skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 9 is just plain wrong. Operator precedence is not a scientific thing, that's a grade school thing.
I spent half an hour composing meaningful description of insignificance of the work (without judging if it is indeed a result, attacked "uniqueness" is more of a technicality than anything much of a big deal) only to find out author also published stabs at some other Clay problems: http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4935 (PNP), http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2361 (RH)… at which point I have nothing more to say.

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Finnish retailers are also converting en masse to refrigeration units which have a cover/door. It is a big investment to convert, but it also saves about 35% of the energy.

All new installs are of course with the doors.
i'm not sure what you mean by discrete.

SO(3) (the group of rotations) is not discrete in any sense i can think of.

some groups have a discrete topology, but not all by any means... are you referring to cayley's theorem?
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(1 + 2) * 3
You've just changed the precedence.
The DDT angle is fantastic news. Bird eggshells trump African kids, but I am pretty sure Upper East side embarrassment trumps eggshells. Quick, someone introduce them to a safe, nonpolluting chemical solution to the bedbugs problem.
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Grass roof... they have a slightly bigger one at Ford Rouge River:

"The roof of the 1.1 million square foot (100,000 m²) Dearborn truck assembly plant was covered with more than 10 acres (40,000 m²) of sedum, a low-growing groundcover. The sedum retains and cleanses rainwater and moderates the internal temperature of the building, saving energy. The roof is part of an $18 million rainwater treatment system designed to clean 20 billion gallons (76,000,000 m³) of rainwater annually, sparing Ford from a $50 million mechanical treatment facility."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0G6zNStTE
In the case of sealed warrants there doesn't have to be any evidence for it to be true though. And if I were Julian Assange I wouldn't put America very high on my places to holiday list. Why take the risk if you don't have to?

Possible crimes he could be charged with?

No idea but I'm sure that the word 'interstate wirefraud' will pop up in there somewhere ;)
Thing is.. very few people go into random restaurants and login (and I mean, login, in which you type in your password) to sites like Hacker News or Slashdot every day. The chance of you opening a public AP in a crowded place and getting back a Hacker News password is slim to none - I'm not saying it's safe though.

Foursquare passwords, on the other hand, is something you can very easily intercept in the open - due to the way it's used, and that it sends your passwords out every time you open it without you typing anything - that's already unusual. There're surely a lot more poorly secured sites and mobile apps, but something like Foursquare's authentication scheme is a big problem for its users.
Diatomaceous earth (DE) does the job.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diatomaceous_...
So first, the equations seems to be mostly used to approximate and model a lot of stuff. Very precise, I know.

Second, here's wikipedia take on the Millenium problem: Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of practical uses, mathematicians have not yet proven that in three dimensions solutions always exist (existence), or that if they do exist, then they do not contain any singularity (smoothness). These are called the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problems. The Clay Mathematics Institute has called this one of the seven most important open problems in mathematics and has offered a US$1,000,000 prize for a solution or a counter-example.

Does the article directly relate to the Millenium Prize problems? I can't conclude anything but it seems like just a small part of the whole. It think people are excited because there was a lot of talk about the possible solution to the P equals or not NP problem.

Maths at those levels are esoteric to most people and as such, presenting papers like that is pretty useless in mainstream media. If one could find a good analysis of the conclusions and possibilities, it might be a lot more useful.
What precisely is so inflammatory about it?
Thanks, I know. I meant that most non-scientific calculators I used worked this way.
In addition I'd just say read up on Latin American history in general. Slavers and missionaries worked all over the continent for centuries. It's hard to imagine that any society survived unchanged in that environment, especially as new societies were built up.

And when I say guerrilla army I'm being more figurative than literal. It seems fairly obvious there wasn't a serious power structure in place outside of the Andes, but I think that it's definitely true that the cultures we see today do not look much at all like the pre-colonial Amazonian culture.
Doesn't seem like diatomaceous earth would help much with bedbugs.

DDT actually wasn't all that bad. The problem was that it was way way way overused (back in the fifties they were literally pouring thousands of gallons into lakes and rivers because they thought it would be a good idea to get rid of the mosquitos).
Your using the word deflation wrong here. It trips many people up.

Inflation is when the money supply grows, deflation when it shrinks. The person your responding to is correct to point out out money supply is being inflated, and inflation has been increasing in rate.

This may well lead to economic troubles which will cause some businesses to lower prices out of desperation.

You can call that price deflation if you want.

But don't forget the qualifier and then claim the other guy is wrong when you equate one economic phenomena with another by misunderstanding the terms.

I know you probably haven't heard about this, most mainstream economics talk is acutallu political talk that tries to pretend inflation is measured in price (an effect of, not the cause of inflate.)

