skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this mean that

1) There exist mathematics (systems of logic) for which there is no way to reach logically from what we know now to how this system works, it must be intuited

2) But does this mean that reality is embedded in one of these mathematics? This is not necessary as far as I can see, so this still leaves the door open for a theory of everything in the physical world (string theory or some such).

3) But it does seem to imply that no infinite system can be described by a finite system ( a restatement of Godel ). So we can't set up a computer program to run the universe - no real surprise there.

or are the implications bigger?

from http://plus.maths.org/issue37/features/omega/feat.pdf

"To put it bluntly, if the incompleteness phenomenon discovered by Gödel in 1931 is really serious and I
believe that Turing's work and my own work suggest that incompleteness is much more serious than people
think then perhaps mathematics should be pursued somewhat more in the spirit of experimental science rather
than always demanding proofs for everything. Maybe, rather than attempting to prove results such as the
celebrated Riemann hypothesis, mathematicians should accept that they may not be provable and simply
accept them as an axiom"

So, for example, if we have the axioms of set theory, then for any theorem, it may not be possible to prove this theorem from the axioms as a set of linear deductions, somewhere along the line we may find a new theorem that requires to be stated as axiomatic, i.e.

we have axioms A,B
we have theorems C,D,E provable from A,B
then we find F which seems to be true, but we can't prove F from A,B, F must be stated as an axiom, probably not that surprising really.

Again just because systems like this exist, doesn't mean we live in one.
No, before the modern advertising industry it was very cheap to start a newspaper so they were mostly owned by small businesses. The advertising model made it more expensive to run a newspaper which is why the news industry got taken over by wealthy families and then later corporations.
I suppose the article's author might have done something along those lines, but it's beyond what I know. You don't recognize any finished products that are intended to do just this?
Ta-da List on Rails 2.2, Passenger And EC2
Undocumented features from the HTML source:

try /XXXXX for a specific zip code
or /tomorrow for tomorrow's forecast
Digg called, they want their stories back.

(flagged)
Would be nice to switch between C and F. I'm in Atlanta, but I prefer to see temperature as degrees Celsius.
Supersonic? In reference to what? I smell a hyped up headline... The article doesn't seem to mention the reference but it seems likely they're assuming standard sea level Earth conditions for things like temperature\pressure\etc.
People still have a lot of respect for newspapers. For example, why are we allowed to talk about conspiracy theories on Hacker News when Roger Ebert writes about them in the paper, but not when they're on someone's blog?
That, and I think its going to snow here, not rain :P
The state of Quicksilver
Not quite, on Digg the title would be:

WTF - WORST Google ad EVAR!! [PIC]

…and you'd have hundreds of comments trying to be witty to get the most diggs, a few mimes, and absolutely no intellect. And it would have been on the front page of Reddit the day before.
It'd be an interesting story if it was focused on the fact that the ad slipped past Googles filters. But just insulting the ad without anything else? I'm with you on hn not being the right place for this.
I grew up in a metric place, in bay area now - But I can never get an instinctive feel for temperature unless its told to me in metric.
The ability to run osx86 has absolutely no corresponding effect on ones ability to code.
this is scary... does this mean that (given that technology) the rich and powerful will control the laws and essentially reap the benefits in uncontrolled ways?
Write a Python interpreter. :)
Not allowed. :(
Use of the term "the singularity", particularly your use here sets my teeth on edge. It's not about technology, it is about our models.

The North Pole is a singularity - coordinates converge there to become a single point (singular). They only do this because we chose a coordinate system that makes this happen. It is silly to talk about how you coils go there and then not be able to go any further north, as if that means it is the edge of the world.

Likewise "the singularity" is not a magical threshold of AI and immortality or transhumanism, it's where a given model of the future predicts nonsense because you have pushed it too far. Pick a different predictive model, get different results.

To claim, then, that the singularity may never happen is to claim either that change with feedback will stop, or a perfect model.

