skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The theoretical payoff of sticky bonuses is one minus twice the house edge [1]. The house edge of slot machines varies between 5-15%, so with optimal play you should be able to get out $.70 to $.90 per sticky bonus $1. By cashing out earlier than optimal, you get less return at a steadier rate (a reasonable tradeoff).

[1] http://wizardofodds.com/gambling/glossary/#sticky_bonus
A Change is as Good as a Rest
This doesn't deal with the other thing I mentioned, which is that the blockchains will fork without a global view of the network. This means you could spend btc gained before the fork in one segment and spend them again in another segment, and that if you got new btc in one segment, it would be invalid in all the other segments.

Also, as another has pointed out, this is ridiculously implausible when compared with other currency options.

Many invest money in btc that could have been invested in a hard commodity with emergency currency value like gold or silver. Gold and silver will continue to exist in a normal, usable fashion regardless of the state of online connectivity.
The founders may want to drink their own champagne, and hire a designer for their own site. The bizarre gray textured box that expands upon hovering over the dropdown was an immediate turn off within seconds of visiting the site.

Any design related platform should expect an inordinate amount of aesthetic & UX criticism, so I don't think this comment is out of line.

To offer something constructive, I would suggest developing an overall theme to the thumbnails (e.g. tight cropping on a detail, bringing in the color palette). This will give the homepage a higher level of aesthetic consistency. Your homepage is the most vital marketing piece in regards to convincing high quality talent to get on board.
Which only makes it more remarkable that its popularity continues to grow. That fact suggests there is a special timelessness to the film, since as you say most classics are either prototypical, unconventional, or artistically innovative (like, as was mentioned, Citizen Kane).

The closest analogy I can think of while remaining in the realm of the arts is Vermeer, who was a fairly typical Dutch genre painter unrecognized in his time and ignored for two centuries. Nowadays he is popular and beloved, but unlike Rembrandt who is held as a great master or van Gogh who is held as a quixotic genius, Vermeer himself is taken as wholly mundane; his works simply have some "je ne sais quoi" that resonates with the average person.
Wow. Congratulations.
Flask is definitely easier... it also offers far less. Which is fine in some circumstances -- perhaps many -- but the fact that Django has a steeper learning curve is due to the fact that it covers a lot more ground in terms of things many if not most web applications need.

This doesn't make it better, but it also doesn't make it worse.
Chaumian cash requires a central trusted authority just like every other non-bitcoin scheme anyone has ever come up with. The success of bitcoin and the repeated failure of "better" systems shows that your analysis of which properties people care about is wrong.
re: #2 I'm not sure what you mean "if we ever got large enough to compete with large US corporations". It's not like we don't already and at some point we magically hit a point where we have to compete with Godaddy, Verisign et al. We have to compete with them already and ...

#3 yes, you are absolutely correct. Taxes here impede our competitiveness.
Seriously, who uses GUI nowadays?
I honestly didn't appreciate "A Christmas Carol" until I was thirty.

The spirit of Christmas Present is Dionysus, and I think this is the Santa archetype either in prototype or metaphor. Portrayal of wealth is great social commentary. The entire play is almost entirely devoid of Christianity, the only mention of God in the whole play, is interesting. Time travel? The future represented as death? Awesome.
These are not existential risks, they are real security issues. If there is not even a meaningful definition of Bitcoin's security -- a definition that can be used in a mathematical proof, without circular logic -- then how can Coinbase make any kind of claim about the security of their own system? To put it another way, suppose Bitcoin is inherently insecure -- suppose that nothing you do can prevent a polynomial time attack (this is not unheard of in crypto; see Merkle Puzzles) -- can you even claim that Coinbase is secure?
Why do Indian developers do so poorly in Google code jam while Chinese programmers excel.
Wow.

That's an interesting read, if nothing else.
And like that, a discussion about the Syrian internet blackout devolves into an argument about bitcoin and currency.
So the company who owns the rights to it can make a nice chunk of change off new book purchases (especially the purchases made by the buzz from the movie).
It is largely used in black market transactions, it exists without any regulations at all, and there are almost no mainstream businesses that actually deal in it (and even those that do are doing so through an intermediary service that is giving them dollars/etc.).

Please provide citation that silk road and other black markets are the majority of bitcoin's economy.
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Carmack has been thinking about functional programming for a while and posted his thoughts on applicable lessons for C++ a year ago:

http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programm...