For instance it is correct to say inflation was one of the causes of the great depression which resulted in price deflation. Also a major effect there was the real deflation of the criminalization of gold that literally made the us currency illegal eliminating much if the money supply -- while inflating paper money.
That doesn't make them less broken!

And if the software has the capability to do it right why bother building in a 'broken' mode.
My impression is that they simply have a free-er hand, and the absence of external restraint doesn't always lead to better work.
I've LaTeX-ed the screenshot for your perusal: http://imgur.com/HlcWm.png

(Probably some typos. Feel free to fix: http://pastebin.ca/1922336)
I would actually object to describing Clojure's multimethods as being multimethods, especially in the CLOS sense of the term. Clojure's multimethods are more like a clumsy, dynamic version of functional pattern matching, with a classification predicate applied to the arguments to select the target method. In this sense, it's the programmer - the supplier of the dispatching function - who has the job of doing the dispatching. This trickiness of this dispatching is probably the motivation behind the CLOS language feature, but Clojure foists it on the developer.

What would more normally be described as multimethods is the dynamic equivalent of a static language's implementation of overload resolution. Overload resolution has subtle semantics in languages that support it, and is surprisingly difficult to get right, as it has competing design forces: the flagging of ambiguity, versus inferring what the user - the customer - wants.

There are two steps in both overload resolution and multimethod dispatch: discovery of the set of applicable methods, and then the sorting of those methods by how specific they are to the argument types. Every parameter type in the winning method needs to be as specific, or more specific, for that argument type, than every other method's parameter type. The single most specific method, if any, is chosen. (The OO case of inheritance is just a special case of specificity.)

There may be no applicable methods, in which case it's a simple error. But the case of ambiguity is fraught with difficulties, because users generally prefer their code to do what they mean, and inferring that from what they say - the methods they declare - can be difficult. Suppose your language supports implicit conversions of values to supertypes, or to supported interfaces. Overload resolution forces you to specify a priority here - which method to prefer in the case where the relevant parameter type is alternately one or the other - or to produce an error - i.e. telling the customer that they're wrong. Bring other language features, like user-defined conversions, variant types, untyped parameters, multiple inheritance, etc., and you can can quickly find yourself in a mess.
Arrgh. Scott sometimes mistakes his ignorance for wit. He could've outfitted his home with heat-pipe solar thermal collectors, like the Thermomax ones. These things work well, even in the winter, even in cloudy, chilly old England, where they were designed. I suspect they'd do a pretty bang-up job in California. Connecting those up to the hot water heating the floors would've taken a big chunk out of his carbon footprint, even if he couldn't heat his home completely with them. They're worth it just for the hot-water preheat.

http://www.thermomax.com/
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I think some of this just really magnifies how powerful game mechanics and the need to "win" can be for some people. I think any type of game built into a system really needs to be designed carefully and with an eye to the consequences as well as the rewards. When your business is to motivate people you have to be careful not to do it too well I suppose.
Of course because the more the dollar is devalued via inflation, the hugger stock prices will go even though they aren't actually appreciating in value.
Good advice, and while I see people repeating common myths in this thread, I should just be happy that they are there to take the other side of my positions.
The indicator that gold, etc is not overpriced is that in 2008 when everyone panicked, gold went down cause they sold it.

When everyone panics, and gold goes up, that will be the beginning of the bull market in gold.
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There is certainly a lot more in the post, and I encourage everyone to read it.

My point was that you don't need to do as much to get results. Also, I'd been doing this since last fall IIRC. Those at foursquare didn't catch it or don't care.

I also think there are some interesting things cheating bring out in any open platform. Either foursquare enforces rules about checking in with data they validate, or they allow input from an API by third parties. They can't really prevent cheating and keep the platform open. I can certainly get around any filters put in place to detect these things.
Clojure actually does support (multiple, open) type hierarchies (with preferences) for dispatching on type. This example just doesn't use them. Lots more info here: http://clojure.org/multimethods

Another solution is provided in Clojure 1.2's protocols which are similar but different: http://clojure.org/protocols
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RIM is buying QNX. Probably smarter to build a new kick-ass platform based on QNX than switch to a platform that just got hit with a major lawsuit.
It is easy to beat the market and invest well because most of thevworld is operating from a position of ignorance. You don't need secret or insider knowledge, you just need to know what you know, and know what you don't know. Buffett calls his a circle of competence. I studied investing, did ok, studied economics and then discovered that the world is full of ignorant or misinformed people who cling to their misinformation. Example- look at everyone bashing gold.

