skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if I'm labouring under basic misconception here (or if you're trolling). First, you note that BPP <= P/poly. Secondly, you note that it is hard to prove P = BPP, but this is not necessary, all we need is the trivial P <= BPP. Then P <= P/poly < NP (if the author is correct).
Space travel since the 1940's to present has progressed from unmanned rockets to a permanent orbiting space station with a few moon landings in between. We've got the basics as far as technology goes to possibly get to another planet in the next 50 years, but considering we haven't figured out sustainability here on Earth, we wouldn't be able to get to a level of self-sustainability in the Martian desert. It is possible that population pressures here on Earth will become so severe that we will be forced to develop new technology to address food/water/shelter shortages that will help in a quest to colonize Mars.

Computers, on the other hand, have come what seems like a much longer way since the 1940's. From electric abacuses to devices that affect every facet of our lives. Computers are getting smarter, smaller, faster, and cheaper year after year. A modern smartphone is many times more powerful than the most powerful desktop from just a few years ago. Amazon has $2/hour EC2 instances that rival the fastest supercomputers from just 20 years ago. The ubiquitous nature of computers makes it more likely that industry will spur innovation in computers. It is quite possible that increases in computing power enable artificial intelligence at a level where we could have walking, talking robots, possibly indistinguishable from humans within 50 years.

Of course the most likely scenario, given recent success with Mars rovers, is that when robotics advances to a point where robots have sufficient intelligence and maneuverability we send them to Mars to build the infrastructure necessary to support a future human colony.
This idea is way older. Various mystics already envisioned the metaphysical structure of the world in such way (i.e. creation of reality through symbolic transformation - computational idea similar to Markov's algorithms).

See for example Taam Eytzo by R. Pinchas Eliyahu Horowitz of Vilna (18th century philosopher and mystic): http://www.hebrewbooks.org/21931

There are a few papers published on this subject:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01445340.2010.506...

http://aleph.nli.org.il/F?func=find-b&request=000509568&...
Scripting languages still usually represents a substantial typing overhead compared to throwing together a pipeline on the command line with standard Unix tools for many simple tasks.

The moment I see I'll need to do something many times, I'll consider writing a script, and then I'll often pick Ruby. But for one-off stuff, the command line is often faster once you get comfortable with a handful Unix tools.

In fact I often find that even when I do things many times, the mental overhead of remembering "yet another script" is often high enough to make it faster to just re-compose the command line I want.

For example, I very frequently do some variation over "grep [some term] | sort | uniq -c | sort -n" to get a sorted list by number of occurrences of [some term], but the key part is "some variation", and that makes adding and remembering an alias less useful.

Another big consideration is that these tools are present on all or most machines many of us use.

For larger applications, having to install other packages is often no big deal, but for example I don't want to find myself dealing with an emergency and suddenly having to pull down tons of packages to use Ruby because I'm not comfortable with the tools that are already on the machine.
You listen to too much Joe Rogan.
I think we all should just say thanks for building this, and nothing more, well, perhaps thanks to Twitter for not claiming the code. We all should aspire to do what fat and mdo did, build something out of passion, in our spare time, that will be freely available for everyone.
There is nothing that anyone can say, (including them) that will take it away from them. They belong in the hall of fame of FOSS and hacker spirit. This is true whether you like or don't like what they write in a blog post.
P/Poly is NOT polynomial depth circuits. it is you that is mistaken about this complexity class characterization. it is polynomial SIZE circuits. other statements of your post are incorrect. P !=NP does in fact follow as an immediate, direct consequence from P/Poly (ie poly size nonuniform circuits) != NP
Microsoft balks at Apple’s 30% fee; SkyDrive developers in the lurch on iOS
Question, what if you own a permanent shelter and then buy/rent/lease another (or multiple) shelters as an investment. Would you still consider that shorting the housing market?
I thought the more plausible theory is we are a projection of another dimension.

But pain and suffering seems far too real and horrible for any of this to be fake.
Is the U.S. Government Really A Spy Machine?
They can prove we don't live in the specific type of simulation they are testing for.

But they have no reason to believe we are in that type of simulation, they just figured out a way to falsify that type of simulation.

1 down, an infinite number to go!
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You could live with your parents, or couchsurf with an understanding friend / partner. Richard Stallman famously lived out of his MIT office for a long period of time.

Of course, these lifestyles all have costs, just not necessarily financial ones.
"Ignoring" might be too strong a word here. Licensing is in play, but they are not going after individual infringers.
Google 'zfs no fsck' (no quotes) and you'll find many reasons why it's not needed.
Mother reviews Windows 8 vs Ubuntu vs Windows 1.01 [video]
hey bryan, did you guys use an existing library for the barcode scanning functionality or wrote one up from scratch?
"Alternative" does not necessarily mean "free".

