skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tao doesn't know exactly what Mochizuki is talking about because it is not in any of the (many) areas that Tao is an expert in. Even Fields medalists have their limits.

The people that do work in his area don't know exactly what he's talking about because he's been going in a very deep and difficult direction. No one has been following, because they've been waiting to see if he finds anything in there. There was a good description at "Not Even Wrong":

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What Mochizuki is claiming is that he has a new set of techniques, which he calls “inter-universal geometry”, generalizing the foundations of algebraic geometry in terms of schemes first envisioned by Grothendieck. In essence, he has created a new world of mathematical objects, and now claims that he understands them well enough to work with them consistently and show that their properties imply the abc conjecture.

What experts tell me is that, very much unlike the case of Szpiro’s proof, here it may take a very long time to see if this is really a proof. They can’t just rely on their familiarity with the usual scheme-theoretic world, but need to invest some serious time and effort into becoming familiar with Mochizuki’s new world. Only then can they hope to see how his proof is supposed to work, and be able to check carefully that a proof is really there, not just a mirage. It’s important to realize that this is being taken seriously because such experts have a high opinion of Mochizuki and his past work. If someone unknown were to write a similar paper, claiming to have solved one of the major open questions in mathematics, with an invention of a strange-sounding new world of mathematical objects, few if any experts would think it worth their time to figure out exactly what was going on, figuring instead this had to be a fantasy. Even with Mochizuki’s high reputation, few were willing in the past to try and understand what he was doing, but the abc conjecture proof will now provide a major motivation.

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http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5104
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I highly doubt that. Zuckerberg would have cashed out a ton in the lead up to the IPO already (he at the very least took a 1M bonus years ago and took a pretty hefty salary before the IPO), but many senior people probably don't have millions of dollars in cash in the bank ...
Yes, also if someone leaks 1 million people's private data onto the internet I'd think it would be FBI's responsibility to investigate how that happened.
Dems using the same technology... At least they can agree on sumthing
I had the good fortune of attending last year and it was phenomenal. The presentations were entertaining but the conversations with other attendees were priceless.
From personal experience, yes. I've been twice (2009, 2010), but I didn't get in last year, so maybe it's getting too crowded (or I got unlucky :)).
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When good security monitoring means not believing everything you're told
We put this workbook together a few weeks ago to document the steps a startup can take to get the beta users flowing. I hope it's something we call can benefit from to speed up our startup process.

A few notes:

* There are bigger lists of 'beta' sites and blogs out there, but we've gone through them all and removed the dead sites and spam

* This is an interactive workbook that you login to and track your progress against, not just a overwhelming static list (hence the requirement for an email)

* We've gotten a LOT more than 100 signups by following this workbook - that was what we got in the first 24 hours

* This is for us mere mortals, not startup celebrities who can get covered in Techcrunch at the drop of the tweet

Please do check this out! And if you have feedback, comments, additions, or anything else, let me know. It's a work in progress and meant to be something we can all benefit from.

Thanks!
This is going to sound dramatic, but there are different dangers to the career game. War is obviously a lot scarier (and I literally have no idea how scary) but the kinds of fear are different.

When you're 18 and single, death doesn't scare you much because you don't have a spouse and kids. No one's being let down in that way. It will be rough for your parents, but teenagers usually aren't thinking about that, because we're programmed (either by genetics or culture; not sure which) to be a bit selfish at that age.

The effects of the career game (not just one business) are, on the other hand, deeply generational once you have kids and the die is cast. If you fuck it up, your kids won't have the connections and resources they need to thrive and they end up as mid-grade meat for society to munch on. This means they will have worse careers, and the effect propagate. The poor know what the stakes are, and the rich are terrified of being the one to drop the ball.

Dying at 18 when single means you don't have any kids. That's a lot less scarier to me than having kids and a mediocre career and having it affect them. That said, what would keep me from a war is not the fear of death, but the fear of injury, especially the psychiatric kind.
Ha - I completely agree. I've been thinking about consciousness a lot lately and I think that trying to find it in the brain will be like peeling the layers of an onion - you won't find anything in there.

I think consciousness might be more like electricity to a toy train. You don't need the train to have electricity, but the train won't work without it.

The feeling of consciousness - the awareness itself - could it make up the universe? Maybe it is something like gravity?
More discussion over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4475152
> when in study after study, at least on Adwords and SEM, paid results often boost relevance vs. a page only of organic results.