He's a great developer and has always pushed boundaries. I look forward to his postmortem after this project is finished.
after re-reading it, you do appear to be correct. Thanks for the correction.
The "actual data" is just as problematic, because they took it from the speed limit increases in 1987 and 1996. Fast forward two or three decades and we have much safer cars, which will completely change the injury data. Meanwhile modern cars are significantly more efficient and have far better pollution control systems. On page 4 of the paper Benthem writes, "Perhaps surprisingly, the costs from pollution-induced adverse health impacts are about as large as the costs from traffic fatalities." (Which is astounding considering the number of traffic fatalities.) But now we have gasoline powered cars that produce exhaust which is cleaner than the ambient air taken into the engine in certain cities. We have fully electric cars. If your concern is pollution then you would do better with legislative efforts to get older cars off the road and eliminating their pollution entirely rather than only reducing it, which would also save you from unnecessarily slowing down newer vehicles that cause little to no impact on air quality.
Which Grimaldi's is it again? Famous Grimaldi's? Original Grimaldi's? Famous Original Grimaldi's? World Famous Grimaldi's?
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true freedom mean the freedom to knowingly break laws. with out that freedom, it isn't truly free...
What kind of help are we talking about?

I'm on the internet, which means I'm wherever you are. If you aren't able to find anyone locally, please feel free to contact me.
Are North Korean Long-Range Missiles Real?
No, because things can be sufficiently stable that people are no longer in contest over the fundamentals like food and water, but not sufficiently to have a widely-standardized currency.

Gold is useful because everyone, everywhere recognizes its value independent of any other entity. This happens simply as a function of gold's rarity and manipulability; if you're looking for a natural resource to stand in as a currency, gold meets the requirements better than other materials. This is so, and will remain so despite any human ongoings.
They were using asymmetric crypto on their CC data column?
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>Also interested in their business model and how they plan to achieve profitability. Any VC worth their weight wouldn't touch a startup like this with a 10-foot pole.

Zzzzzz. I find this reading is incredibly dense. What VC, profitablity, business model and such crap?

They made a fun app, they are selling it. They don't intend to become the next Instagram or whatever. They just want to sell their cheaply produced app and make a decent buck. Like thousands of developers out there. Isn't it obvious?

Not everything is a startup, looking for some VC, to validate some business model.

Most apps people use are made like this. Including games -- which don't wait VCs or have "business models" other than: release the game, sell copies, profit.

Of the top of my head, some examples of similar successful apps: iA Writer, Reeder, Letterpress, KitCam, Foldify, Soulver, Brushes, Camera+, Flashlight, Hundreds, Procreate, ...
I'm disappointed you downvoters are so stuck in your ways that you can't imagine it's possible things could ever be improved by getting out of text mode.
Right, but the owners of the RR continue to charge rent in perpetuity.

The difference between straight labor and creative work is that the artist is, in theory, building an exploitable asset. They only time they get paid directly for their labor (and labor alone) is when they're operating under a work for hire agreement (e.g. a major studio movie).

In this case, the vast armies of cast and crew are just like the RR workers. They clock in, do their day, get paid for that - and only that - then move on to the next job.

It's a rare instance where a capital-intensive creative work (which can include novels when you factor the cost of print runs, distribution, and promotion) don't involve the backers insisting on substantial control. In this sense, it's pretty similar to VCs backing startups.

If the creative talent manages to self-fund and self-distribute, it's not that they're getting paid over and over for one effort. They're commending royalties because they managed to play several roles at once.
Here in Australia there is a move towards this same technology. Vehicle registration stickers are being phased out because the registration of vehicles are auto queried by police vehicles, RTA cameras, etc

I'm pretty happy about this because I don't drive. I ride a bicycle, and the two times I've been involved in a genuine aggressive altercation with another vehicle, the car had stolen license plates.

One of those times the police had planned to charge the passenger with attempted murder (We were both travelling south, I was going about 25 km/h, they pulled in close beside me, and opened the car door into me). When it turned out the license plate was stolen/hadn't been registered for 10 years, I was at a loss as to why anyone would want to drive around with stolen plates on their car (me being a law abiding citizen), and the police said it's to avoid speed cameras and to steal petrol (turn up to petrol station, fill up, drive off). Apparently petrol theft is like one of the number one crimes here
> The block transaction cap is just a hardcoded value in the client. Like many things that change on a monthly basis in the reference client, it can and will be changed when the time is right.

No, the block size is a validation rule. Changing it will require a hard-fork. That must happen if bitcoin is to scale. But it's not an easy change.
No, he is assuming the app is a joke app.

