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I honestly didn't expect to see my hometown on HN! Checking it out right now, very cool.
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As we learn more about Liberty Reserve and their alleged facilitations of money laundering the question I'll be asking myself is; Were the alleged actions of Liberty Reserve worse than the alleged actions of HSBC? HSBC got off with a fine by the US DOJ. So this question helps me to understand the real motivations behind the indictment of Liberty Reserve. Was the DOJ's motivation to actually thwart monet laundering, or was it motivated by something else like shutting down something outside of their regulatory control?
Wittgenstein said it best: "The limits of my language are the limits of my world."
> But then again, the US is at war, is it not?

Against its citizens, lately.
ArXiv has many "proofs" that P=NP and that P!=NP. ArXiv does not do any vetting of correctness (it is beyond their scope.) We don't need a HN submission for this and the title is inaccurate/clickbait.
From the Introduction:

We will introduce a so-called 'Multistage graph Simple
Path' (MSP) problem and prove its NP-completeness.

So what they claim to be NP-complete is their new problem and not the algorithm as it should be. I'll still say this will turn out to not be real. I won't even try to follow their paper but it's not written in LaTeX so it can't be real math... :)
So, the best place for reading Letter/A4-sized PDFs is still the computer? :/

(I bought and sold an iPad - it didn't felt very mobile).
Have you read the critique of JavaScript Cryptography by Matasano Security[1]?

TL;DR: if an attacker can hack the server, he can just inject some of his code into the page, that'll copy all the data unencrypted to his own server. And since you download the code each and every time you connect to the server, it's impossible to validate it.

The only way to avoid this is to have some kind of trusted, verified code in your machine, like a binary client.

[1]: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
Regarding downvotes, I'll take a guess - OP's post says:

>[MS office] can use [ODF] as the default for all new files. At least since the 2010 version. If even MS recognizes that ODF has won, we have no reason to use OpenXML.

That leap of logic just doesn't compute... By the same token, since OpenOffice / LibreOffice can be set to use OpenXML as default, they've admitted that OpenXML has won. Being able to use each other's formats should be viewed as an attempt to move into each other's markets, not as declaration of victory.
This article is just a draft, it cannot be the final version. It's basically a press release on the crackdown over Liberty Reserve plus a quote by someone (not mentioned!) about Bitcoin - that's it. So the title is either a work-in-progress or a click-trap.

Bitcoins are steadily trading at $129 now, if the article was true there would be important fluctuations.
>syntax did feel like a hybrid of Python and Perl (with a bit of crack mixed in)

My personal feeling is that it's mostly Smalltalk and Perl, and less Python, though technically wikipedia says it inherits from Python as well. I've coded Perl and Smalltalk though, but not ever really Python. Maybe if you look at it that way there's less crack mixed in.
this is precisely the point the author is attacking; the problem of deciding that the bullying is the result of the fact that you're special, not part of a routine culture of violence.
I agree with your exact wording: applying Marxist theory to everything is exactly 'more academic' in the sense that it is an artifact of fashion in educational institutions. It isn't actually 'more intellectual' because it is content-free, being equally applicable to everything, and brings little or no insight to any topic outside of economics.

Taking this criticism as validation of Marxist analysis (or accusing the critic of bullying, etc.) is cheap and pointless, like Freudians answering criticism of a weak Freudian analysis by saying the critic is only criticizing due to reaction formation.

If we disallow this kind of criticism then we are validating every kind of posturing. Not everything anyone says can be correct and it isn't bullying or snobbery to say so. It's not even personal.
Pirated copies of UX Write on the App Store
it's a he, not a she. I agree with your substantive points though.
Where "doing it right" is defined as making the computer safe against maid attacks? Yes, this is how that looks.

I'm not saying it's actually secure; I haven't analyzed it in that kind of detail, and I don't even own one.
I believe we see them because they are outliers. If such events were the norm, they'd disappear in the background.

We don't read much about privacy violations in China after all.
Dagobah: Dependency-based Job Scheduling in Python
The Times/Sunday Times?
High debt does not cause low growth
Even in practice, it stops undetectable bootkits, for example, like this one.

http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792235/XPAJ_Reversi...
Ha. I remember the facebook posts from several fans declaring the Baltimore Ravens the "World Champions". Er, no.
Human life expectancy rising over that period has nothing to do with the lost forest cover. Indeed, the vast majority of the increase is due to a few relatively low-tech advances targeted at reducing infant mortality.
> _And Microsoft doesn't show any signs of wanting to sue anyone for any of this_

I'd go so far as to say (at least on the ASP.NET side) they're trying to _encourage_ community participation. Wasn't NuGet a community project before it was baked into Visual Studio? I'm pretty sure they're now shipping the JSON.NET library in one or more of the core project templates, rather than write their own.
They claim to have a new problem (MSP) which is NP-Hard because HC reduces to it, and they claim to have a polynomial algorithm to solve MSP.