Can you point to some of those studies ?
$10 Starbucks for $5? Yes please.
Should also have had spaces not underscores. Regular Windows users don't follow *nix naming conventions.
Is Mark your best friend? I had the pleasure of seeing the documentary when it was screened in San Francisco and meeting Mark and Gianluca. It was pretty eye-opening to talk to people who really live and breathe men's tailored clothing.
> I'd love to see Chicago become the anti-silicon valley. A place for more practical, "get rich slowly" types of tech businesses.

I'd love to see Chicago be what Silicon Valley used to be, a tech scene run by engineers rather than banks.
There are several memes in the United States psyche that are quite puzzling for the rest of us (non USans), military fetichism being one of the weirdest.

That said, turning the experience of making sure bombers can safely carpet bomb Vietnam into a coming-of-age story yielding uplifting thoughts about entrepreneurship steps into bizarre territory. Like an Ayn Randesque version of Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
Hmm, we were still running 6.1 in 2008 which probably explains a lot. (No upgrade path allowed at that time)
Is there a reason why casinos are not shuffling decks in-house before sending them to the tables?
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I've been trying to use solarized off and on for a while now, but the text highlight just doesn't have enough contrast for me. Any highlighted text is unreadable. Tomorrow Night looks like it doesn't have this problem. Awesome!
An ordered deck is one arrangement from the set of randomly arranged decks. If the company ensures that decks are not ordered then they're not random. How can it be shown that the deck wasn't shuffled ... indeed if it can then the shuffling is non-random and this appears to amount to some sort of fraud in itself.

Do playing card manufacturers that sell shuffled decks make some sort of call on when a deck is not shuffled "enough". Knowing this information would allow more efficient models to be made for card counters, etc..
Stock buyback is a great scam to cheap the employees out of their share of the company profit. It is great for Wall Street though.
> With computer security you can make the brute force (for example deriving an RSA private key from the public key) entry nearasdammnit impossible

You can but what if you don't? Verizon for a while was setting their FIOS routers with WEP with a password derived directly from SSID!
Pardon, but how do you propose that a competitor convince people who ignore ads to stop ignoring them?
Statistics created with the sample of 25,000 udids, Fruit Ninja is suspect? (Not conclusive) pic.twitter.com/vlyoE2ij
Sure they do, if they've been using computers since the DOS days.
I appreciated hourly when I was expected to work over 40 hours a week relatively frequently (if I have a major equity stake it wouldn't matter). That company also billed my time hourly, though, so if I hadn't gotten paid when they were getting paid extra for my effort above-and-beyond I'd definitely have felt exploited.

I prefer to take a salary when I trust the management not to abuse my time. Hourly pay aligns my interests and my boss', but adds friction and effort. Salary is a sign of trust that makes my life easier, but if it means the company expects me to burn myself out it'll end up hurting us both as my productivity suffers and I become resentful.
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Indeed if he makes $50k off of 48 suits a year, he could nearly double his income by raising his price by 25%; if he is turning away customers that seems like a no-brainer.
Sure; the software is not sophisticated enough to consider multi-year windows.
Max/MSP does the same thing for DSP (audio) programming. http://cycling74.com/
True enough, LabView visual 'code' doesn't scale cleanly. One of the reasons for this 'spaghetti' is that the language combines control-flow and data-flow constructs in the same schema level. However, LabView remains the most successful graphical language to date, leaving MUCH room for future language innovations for those who dare to journey out of the scripting realm for software expression to deal with the scaling and many other engineering issues for a new paradigm.
Great question, I think should have qualified my earlier comment that "people" was in reference to those of us involved in tech/startups. I haven't seen the recent studies but a lot of people click on paid ads, even more surprising is that a lot of people don't even know the difference or care about the difference.

I don't know if I would call it a failure for the advertiser since compared to other forms of advertising, you only pay when users engage with your ad. Impressions are free for the advertisers if users see but don't click. For Google, I do agree that it's a qualified failure in that some people want to block these results or ignore them but I think they've been taking steps to fix this by making ads less static and more dynamic like with their shopping results or with their hotel/airfare products.
I think a big difference also is that Google's landing is clean, this is the results page. Yahoo's landing page is cluttered but their results page I would say is comparable.

Could somebody do this for other sites?
No, but it is a sign that Yahoo is recovering.
Dinkelspiel holds 715 but Mem Aud holds 1715.
It depends on the architecture. I know that a register load on the Motorola 68k CPU will set the flags (Z for zero, N for negative) while a register load on the Intel x86 line doesn't change the flags and thus, a comparison needs to be made.

Both architectures, however, include special instructions to handle numeric loops (for instance for (i = S ; i != E ; i += step) that count downwards, but they have a slightly different ending condition (Intel ends on 0, Motorola ends on -1) and is really specialized on the Intel (it requires the use of the CX (ECX, RCX) register; on the Motorola you can use any of the data registers) so it makes it kind of hard to use in portable C code (your best bet---don't use the for index in the body of the loop and hope the compiler can transform it to use the specialized instructions).