The conventional wisdom is you need someone to manage your money for you because you can't beat the market, and because that is such a common belief, I find it easy to beater the market.
Yup, to any non-Indians who want to understand the sentiment, it's like finding a brand with the name:

'The National Socialist Final Solution Coffee Company'.

What the hell is the guy thinking?
I would absolutely worry, but I hope I'd be able to let it happen.

This is a nice, semi-controlled experience that's probably good for everyone. Should the parent and child become separated, for example, I'd imagine that the knowledge each has--that arriving independently at a safe destination is routine--is serious peace of mind factor.

This is similar to the fire safety plans a lot of us did as kids. Didn't anyone else crawl out the window and down the fire escape and meet our parents a few blocks away, despite the building not actually burning, just to be prepared?
Can someone explain this to me please...

messages = [None, "Fizz", "Buzz", "FizzBuzz"]
acc = 810092048
for i in xrange(1, 101):
c = acc & 3
print messages[c] if c else i
acc = acc >> 2 | c << 28
I think it's because non-mathematical people tend to use calculators in the 'broken' way. Their thought process is "ok, 1+2" (implicit equals) "times 3".
Hey, thanks! :) Best of luck with Marrily, it looks quite nice. Go you for creating a product you can charge for!
If Google Trends and the Adwords Keyword tool don't work for you, I have a kludgey suggestion: auto-suggest. For example, I typed into Google:

final cut pro how to ...

And I got:

cut, capture, edit, render, fade audio, separate audio and video, etc.

You can only get ten at a time, but you try lots of other combinations to get a healthy list. Obviously this won't work for the long tail and isn't a very analytical approach, but sometime it helps me find something new to look into in more detail.
And if you spend your weekends playing games with this instead of going out and buying drinks, you've got your money back in record time.
It looks like the author is attacking statement C from the official problem description (http://www.claymath.org/millennium/Navier-Stokes_Equations/n...). That statement asks for "a smooth, divergence-free vector ﬁeld u0 (x) on R3 and a smooth
f(x, t) on R3 x [0, ∞), satisfying [some physical-reasonableness conditions] for which there exist no solutions (p, u) of the [the Navier-Stokes equation, a physical reasonableness condition, and a sort of sanity condition]." In essence, you're finding a counterexample for uniqueness.

The author claims to have found exactly such a combination of initial-value field u0(x) and force function f(x), solving the millenium problem. I can't really judge his claim yet, as I haven't read the whole paper (and I'm probably not qualified to say even once I have), but slackenemy presents some good reasons to be rather dubious elsewhere in the thread. Also, applying Scott Aaronson's "Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong" (http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458) isn't pretty.
That's got to be one of the most gracious responses ever.
Yes, and to go into a business like that, and shape it in such a way that you have to work it like that, is a choice - ergo a social construct. An accidental, not platonic, trait of startups.
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Ask HN: How to start programming?
How do I start programming, without any real knowledge about it. I have a great infrastructure background, managing servers and networks. But I don't know how to code.

Can anyone help me? Indicate a book or a web-site. Regards!
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I don't get it Max...

Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1619384 you berate YC for just investing in 'features' and in this thread you berate a bunch of guys that are starting a bank.
This book has good reviews, and its also online for free

http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
Well, that's the case for their regular website too! No SSL at all (http://foursquare.com/login).
I disagree. I don't know very many Indian programmers who consider themselves "exploited" by firms such as Infosys, Wipro etc. In fact, quite the opposite. Most Indian programmers that are worth a dime are sitting on multiple job offers at any given time.
A similar case is typing in your email password by mistake when (trying to) log in to a site where your email address is your username.
His style tends to be hyperbolic but he does have interesting things to say. For example how he can't predict the (financial) future with respect to what will happen or when, but he can predict to whom it will happen to.

He makes some reasonable points on debt and leverage. He didn't seem vague to me - reduce debt, prefer equity over debt, build robustness by spare parts or by functional redundancy. That all seems pretty reasonable, specific and not really a view that's advocated by the main stream financial press.
You've just described Boxee.
No sympathy there, unfortunately. IPython started in 2005 and was very usable shortly after. Actually, it was more usable then, than Devel::REPL is now. Devel::REPL is now 3 years old (released first cpan version, 1.0 in 2007) and I really can't defend it. It's just not on the same level yet. Even Zoidberg is better in some ways, but it didn't provide nice enough access to Perl syntax the last time I tried it.
How about accepting the apparent fact that we are completely alone, instead of trying to satiate our immense egos with fantasies about why someone else would possibly want to ignore something so important as the human race?
How is this any more "Big Brother" than hiring people with clipboards to count footfall?
You're competely correct. It became an open joke at facebook about my cheating - it wouldn't make s sense to keep it a secret. It was also in line with some past shenanigans there: there are some really, really amazing scores in Bejeweled Blitz & Rockband.
Eh, lowering taxes puts money in the pocket of everybody who makes any money, and you're primarily taking less money from already existing income. Chile's looking to create new high tech startups. Entirely different problems.
I know about that. I just wanted to pry further and see if anyone on here knew some other ideas. Thanks though.