Better to claim that AI or genetically enhanced people, or neural prostheses, or smart matter, or superconductivity, or antigerones, or quantum computing, or virtual reality or whatever game changing technology won't happen - if that's what you mean.

(I for one think good PDA keyboards will never happen. :( hurry up Gunilla Alsio and senseboard, and that new t9 thing)
The design of LilyPond (music notation software)
Google SearchWiki Already Manipulated
Interesting. Nice find.
Just goes to show that it's not easy to match location to measurement standard: you would be wrong if you picked Imperial measurements for the UK, unless the person viewing the page is of a certain mindset and born before about 1975.

I was raised in the UK, and used celsius. Now I live in the US and have learned to use Fahrenheit.

On a related note, I was very annoyed that Yahoo Weather will allow you to either choose centigrade and kilometers per hour, or Fahrenheit and MPH, but not to mix and match. Insane.
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who are rich and those who are not.
Please pass the hackberry sauce.
That would be pretty pointless considering RSS feeds are cached.
Looks gorgeous. Has anyone built a startup addressing how hard it is to properly search if an idea already exists?

http://umbrellatoday.com/
https://launchpad.net/ is up :)
The Web Guru
Prioritiz'd
Try this:

http://www.dapper.net/services/hackernewsnew
The "Organic" in Organic food refers to the method of farming rather than the food itself, and thus is entirely valid.

I think the chemists have a point, but at the same time trying to be over-protective of language is often an exercise in futility.

There have been plenty of articles about an older generation complaining about the appropriate of the word "gay". For younger generations it's not something we have a problem with.

I would suggest that for chemists they might consider that the common usage of "chemical" is actually an abbreviation of "manufactured chemical" or some similarly accurate term.

Many parts of science are constantly misrepresented by those not involved in the specific subject area. That's just life.
How does it know where you are?
How about this:

Build things people want (and are willing to pay for).
matching ips to locales is not new.
The six attributes of innovation leaders
hey, that's my site. it's been up for a while but it got posted to stumbleupon the other day and has been seeing a ton of traffic. glad it's of use to anyone other than myself.

i made it one day after being annoyed with all the junk on weather.com. i just wanted a simple answer whether it was going to rain so i knew which car i could drive that day.
I am thankful for the improved health of my family, my obscenely wonderful girlfriend, the business taking off, and being in the best shape since my university days.

(Even though I live in Canada)
Too slow on my FF3. It still shows a div with a scrollbar and unformatted links even after 30 seconds. Still loading. Took a look at the design the last time I loaded it. Its cute.
goingtoprecipitate.com seemed like too long a name :)
China VC Funding Jumps 22 Percent
You can use Mono (and IronPython): http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-10.html
Linus torvalds critcizes Richard Stallman
If you haven't seen it A1c0r works at GOOG now and did a great Google Tech Talk a while back (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8493378861634507068)
But that site has the "enter your zip code" wall, a wholly unfriendly stumbling block for a non-US user to be faced with on any site. (You'd be surprised how many people, erm, "live" in 90210 on signup forms!) goingtorain.com somehow detected my precise town and told me straight.
It's 2,189 kilometres per hour (1,360 miles per hour):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_%28moon%29%23Possible...
List of BYU Startups
I assumed it was typo.

U = (E x V) / (P x D)
Legend. thank you :)
lol @ div#prophylactic
geolocation. Info. on wikipedia.

In summary: A reverse-DNS search through the DNS system combined with more information from geolocation DBs can usually pinpoint location to within a few miles unless the user goes to some lengths to hide it (ie. use VPNs, tor, ip spoofing, etc...). Several free databases available if you want to do this yourself.
Your "That's WRONG" is, pardon the capitalization, WRONG.

