skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 32-bit stable versions have the same behaviour, and the MongoDB guys on IRC did admit that data corruption is not a very elegant way to handle it.
Ok, that sounds like a sensible summary of the positions.

If I understand you correctly a god algorithm is allowed to produce the required result using whatever strategy, including partial brute forcing/searching, backtracking in order to arrive at its solution as long as it does so in a reasonable time, so is not 'brute force' per se.

The reason why that didn't sit right with me (I accept your wikipedia quote as what construes a god algorithm) is that for me the 'god' algorithm would imply there is no better one, since with omniscience you don't need to make any false moves and I could not imagine a true god algorithm would be allowed to make false moves.

But I guess I was wrong there.

Thanks for digging that up!
I'm confused, are you talking about me or MongoDB? If you're talking about me, I don't think I made a mistake, and if you're talking about MongoDB, the guys on IRC were very civil about it and did say that silently corrupting data was the wrong way to go about it.

It's these apologists who are giving MongoDB a bad name, really, because the guys on IRC were nothing but helpful about it.
I believe HCFS = High Fructose Corn Syrup. It's something I avoid as well. It is in most sodas. This is part of why I drink diet coke, even though the artificial sweeteners in it have apparently been linked to brain cancer (or so I've heard). I figure I have to live that long for it to be a problem but HCFS makes me feel like crap in the here and now. (I have heard that, at least during some parts of the year, you can get "kosher" sodas made with real cane sugar and that some niche brands of sodas are available in some limited markets with real cane sugar. But I haven't tripped across any myself.)
My wife is Chinese & one thing I noticed is that I have never felt better than when I stayed for extended periods in China. They take that hot/cold stuff seriously & based on anecdotal evidence I think I'm living a healthier lifestyle & eating better when I'm in China.

Also, Chinese traditional medicine healed an ailment for me that stumped the best (european) specialists, even though I had absolutely no faith in that nasty chinese medecine.

One of the things that may make a difference is that more traditional cultures take food more seriously. We tend to think about food as either a trendy thing to do, like eating out, or just 'filling up on calories', like junk food. A healthy middle ground where people actually take the time to cook & enjoy fresh food seems to be lost.
I don't want to spam all my twitter followers with a link to your website just so you can confirm that a twitter account belongs to me. Isn't there a better way of performing the confirmation?
> The reason American things cost more is they can't just grab a scientist or engineer and say, "Build this for us, or else..."

Russia is getting more and more democratic every day.

Soviet engineers are no longer afraid, because they either on tiny pension (those who haven't died), and after USSR decay nobody quite cared about new generation of engineers.

The military budget is second largest in the world
(all things considered) but the amount of new weapons
army gets is diminishing.

How is F-22 (360 mil $ per aircraft) going?
Enemy missile silos and other hardened sites would all receive ground bursts - in the case of the Soviets they had (and Russia may still have) multiple extremely large warheads (25Mt) targeted at places like Cheyenne Mountain and Raven Rock Mountain - these would have been ground bursts and incredibly messy.
It seems to me that an LtD is probably the best option because it's cheap, simple, widely known and used, London's easy to get to should you ever need to do anything in person, and of course it's all in English, which is likely a bit more universal than German or Estonian or something like that.
Shut up and ship
You can put the link in your twitter profile instead, or delete the tweet after. I'll make that clearer
Pavlovsk seed bank faces destruction
>>Don't get me wrong, I'm about as anti-war and anti-violence as it gets.

Yes... military -- boring, military tech -- double plus cool. :-)

>>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.

I didn't live there, but those in the Eastern block knew what would happen if they stood up (e.g. Hungary, Czechoslovakia).

When it became clear there wouldn't be Soviet divisions rolling over the border if they stood up, then they threw out their Soviet puppet regimes in months.

Edit: OK, sorry for missing the point.
While I agree with the premise and have often tried to discuss the need to look at the distribution of leisure that the technological revolution has brought upon us, the comparison to the horse is apt because :

> Best case: IT department spends $50,000 cleaning up; worst case: customer lists, customer credit cards, and other private data are compromised, costing millions of dollars.

Those millions of dollars are after the damn thing bolted and it's your own negligent fault for not doing a risk assessment and cutting corners on your IT system. As a no-doubt highly paid suit it's your responsibility to think of these things before they happen. It's not like it never happened to anyone else before.
Love the speed that you work at, getting out this MVP in what was it 14 hours or something? plus it looks great too. This is what I always struggle with, I can get a MVP out quick but it will look rough.
Reversibility is dependent on the type and extent of the damage. If the damage is isolated to the muscle, then it probably is reversible to a certain extent. First, the muscles in spasm (constant state of tension) need to be massaged back to pliability, then you need to focus on stretching the muscles so they can better manage repetitive stress, and once the muscle is relatively healthy again you can begin strengthening it to withstand added tension and pressure and to heal itself better. As programmers, we're constantly abusing our arm muscles, and they will wear down over time. The trick is to minimize the abuse, and maximize your ability to regenerate, and hopefully you can get to a state where you heal more at night than you damage in the day.