That's all very reasonable. What's less reasonable is that all of the references bar one are to their own papers, and a paper from 2010 claims to have been presented at a conference, and to prove this result.

It's not passing the sniff test, but I'll still see if the first few pages make sense.
Awesome login name. You don't plan on pulling a Light of Judgment, do you?

What the hell do I do? I look and apply for jobs. I'm in school for drafting. Every sign and indication says if you're without a job for 6 months, you're screwed.

We can talk offline about that (michael.o.church at gmail). There are plenty of ways to hide unemployment time. Trust me, I know a lot of people who've had that issue.

One thing you can do is do a lot of freebie work for friends but claim they were paid gigs to capture the validation that employers seek. If you do free work for someone, you'll usually get a great reference, and they're not going to oppose saying you were paid $100 per hour to help you out. Most people know the corporate system is a lie, these days, and really have no problem subverting it. Corrupt systems make liars of everyone.

Where do you live? Do you have the financial resources to move to an area that might have more freelance opportunities?

Do I just start and lie about my credentials? If they catch me, all they can do is just fire me... I'm already up shits creek.

You have to be careful about that. The only person willing to broach this topic under real name (and, therefore, with some credibility) is... me. You need to be very cautious, but if you have no other opportunity than lying... go for it.

Most resume cheaters and liars are people in the 75th percentile of their industries trying to become 99th because they're narcissists who feel entitled to be at the top. I don't advise that. It's not worth the risk when you have a good thing going. Personally, I don't lie on my CV for that reason. However, if it's between being unemployed versus creating a new history, I think the latter is morally defensible. Just don't get caught.

My personal ethical stance is that there's a difference between charlatanry (claiming skills you don't have) and social status inflation (which everyone does). The first is unethical, wrong, and if you try to do it I won't support you. The second I am fine with. Changing dates and titles to reflect promotions one should have had, IMO, is in the second category. It's lying about social status, which everyone does. Just don't do it on paper. There's a way to leave your paper trail vague and then tell the story you need in person, but we'd have to go offline to discuss the details.
I regret I have but one upvote to give you sir!
Requesting for the linked page I get a message telling this resource is restricted by Russian Government because it "contains information restricted for propagation in Russian Federation". That's Rostelecom ISP. I could get the page using another ISP and don't see any "restricted information". Hm.
What I was wondering is this: Are there any good tutorials teaching kids their basic rights of freedom/privacy?

With the right framing this could become really popular ("How to avoid your parents snooping on you"). I guess most kids have some phase of freedom-seeking and I would be happy to donate to a campaign encouraging this mindset even more.
What they are probably doing is multiplying everyone's options, including yours, by 4 and reducing the value of each one to 1/4 the original. Then everyone still owns the same % of the company but it is easier for the finance people work with them.

So your # of options is probably changed just like everyone's, but they don't bother letting you know usually unless it is time for you to sell them. If you get the opportunity to sell, they will let you know your actual number of stock and what each can be sold for. That's what happened to me anyway.
The full text is a little less alarmist:
http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2013/world_health_assembly_20...
Would love to hear more about the technological innovations at Fleex — depending on how much you're willing to share!
> Which overwhelmingly means that the economically disadvantaged (or those estranged from one or both parents) would be shut out, which would make "college degree required" a proxy for "upper middle class or better".

Considering the overall education picture in the US, this is already true. Students from low income families already have a hard time getting to a point where they can apply and be accepted to a university. See http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/21/news/economy/income_college/...
Mezzanine intentionally works fine without Grappelli, just remove it from your project settings :-)
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

People have upvoted this article, therefore there should have been a submission for it.
From the author home page:

'It seems our algorithm is a polynomial one. So we would like to discuss with more people.'

It's weird if a proof doesn't even convince the author.

https://sites.google.com/site/xinwenjiang/
I find it hard to believe that there are a lot of people who are tech savvy enough to be able to install, partition disks and configure Linux and bootloader on a Windows 7 machine, but are suddenly unable to turn off one setting in the BIOS setup on a Windows 8 machine. And to enable them, we need to make every Windows PC insecure by default and leave hundreds of millions of people vulnerable to undetectable bootkit viruses?
This is a big problem, I have a lenovo u310 and I have not been able to boot from usb. And I don't have a cd drive.
Isn't this sort of similar to what Mega upload does?

Problem with this is that it mostly limits you to just using the back end as a dumb data store for a client program.

