skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But he is not, in that quoted statement saying much. For example, if the problem is NP-Hard but not NP-Complete then we will not even be able to tell how well we are doing.

Or for markets, aspects of it may invovle solving NP-Hard problems with efficient approximations that are themselves NP-Hard (you are better placed to opine on whether such a possibility is likely).
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True no doubt.

But you do assume that I don't know these other types of knowledge when in fact I do.

Your open mind argument can be applied to spiritual and alternative medicine just as well - all knowledge is not equal.
If physicists know what they're doing, why don't I have a flying car?

edit: physicists ugh too early in the morning
That's a big failure for engines that have been ground tested only. I can't understand how they didn't check (I mean fresh engines just off reasembly line for inspection) them before. This is more or less normal with new models but maybe not this way.
Wow, what recourse is available in this situation? None? Does this mean that 100% they are going to now be blackmailed to get their domain back?
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This is a good point. You can even take in interesting problems from your job back to school for further analysis.
Funny thing: lots of businesses still use windows XP. Backward compatibility is nice but running XP is much better than hoping stuff will work on windows 7 or 8. 20 years from now I wouldnt be surprised to see XP still used ...
We do - if you're willing to pay for it.

And their called physicists.
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Use After Effects, position the layers appropriately on each time interval.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p5nCrruB1M
The thing is the cost of text-books can vary a lot. Very often you can get a used text book, or even a new one for cheaper than advertised by going online. Students can and do share textbooks. So publishing a total price is very impractical, and if you care that much the required texts are often listed next to the course for you to look up yourself.
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I don't understand. It looks normal and works for me?
"This is a fork that turns Spectacles into a tiled window manager, that means that if you move a window to the left/right and one already occupies that space, both are resized to fit."

Is this the new definition of a tiling window manager?
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That means the old DNS entry is cached for you.
I'm surprised he decided to use 3-SAT instead of pointing out the non-convexities which arise in optimization for many interesting markets. Or the problem with digital goods say. That these are exploitable is what leads to excess returns and monopolies. These are failings due to reasons one can argue with computational compexity (non convex optimization is in NP).
* I'm not planning to make it automatically manage all windows. That would never work correctly on os x, unless you have a huge display.
One thing I'm adding is to make it keep windows that have been tiled already, at their correct size (so if you move a window from the left to the right, the remaining windows on the left will also be resized correctly)

* The crash, I will obviously have to fix :)
"Economists have essentially no idea what is going on and
neither do their financial compatriots and the EMH is by
far the clearest example of this."

You only learn about EMH in first or second year in university; It is debunked in later years. It's like how you get taught first newtonian physics then later on when you're taught relativity, you learn that newtonian physics is not quite right but for many cases it is a good enough approximation.

"I shake my head in disgust at those who apply platonic and
unrealistic theories to the extremely complex system that
is the world. "

That is unfortunate. Markets are extremely interesting to study. A market is a powerful machine very good at resource allocation. It is the third example of how simple interactions can give rise to computational power. The first two being "evolution" and "the turing machine".
>"I've only done graduate level courses in economics and finance. If they know what they are doing why do we still have financial crises?"

Then you're ahead of me education-wise; we lend money until the default rate gets above a threshold, which causes a "crisis" of deleveraging. Then we lever up again. All of this happens around a long-term, upward growth trend. It's the business cycle. It's hard to time, but most people understand how it works.

How can you prevent crises when their foundations can come from anywhere, including natural disasters? It's impossible. But the powers-that-be do their best to soften the blow. And they have been very successful in this last recession. I know it's hard to convince people that it could have been worse, but it could have been worse.

Already they're working on the next problem: how do we not become Japan? Unlike some of the hard-sciences, economists get one kick at the can. If they miss, they have a new problem to solve.
I think this might be an issue with what you're used to. We have things like rvm, gems and bundler: look at virtualenv, distutils/setuptools... The equivalent of a Gemfile is a requirements file, pip knows how to install these (pip install -r FILE).

If you ask me to do the same in Ruby, I'd probably be lost too.
On a slight tangent, but the Economist ought to know better than to lump spotify, Skype and wonga.com together. Wonga lends short-term cash to desperate families at an APR of 4,500 % (yes, four thousand).