For example buy an RV. Live in it.
While I can't speak for other texts, UTP is my and probably the go-to book for learning Troff. I owe the typesetting of my ebook to it. Since it occupies that niche area, it is still quite relevant and useful today.
Like all major tech companies, Twitter is in a talent recruitment battle. Having their name associated with Bootstrap can only be a good thing for them.
225 Digits of π: An Irrational Auralization
From the article, some of his money comes from Youtube ads, which I don't think would exist if it weren't for traditional copyright laws. (ie, Youtube wouldn't be giving him a cut of the ad revenue if it weren't for copyright.)

Still... Kudos to him for not using draconian enforcement, yet still making lots of money.
(Neckbeards are a cost.)
Relevant quote: "It's bad behavior you want to keep out more than bad people. User behavior turns out to be surprisingly malleable. If people are expected to behave well, they tend to; and vice versa."
http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Seems only fair, everybody else has to pay 30% on purchases made in-app, Microsoft should too.

The only thing worse than a stupid rule is a stupid rule that some people get excluded from.
> the iOS UI and the Android UI are clunky and terrible

TouchPad owner here. The card deck of WebOS was really nice. I miss nothing else about it.
"as far as I know, proving an exponential lower bound for an NP complete problem doesnt immediately rule that P!=NP". that statement is FALSE. P!=NP is exactly a consequence of proving exponential lower time bounds. actually P!=NP would be a consequence of even proving somewhat weaker superpolynomial time bounds on any NP complete problem...
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Proven that real Gamers run a proper gaming community
making the downloading & sharing songs easier and earning profits from live performances is the way to go for the music industry.
The only somewhat similar thing I can think of would be mitochondria, but even mitochondria retain their own unique DNA outside of the nucleus.
Ask HN: Can you critique my accelerator application video?
I applied for Innovyz START, an accelerator based in Adelaide, South Australia. My business is called Kicktone, and it's a spin-off of an existing music hosting site I have which has about 70,000 users.

As part of the application process, I had to record a quick three minute video describing the business and the opportunity it has. Here's what I made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0cfqrlpbws

Any tips or pointers on what I could have improved, or what I should have done differently?

(Should I have waxed my increasingly unruly moustache?)
Open source alternative for Android: https://github.com/Genshin/SpreeAndroid
it was tourmyapp.com we had posted it on HN a couple of months back :)
Wtf?! Yes you are short housing...then u buy one...prices go up... you sell the damn thing...at which point you become short again...but with that extra money you can cover your short and come out ahead in a different market.
It isn't like gold in that the prices are fairly constant across markets. If my house in the bay area goes up 30% i sell that and relocate to illinois you can bet i will cover the short and come out ahead since home prices in illinois lag ca by a good 150-200k.
I might have obliterated the world (not totally sure, the print out is still going).
Note to self: it's as simple as creating the most popular YouTube video of all time. Done and done. Say you're independent and have a decent hit -- 100,000 views. Earnings: $870.
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About non-visual stuff I can simply answer that I am more productive with a shell, R, ggplot2 and python than with excel, just because I know this better. This is my stack along with matlab and mathematica in the bank where I work now, both basically at cli level. The majority of people in my division uses excel.

I also think of things in an every unix way in my using of computers largely because of 15 years of using unix like systems, it's the same when I need to code more than a couple of lines and do not have vim, for me the brain became too much used to it, I believe this will be the case for many people in HN.
This would make you 'long' in the housing market, but I fail to understand why people are so eager to buy individual properties as an investment. Individual properties are incredibly risky because the price is tied to so many local factors, what if the area goes bad? What if a bad tenant destroys it or doesn't pay rent for a few months? - for those who believe investing in property is a 'sure thing', why not simply invest in real-estate investment trusts, spreading the risk to thousands of properties around the country (or world), and getting a much less volatile return which is more representative of the 'true' housing market.
Very interesting that you can replace 'simulation' with 'God' and your statements are a perfect recitation of 'The Problem of Evil'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil
Also.. if we are a simulation, wouldn't those running the simulation see what we're doing and supply us with the correct results that we would expect?

They could just hardcode it..
What about if you get to 60, sell your house and use the money to rent for the rest of your life. In that case you might have higher short term costs as well but to you can stay in short term as you will likely not need a house for long enough to make long term more economical.

Also housing markets in different places don't move in unison so there is some room to trade markets and turn a profit.

Not sure any of this effects the point of the article though.
I respect your honesty sharing what you really think, but I didn't read it this way, I read it as: "We spent so much time in it, and what I learned from it is how great it is to have friends do cool things together, and this is what keeps us going more than learning more CSS or JavaScript"

I think that's not cocky, and quite true. e.g. the reason they still do it, is because they enjoy the teamwork and community support, and that's the "lesson he learned" which is answering the question in the title of the post.