You couldn't implement a social network this way because nobody apart from you would be able to read your profile.
the arxiv doesn't peer-review papers. it has lots of proofs of famous conjectures, et cetera.

this paper, in particular, smells fishy. the author doesn't cite anyone but himself for significant result (he does cite someone else for referencing material that's standard for specialists.)

related: http://primes.utm.edu/notes/crackpot.html
For a more visual equivalent (lower attention span required) check out http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/money-lobby/
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This showed up on HN a while back: http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/
The biggest lapse in understanding is that people cannot deal with the order of magnitude differences in numbers involved. Humans are sometimes "the flea" and other times "the elephant". It is difficult to decide intuitively which we are at any particular point. This table[1] demonstrates this point quite well. Humans interact with the environment in ways that are orders of magnitude different in terms of impact, but it is hard to conceptualize that fact.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power)
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In this case, I think it shows uncommon good sense. There have been how many claims that P=NP?

Ironically, the author being this careful makes me think he's more likely to be right.
It's funny how people are so interested in the development practices of Facebook as if that's how it should be done.

It's a bit like the halo effect, where if the company does one thing right (get lucky and dominate the market by being first), then everything else they do must be right too.

If you ask me, they could take what ever approach to development, hiring, training and firing they like and they'd just be as successful.

But, none of that stuff is what made them successful. Therefore, I'm actually not that interested.
Actually, for many years in between the Dutch and German hacker camps, meaning every 2 years, there is Eth0 in the north of the Netherlands. http://eth0.nl/
They have a yearly 'winterlan' weekend as well.
I would like to clarify that I was working on this, on and off, since last year (yes, it takes quite a bit of effort to create video tutorials). I read the tutsplus course page and it seems it is a course for teaching Django to beginners. It seems our approaches are different too.
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It's actually easier to do "creative career repair" on a 6-month gap than a 4-month one.

Don't get me wrong. You always want to avoid being unemployed for 6 months if possible; but there are ways of touching that up.

If you were in full-time school, just use that. You don't even need to lie. The truth is always better-- not because there's major risk of getting caught, but because it's always better to form relationships based on the truth, and the cognitive load of maintaining a lie will take steam out of you even if you never get caught. The "6-month problem" doesn't include full-time students. If you were a part-time student, maybe you can make it look full-time?

However, if you are stuck needing to lie, I advise the "odds and evens" strategy. Rank your choices 1, ..., N. Odd-numbered choices get full disclosure of the truth. Even-numbered choices get the story you want to tell. (Or, if you think your history is that damaged, tell the truth to evens and your new career history to the odds.) This gives you a sense of whether the issue you are covering up is an actual employment problem, or whether it's something else.
If you scroll to the last page, you'll find that this "Xinwen Jiang" character cites: a textbook on computational complexity from the '70s, plus himself (in the apparently nonexistent Computer Technology and Automation), more than ten times. Furthermore, he's been at this since 1993. A dedicated crank if I've ever seen one.
That sounds like laziness. What about deeply researching the subject , connecting with people who know about such stuff, or partnering with some domain expert ?
I'm very skeptical, for the following reasons:

1. The author first released this paper (well, a version of it) in April 2009. It seems unlikely that it would have gone unnoticed for four years if the proof was valid.

2. Aside from a 1979 textbook and a 2010 paper, the author only cites himself (10 times!)

3. The author does not use TeX (see 1. at "Ten Signs A Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is False" http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304)
No, I actually meant this:

https://ohm2013.org/wiki/User:Rootman/HackersOnABike

Being a wiki, these pages should probably be merged.
The point of packaged web apps
I'm not a specialist by any means, but he also ends the paper "All the results show that our polynomial time algorithm can get the same answer as the backtracking algorithm does. No exception.", which doesn't seem to imply a concrete proof.
That's painful to read, I think most people have had similar experiences (though I've never had one quite this bad, they told you not to speak to people? WTF?) At least it teaches you that places like this exist and to listen to your Spidey sense when interviewing for a job.
It's been this way in the visual effects industry for decades. Most of the tools are used through a Posix layer with Perl to keep things tidy. Going into the VFX forums even a few years ago I was amazed at illustrators knowing enough Perl and Python to get the job done, because, "Designers can't code good!"

Even the commercial stuff looks like some graduate students thesis work. A basic Java GUI and about 50+ commandline arguments.
Sometimes "always have a money backup" seems to be as useful advice as "be white and have rich parents".
This is brilliant and looks much more comprehensive. My intention was to use Django to the fullest without the help of a third party library. Mainly to cover some of the recent features of the framework which were not covered elsewhere.
Switzerland to let banks lift veil of secrecy as part of US tax deal
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That's like saying that because hospitals have radiation techs, they should save money by building their own MRIs.