The definition of BB(100) is the number below which all 100-rule TMs that halt will in fact halt. Everything that ever halts will halt before that number of steps, everything that continues one step past BB(100) will never halt. That's the definition. If you have a conjecture encoded into a 100-state TM and you know BB(100), then all you do is run the machine for BB(100)+1 steps. If it gets to BB(100)+1, then by the definition of BB(100), it will never halt. If it halts before that, well, it halted.

Of course BB(100) is incomprehensibly large, well beyond what the entire universe could possibly be used to execute. (Likely, BB(10) is already at that point.)

"On top of that it's possible that BB's for large number don't exist" - no it's not. It's perfectly well defined as the largest element from a well-defined finite set. There must be a maximum value.
predicipate.com

With unicode domain names, you could have preticipation?.com, although it may look a mess in non-Firefox browsers.
Public facing intro page.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/edu/l-dw-linux-harde...

But yeah, article access needs ID and password. For some reason, IBM continues to insist on posting some of this stuff behind a registration wall, while publicly posting other apparently very similar articles publicly. It's annoying.

(Anyone from IBM on here and know why IBM continues to do this, and what the distinction is between public and registered-users-only postings?)

My ID and password, which I got years ago, were free. Don't know whether free registration is still the case.
I'm in a similar situation regarding wanting to know MySQL, PHP and Javascript (or even just jQuery) within a year. Give that I currently study full time in a Business Degree, along with two part-time jobs (one static, one freelance and malleable, but both related to web development) do you think you could give me a few tips on what resources to read, and more importantly (given the abundance of resources) what to avoid to keep it as simple as possible?

I am happy to pay money for good resources or subscriptions.

I do know basic PHP and MySQL, along with complete HTML and CSS (CSS being my forte), however the next step is advancing that knowledge into the dynamic sphere.
I think he was talking about http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/11/43198 where the three ways are:

Separate CPU,
Kernel under a kernel, and
User Mode

More applicable to appliances and embedded software, than application software in general.
I know this is a joke but if a Brit told HN "Happy Guy Fawkes Day" Americans would probably say, "cheers." It's a holiday, give thanks, don't be cynical for 24 hours :)
btw failure stories may be even more interesting.... generalizing from incomplete data sets (winners only) is dangerous.
PHP Design - Biggest Database Oversights
I use a program called "Freedom" for Mac. It is very simplistic and it works exactly as described in the article. It has bugs though, if you type your root password incorrect the first time, it fails, you need to restart your laptop. Anyways, I can't complain it is free.
I live in 90210 in most forms on the net.

(Okay - and my name is often George Bush or Bill Clinton)
Matched my location to a suburb. Failed to have data for that suburb though - only for the capital city. (and only for today - /tomorrow doesnt work)

Also - saying that it will "maybe" rain in Melbourne is a bit of a cop-out - considering we are famous for having 4 seasons in a day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_in_One_Day)
This article is a mulligan stew of observations and opinions about several different problems that have earned the label "procrastination."

I fit the profile of what Ferrari calls an "avoidance procrastinator." Pychyl and Steel have got my number.

Schraw, on the other hand, seems to be guilty of post hoc, ergo propter hoc (thank you Aaron Sorkin). I do not procrastinate to have a better mental life; I do it because the alternative seems worse. To quote Pychyl, I feel lousy about a task so I walk away to feel better. I don't feel good, understand. Just not as bad.

Here's what I know - I hope it helps any other avoidance procrastinators who are reading:

Most of my task avoidance is based on uneasiness about the task; uneasiness caused (or multiplied) by not fully understanding the parameters and/or goals of the task.

That's it. For me, that's the key.

It is difficult - nearly impossible - to do my taxes each year. However, it is easy to do the various steps involved in doing my taxes, when I have a prepared list of the steps involved, and the order in which they should be carried out.

Clean out the garage is another good example of a task that I will never be able to do. But I have no problem doing the various small tasks that are hidden inside the phrase "clean out the garage" as long as someone can tell me what they are.