Not that the app is a joke (not real), but that the app is a joke app (a fun app, made cheaply, not intended to "change the world", be the next Facebook, or promote a heavy business model).
While technically true, this is a bit misleading since VAT is often quoted as the total amount (say "15% VAT") and this is not what is charged at each step (as would happen with a pyramiding gross excise tax). Instead what happens is the VAT is split up and a portion of it is collected at each step.
People can write bad checks or create fake money orders too. It holds as much value as the faith the recipient puts into it.
Do you know about the recent papers using DSGE models as priors for time series models? e.g. section 4.7.3 here:

http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~schorf/papers/bayesian_macro...

(this is the closest I could find to a self-contained link, sorry). This stuff's not great, but I don't know what you mean by "useless for prediction". And, given a model, it's pretty trivial to figure out which shocks contributed when; this is the whole point of Impulse Response Functions, variance decompositions, etc.

I've said this elsewhere on the page, but I'll repeat it here: this stuff isn't popular because it's logically airtight and compelling, but because it seemed to have done pretty well empirically. So the criticism that dsge models are unrealistic isn't very interesting; everyone knows that already, especially the people who use the stuff (for the most part. I'm sure there are some dsge truthers too). If anyone has an approach that works better empirically at addressing core macro questions, especially the newly important interplay between the real economy and credit markets, this would be a great time to put it out there. There are a lot of people paying attention.
I'd add that I have seen some endusers complain because we implemented features they were asking for. Not because those features were done poorly, but because the change requires a slight change to the user's workflow (software is many things, but it's not psychic).

I also remembered a new hardware product going out to a satellite office in $other_country, where the favourite sport of the sales staff was coming up with excuses for not meeting targets. This next-gen bit of hardware had everything they'd asked for and used as an excuse for not meeting those targets, and it was a nice bit of kit that would sell well (I'd previously worked in the industry it was targeted at and wished I'd had it then). Supplied with the first production model, they were asked for comments. The sole comment that was returned was "well, at least it's not green".

That company also gave me an insight to your #3. We had SAP-like software but the company treated us like shit so we were looking to replace them. It turns out there are (were as of 2009) no cheap options - they all failed at nested bills-of-material. A product might be a full box with manual and other parts. That product holds the assembled product and a couple of other assemblies. That assembled product holds several boards and subassemblies. Those subassemblies then require other parts. Rinse, repeat over several products and you have a system where there's nothing useful on offer at the cheap end of the spectrum (without heavy/clunky modification). Most of the cheap stuff was entertaining a retail mindset - "item A comes from supplier B/why would you need to ever put A and B in a kit?". Even the vaunted Salesforce needed customising to handle the idea of kits - and that is only a single level of nested BOMs.
> the software security angle keeps coming back to me because it's so easy to explain

Or, to rephrase the standard pitch for Bitcoin: a bitcoin is as easy to steal as a credit card number, and as untraceable when it disappears as cash. ;)
One of his best posts imho. Worth reading and reading again for any Object Oriented developers.
I don't think Bitcoin is even trying to solve the same problem Chaum's ecash was. Bitcoin is about creating a distributed, consistent transaction ledger; ecash is more like a conditionally anonymized electronic certified check.
Yes, if your adversary has physical access to your home, your computer, or other methods of installing backdoor software on it then the question of password security is rendered moot.

You can't have a secret and type it on a compromised computer too.
CS2 is not free. Using that page without actually purchasing the product is no different than downloading a torrent and crack from TPB.

> The serial numbers below should only be used by customers who legitimately purchased CS2 or Acrobat 7 and need to maintain their current use of these products.
UCLA '12, stainless was our only option if I recall. Even amongst my engineering buddies, few actually knew of the ritual/ring and that they could obtain one! I have to say I like mine =)
Do you have a link with more about that?

I recall reading a discussion on the forums about doubling the value of MAX_BLOCK_SIZE in the near-term. I didn't realize that old clients would outright reject larger blocks.

Either way, sounds like everyone is in agreement that this will have to happen inevitably.
I don't care about a "collective common will".

And I don't care about a tyranny of the majority, so I guess we're even.

Nothing can be done if everybody has to agree 100%.

If "something being done" involves use of force to compel someone who doesn't agree, then it shouldn't ought to be done in the first place. All too often it does. :-(

but it's still better than any separate, private, interest.

How is it better than private individuals interacting on a purely voluntary basis?
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Thanks for the reply.

While all suggestion are useful the biggest take away for me is livesettings. TBH I can't think of how I would use it at the moment but I can see that it could come in handy later.
Any word on a Quake port to iOS?
I also had to make one last minute hack change to the original media -- the Red Cross organization had asserted their trademark rights over red crosses (sigh) some time after we released the original Wolfenstein 3D game, and all new game releases must not use red crosses on white backgrounds as health symbols. One single, solitary sprite graphic got modified for this release.

