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I think he believes that P!=NP, but he also believes that the proof offered is deeply flawed.

His bet is to emphasize the second point. The fact that he wont' gain anything if the proof is wrong and lost $200K if the proof is correct only underscores how strongly he believes the proof is almost certainly flawed.
>Assuming there's a business case for this (very cool) tool

I'm in dA and I see a lot of people there who don't have access to expensive tools like photoshop, So I think they built this to enable more users to submit art. I don't know how it benefits dA, but as a user I just love it!
Sure, but manufacturing and farming, making things, is the actual financial foundation of an economy. Service sector depends on the existence of sound economical functioning of the jobs that produce things in order to function. If no one is making anything, real income is not being produced, and it is inevitable that the service sector must then collapse as it depends on the former for its health.
The complexity of the bureaucracy is indeed a bummer from what I could see when I worked in small companies. One company I worked for lost a lot of money just by not getting in time some forms for some tax/"charges" reduction.

Concerning the cost of an employee: one thing to keep in mind is that once you paid your employee, he already got his basic retirement and health plan in place, contrary to the US and pretty much everywhere else outside western europe. As an example, I earn more here in Japan than in Paris, the cost of living in Japan is certainly cheaper than in Paris, and taxes are low but in the end once I factor out the cost of health insurance, retirement, and maybe soon sparing money for children's education, France is really not so bad.

I actually know several friends who came back to France after earning "so much money" in the US, especially once they had kids.
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Hah, well spotted. That's a debug message I forgot to remove. (I've updated the extension to get rid of it).
I see mainly 2 possible problems:

1- "Esterovestizione" prevention law, if you are citizen+resident in italy, you are expected to pay taxes related to your company here, but which of the multitude of taxes do i really need to pay? If you are going to open a company this must be crystal clear, different opinions are not acceptable.

2- High entity management costs. I guess our accountants will demand something more to manage the additional layer of complexity...

So, i'm not quite sure of the implications this will lead to, but look like it will be pretty painful in a way or another.
(For the few italian HNers, see david petition on this: http://www.srlfacile.org/)
This is true, and the cost of Incorporating is about 60 Euro if you do it yourself, or around 150 to get someone else to do it.

You can also file your annual returns etc. online for free (not all form submissions are free though, but most are).

See www.cro.ie(company registration office) for more details.
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"NP time" doesn't mean anything. NP problems are verifiable in polynomial time.
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It runs Windows, end of discussion I'm afraid.
The author's argument is that we shouldn't just have to wait for time to determine the security and/or plausibility of this solution. It is probably true that eventually we will know if Haystack is effective or not. But we would know a lot sooner if the code were available.

It's not that there's security bugs or buffer overflows in some software. Everything has bugs and if the design and idea is good, they can usually be fixed and everything can keep moving along fine. It's that we know essentially nothing about the implementation or design of a program that asks its users to trust it to keep their traffic safe from an oppressive government. I think you'd have to be awfully naive to just take Haystack at its word that Haystack actually works.
I wonder, since you said your problem was that it "could easily imply the common problem of assuming the existence of a secure PRNG". Statistical mechanics involves real, true randomness, and the statistical comes in e.g. where you use statistical models of things at the micro scale to explain macro scale behavior. I don't get the impression that it involves statistics in the way you are using the word.
On a tangent: I wonder why wikipedia doesn't list the articles on boats by their original Russian names, but uses their NATO calling instead. Now you have the article "Typhoon sub" which is actually about Akula class submarines, and the article "Akula class submarine", which is about a submarine the Russians call "Shchuka".
>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.

You are pulling that opinion out of thin air with 0 basis in fact. If you ask me, a bunch of pressure hulls put together in one outer hull is a lot more complicated than a single pressure hulls. That can only be cheaper/simplier becasue the cost of labor is so much lower. Welding the pressure hull is extremely expensive.

If you look at reliability, all 18 of the US Ohio class which were design/built starting in the 70s (while the Typhoon came out in the 80s) are still in operation and are slated to be replace in about 2020. None have had a catastrophic accident. They've had something like 130 succesful Trident practice launches in a row. There are a lot of signs that the US ones are the most reliable in the world.
These 'cookies' aren't tasty; you're left hungry for privacy.
There is absolutely no relation between the openness of a source code and its security

I think that's overstating the case a tad.