Now, prolonged stress and inflammation (and certain physical abnormalities) can cause damage to the nerves themselves and nerves suck at healing. If you start having problems with sensation (feeling cold or numb), that's the result of nerves under attack. Prolonged attack equals irreversible damage.

As far as your notation about collagen gluing muscles, that sounds about right to me, and is sort of part of what I was saying earlier. Also, collagen is largely made up of water, and this is why it is so critical to keep yourself hydrated.

Also, muscles locked in static positions (I assume as a result of spasm) can begin to act as a single unit rather than individual muscles. When this happens, your body can actually try to sort of "heal them together" and the muscles can literally begin to bind to each other. Massage, particularly deep tissue massage, can help to break these bands apart so your muscles become independent again.

That's my understanding, anyway. I'm definitely no expert in this, and my knowledge largely comes from online research, and the book "It's Not Carpal Tunnel."
That's standing up on a slightly larger scale than I meant, I specifically meant when the local 'zomos' or whatever they were called in the country of choice were using informants to rat on their fellow men instead of forming a solid block.

There always seem to be people willing to collaborate in return for favors.

Revolution is a different matter.
Among other things, I learned that:

the powerful type system eliminates a large class of bugs the compiler eliminates the long name spaces (and the corresponding run-time look ups)
getters/setters actually lead to better compression
you can split the client side code in multiple, independently loaded modules
the pseudoclassical pattern used for OOP is actually better than the functional pattern (when combined with the Closure compiler)
you can easily extend the Compiler with extra features...

These sound very interesting - it'd be good to have an explanation of these points.
And that's not a mere pen or pencil we're talking about, and it's not a fable.

Well, we were talking about the Typhoons. A piece of megalomaniac, cripplingly expensive technology that mostly rusts in scrapyards. Also not a fable.
Happened to my father & it was the most agonizing experience I have seen him go through. Kidney stones cripple you with pain, you can't sit, you can't lie down. It rips basic comfort out of your life for weeks on end.
Any Webroot users? What do you think of their Internet Security Essentials 2011?
>>Russia is getting more and more democratic every day.

It is?

Wonderful! From the outside I had the impression it was going backwards with political control over media, etc.

(Not ironic, this is really good news for the world. I'd still like some links...)
Ask HN: What to do if a domain registrant is uncontactable
Long story (vaguely) short, there's a domain I'd like to buy that's currently not being used and hasn't been used properly pretty much since it was registered (based on the Wayback Machine at archive.org).

I already have a hyphenated variant, but would like the non-hyphenated version too, for a slightly better user experience.

I'm happy to make an offer to buy the domain from the current owner.

The whois gives me contact details for them, but the email address bounces, the registered company doesn't appear to exist (at least, any more), and the phone number goes to a voicemail message that sounds like a pocketdial.

Short of driving up there (about 100 miles) and knocking their front door, I'm wondering what else I can do.

The domain was renewed earlier this year (and is one of 70 or so others, I gather), so I'm guessing it's someone who bought and didn't use it, or who is deliberately keeping it to sell on, but if no one can contact them, that's a bit of a problem...

Any suggestions, beyond me getting in the car?
>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

I'm pretty sure double-taxation treaties exist within UK and Italy given they are in the EU. Also, not sure how Italy could claim taxes on the profit of an UK entity.

Dividends are another matter entirely and depend on the residence of the person so dividend taxes will probably be paid in Italy directly.
Didn't the BBC recently report about a study which concluded that obtuse sitting angles were actually better for your back than right angles? (As always, acute angles suck) If that's true, then his 120 degree sitting position might not be horrible after all.

That said, if he's in essentially a lying position all day, there could be other issues (like loss of muscle definition) at play.
Considering the fact I've seen this attack first hand. I can tell you a couple of things about it's strength.
It's very flexible one minute they are sending packet size 1500 bytes udp, the other they are sending 48 bytes syn tcp 80. However, filtering them with a Firewall is not hard at all since they do have packet patterns you can detect, but even if you can find a firewall and have it on the edge of your network traffic is STILL reaching your network and if you can handle 50Gbps of traffic all coming from a couple of different ASn than "wow".
Modern (fission-)fusion bombs are cleaner and more efficient than old fission bombs.