One thing I like to do is type a topic and then run the entire alphabet as the first letter for the next phrase and let google fill in the blank.

Pro Tools A

Pro Tools B

Pro Tools C

Etc.
There's a problem with Apple using the iTV name: there is a television network in the UK called ITV which would take (surely justified) legal action:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7947882/ITV-woul...
I wish this was the case -- but it will take a while for this to become true. Primarily because the big cable dinosaurs, like Comcast, aren't dumb and have seen the writing on the wall for a while. That's why Comcast is buying up content -- like NBC.

They know that without content, nobody will buy iTVs -- just like how Apple needed to get MP3s to the masses to sell iPods. They've watched as Apple has become the only big player for digital music and they're afraid of handing the reigns of the video industry over to Apple. For Apple to sell iTVs, they'll need to figure out where the content comes from. (No, mom won't bittorrent.)

If I was Apple -- I would get the content providers to the table by threatening to make iTV a TiVo-style box. In other words, bring your paid content to the table, or I'm going to help kill your industry with the best commercial-skipping set top box on the market.

He's exactly right about gaming though -- I would be worried if I were Nintendo.
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html

That's what works for me. It's not at all involved, just concentrate on breathing. When the mind wanders, just pause & (non-judgmentally) go back to observing the breath.

Of course YMMV, but I find half an hour a day is enough.
What?

It seems like the worst result of the many nutty conspiracy theories out there is a kind of duality.

Either you believe the nuts or you believe that officials would never collude or bend the rules to suit their purposes.

Balderdash. Officials have always been quicker to pin blame on those they dislike than on, say, those who they are in the same social clubs with. It's, uh, human nature. Likes like, dislikes get blamed for more than their share. You don't need big conspiracy theories for this. The rule of law aims to avoid this stuff but it's never absolute, always relative.

Of course, with US division of wealth getting more and more skewed, the division between officials and average people are bigger, each group becomes more quick to ascribe problems to a conspiracy...
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And that’s special? Jesus. I was walking to elementary school starting in first grade (half a mile) and biking to my next school right from the beginning (fifth grade, a bit more than a mile) and I was taking the bus when the weather was too bad for me to take the bike (which includes walking half a mile to the nearest bus station). That’s nothing special in Germany. Everyone does it.
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That's meeeee~ But to be fair, it's not a "seemingly" direct connection, it's an actual direct connection.

In a company with no sales or marketing or support staff, who do you think answers support emails?
He is right many companies are switching to a bring-your-own-smartphone policies. We haven't issued a Blackberry in quite some time and stuff like IMAP and OWA make it easy to make just about any cleverphone functional.

The issue is dominance. Once a new player enters the segment, it's a question of time until it fragments. Blackberry enjoyed a dominant position for a long time but being the #1 corporate-issue phone is not important in a world where more and more people bring their own phones into their jobs.
I started getting into Vipassana meditation after proofreading an intro book on the subject called "Happy to Burn" (https://www.fifobooks.com/Catalog?bkid=6b430c42-5bf7-4e0d-a5...) for my startup.
Ask HN: Transition to working at a VC firm - worth it?
I'm a product manager quite involved with the Bay Area startup community, and have been recently approached by a recruiter from a VC firm regarding an opening for a senior associate.

Has anyone from the Hacker News community made a transition to a VC firm? I'd be really interested in getting feedback on what it's really like being an associate, if you miss working directly on a product, etc.
"It's not at all involved, just concentrate on breathing. When the mind wanders, just pause & (non-judgmentally) go back to observing the breath."

That's the same method "Happy to Burn" describes, but I still find it a case of "easier said than done", and difficult to do.
The difference is that NeXT acquired Apple (for a negative amount of money, that is) and provided them with an OS they could control. Apple adopting an OS Microsoft controlled was a Really Stupid Idea, much like Blackberry adopting an OS Google controls is now. The only meaningful difference is that Google is not a direct competitor while Microsoft was (in association with every PC maker)
Yeah -- you can also get tools to help you do this automatically, like http://www.keywordninja.com/

Also, if your space isn't time sensitive, I would suggest rounding up a copy of the search data AOL released a few years back. You can get a copy via torrent. Then you can run the data in any way you see fit.
good point. I forgot it was Holland.
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