Come on Economist, money lending at rates the Kray twins used to do is not an indicator of a functioning entrepreneurial society

Other than that usual Economist quality
Usually there's a grace period where the owner can still renew it, and before anyone else can. If the domain actually expired 60 or 90 days ago then they're probably hosed.
And not just "some" but a proportion of profitable traders greater than what we would expect due to chance - i.e. the existence of some lottery winners does not prove that playing the lottery is in general profitable.
Wait half an hour or so, and flush your computer's DNS cache. Your ISP is probably caching the DNS entry.
According to WHOIS, the expiration date is 29-Sep-2012 14:50:55 UTC.
How does this stack up to http://videojs.com?
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This has no such change. Try again.
Sounds kind of crazy to not test engines under real world conditions. What I mean is not be able to test it under conditions found during actual work (found in the air) prior to release.
Isn't talking about "European" entrepreneurs a bit generalizing? There are some similarities, but many more differences. The article itself even seems to hint at it, but not note it explicitly: in a graph labeled "life sentences", purporting to show how long it takes for "European" entrepreneurs to be free of debt, the bar for Denmark is so small that you can barely see it. Maybe they mean primarily French & German entrepreneurs?

As an American living in Denmark, I would personally prefer to bootstrap a business here rather than in the U.S., though it does depend on what kind of business. The main advantage to doing it here, imo, is that the healthcare story is solved, though maybe that'll be better in the U.S. after PPACA comes into effect in 2014. Another plus is better government support for small businesses: grants are available, and you can get some cheap early part-time employees by participating in subsidized internship programs intended to "upskill" people on unemployment. The main downside is high wages (though that matters less in tech, where wages are very high in the US, too), less access to venture capital if you're going the non-bootstrapping route, and some general problems from not being in the U.S. (less media visibility, problems with payment gateways, etc.).
As any distribution it depends on your taste and convenience. This is why there are so many - peoples tastes and circumstances of convenience vary greatly.

To be specific about Slackware I think people who enjoy it like its lack of branding, conservatism in package management and configuration tools and the focus on package stability (users are assumed to dislike new features, unless they consent explicitly to them.). People who dislike it probably do for the same reasons.

Also the community is important - tastes and convenience are acquired through friends and the environment you are in.
Please don't think this is bad. The more closed these guys get, the more of a window they open up for Linux Operating Systems or alternatives. Developers and consumers alike, will start taking a long hard look at their options.
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I don't know about the UK or the US, but in France, Bankruptcy don't always mean paying your company's debts.
Small business often start as "limited responsability companies", where you can only loss your capital.
> I'm also laughing at the part where he spins Apple's lack of Transit as a plus.

What does he say...?

[No way I'm giving him a page-hit...]
No, they don't. I can download and run a Cocoa app which would be much the same as a Cocoa app I get in the app store. I can't do the same with a Metro app.
Yes you are correct about that... It happened to me once on an old domain and I was able to get it back in the following week after expiration but I don't recall seeing a parked page during that period of time.

Doing a quick Whois for nodejs.org show that the name is expiring today:

Domain ID:D157222203-LROR

Domain Name:NODEJS.ORG

Created On:29-Sep-2009 14:50:55 UTC

Last Updated On:20-Sep-2011 00:04:23 UTC

Expiration Date:29-Sep-2012 14:50:55 UTC

Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)

Status:OK

Ouch!
> Android is as much open source as the iOS is

I didn't realize iOS was open source! Where can I get the source?
I think you're right, and that sideloading (which is really just normal loading, as people have done since the dawn of computing) is the most important test of openness for a platform. If you can write a program, and hand it to me somehow, and I can install it - and the platform developer doesn't have a veto over it - that means the platform is open.

Platform openness is really important, too. It means that people can write and share applications that the platform developer may not approve of - benchmarks, secure network code, games with controversial content - the list goes on.

That isn't to claim that an open source platform isn't a good thing. But open closed-source platforms have been a huge boon to the world since the dawn of computing, while closed closed-source platforms are problematic.
Calm down, I understand all of that. My point is that they didn't take away the functionality of DOS, and it mostly exists to this day. Even the default Visual Studio project is a command line program (last time I checked). I see the same future for the desktop.
Also forgot to mention - Slackware is a traditionally KDE distro and KDE increasingly feels like a second-class citizen in many distributions.
"I mean if your entire field is dedicated to predicting the
future of finance and economics and you don't predict them
- it kind of shows that you really don't know what you are
doing."