And besides, being the #1 project on GH and being used by any other startup out there gives him all the rights to be cocky if he wants to.

They are both deserving a BDFL title which gives you automatic immunity from being called cocky. Even if they are.
What's the disruption? What are the possibilities? At least, what model are we talking about?
Lets do the math: 800 million views for 8 million dollars; so to make $8.000 you need 800.000 Youtube views... this is in no way an example for other artists; and "Gangman style" is a exception in music popularity grow, like "Asereje", "Macarena", "Smells like teen spirit" or "Mambo #5" (is just that YouTube didn't exist back then).
How is "fake" pain different from real pain? From my understanding, our neural correlate of consciousness is in fact a transparent self model simulation our brain is running, so in that sense all conscious pain experience is "fake". Or do you mean something else?
Its a matter of choosing the lesser evil.

Given a choice which one would you choose - A skilled and able administrator with a dodgy past or a corrupt, bureaucratic and sycophantic bunch of people who have a history of such incidences spread over half a century.

Yes Modi has his faults but he is preferable over the alternative, though I would be loath to see he become more autocratic - a distinct possibility .
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You might think you have local knowledge which allows you to purchase and charge a higher than average rent. Also you might be choosing a house that you want to live in down the track as an investment now.

You are correct though that this can carry added risk.
+1. I suggest 80s pop (Genesis, Michael Jackson) - extremely effective imo.
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Unless a better word than "wildlife refuge" is discovered to specifically denote human living areas. In which case people will be in towns.
Maybe they're not so bright or careful? Or maybe it's all happening too fast for them?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
I bet he's swimming in beer donations that have filled his pool.

Also, thank you Fat for making my life so much easier.
I feel stupid that I absolutely love this story but have no idea what you are you referring to.
This is true, you can't sell your house and then NOT have shelter. What older people can do is sell their house and then move into an apartment and gain financially from this transaction, assuming they don't live for many many more years.

However, if they do they "lose" on the transaction: and this proves the "covering a short" nature of the transaction.

Wonderful piece.
The song industry includes singer-songwriters, and it also includes specialist singers and specialist songwriters. A healthy industry will support people who create music but who do not necessarily perform it in public performances.
I've always mused with the idea of creating a user-submitted-content based porn website.

The base code can be whipped out in a few days, and getting traffic for that kind of thing seems to be super easy. The goal would then be to make minor money through smart advertising (most porn websites today are usability hell, with every single white space covered in ads; i'm sure one could do some smart conversion optimizations there), and major money through acquisition when the brand is built.

I feel that this might be a "low hanging fruit" kind of venture because of the social stigma associated with it ("I'm CEO for a social cupcake sharing app" is so much more cooler than "I'm CEO for a porn site"), but I might just be naive about the whole thing.
The depth vs. size characterization was a legitimate mistake of mine (got distracted by the authors use of depth). I am aware of the distinction. Though in writing my post, I did actually have size in mind. I'll edit to reflect this.

As for (P/poly != NP) => (P != NP), I have never heard of this. I have, however, seen that if NP is not a subset of P/poly then P != NP (which was not claimed here). Perhaps I am missing a stronger result? If so, please link me to a source for such a result.
one of the best things about my office is that there are no phones on desks.
The disruption is that millions of Africans will be getting their first "computers" for $50, and these computers run the open source Android OS.

I believe it's this model or a variation of it:
http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_u8150_ideos-3513.php

Obviously it's not much, but these smartphones are getting into dumbphone territory, and are going to all but wipe out the Symbian dumphone market in these developing markets, much like it's already happening in China and India.

Next year's Cortex A7, which has Cortex A8 performance (2010 flagship chip) and much lower price, being 5x smaller[1] in size (the CPU core itself), and the fast Jelly Bean OS should greatly improve the experience of such low-end smartphones going forward.

[1] http://images.gizmag.com/hero/arm-cortex-a7-biglittle.jpg
Twitter Adds Photo Filters in Battle With Instagram
Apple demands 30% cut for a sign up link
The productivity increase is amazing !
Oh, it was Legend. I don't know why I though it was Westwood for some reason. I definitely have fond memories of the Kyrandia games. I feel like I recall their puzzles were a little more consistently logical than some of the "unless you are psychically bonded to the developer, you must drag every object onto every object in your inventory until something happens" variety that a lot of point-and-clicks suffered from. I still have my copies laying around somewhere...I should play them again and see if they still hold up.
The best and worst reason I can think of for why people are attracted to investing in properties is leverage. For the typical person it is the only asset class where banks will lend and allow you to leverage an order of magnitude above investment. You cannot do that in a REIT. However you are right it increases risk and also you put in a lot more work. If you can afford the risk and have time, then great. If not, there are other ways to make money, as you point out.
I think the main problem they point out is if I get x gigs of space for 2 years, for which I pay monthly, and then switch to Android after 6 months, Apple still gets paid 30% for each the remaining 18 months. Which sort of makes sense, and sort of doesn't...
Are there other in-app purchases that can leave the iDevice? I'm wondering about precedent.
There is a great udacity course with all the background to the P/NP problem: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs313/
I found it very informative. It also has a section on "should you try solving the P vs. NP problem" and the answer is "not unless you have a lot of time, money, and though of something no one tried before, or is a math / CS professor"
I was clearly referring to exponential circuit sizes (note the sentence before it), not exponential time.

