skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, arbitrarily large gaps between prime numbers exist. But there are no efficient methods for locating gaps of a particular length. The largest gap for which the end primes are known, so far, is of length 337,446.

The recent work summarized on the linked page proves something else, namely that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers separated by only 388,284. The goal is to get that number down to two and to prove the twin prime conjecture. (In your interpretation this would be like saying every prime is within 2 of another prime, which is obviously false.)
This is "concurrent" in the increasingly common Erlang sense of the word:

"The real world is ’concurrent’. It is made up of a bunch of things (or actors) that interact with each other ina loosely coupled way with limited knowledge of each other." -- Grant Olson "Why Stackless" 2006

"Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which programs are designed as collections of interacting computational processes that may be executed in parallel." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_computing
This is probably a crazy suggestion, but TechCrunch may want to think about filtering the stories they end up publishing.

There's a reason Mashable exists, we don't need another site publishing a advertisement as a story.
I had tmobile in Austin for years and its was always superb. I only switched for an incentive I definitely regret.
Any potential to leverage the Haswell hardware TM intrinsics?
right... didn't I say that opens up a format for more sub lists?
I think the focus of this discussion ignores an important point: some of these companies, perhaps a decent number, raise these rounds because they probably wouldn't be able to get fewer investors to pony up the full amount they're seeking.
Is this really the best their marketing department can come up with? "Use IE and it's like planing millions of trees!"
Anyone got independent verification? What about across a representative sample of sites and apps? As it stands, this seems too easily cooked to be accepted at face value.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Turkey

Globalize human rights!
A lot of these stimuli would have been better if they'd used pictures instead of "How do you say [misleading/too specific definition of term that requires some thought to arrive at a word for].

For example: present a picture of someone holding a paper grocery bag with an arrow pointing at it, then ask "What's the word for this item?"

Doesn't work for all of them (e.g. you can't draw a picture of a moot point?) but I'm just sayin'.
So this is with one tab? Okay, how does it perform with 20? How does it perform vs. noscript?
The 85 crash wasn't triggered by a race to the bottom in prices. It was triggered by a glut of games that just weren't much fun to play.

Sound familiar?
- "Most companies" sell user data? "Slimy?" Incredible bias here. Wouldn't be so bad if you provided some evidence to support up your position.

- ToS of don't have to be "hefty", they can be written in plain English.

Try using facts instead of loaded, emotional language to support your argument next time.
Belief that numbers can be interpreted usefully without a rigorous statistical approach is an enormous fallacy; I don't really see why the burden of proof lies on me.

Once you do apply rigor, you'll find that what the numbers can tell you provides very little help in guiding application design (unless you're optimizing for extremely simple measurable metrics, eg, Zynga).

Note that Zynga themselves copies a full game design, and then applies metrics to optimizing games for addiction and spendthrift response.

The numbers also can't tell you that what you really need to do is rework your application's entire interaction model to cleanly integrate feature X, Y, and Z -- which will also be far too expensive to even attempt to A/B test.

Most analytics users are simply playing an expensive game of "hot or cold".
Google's Washington Insider
Companies I respect (including Apple) ask before gathering usage data; they don't hide it in the ToS that you and I both know nobody will read.

Do you object to asking users? If so, why? My guess is that you know the answer will usually be "no".

See also: opt-out vs. opt-in e-mail spam.
I bet this will change after a few patches are applied.
Using an unlocked AT&T iPhone 4 in the Chicago area. Many places have not completed the "refarming" effort of switching the 1700 MHz towers to 1900 MHz, so most of the time I am on Edge (2.5G).

When I happen to be in an iPhone 4 compatible cell, the 3G is pretty solid, often 6mbit down, 2mbit up.

Waiting for the 5S to upgrade - hoping the LTE and HSPA+ is good.
These "beautiful" labels are also a little hard to take since they always seem to come from the creator of the darned thing, a source that's a bit biased.
To play devil's advocate, how exactly do you propose they store such a user preference? And keep in mind cellphones don't have stable IPs.
When I inquired the rep about how accounts that would still be under their contract plans -- what they told me was you'll still have locked to contract for full-term of the contract, however, adjusting rate plan / service (probably with some limitation -- like reducing lines) won't affect your remaining contract -- so you may want to check to see if there's any way you can make adjustments without any consequences.
I have used y'all for as long as I can remember (although not exclusively...it is mixed in with "you guys", "you people", and others according to whichever sounds best in that particular sentence), even though the farthest I was ever away from the West Coast for my first 47 years was just outside Yosemite in California, and I knew nobody who was from the South or spoke with any obvious Southern influence.

I think I must have heard it on TV and picked it up.

Anyone else here use it despite no Southern connection among friends or family?
I’m not an artist, designer or programmer, but I’m a Maker.
According to them it's not the same product (remember listening to a Mixergy interview where it was stressed that they were different - different code, solving the PM problem in a different way).