Take a look again at JGC's very nice summary of the case in question:

Worryingly, Haystack's only 'technical' detail is the following: "We use state-of-the-art elliptic curve cryptography to ensure that these communications cannot be read." Fair enough, but frankly that means nothing. They could be using AES, or RSA, or pretty much any good algorithm and I still wouldn't care. Two reasons: their implementation might be rubbish and enable attacks or their cryptography might be irrelevant because another technique (traffic analysis?) might make breaking Haystack possible. After all, all the Iranian government needs is a list of people running the software.

In this specific case, having the source open would permit cryptography researchers (of sufficient skill and aptitude) to analyze whether or not Haystack is actually doing what it needs to do. Put another way: how do we know that Haystack isn't including a back door to capture all the information passing through their system, to sell on to the Iranian government for a hefty fee? We don't.

I'm not arguing that open source is inherently more secure than closed source; I'm just saying that in some specific cases, there are clear benefits to having the source available for inspection.
I'm looking forward to hear from people who's had direct experiences, but in general I'd be more than skeptical towards someone significantly older than me, with no technical skills, asking to "partner" in a startup project. Chances are that he is somehow using your technical baggage in order to achieve his personal goals, with no real interest in creating a true partnership and using your status of so-called 'cofounder' as an expedient to get the job done almost for free.
It might not be your case, but I'd stay with the eyes wide open anyway.
Certainly our current leaders are not the type to mass murder unemployed Americans. But these things can change. Nobody in the 1920s thought that the Germans would soon be trying to exterminate unwanted ethnic groups and colonize Eastern Europe like whites colonized North America (nobody except Hitler, who had already planned it).
http://www.veracode.com/images/pdf/executive_summary_veracod...

Spefically finding number 3: "Open Source projects have comparable security, faster remediation times, and fewer Potential Backdoors than Commercial or Outsourced software."
As for some corruption, I might add that Romania ranks on the last place for EU member states according to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2009.
However, how many of those who held those jobs were in them because they had been forced out of manufacturing labor, which was indeed shipped overseas in significant numbers?

(Not entirely relevant, but don't forget that we're still manufacturing a lot of stuff with no particular decline in the sector (or at least until the Great Recession), just with much less labor.)
I strongly recommend the World Bank Calculator comparing the ease of doing business in many different countries around the world (Excel Spreadsheet):

http://doingbusiness.org/documents/Simulator_2010.xls

Lists a comparison of any country you choose under the following headings:

- Ease of Doing Business

- Starting a business

- Dealing with Licenses

- Employing Workers

- Getting credit

- Protecting Investors

- Paying Taxes

- Trading across borders

- Closing a business

I'm from Ireland and many multinationals come here (or at least used to) for the pro-business climate (favourable tax laws, not much bureaucracy).

Using this calculator, we can see that the US is ranked 4th overall in the world for ease of doing business, the UK is 5th, Ireland 7th and Italy.....78th! I can see why you are considering this option.
The pressure to have children is biological. If you could measure it, there is arguably more social pressure NOT to have children than otherwise.
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State of Software Security, executive summary
Nobody says you have to buy a big house. The amount of maitenance is directly proportional to how many plumbing fixtures, windows, appliances, lights, cabinets, etc you have.
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> Ship an open source version of your code and let's take a look at it. Let the Iranian government have a look at it.

Skype is famous for being a black box.

http://www.secdev.org/conf/skype_BHEU06.handout.pdf
Presumably you have a job, or you have parents with a job that are supporting you, or you live on student loans given to you by people who expect that you will get a job and pay you back with interest. If there's a hypothetical machine that can do your job, then you won't get one, and there's no reason other than charity for anyone to give you money.

Until now, if a machine took a job, that just meant that another worker was available for another job that a machine couldn't do. Machines are pretty dumb, so that's not hard to find. A kid with Down's syndrome can sweep the floor at Taco Bell, but a machine can't. That changes with the singularity.
Also consider sending it certified or with delivery confirmation and/or return receipt. But keep in mind that the level of interest you display in your attempts to get in touch may also increase their asking price of the domain.
True ... but why draw lines at the semi-artificial boundaries of countries? Can you properly refer to e.g. the US as "an economy" or "part of the world's economy"?

You're also, I think, focusing too much on the labor input into manufacturing and farming. We're doing very well in those sectors, but not with a whole lot of labor.

In fact, fantastically decreasing the labor in farming was thought to be a good thing, and from the viewpoints of my parents, who were born in the early to mid '30s and who grew up on farms, I can assure that's largely true on the micro scale....
Landlords aren't charities. Their profit is based explicitly on the idea that buyers get a better deal than renters.
This isn't "seeing value". It's cheating the system by bending the rules.