Low efficiency means that the nuclear reaction doesn't end with the explosion. The remaining heavy nucleus decay at their normal rate and radiate.

The biggest one, Tsar Bomba was luckily very efficient.

"It has been estimated that detonating the original 100 Mt design would have released fallout amounting to about 25 percent of all fallout emitted since the invention of nuclear weapons."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Would be good to import SO points, and then be able to run a search on say HN points and SO points. Perhaps Twitter stats too.
Uh, there's still Colloquy (http://colloquy.mobi), a port of the most-popular Mac client to iPhone. So it's not like Apple has banned IRC in general.
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For players in Europe, the value of those 74 PLEXes were higher: we actually have to pay €14.95 per month, while the americans pay $14.95.
>And that company can base itself anywhere in Europe. One of the advantages of the Single Market.

Yeah right. Depending on the fiscal code of the other country the company might need to register and even pay taxes there. The Single Market is more about free movement of good / services not about free movement of corporate headquarters with no legal/fiscal impact.
OK, where's the "fraud", or are you just harrumphing at having missed the point of the article?
I'm in the same boat & would absolutely love some good arguments to help me claim my fair share.
jacquesm,

Not a single provider in the world can handle this kind of attack peacefully without service interruption except China Telecom and China Union.

Your calculations can't be more off about 50K bots, our counts showed more than 100K we couldn't count after that due to limitation in software.

My business has been dealing with DDOS attacks since 2002 we pretty much saw the brunt of every kind of new attack that came online. The only thing that can be compared with magnitude to this is the DNS Amplification attack, but that was limited in it's impact considering the source of the attack was diverse not from one geo area.
Contact the registrar. If they cannot get the details of the registrant then they will be the ones most likely to advise you further.

If its been recently paid for the the registrar has bank or credit details in the registrant at the very least.
Ethics, data and visualization
"can" is conditional, so the two statements do not contradict. They can solve random positions optimally at 0.36 positions per second. But their goal was to lower the upper bound on God's number to 20, not to find all the optimal solutions. So what they did do, for all starting positions, was find good solutions, which they can solve at a rate of 3,900 positions per second.
Cool. Putting it in the web field in my Twitter profile temporarily, worked.
Check his comment to a poster that asked the same thing (why would P != NP change anything):

P≠NP is exactly the ‘expected’ answer! But proving that
expected answer has been the central goal of the field
for 40 years—not so much (in my opinion) because the
answer itself is in serious doubt, as because of how much
will need to be learned about computation on the way to
the proof. If P≠NP is proved, then to whatever extent
theoretical computer science continues to exist at all,
it will have a very different character.
Assuming P provably != NP, banks and online retailers win (certain forms of encryption even theoretically can't be broken in P time), NSA supercomputer contractors might lose (certain forms of encryption even theoretically can't be broken in P time). UPS and FedEx likely lose (traveling salesman problem is NP-complete). Any other business that hinges on solving hard problems might lose, though counterintuitively, some might win--firms that do a really good job at approximate solutions to NP problems (is ITA an example?) are extremely talented at doing something really hard, whereas if P = NP, it would be easier for any old firm to develop a perfect solution.

But considering the fact that we've all been operating under the assumption that P != NP, the losers don't lose much (if anything) and the winners don't win much (if anything). If P = NP was proven, it's possible but not guaranteed that bank robbers and whatever software firms can pivot fast enough to exploit P = NP get huge windfalls, internet retailers would be ruined, banks who didn't shut off their data links fast enough would be ruined, etc. This worst case scenario hinges on a proof that took the form of a proof by counterexample, which happened to neatly solve an NP-complete problem in efficient P time. In better case scenarios, where other proof forms were used or the P-time solution was a horrific factor like O(n^100,000), online retailers would still lose a little if only based on media hype about the discovery scaring grandmothers away.
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I do collect the SO reputation score so this is possible, lets see how many upvotes your post gets and if enough people agree I'll do it.
That's true.

The cripplingly expensive is very apt, in that sense they did more for the Russian people than they did against their intended targets, it is believed that this sort of prestige project hastened the downfall of the USSR considerably and set the conditions for a more democratic form of government.

So in a way maybe it was good that those megalomaniacs did their typhoon project, I'm not sure how much longer they would have been able to hold out otherwise but less seems to be better.

With the specter of the USSR gone as archenemy #1 it seems we have now been duped in to being afraid of terrorists and the spending in the west meanwhile continues unabated.

I wonder if we (as in here in Western Europe, though I'm currently writing this from Romania) will ever have a 'typhoon' project.
Send them a letter. You have an address, after all! 100 miles should get covered in under a week.