Edit: just found the product page for Basecamp Classic (http://basecamp.com/classic), man it looks pretty ugly!
> i wonder if my microcell will work with tmobile?

It will not. Instead of a dedicated unit T-mo uses UMA to allow phones to make calls via any wifi connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network

I believe it had previously been implemented in hardware (BB Curve etc.), these days it's implemented via software for Android handsets. Not yet supported on iphones.
Alcatel-Lucent owns Bell Labs today.
I need 5 more votes for my submission to student startup competition!!
I don't want 80% of the services and have to build or manage the other 20%. I want 100% of the services.

An app I am running uses ec2, s3, sqs, ses, rds, swf, elb, elasticache, cloudfront, cloudwatch, route 53, and opsworks. Take any of those out and you give me a potential headache, time sink, or out-of-scope responsibility. It all just works and while I am sure I could save as much as 50% by going cheap and rolling it all myself, my time is valuable, I'd have worse uptime, and with proper reservation of resources my aws bills are, in relative terms, marginal.
That assumes the customers know about it, and I think you're giving companies too much credit to assume they will disclose it.
Well, technical solutions aren't the answer in cases like this. What we need is political buy-in. We need people to feel as we feel. If enough people felt that way, then this wouldn't be happening. And since not enough people feel that way, then no technical solution will matter, unfortunately.
This lecture is part of Dr. Sapolsky's Stanford class on 'Behavioral Biology', which in itself is captivating.
| In other words, it's almost as if the average
| person understands the line between fantasy
| and reality!

Then why must these fantasies be hidden in the closet? Do you honestly believe that there wouldn't be a lynch mob if someone admitted to fantasizing about children (but had no intention to ever act on it)?
Wow, how crazy is it that every scientific study by Microsoft happens to prove the superiority of their products! What a lucky coincidence, since we all know they would never fudge the results.
Well, that can't happen where there isn't public transportation. Also, where I live, if you're trespassing in people's yards, you might get shot. And yet it's a super-safe place to live. Who would have thought?
I fail to see how this could be relevant.
The best part to me was that it was actually a pretty good music video, and the interactivity adds to it.
You are so incredibly misinformed. An address book cannot simply be mined. Those are extended permissions and access requires explicit opt in from the user at the OS level before the OS exposes any of that information.

Furthermore, do you have any data on how much battery, or bandwidth heap uses? No? Ok, please spare the FUD.

This is clearly about allowing developers to see how their users use their apps so they can improve the experience and make them more useful not about snooping on contacts/photos (which heap clearly does NOT facilitate). It goes without saying that the user has to be made aware that certain data is collected. I wonder, have you ever heard of a privacy policy?
There are more recent examples but to make it interesting, I'm going to reference this TC article from last fall which uses these examples: Exec, Socialcam, Pair.

Exec was led by Sam Altman!

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/27/party-rounds-excellent/
NYC native here.

Mary - mare-ree

Merry - meh-ree

Marry - mah-ree
Cool, thanks!

Couldn't get it to work in FF (Mac/22.0) - it asked for camera permission, camera activity light went on, but no images and constant re-prompts for permission. But, worked quite well in Chrome (Mac/27.0.1453.93).
I have to give you props, because that's pretty clever. Anyway, assuming base 10 in my notation does not bias the results.
Here is the study: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/0/7204397B-DF32-4...

And admittedly it is in detail including sites used and test bed.

The difference in power draw upon firing IE, Mozilla and Chrome is small, but it is there. In both, flash and bare bones tests. I do not know how big of a difference it will make on portable computers though.
The biggest problem I've seen over the years is that Wikipedia is not edited by experts, and in general is edited by losers.

These are the sorts of losers that watch the RSS feeds of the little kingdom of bullshit they've carved out in their own corner of Wikipedia and relentlessly fight anyone trying to edit THEIR articles. Until Wikipedia gives some sort of weight to experts (paid perhaps?) instead of unemployed shut ins, the quality will continue to deteriorate.
Too bad every time I start it, "Your browsing session closed unexpectedly". For once I expect it to close expectedly, when I click on the bloody 'X'.
> To what extent do we know whether the same thing is happening in other countries?

In many countries there is a single national telco which is by law or in practice a branch of the government.

> Do modern democracies tend to have laws that protect the public from this sort of indiscriminate surveillance?

Yes, to me this is a defining characteristic of a modern democracy. But they all have a process by which governmental authorities can bypass those protections in specific circumstances such as criminal investigations. This takes the form a court order or a subpoena.

This document appears to be a blanket grant, by a court, of a near-real-time data pipe with no specificity whatsoever.
By all means users should be asked for permission. I can't speak for others but I personally don't often read ToS and that is my choice. In the event that there is something there that I object to and I miss it because I didn't read something I was supposed to I'm not going to cry about it.