If speed is really critical, you need to check the output from the compiler, and make sure you always measure twice (and keep the original code around as a reference when the hardware changes).
Yes, but is very dangerous, for example:
https://twitter.com/jotaro17/status/243144140878143488/photo...
Indeed. I was the best man at his wedding.
Oops; fixed that too.
Getting bdb Python bindings working on Lion
The real question is why hasn't he done this already? It's a fairly obvious solution. I suspect that there is some other force at work here, though I'm at a loss to guess what it might be.

It's too bad that the NYTimes didn't raise this question.
How about, "use the standard library function unless proven guilty"? Sure, if compiling with Solaris Sun Studio 12 on x86 is a loss, but what about SPARC? Or Linux GCC?
The problem it solves is maintaining data privacy
I once had a co-worker whose side project was a little wireless weather station transmitter (back in the late 90s). He was getting reports of the batteries draining in a matter o days, when in testing (and in theory) they should last months.

After a lot of head scratching he discovered that the bit-change operation on the I/O port of the chip he was using was doing a read-modify-write routine. One of the pins on the I/O port (intended to be "write-only") was attached to a status LED.

In bright sunlight, the status LED was generating enough power to read high on the I/O port, so any unrelated bit flips on the port could cause the LED to turn and remain on in bright sunlight.
I've beat this drum a few times here on HN, but this is the future. Despite having been around this cycle a few times, people still always conceptualize adding computers to some existing process as "The existing process, but on a computer!" Call it the BOAC! fallacy. But that is never how it goes. Once the basic mechanics are worked out, computers don't merely augment a field, they rewrite it. The same is going to happen to education. In 20 years, there will still be some things that resemble modern lectures, but they will merely be one aspect of a rich ecosystem. In 20 years the idea that the 20th century was some sort of golden age of education or the model of perfection, an idea floating around a lot of minds today at varying levels of conscious awareness, will be seen as utterly laughable.

Is there a bit of loss in this model vs. the current one? Sure. But what compared to what was taken, what was gained is much, much greater.
I think people admired lists of virtues in Franklin's time for the same reason we admire them now; we think "Gee, if I could do all those things I would be as good as (whoever)". Then, when we have children, we say "god, if only I had followed (whoever's) way to live, my life would be better. I want my child's life to be better than mine. I am going to make sure my kids follow all these rules."
Truth is not even the people who write such lists are much good at following them--and if you can't follow them yourself, even when you try your hardest, why do we assume that children just need to be taught harder? Maybe there's something wrong with lists altogether.
I was wondering what the author was going on about until I remembered Ad-block.
It's still a very clean interface and the distinction between ads and search results is pretty clear. Doing a quick informal search, the terms that the author chose seems to be a large outlier in terms of numbers of ads.
Their Twitter statement, "TOTALLY FALSE", contradicts their much more vague official statement "At this time, there is no evidence indicating ..."
Aren't the players entitle to the money and to restitution for their kidnap?
... at 4.5x the price of an OTR pair of slacks.

Really?

Even counting a nice (but not extravagant) pair, easily 2x the cost.
What are our physical and mental limits?
I was listening to this yesterday and I got goosebumps on multiple occasions. Begs the question of what we are truly capable of.
This is great material for a bunch of teenagers protesting The Man, but how do you propose to keep earnings out of foreign countries? I.e., how can you ban a German subsidiary from holding the German profits?

How do you define "excessive earnings" or windfalls or other such garbage? Many businesses are cyclical, like venture capital and energy. If you tax away the profitable part of the cycle, they will shut down and tax revenue actually falls.

I had better stop talking or I will end up waving my cane and shouting about the Laffer curve.
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I've heard Foursquare having a lot of problems with the terrible behaviour of MongoDB once your indexes go above 95% of the machine's memory.

Never with the sharding part though.
Seems like in-app payments factor into the $1k calculation.

1. Build free app

2. Purchase virtual "<whatever>" for $1,000.

3. Collect $8,000.
You don't wear a bespoke suit to fit the minimal requirements for a given occasion, you do it because of the way it makes you feel - there is nothing quite like wearing an item of clothing that is perfect in every possible way. It's really not comparable to a made-to-measure which tends to follow one of a set of patterns, none of which might be perfect for you.

If I wore suits I would have a bespoke one made, but as it is, bespoke women's clothing is more complicated financially - you simply wouldn't wear the same dress as often as you would the same suit, probably by an order of magnitude.