Ford does this today with the Transit: they install a cheap back seat in Europe, ship the cars to the States, and convert them back to cargo in a garage next to the docks, all to save on import duties. That even creates some jobs in order to game the system, and the tax Ford is getting around is stupid to begin with, but no one in their right mind can call this productivity or value.
We could probably accomplish it as well, though I'd favor providing goods and services rather than money.

It would not cost a lot to provide millions of people with nutritious food, beds in a dormitory built in cheap locations and 1970-era health care.

We do live in a world where scarcity no longer applies to many goods. We just don't realize it because we compare ourselves to our neighbors rather than our ancestors.
It seems to slow down hugely after doing anything non-trivial (Chrome 5). It's not a hugely new idea, Oekaki boards have been around forever. Their execution is impressive though, throwing in a 'pro' version for free is something that throws a lot of people off, and paying for brushes is the real pay wall. I'd bet that combination builds a lot more fandom than the traditional approach.

As far as the registration wall, I don't think the application itself is the biggest part of this product. The integration with dA and the community in general is what makes this worthwhile. Best of luck to them.
Here's another drawing app (fd: it's mine) with no walls: http://draw.to

Certainly not for the same crowd as Muro (which is great, BTW) but maybe someone here will find it useful! It's just a place to share quick, ad-hoc drawings. Here's some examples:

http://draw.to/D1RIoJ7 http://draw.to/D1rYAK4 http://draw.to/D1bbQo6 http://draw.to/D1OKqoA
For part 2, we intend on showing how the CDN can cache dynamic content, not just static files. As a matter of fact, it's just one or two simple changes in Varnish VCL functions.

Regards
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We worked with John Carmack building out Quake Live a long time ago. It took them awhile to release their OSX port, and there was a lot of internal talk about how much game developers loathed the OSX development process because the drivers for the video cards were terrible. As a whole, there was just little focus put on OSX + gaming from Apple's perspective. I think it was short-sighted given how much games have driven adoption in the past.
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Scott Aaronson does not explicitly say the proof is wrong, but says

> 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. […] If P≠NP is proved, then to whatever extent theoretical computer science continues to exist at all, it will have a very different character.

and

> I can afford $200k, but not in the same way Bill Gates can afford $200k.
My co-founder is considerably older than me, but is effectively a silent partner giving me free-reign on the project while providing the cash to get it moving. He does have some experience in accounting and big-business though, so he has some useful skills, but will mostly be staying out of the way.

If he had come to me with an idea, I would have been much more sceptical about working with him as he has pretty much zero technical knowledge.
...the life expectancy of an indigenous Lakota indian man living in South Dakota receiving free unlimited federal health care is now 44 years.

Maybe the conclusion we should draw is that medical spending and health outcomes are mostly uncorrelated to each other.
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I'm impressed that they did their homework on that one :)
They can't build holodecks and replicators on the ground?
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P versus NP
What's wrong with asking? I generally flag things that are gratuitously inappropriate, and ignore those I don't like but think are appropriate.

Sometimes something seems inappropriate but popular, and I think I understand why. I flag it and carry on. But once in a while there's a post that I think is inappropriate but I don't understand why. So I ask.

That being said, I do get why using the question as a passive-aggressive way of saying "Not HN" is tiresome and also a violation of the guidelines. No judgment on this specific question, just a general comment...
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I know that nuclear fuel must be a precious resource, and to see that we wasted so much of it during those years is unsettling. We could have set that fuel aside to power civilization for centuries. Might we be able to recover any valuable radioactive material from the test sites? Since most of the warheads were detonated at just a few sites, there might be high concentrations.
How about this? The biological pressure is to have sex, and only indirectly to have children. The only direct pressure to have children (as such) is social (people asking about grandchildren, cultural values, tax rates, etc.). I'm not sure if I believe this, but I do want to distinguish the target of the biological drive versus the social pushing.

On the other side, why do you think there is more social pressure not to have children? As a (childless) married male in his 40s, I can say I've experienced a ton of social pressure to have children and zero pressure not to. I grant that this is anecdotal, but I'm not sure what you're basing your statement on - no evidence comes to mind.
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I still don't get it. I asked on his blog.
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I agree with getting rid of the trade barriers, but dodging them is not a solution and leads to a society where avoiding "inconvenient" laws is seen as the norm. This is very much a slippery slope - and is one of the things I feel is problematic with modern Italy. Berlusconi has been on trial for attempting to corrupt judges, but many people seem not to care - who hasn't tried to skirt around the law, anyway?
Thanks for the advice! I went through TheStreet.com's IPO prospectus and they pointed to the number of online brokerage accounts as proof of the growing number of individual investors. A real gem.