I always wondered about color choices for some games' health packs.
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The Mission has only fairly recently become young, white hipster-ville though. Soma seems to go up and down with the tech scene, so assuming the current growth isn't the same kind of bubble (I don't think it is), that is just going to continue to climb as well. Certainly if all those people gentrifying the surrounding areas stay put for any length of time, that kind of collective monetary influence is going to change any city policies that may keep the Tenderloin how it is
IIRC, it would have required me to add the 'universe' repository.
Intel has recently released a permissively-licensed OpenMP runtime (http://www.openmprtl.org/) though, and Intel's compiler team is working on OpenMP support (http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/391189, slides at http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-04/bokhanko-bataev-slides.pdf) in Clang/LLVM using it. I suspect it won't be long before there's parity on this point.
Assuming that we can just reconnect the segments after a brief downtime, like we do now if a backhoe accidentally hits the line into your apartment complex or something. Such a situation is not necessarily so simply resolved in wartime, when opposing factions have a serious interest in depriving telecomms from one another.
Not quite. Credit card numbers can be (and mostly are) stolen from websites that accepts them. That's not true for Bitcoin - you have to gain access to the customers computers that stores the private keys. In that regard, Bitcoin is actually much more secure.

Edit: I just want to add that I think its really silly that most of the online transactions are still done by a series of numbers that can be easily copied and re-used by whoever gets them. We should have much better solutions by now.
What is a better way to maintain a distributed ledger? Also, is it even theoretically possible to get bitcoin security right in your opinion? Is it practical?
That's not my impression of the criticism of agent based models and I don't think there's a criticism of the models per se. Computationally intensive models with heterogeneous agents are used in parts of macro (an office neighbor of mine in grad school was using these models to look at efficient taxation, for example).

They're not part of the core of macroeconomics because AFAIK they haven't been shown to do better than existing approaches at addressing the fundamental macro issues: the business cycle, monetary policy, forecasting, etc. (I'm not that familiar with the literature, so if there are key papers I'm missing I apologize).

I'm repeating this because HN seems to have a disproportionately high number of people working on agent-based models. If you're working on that stuff and you want to take over macro, give new insights on monetary policy. That will do it.
I got it from: "So asking people to pony-up that kind of money is a little shocking."

I was confused by his phrasing. I thought he meant it was an unknown quantity because he had not read it.
How you feel about it is irrelevant; what matters are the desires of the employer and employee, and what they're willing to trade.
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I absolutely love pyramid, but I found the learning curve for it to be much higher than flask or django. If pyramid had a few more things working in a simple way out of the box I would go for it every time.
Doesn't that reduce sales?
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Federalism is a bitch huh.
If you want a PhD in Econ, do a math undergrad. An econ minor in addition might help a little but is optional.
I stay in contact regularly with the host (on the day of as well as leading up to my trip) because of some of those same concerns. to help alleviate any of those concerns in the first place, I don't book a host that :

- has poor rating
- has less than a certain number of reviews in the past 3 months
- looks like they own a ton of properties as rentals, not their personal residence.
- responds snarky or in a condescending way to reviewers who voice level headed concerns
- have less than 3 photos
- don't have photos of the actual bed/sleeping device
- have more photos of the neighborhood and google street view photos of whole foods nearby than of the actual place that I would be staying
- doesn't respond within 48 hours

all that said, to answer your question, I believe AirBNB has "emergency" services available at any time that you can call and they will put you in a place for your trip in the event that you're at the airport and they flake out on you.
Relevant: http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...
Break SHA256, and you can cause hash collisions that allows you to easily mine blocks until 51% of the network switches to a better hashing algorithm (which should happen pretty quick, because it'll be obvious that someone broke it). To steal users money, you'd have to break ECDSA.

Edit: I wasn't 100% exact. It gives you more [1] than easily mining blocks, but still not that much power so that I would call it "Winning".

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_...
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According to NHTSA, the sharpest decline in fatality rate / 100mm VMT preceded 1984, and since 1996 has dropped by something like 6%. What mainstream automotive advances lead you to believe that cars are so much safer that van Benthem's numbers are wildly off?

Similarly: the 1990s dominate van Bentham's numbers and correspond to the introduction of OBD-x. Cars are more efficient now, but by how much? There are hybrids on the roads, but most people don't drive them, and we won't be outlawing Volvos from 2000 any time soon.
Yup and philly trucks seem to have more choices then nyc too overall, especially around some of the colleges.
Temple has a few really good crepe trucks and drexel/upenn has some good tacos. Most of the good ones always seem to have a line. I'm sure theres plenty more that I havnt seen, don't spend that much time in the city any more.
Undergraduate econ is nothing like the PhD work. This is a little bit of a problem sometimes in graduate admissions...