By the way, you can edit your original reply to contain more information rather than just making a bunch of new ones.
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Its amazing how much people love their phones. What's the bet the warehouse employees want to supply their own phone, just so they can touch it all day.

I was involved in a project where we had to build an iOS UI for wholesale electricity traders, because the traders really wanted to be able to do their work from their phones. It wasn't driven by a business need, the starting premise was 'we need to be able to make trades from our phones', and then some waffle was constructed to justify the project.
MS can get around this the way Amazon has and redirect users to the web site. Or, I'm sure they can work something special out with Apple - they are Microsoft, after all.

BTW, Microsoft has done a real bang-up job with SkyDrive. The free versions of Word and Excel are fantastic, and even scroll with native app like speed in the browser. SO much better than the horrible code base they use for the Word/Excel viewers in Outlook Web Access and Sharepoint.
Well, it may be a sucky rule, but it's been there for a long time. They can't say they're surprised.
See also the design doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K-C33WjH5GooNKW-GsW7-Ol_...
This is a nice development even for those of us not using SUSE -- I like Btrfs, I'm looking forward to using it, but I won't trust it with my own data until it's been dubbed "production ready" and used that way in the wild for several years. Glad the clock's started ticking for Btrfs on a major distro.
So do you plan to continue your genetic lineage? Um, I mean, have kids and reproduce? If not, cool. You can die alone in your office.

If you do plan to have kids, where are you going to house them? Okay, so they're going to share the RV with you. Do you plan to home-school them? Do you have time? Okay, maybe take advantage of the public system then. Whoops, you need a permanent address for that. I guess you're going private. Hope you saved up.
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I know next to nothing about trading. But it's become apparent to me that some of the core concepts/terms in trading (long, short, hedge, liquidity, futures, cover, etc) are very useful for modeling things in other walks of life. So, trading-savvy HNers: Are there any books, websites, or habits that you'd highly recommend to help a newbie become familiar with basic trading concepts?
The fact that everyone has to pay 30% for putting a link to their subscription sign up itself is not fair. The TNW article goes more into more detail on this.
porn is a low hanging fruit? it's a tough market.
For me, nothing at all seems to happen no matter what I click on, after I enter a quote in the box; there's no error message though.

Well, If I click on "find a quote" it does take me to a page of quotes; clicking on anyone just takes me back to the home page, with any message I entered still in place.

Not even sure what this is supposed to be showing off (other than dodgy site programming)...
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If I were to do it, I'd just run a porn site and a non porn site with the same code base. Then I could make money from porn while talking about the non porn side of the technology at parties or whatever.

Also, I think there was a bit of a land grab in porn before; it has really consolidated to a few big players, with margins otherwise in decline. Manwin/youporn is one of those big players, from the article.

The other bad thing about porn is that even if you have high revenues (and earnings), companies often sell for something like 1x earnings, which is crap.
Every "ribbon" tapers to nothing in the middle, as if one were viewing a ribbon with a half-twist in it. Is this an intentional part of the visualization (to prevent the center from becoming overly crowded)?
Read the linked TNW article, they are not even allowed to do that. Not even the 3rd party developers using the Skydrive SDK is allowed to do that.
oops. thx for info. didnt notice that. new to this. sorry for multiple replies that should just be edits.
Automating stuff at the command line is super important. If it's easier for you to do in Python, then that's fine. I use awk and bash for a lot of that stuff because it's what I happen to know.

Other people I know use perl. The important thing is to be able to automate anything non-trivial that you will do more than a single-digit number of times. One time I spent 30 minutes writing a script for things that a dozen people were doing a dozen times a day. It maybe saved a minute each time, but that's over 2 hours in the first day we had it. It paid off in time for me in 3 days, and probably less than that it terms of "damnit this is boring"

For me, at least, Python has a much higher friction to get from "here's the list of what I do" to "here's an automated version"

I do use Python for some of the more involved things (manipulating timestamps from bash is a pain), and I've converted some bash scripts into "real language" scripts when things started to get hairy, but most of the time, you get 90%+ of the time savings from the first 1% of effort.
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