As a result, we're going to use the current number of U.S. online brokerage accounts as a measure of our total potential market.

The only difficulty we have now is cutting that down to our particular segment of the market. We focus on value investors. I haven't been able to find any statistics on value investors but perhaps the number of people googling various value investment related keywords could provide legitimate evidence. Any other ideas?

Thanks again!
I would bet a large % of those 20M are passive traders, I suspect the author of this thread is looking for active traders?
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Great idea! We're going to do this once we have a working demo. Thanks!
Can't say that I've ever seen an amputee with a peg let. But many of them would wear the other shoe on their prosthesis.
I was not talking about the membership numbers. The Economist recently ran some quotes contrasting a Swedish union boss with nominally centre-right Sarkozy.

Anyway, just retract my claim about Sweden. I don't know nearly enough about it.

But I know that in Germany unions are in general quite business friendly, and not nearly as inflexible and insisting on entitlement as, say, the UAW was portrayed in what I read.
I gave it fifteen minutes and bailed.
Definitely going to give this a try to further delve into potential market share numbers. Thanks!
The left shoes were only valuable as an instrument for fraud. I'd argue that really isn't value at all, because fraud is theft, not profit. In fact, the left shoes (and the right ones) likely became a liability to the friend's father as he'd have probably been blacklisted from ordering from that supplier again.
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To borrow an argument from vhemt.org, the biological pressure is to have sex, not to have babies:

http://vhemt.org/biobreed.htm#instinct

As for the second sentence, I would not be surprised if the social pressure works in different ways in different places. I am in Norway where social pressure is high: the state sponsors it, would-be grandparents will of course nag, and it seems harder to be recognized as a complete person in the media and by peers if you do not have a family.
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you might need to expand your keyword set here. not all average people are searching online trading, maybe "stock trading" or "stock trade" etc.
A simple way to quickly compare buying vs renting for entire areas is the "rent ratio", which is calculated by dividing an area's median house price by its annual rent. Obviously it just paints a geographical picture and each property should be evaluated individually before making any sort of specific buy vs. rent decision. We turned the rent ratios for the US into a heat map a few years ago (but keep it up to date): http://hotpads.com/search/rent-ratio-heat-maps
I upvoted him b/c he was in Goonfleet. :o)

Flying with the Goons was always an adventure.
I recommend not being a jerk about it. Endangering their registrations is not going to put you in a good bargaining position. The registrar is happily being paid for these domains, and just because an address bounces for you doesn't mean it bounces for everyone (unless it's an unknown user). In any case, these issues are easily resolved in the registrant's favor, and they're not going to be in a good mood if you spoil their day. If you can't get a reply, pick another name and move on.

Also keep in mind that not all domains are used for the World Wide Web. I regularly get inquiries about domains I own because "they aren't being used" when, actually, they are critical to my infrastructure and just don't have any web sites associated with them.
tl;dr: there are no spam filters at (some?) SMS providers, and (apparently) no incentives and no mechanisms for SMS providers to filter unwanted traffic. For spamming or harassment or whatever the sender might want, based on the OP.

The poster will want to chat with the regulatory entities that have oversight of the SMS provider and over consumers. Given the reference to the (US?) DNC, that discussion would involve the US FCC, as well as the state-level commissions.
I laughed reading this because I read all the dashes and pauses as William Shatner explaining privacy. Reread it in that frame, and you'll love it!

I do think you're wrong though. Rights have limits, even rights we can all pretty much agree aren't be violated regularly. When it's necessary to violate someone's rights, we normally have strict procedures in place for doing so, and legal remedies in case someone oversteps.

I think the issue with privacy is that the exceptions are too many, and the remedies too weak.
Sorry for nitpicking, but it's not Google Talk, it's XMPP (aka Jabber). Google Talk is just one of the many interconnected and interoperable XMPP services, but there are many others as well: http://xmpp.org/services/
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Also, not sure how Italy could claim taxes on the profit of an UK entity.

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I'm pretty sure it does, it is written very clearly in a law (the infamous "esterovestizione" one).