I was trying very carefully not to say that there's no value in these surveys, because they are designed by experts: PhDs, running statistically significant experiments. Sample sizes on the ones I've looked at are in the hundreds, which is pretty huge for a psych experiment. Just slapping one together based on a few classes you took would be irresponsible and probably not very useful as a diagnostic. My complaint is mostly that since we're publicly funding these experiments anyways (one government body buys them from a company, who gives some money to another government body), we should cut out the middle-man.
>Microsoft is not allowing arbitrary OSs to run on Dell's, Acer's, Lenovo's and Toshiba's hardware.

Dell, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba all make Android tablets. At the least, Dell makes Linux Ultrabooks.

I don't get the distinction from Apple. If you don't want a Windows 8 machine,just don't buy it, you can always buy a Linux machine and support manufacturers who make them.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/7-providers-of-pre-instal...

If you can't buy a Macbook(even if you prefer the hardware) without paying for the OS, what entitles you to buy a Lenovo Thinkpad without paying for the OS? Apple takes ~50% of the profits in the PC OEM industry.
Things that should get you banned from the internet.
Be professional. State your concerns to your manager, and probably a level up as well. Make it clear that you don't have any confidence in the project as planned and you think that the cause is a hopeless one.

Then (assuming you want to keep working there, as the author seems to) make it clear that if they still want to go ahead then you are fully committed to helping them to the best of your abilities.

But a project in as bad a state as described?
Get another job.
When I was shopping for laptops I found several Dell models with Ubuntu, all of them were 100 USD more expensive than with Windows.
No, looking back at the track records of Yahoo's acquisitions I think Yahoo should consider buying Google to compete with Google.
If you think this is "inflicting it on others" then maybe you do not understand the meaning of serious childhood bullying. I don't think that grown up geeks are getting friends together to beat fake-geeks into submission or brand them as fags. There's no parity here.
Yes, not looking good

It will certainly be amazing if it is true, but it doesn't look right

The style, the constructs in the article, etc

But yes, translating one NP problem to another NP problem is a n allowed approach and has been done between several NP problems (if you prove your translation is correct, and valid all the time, of course)
I find that very hard to believe atleast based off my experience. How else are you supposed to do USB boot ups? Almost all OS I installed recently has been through USB Drives and not to mention I use a USB keyboard to key into the BIOS.
MESS (MAME's sister project) emulates many of these and has certain unique features (scroll down to Sonic&Knuckles): http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2013/02/11/whats-new-in-0-148u...
well it clearly is a problem. I'm not clicking each link in that.
Fair enough, but people should know that arXiv does not have a crackpot filter (this is not a bad thing. ArXiv is excellent!) Any random pdf claiming to decide P = NP on the internet is going to be crackpot stuff.

(Off topic) My favourite silly arXiv post is this one, mostly for the dramatic title and abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4144
news.ycombinator.com and reddit.com
Your first year associates/analysts are pulling in 6 figures which I think is pretty decent dough, even though it may feel like a middle class wage in the "star cities" you rightly mentioned.

Rent burns it all, and VC-istan and Wall Street both have ageism problems.

It's the same thing as for athletes. A typical major-league professional athlete (which means we're already in the top <0.1 percent) making $600,000 per year isn't really that overpaid when one considers that he has a career that lasts about 6 years, and that his job has extreme physical demands. (Most people pay attention to the celebrity assholes, but the average professional athlete has to be a disciplined in-bed-at-9 type of guy to maintain peak performance.)

When you consider how tight our window of employability is (as soon as we're not "shiny" anymore, we're thrown back into the regular economy, and the locals out there have good reasons not to like us) and how much nonsense we have to put up with, we're not that privileged. Most of the VC-istan hotshots making $175,000 per year will see a 30-50% salary drop (in addition to a -100% ROI on their startup equity) when the bubble goes out.
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> In fact, i'd go so far as to say that if Microsoft ever actually tried to enforce, it would run them into serious regulatory trouble.

And Microsoft probably knows this, and would avoid it at all costs. But having an overly broad EULA helps them push around the n00b Linux installer who doesn't know any better.
Agreed.

I'm from UK and the same is true here. People make friends by doing things together, and spending time together doing similar activities, e.g. working in an office, playing football, going to school/uni together. Finding someone random to be friends with online is just plain wierd. I feel like this kind of 'hook-up' friendship is more acceptable in the US, especially SV.

In British culture we are only just getting over the social stigma of internet dating, and it is starting to become more widespread for people to be proud of meeting their spouses online, but meeting friends online is still a social hurdle, and arguably, less efficient than just turning up to a local football club.