I thought the field of finance and economics was about how, unless you have something other people don't, market prices cannot be predicted?
Isn't this old news? Like a year old at this point? Why did anyone think Metro apps could be sideloaded except by enterprises?

Didn't we have long discussions on Hacker News about this very same topic from a year?

Article from a year ago:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/19/windows-metro-apps-distrib...

As to why they're doing it, it's simple. They want Metro to avoid headlines like these:

http://www.google.com/#q=android+malware&hl=en&prmd=...

Windows Store is a bit more open on things like in-app purchases(third party payment systems allowed) and developer cut(only 25% above 25K).
I'm not going to debate absolutes, but it is patently obvious that Android is relatively more open than iOS or Windoze by such an immense margin that your statement seems, well... asinine. Could it be better? Yes, absolutely. But, given the BS business model that Microsoft has always had (which is really the same for Apple, though they are better at marketing), Android is a hippie commune by comparison.

What do you think about the prospect of Gecko?
Why not counter cycle the lending activity instead of exacerbating the business cycle?

Oh wait we're economists - free markets are sacrosanct and they are efficient - if there is an arbitrage opportunity to short surely the rational investors will price it correctly. Not.
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I don't understand how the field of math can change course. I mean Hilbert, Frege, Church had an idea that turned out to be infeasible. But the field in general continued and has not been affected much by that goal nor the consequences of Godel's theorems. In mathematics there is no where in particular we want to go to. This notion of course changing is thus something I am having trouble placing.

As for physics. The idea of not changing course is exactly what sets apart good theories from bad. If you have a new theory and it does not include the old at a limit then it is a good sign that you are doing something wrong. Newton was not wrong, just inaccurate. Einstein did not invalidate Newton, only corrected the extreme cases.
I don't see any benefit to them doing this. Macs are computers, used by developers, for a variety of things, not just writing iOS apps. Increasing the cost of very expensive Macs by another $100/year, and taking away the feeling of ownership for those developers, is just a means of driving them away.
Shouldn't be anything to worry about - here’s how the domain expiry process works.

1. Domain ‘expires’, and enters a 40 day grace period. I have read things that imply this can vary from registrar to registrar, but it seems pretty standard from what I have seen.

2. After the grace period, it enters a 30 day redemption period. Again, apparently this can vary, but I have yet to see it (admittedly I have only looked at a small number of domains)

3. Finally, when the redemption period expires, a 5 day ‘pending deletion’ period is entered.

Between 11am and 2pm Pacific Time on the 6th day of pending deletion, the registrars theoretically start dropping the names from the ICANN database.

It is kind of odd that such a domain would only be renewed annually... it's hardly speculative!
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Any specific examples that got you excited? I'm going through the new features list and I can't point to one that wowed me.
Slate: Tiling window management for OS X
It now shows "Welcome! This domain was registered at namecheap.com. Please check back later!"
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This idea made me fall in love with Enders Game. I'm interested to see how they handle it in the movie.
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Where does it stop though? Checking for known child pornography is of course a very valid reason and the law enforcement agencies have hashes for a lot of those images. However if you make that exception, other 'illegal' things would have to be screened as well and then you have where we are now. Why not make different categories of 'illegal'; CP matching hashes is a direct hit and gone you are. While 'illegal to distribute' (which probably gets more pressure to fight against than even cp) would be flagged in private; if you move it to public you have a problem.

I believe that private means you cannot touch it at all, but we are talking 'the cloud' here so that option is out the door anyway.
I know people make mistakes and overlook things, but really...there is no excuse for this. I get about 8 emails from my registrars warning me before a domain expires...60 days, 45 days, 30 days, 1 week, then one like every day until the date. Unless these emails are going to an address nobody is monitoring I can't see how this can get overlooked.
Looks great; been looking for something like this.
I've really enjoyed using Slate[1] for OSX window management - it has great file based configuration and lots of options - often wish it had something a bit more straightforward like automatic tiling window layouts.

[1] https://github.com/jigish/slate
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Interesting, I had not heard of Foundation before, and am interested in checking it out to see how it does with the few things that annoy me about Bootstrap. So appreciate the pointer.