And this is the problem. I seem to lack the Project Planning gene that allows other people to break large, vague projects into smaller tasks. When I get help with this, and can approach a big project as a bunch of smaller tasks arranged in logical order, I have no problem. (Well, I still have the problems of laziness, perfectionism, distraction, etc., but no more than regular people.)

The trouble comes when the assignment lacks clarity.

This, I believe, is why procrastinator students in Schraw's study chose a detailed syllabus versus "a rough sketch of the assignments" -- not because "such specificity allowed for 'planned' procrastination" but because this approach removes the task ambiguity that triggers "my" type of procrastination.

Finally, saying, "Just do it" to a procrastinator is like saying, "Cheer up" to someone who's clinically depressed.
Keep in mind though, gossip sites like perezhilton make close to $1,000,000 per month.
Google says Earth's diameter at the equator is 7926.28 miles (12756.1 km). So you may be certain that your family is always less than 10000 miles away. :)
Bah! Silly BevHills holds nothing on Schenectady, NY.
http://benfry.com/zipdecode/
They have Cuil there :)
maxmind for the ip geolocation, google for the weather
how insightful, sir! this forum is indebted.
Wow, that is very surprising. Any links to read about this?
Extinction.
If you outsource the core technology of your business, then you don't have a business.
It isn't that accurate outside of the USA.
It doesn't copy anything - it literally is calling "Array.new()" to generate a new array, every time one is needed.

To do it the python way, you'd have to use a global variable to store the array - which is exactly what python is doing for you. Doesn't sound so handy when its put like that, huh?
The Web’s Simplest Weather Forecast
There is; jailbreak it, and install "Python" from Cydia.
Secrecy or Transparency? One Startup's Experience
A simple, step-by-step guide to prime time success.
What's the deal with For Frak's Sake's “GMail's Report Spam Button is Worthless” article? Is it just me or does that article do absolutely nothing to articulate any of the problems with GMail's service, only calling it "worthless" because in his/her own experience it doesn't appear to be doing anything, even though it's one of the most effective spam blockers on a free email service to date?
Wait -- what? Seriously? Wow. I wonder what their reasoning is.
Lessig on the hybrid economy and corruption
As Cash Stops Flowing, Venture Capitalists Get Creative
to avoid apps that look like one thing, then mutate into something altogether different, through scripts it downloaded from the internet.

since apple approves all apps that get into the app store, they don't want apps that substantially change their own nature.
Pretty impressive, especially since so many of those startups are by current students! It would be interesting to see similar lists for other schools as well (perhaps even my own).
So is all data banned? (E.g. files.) Because any data can be used for that purpose.

Can Apple view the Objective-C source code of apps they're about to approve/deny, to see whether you were trying to do something shady like that?
Worked for me (Waterloo, ON)
In that case, may I recommend The Millionaire Next Door?

http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Thomas-Stanley/d...

EDIT: Must say I'm not really sure why I was downmodded; this is an excellent book (a classic really) that provides advice from 'actual rich people'. Maybe it's the get-rich-slowly aspect?
simple and neat. Great app.

- The weather details could be a slightly more bold.

- It is not intuitive to press enter when i click to change the location though.

- Does a google gadget exist for this so that i can put this on my iGoogle page?
I see what you are saying, but think of it in reverse:

If the only way to prove or disprove Goldbach’s conjecture is to try every integer forever until you find a counter example (i.e. you can never stop - there is no point at which you can say, I checked enough numbers).

Then the same would apply to calculating BB(100) - you can never actually calculate the value of it - you never know if you have run it long enough.

That's my point: there might not actually be a value for large BB's. It is simply impossible to know if you need to keep running the machine or not. You can only set a lower bound. You can't, even in principle, ever calculate it.

So you can define the meaning of BB, but you can't calculate the value of it. If you can't calculate the value of it, then it has no defined value.

That's what I am trying to say - it is impossible, no matter how many (finite) resources you have, to calculate large BB's. There is never the point at which you can say: this program is not infinite.

