how to find the Wikipedia article. This isn't like the occasional Wikipedia link that's meant to highlight some interesting obscurity.

- It's sure lazy. If you want to educate people, then why not find a nice introduction to the topic that they wouldn't have come across on their own? Or write one.
I guess you haven't read up on compound interest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_interest

The 401k will compound tax free until you take out the money.

Also, I don't think there is any reason to have any debt beyond student loans and a home mortgage. You're throwing away money by paying interest on credit cards.
This works too: git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt)
Also, Sally's leverage for price negotiation with the insurer is much smaller compared to a sizable business. Meaning her bills will increase as well.
How did Weather Data get Opened?
Thanks for the Democrat talking points.
The paper is rather complicated, you can see it here http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/#s.p. on the author's site.

it would be nice to believe this is solved, but my gut instinct is that it will not be vetted.
I'm happy to see flattr succeeding than Google doing it.
Seeking technical co-founder in NYC
I'm a designer (benjaminlehn.com) with some front-end dev experience. Recently moved to NYC (Brooklyn), and would love to work with a good programmer on a tiny app idea I have. I guess you could think of it as microblogging platform, but it wouldn't really compete with the big players in that space (tumblr, twitter, posterous, etc). I've worked in Rails environments before, so that would be easiest, but I'm open to learning something else if it fits the bill. See profile for email if interested.

Edit: Someone in NYC is preferred, but I'm open to remote collaboration as well.
after doing some craigslist shopping, it looks like the standard used price is around $500, just fyi.

although just to give you a contrarian opinion, i've owned my shitty $100 home office chair for almost 10 years, and i still love it. in the end, though, its just about what works best for you. if the aeron works for you, get it.
I made an aside to Django vs Drupal and a few people have seized on it. My bad, I took a cheap shot that detracted from the overall point. :-/