What do you suppose the best way to ask for permission is? Please provide actual examples, perhaps from the companies you respect.
Hiding what most people post on Facebook is how I spend a minimum amount of time on Facebook too..
I think that works the same for email, we can tell who sent it by address and name, but people still sign it, most of the time with name only. I do.

Weirder here, and I really hope he doesn't have/do that on a twitter account though...
I have a GSD and a rottweiller. I am not saying that dogs don't have REM sleep. I'm saying that they sleep lighter than I do and they have for thousands of years. Cavemen let dogs eat eat their trash and in return the dogs acted as sentries.
Why do I need a separate login account for MyAtlassian vs BitBucket?
Christian Quaker
As someone who lived through the Stored Procedure hell of the late 90's and early 00's, can someone explain to me why this shouldn't scare the bejeezus out of me?
Wikipedia was never intended to be a formalization of semantic web (wikidata.org is more along those lines, if that's what you're looking for). So what's the emergency?

The decline in number/quality of editors is alarming, but what does it have to do with taxonomy? And how do the links fit into the picture?

TL;DR A random set of barely coherent assertions followed by OMG, Wikipedia is over
Yup, that's the first thing I look for in a browser - energy efficiency.
I wonder if they could just use a simple locking scheme to prevent more than 1 parser from parsing the same feed at the same time. This sounds simpler than conflict resolution, to me.

You may want to check out Aphyr's "Call Me Maybe" series of posts about distributed databases: http://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen

The short version is that convergent conflict resolution seems intimidating but works better than locking and synchronization.
I see a dozens of meetup groups for Melbourne. Pick one or two and go along.
It's not an ad machine, it stores your face and personal information and that data will be sold as a service as soon as things start to look bad for them. Nobody cares about personalized ads on the internet, they care that in a few years they'll be walking down the street and with just a camera and a computer anybody who's willing to pay will know everything about them.
They are substantially more customisable than an iMac.
That is a "naked license" and would likely result in github losing their trademark, as they would be abandoning it by not controlling the nature and quality of services provided by the licensee. (SFW: http://www.ivanhoffman.com/naked.html)
it looks like it was with 3 tabs open. It obviously needs more testing since the difference between three browsers is small. The study can be easily replicated, as the procedure is mentioned in detail in the study's pdf.
that essay is 10 years old. time for a new summary.

-bowerbird
Or perhaps they only publish the results when they win. Just like almost all companies out there.
Spot on. The power of crowds is immense, but it lacks the ability to focus for for sustained periods of time. Hence, experts.
Lol, yes I did notice I've stopped using wikipedia.... no that was Myspace.

Very strange article.
Ask HN: Starting a one-man app business. LLC?
I'm going to be working on a few apps, and I'd like to make sure I have all my bases covered from the business side. Due to the onslaught of patent trolls recently, it seems like an LLC would be a good idea. However:

1. Some people say that LLCs provide minimal to no protection for single-person businesses. Is this true?

2. I'm in California, and there's a hefty $800 tax on LLCs. However, it's likely I won't be doing most of my development in California, as I'm also going to be travelling for the next year (or longer). There won't be an office or any other employees — it'll just be me and my laptop. Can I create my LLC in a state with lower taxes? Will the fact that I'm a legal resident of California complicate matters? In particular, I'm worried about d_r's comment from a couple of years ago: "One caveat for those conducting business from California is that you have to pay the CA $800 franchise tax even if you incorporate in another state." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399803)

3. Is it a good idea to create an LLC for each of my apps, or is one more than enough?

4. If I form an LLC, should I create a separate bank account for the business, or is it enough to just do careful bookkeeping on my personal accounts?

5. How risky is it to forego the LLC and just be a sole proprietor?

Any advice (or pointers to reading material) would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Sci0036: What Investors Look For: There Is No I In Team
The blame here lies squarely with Apple for allowing the carriers to pull this sort of bullshit with their customers. They're the ones who implemented this whole carrier profile mess on their platform.

They could take a lesson from Tron.
Explain this then: Wikipedia's getting more views than ever, more edits than ever, and more editors than ever.

That's like having the fastest-growing website on the internet - I got three views yesterday and 10 today, so I'm experiencing 330% growth!!! Statistics are meaningless without being scaled to something, in this case internet populations. I'm not about to write off wwikipedia, but your own graphs show the #s of editors and edits to the English language version stagnating over the last 2 years.
It does appear to be still down, lovely.
In portable computing, it can help battery last longer. Just because it is not user facing, does not mean it should be ignored by engineers.
> What do you suppose the best way to ask for permission is? Please provide actual examples, perhaps from the companies you respect.