But when I go to the Foundation web pages... I've clicked like 5 times, have managed to get to the Getting Started page, and I still haven't seen any code examples of how to actually use it. Note that the Bootstrap docs start with and are centered around examples; it _starts_ by telling you how to install it and start using it. Every 'feature' element on the home page is right next to a code example showing how to do it.

I think Bootstrap's documentation is actually a huge part of it's success. If you're wondering why Bootstrap caught on where Foundation didn't, I think that's probably part of it. Foundation's docs _look_ as pretty as Bootstrap's (which is a good sign given the nature of the products), but they aren't done as well for getting people to dive in quick or overview of how the code actually works quick. Writing good docs is a skill of it's own, and whoever does it for Bootstrap has definitely got it. You can get started with Bootstrap _so_ fast, because the docs are written with that goal in mind and achieve it.
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I still can't find it... Thanks C.
You sure about the latter model being taught? Behavioral finance still doesn't feel like a first class citizen in most places.
Ok, this is my favourite rant subject (pace wonga.com).

It's the welfare state and related systems. But not a Ron Paul style get rid of the lot, we should recognise that unemployment and welfare payments make a huge amount of short term sense. We do not want a skilled worker made redundant to lose house and family becaause it takes three months to find a job.

But we should look carefully at long term welfare payments (long term unemployment, chronic disability and especially retirement). Just when we should change the expectation from how many jobs did you apply for, to how many customers did you advertise to is important not only for an entrepreneurial society, but a sane and fair one.

Look for work for three months, then look to create a company, and welfare will support you.

Most importantly I would change the focus for those under 24, whose first encounter with welfare (pretty much all school leavers and graduates in this climate it seems) should be a positive creative experience, not a dismal on the scrap heap one
Interesting article and it echos my own views of Japan after visiting the country last month for the first time in my life and spending 2.5 weeks there.

I grew up in the decade[1] where Japan absolutely dominated the consumer electronics industry hence, I've always long held this view of Japan being one of the most technological advanced economy in the world. But when I actually went there, my view completely changed. They still are, to a certain extent[2], but from a tech industry standpoint they are starting to lag behind IMHO.

For example, when I was in Akihabara, I was told it was a electronics mecca filled with all the latest Japanese gadgets and gizmos but when I was there last month, all I saw was a myriad of chinese made/manufactured stuff. Most of the electronics stuff I've already seen in my own country and there was nothing much that looked truly new[3]. Maybe if I was walking down these streets 15 years ago, I would have been pretty wide-eyed. Even if you look at the one electronic device that a Japanese brand still dominates (which is mobile), the Docomo made mobile phones are all mostly using android and majority of them are flip phones[4]! And if you don't see someone using a Docomo made-phone, it will most likely be an iPhone.

Don't take me wrong, Japan still is a fairly advanced country[5] but my trip there last month made me realize that they are fast falling behind the rest of their Asian counterparts: China and Korea in particular. These once mighty Japanese tech companies needs to start making bold innovative moves instead of living in the past and being hankered down by bureaucracy. If they don't do it soon enough, one day it will be too late and it will have a devastating effect on the Japanese economy.

[1] Child of the 80s/90s.

[2] Japan may be losing innovative and competitive ground in terms of anything tech related but they are still quite ahead in some aspects. I.e. The transportation industry (trains in particular) are light years ahead. The Shinkansen(bullet train) itself was built in the 60s but still looks like it was designed in the 25th century.

[3] Most of the electronics were "new" and "latest" but none of them were "unique". They were the same Korean, Taiwanese or China branded electronics that you see anywhere else in the world (or at least in my country). You will be hard pressed to find any funky new Japanese gadgets or gizmos.

[4] http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/05/ntt-do...

[5] One thing I admired when I was in Japan is that, a lot of their technology (transportation system, infrastructure, telecommunications, etc) were built decades ago but it still looks fairly advanced to this day. Though, you will noticed it is starting to age.
I think that's what the economist refers to as well; otherwise the owners will have to pay the debt or personally go bankrupt (and that IS a bad thing). I think the economist refers to limited liability companies which are liable to the starting capital and the bad thing is, they say, that even those, where you know the outcome, are taking so long.

This is because every party involved who wants money from that bankrupt company stands to gain if they can show that there was malpractice going on. If this can be shown, the shareholders (if they have more than 4.9%) become liable personally and then there is something to get (while usually, after the taxes visited the carcass, there is nothing left). This is why sometimes it takes a long time to resolve.