If you want to be obnoxious about it you can even have them sign for it.
Failing to pay the correct import taxes. Consider someone who reports importing used furniture vs antiques.
Thanks for the response. It seems a bit of a cheat to me, though, to compare the differences in the various linux distributions to the (claimed) cohesiveness of FreeBSD. Why not turn it around and compare the differences between FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD to just Debian?

Having used Debian (a whole lot) and Fedora (just a little), I've found that, although they have some large differences between them, each of them presents a cohesive system within itself. Despite the package sources coming from disparate places. I know for a fact that both distributions patch their (external) packages so that they fit into their respective guidelines (IE, no junk in /opt, config files in directories in /etc, etc.).

I've used OpenBSD in the past--even got the source code from CVS and compiled the whole thing up. I've seen how all the code is organized and it is nice. I definitely see how it's cohesive from the source code's point of view. But I don't see how that produces a more cohesive system from the user's point of view.
"Between 1949 and the cessation of atomic testing in 1989, 456 explosions were conducted at the STS, including 340 underground (borehole and tunnel) shots and 116 atmospheric (either air-drop or tower shots)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site

Semipalatinsk hosts three of Kazakhstan's four nuclear reactors. They also have one of the world's biggest uranium deposits.
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Degrees from the Open University (as mentioned in the article) are indeed recognised as equivalent. The OU has a Royal Charter and has the same level of quality assurance as any other UK university.

From its inception in the '60s until a few years ago, all their lectures were broadcast on late night and Saturday morning TV, so anyone could watch high quality education for free well before the Internet.
Congrats on meeting a girl who leaves IEEE laying about the house! Treat her well! ;-)
Heh - good point. Could well be time to fire up the printer!
A sidenote, but for people who are following the Vim 7.3 betas, 7.3e (which is meant to be the last beta - this is last call for problems) was out yesterday. I've been using 7.3 a little, and persistent undo (undo history between editing sessions) is very nice.

Announcement and how to get it: http://xrl.us/bhvizi
Yeah, true. I guess getting the registrar involved feels quite heavy handed, but if it comes to it, I agree they'd be the best place to fire off a query to
And you can get an explanation by reading the book mentioned in the article or by reading the documentation at http://code.google.com/closure/ .
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Separating your controller from your view
Books summaries, Part Three: Customer Development
Tao comments on it (very briefly) here:

http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/pnp-relativisation-...
But the $19.95 linodes have a 200GB/month limit - so you'd need at an absolute minimum of 4 to do 800GB/month, and given you won't have perfect geographical spread, about 6-8 is perhaps more realistic. So you'd be looking at least $120 for the VPS, plus the time/hassle of setting this up and managing/monitoring it.

So it's just as expensive, and there's no way the DIY model would be cheaper in terms of TCO.
FYI, the password reset email from hackernewsers to me was delayed because the mail server host IPv6 address [2002:c125:989e:b:219:66ff:fe07:22e7] doesn't have any reverse DNS set up. Should really have FCRDNS.
It's a shame that Firaxis haven't given commitment to Civ V on the Mac .. yet - http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/13/gdc-2010-civilization-v-proba...
But if you have a EU company in one state, another EU country is required to recognise that entity.

Sorry i'm not up to navigating the EU legislation search, but there was a recent decision in the German supreme court, which allowed that English Ltd companies could form part of a & Co KG, instead of a local GmBH. Rolls Royce and others promptly made use of that form. i.e. they had to be treated as local naturalized entities.

You still have to comply with local regs, normalize your branch status etc etc, but the principle is there.

Oh, i'm pretty sure some states will have a paper mountain waiting for you to fill in, but in theory you can register a GBP20 expense (filing fee) Ltd company and trade anywhere. You can also choose your tax domicile accordingly i believe. Not surprisingly this is where i always seek advice, even though once i could reel off the applicable law, statute and case, treaties and quirks. But even expensive advice is rarely that expensive. Certainly not compared with some EU state incorporation procedures which are plain expensive in terms of time.
Thanks for that link, it's amazing to me that they detonated that many nukes underground in that grid like pattern.
"""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 am reminded of the interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra on HN recently. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/8/96632-an-interview-with... :

"""The OS/360 monitor idea would have never occurred to a European?

No, we were too poor to consider it and we also decided that we should try to structure our designs in such a way that we could keep things under our intellectual control. This was a major difference between European and American attitudes about programming."""
I suppose it depends on how much effort we assume will be expended reading this data. If humanity bands together and exploits every available technology, it should be a piece of cake. If it's just our grandkids doing it for kicks, that may present a real challenge.

Regardless, I think it's likely that we will be better at reading 2010 media in 2060 than we are at reading 1960 media in 2010.