Literally ask for permission. That's what Apple does, as does almost every other traditional desktop software developer. On first launch, or when an error occurs, or when some other event that would involve sending personal/usage data to Apple occurs, they:

- Ask if you want to send the data

- Provide details on what kind of information will be sent (including, in some cases, providing access to the data itself)

- ... and usually give you the option to always send that kind of data
Android keyboard now stands alone
Job hunting is like online dating. If you get emotional about any one person or job in advance, you will become miserable. Nobody owes you anything and you can be rejected for any reason.

Be smart, be prepared to apply widely, and take the view that rejection is the default case.
Last I checked, their unlimited data plan came with 2 gigs to tether with. Maybe that's what you got?
As mentioned in their 2013 PyCon talk, the problem with HTM (at least with current designs) is the hard limits to transaction sizes. They are attempting run run entire interpreted code loops in transactions, while HTM is designed more around smaller transactions.

Specifically I think Haswell requires that all mutated references must fit in the L1 cache. That doesn't really leave much wiggle room
College grad hacks ICSE, ISC results, shows up India’s cyber flaws
Kind of like the cooking show on CNN Turkey during the protests there last week ...
Sure there's an opt-out -- don't use their DNS servers. Throw Google's or OpenDNS's into your device's settings.
Glad we have the FISA court to make sure the NSA is only able to have access to every single phone record. Otherwise they might overreach.
People around Sioux Falls, SD call it "the city" doesn't mean it should be added to the chart.
You'll note that the primary graph on the first page is new editors per month, which is fairly stable at ~20k/mo total and ~7k/mo English. As long as that number doesn't start plummeting, there's fresh blood coming in and Wikipedia's future is assured.

Also, I think edits per month on EN and DE are slowly down simply because they're already so large and mature: these days most articles on most major topics that are, from a functional point of view, complete. This wasn't the case a few years ago, when even a layman could find things to fix everywhere and Wikipedia's article and edit counts were rocketing.

As for page views, my theory is that Google's Knowledge Graph has reduced the need for actually clicking through to WP, since most Google searches for basic Wikipedia-type info now come up with capsule summaries (often extracted from WP) that may well answer your question.
I thought the same thing. But then again, I waited in line at the grand opening of Florida's first Wawa because I missed them so much.
In practice (at least in the US), people have been prosecuted for images that were clearly of adults dressed as children, and images that were drawings of children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_cartoon_pornog...

And though it was struck down in 2002:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Pornography_Prevention_A...

In the UK, Operation Ore resulted in the arrests of 3,744 people, of which very few had any tangible evidence of having, ever purchasing, or accessing child pornography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore
Do what I did: Leave and let everything you learnt from whats wrong with the situation guide how you develop for the rest of your career.
Such a comment is useless flamebait without any actual sources and data to back it up.
That's because people don't think of LA as a city, just a slightly more urbanized area within the larger semi-suburban expanse of the metro area.
This sounds like the kind of place where one could put in his 40 hours and bootstrap a project on the side. As long as you can sort of disconnect yourself and avoid feeling overwhelmed, you could also put in just a solidly competent performance and enjoy the steady pay.

If that doesn't interest you, then quit immediately for greener pastures. Even if there's no risk to you, you only get one career, and staying there is wasting time.
To be fair, the study's authors have made it clear in the study's pdf that it was commissioned on Microsoft's request and other requests that MS made and how the test beds were running. It looks fairly neutral and can be replicated.

They do not make recommendations or conclusions for MS, it is MS that interprets study's results. If looked at power draw, the difference between browsers is small, but IE has an advantage albeit small. Also, the study was done by Kurt Roth of MIT-Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy and looking at the pdf, it shows.
How could anyone possibly care about such a thing?
You get to choose which side of the punching bag you can punch every four years -- the right side or the left side.
At least in the United States, if the Grid goes down, then your home solar system (including battery supply) is automatically shut down as well for safety reasons.
Been there. You're in no harm as long as you leave within the next 6 months. Don't let yourself grow bitter. Don't get to the point where you feel you have to leave now! You don't want your sanity or your career to suffer. Once you become "damanged" it will take a while to "heal" but during that time other hiring managers will pick it up like a sixth sense.

If you make the exit and explain to anyone who asks why you are leaving that you feel you are under utilized (no negative remarks) then they have to accept that. If they press, be diplomatic. Good luck.
Taksim Solidarity Press Release 5 June 2013
"Her is some first hand report that came in on another list, source should be trusted, as the sender cooperates with EDRi "

http://cryptome.org/2013/06/turkey-situation.htm

"Soon, I know, religious reactionaries (not all religious people are reactionary) will attack demonstrators."
>I have yet to find a single question where I could not find scientific papers which shed light on the answer.

Is it the end of science, then?

>Furthermore, in absence of evidence to the contrary, I believe that humans are fundamentally rational

There's a multitude of evidence to the contrary, and very little evidence for.
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