Edit: I just read the wikipedia page on it, and I'm not saying something new: it's well known that BB is not computable, and point is that if it _was_ computable then you could use it to calculate Goldbach’s conjecture and others.

He really should have made the point a little clearer than you can't actually calculate the value of BB(100) - he made it seem like it was hard and needed massive resources, but not that it was impossible even in principle.

And finally, I say that since you can not calculate the value of large BB's - they are not actual numbers, and thus can not be used for his large number game.
What do you add over these? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=todo+list

Personally, I only write notes to myself when I stop working so I can get back into the problem faster when I resume. I think writing and managing todo lists is a form of procrastination.
Not 101 (technically it was labeled 161), but at the Univ. of Chicago (where I went), Spivak was the first Calc class on the honors track--i.e. the honors variant of 101. And that course did exactly what he's talking about.
Which is Better: Page Rank or Traffic
because newspapers have long since abandoned the thinking person's market.

Are you referring to even the WSJ and The New York Times and the Financial Times? Or are you just thinking of the USA Today and local paper varieties?
actually it is interesting you say that... writing up a todo list is a good way of procrastinating, but I find that if i have a todo list (assume it was "magically" generated), it helps me get through work a lot faster... atleast so that it helps me not loose the context when switching between tasks...

to this end ive found the MyLyn plugins for eclipse very useful.. creating the todo list is not too hard or tricky.. (though i found the creator page a bit clunky), and it even saves the state of the editor (ie open files, current line in the said open files etc) and loads the state as is each time you switch between items on the todo list (or tasks as mylyn calls it)..

I am sure there are much better tools out there like those widgets on google desktop and all but that is just another app you have to install..
A big part of the problem is that Chaitin is a shameless self-promoter. He is the Bruce Schneier of Algorithmic Complexity. Actually, no, Schneier is not nearly as bad. Let me quote from the highest voted Amazon review of his book:

"Let the author speak for himself. From page 7, "Gödel's 1931 work on incompleteness, Turing's 1936 work on uncomputability, and my own work on the role of information, randomness and complexity have shown increasingly emphatically that the role that Hilbert envisioned for formalism in mathematics is best served by computer programming languages[.]"

Imagine if a working composer wrote, "Bach's preludes and fugues, Beethoven's symphonies, and my own string quartets have shown increasingly emphatically..." This man's reputation in his declared field is nowhere near his apparent stature in his own mind. The ideas discussed in this book are worthy of late-night musings over a nice brandy, or maybe a Scientific American article, but only after extensive revision. They are not ready for publication in a monograph. "
Yes, that's right. His relentless focus on the product keeps your focus on the product. And it sends the message you want to send about any product: This thing is so damned fascinating that you could spend all day playing with it.

Also, eye contact is subliminally threatening. That's probably not good for sales, particularly in a big city like New York, where a stranger who approaches you and makes eye contact activates the Shields Up response. (The odds that he is about to ask you for money are really, really high. Especially if he starts some big, rambling story instead of just immediately asking you for directions.) Moreover, scaring people is not something you want to do if you want to have a decades-long career, in one neighborhood, doing something that is technically illegal. One's first on-street encounter with a squatting, potato-obsessed geek with a knife in his hand is probably scary enough without having to know that he's looking at you.

Finally, I'd guess that eye contact is risky because it turns the show from a monologue into a dialogue. What if the mark starts an argument? Or runs away in terror? How would that play to the rest of the audience? Even a friendly chat could be bad for business if it takes up too much time that could be better spent running the spiel for a fresh set of passersby.
I looked through the site, great design!
Yes, the events of terrorism in South Asia were/are terrible and I suspect we will continue to find out how bad it was/is, but I don't think that means that there is nothing to be happy about. Even if your perspective is purely the negative, things could be far far worse. I think it is easy in our pursuit of the ideal to tend to see things as what is wrong rather than how much is right. I think focusing primarily on the defects deprives one of the joy of realizing all the things there are to appreciate.