Lastly. Men in suits. Hot. Men in bespoke suits. Blisteringly so.
Agree. That video worked well for them probably. Viral videos are really good marketing tools. I've watched that a number of times. lol.
Heh, I've been compiling the same list as you already did. My results look a lot like yours.

What do you mean that it is "very dangerous"?

As I posted in another thread... I wonder if it is significant that so many of the UDIDs are known to OpenFeint. If you took a random sample of UDIDs, how many would OpenFeint have data on?
I'm inclined to believe the FBI on this occasion, although the reasoning is getting confusing ("But you've also bested my Spaniard...Surely I cannot chose the wine in front of me")

If the Antisec account is accurate (that they popped this agent's computer), then they most likely possess further evidence that they could release to corroborate their claim (The .csv file may have been the only interesting file, but presumably they copied off lots of uninteresting ones as well).

So if the FBI is lying, they have to assume that Antisec's next move would be to release more corroborating evidence (because who wouldn't be upset over being called a liar), which would then make the FBI look incredibly foolish (as well as now on record as having given false statements).

This leads me to believe that the FBI is telling the truth, and that Antisec obtained the list from somewhere else, and is just having a laugh at the FBI's expense.

Sadly, I don't think either of these groups have built up an immunity to Iocane powder.
No offense, but this could be really bad advice. Maybe the customers who'd pay 10k for a suit won't go to some guy's living room for fittings. Or maybe the price of top bespoke tailors in town is comparable, because they make better use of lower-paid assistants. Or maybe, to convince a bank to make the loan he needs to move into a nicer place, he needs to show the bank he has a large backlog of orders. Or maybe he's in the middle of following your advice, just raised his price, and will shortly raise it again because he's still getting enough orders.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying we don't get nearly enough information to decide! And that's ok, because that's not the point of the article.
Description: We are looking for motivated and hard-working web and mobile developers that can help us create software tools for the entertainment industry. Local to Los Angeles a plus but not a requirement.

What we’re looking for in you:

Web Dev - Solid working knowledge of Python (Django), JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Experience with object-oriented JavaScript is a big plus. We are looking for people who can learn quickly and can build on top of what we have already created.

Mobile Dev - We’re looking for someone with some experience in iOS and a solid background in programming. Ability to create an awesome mobile version of our web applications.

About us:

We are a start-up making software tools for the film and television industry. We have been developing a sophisticated web application over the last two years that will change how the work behind films and television shows are created. This is cutting edge technology in a niche market with major studios signed on to use the software upon completion...

We’re located in Los Angeles but you can be from anywhere in the US. We are a smart and flexible little company trying to create something that hasn't been done before - an overused statement that can truly be applied to this project. The positions are freelance/contract jobs until

What Now:

If you’re interested, send us an email to programmer.inquiry@gmail.com with “Interested Programmer" in the subject line. Include a resume please.
When I used Notepad++ my favorite theme was Waher[1]. I've since switched to Sublime Text 2 but do miss it, Monokai just isn't doing it for me.

[1] http://waher.net/archives/1013
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Doesn't seem to have the technical justifications of Ethan Shoonover's solarized [ http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized ] but looks pretty well thought out to me.
Indochino.com is your friend. Bought a few suits there, and two shirts, fantastic fit & quality. You take about 20 measurements yourself at home (you need a partner to help) upload your details on their site, and boom. Free shipping, free alterations. Not affiliated with them, just a happy customer.

Plus Steve Nash is an investor; an NBA MVP can't be wrong, can he?
And the main distinguishing feature of that new 9/12 device? A form factor very close to Samsung's last two flagship models. And that new iPad mini everybody's so excited about? Copying a form factor that Samsung pioneered and Amazon and Google validated. Maybe next Apple will copy the Note?

So who exactly is copying whom here? Surely the physical size of a device is more defining and market-making than the bounce back behavior of a scroll view? Where are the cries for protection of Samsung's innovations?
Google makes money from people clicking on ads. I'd wager that people who install adblock, don't tend to click on ads, especially if you force them to disable it.
Speaking of using color as a formal syntax in a graphical programming language. The example found at http://www.coretalk.net/CubiconPrivate/CubiconPaper/MemoryMa... (User: Cubist1 and Password: Sandy2) is the executable design of the Memory Manager module for a next-generation virtual machine (VM). The visual directory on the left of the screen is a number of control-flow methods, interleaved with white and gray backgrounds. The colored icons express fundamental language constructs, in this case, memory pointer transfer, comparisons, and the like. This set of methods compiles into 37 KBytes of ANSI C.
Its highly likely that those are in fact the same question.
Some of the best advice for Startups I've read in a long time
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What were the reasons for moving away from MongoDB?