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> "Price is What You Pay, Value is What You Get".

Yes, the real estate people at the supermarket must have decided that the plot has a value of more than $1M. They might be wrong or even foolish to think so, but they must clearly think that is the case, otherwise they'd be fools to pay it.

This is why those kinds of plans are kept secret as long as possible, because the supermarket hopes to pick up the plot at much closer to $100K than $1M.

What Buffet means, quite sensibly, is that you should only buy an asset when (your assessment of) its value is a lot higher than its price, not when its price accurately reflects its value.
how on earth did he come up with putting the laptop in the fridge?
It's not clear that the Guardian owns the rights to relicense the assets, especially since they apparently were included by accident. If they don't own the licensing rights then the apparent license would be invalid. So for all practical purposes for third parties that might be interested in using the assets, I think they would have to be considered them improperly licensed regarding this Apache License "release" until The Guardian shows that this is not the case. And given that it was an accident, I don't see why they would do that.

[edit: clarity]
I'm surprised there isn't more innovation in the media regarding reporting on complex issues.

To truly describe complex issues, readers need the ability to both get a high-level view of the story and drill down to details and smaller narratives at times. Along those lines, I'm not sure why primary source material (raw transcripts of interviews, unpublished photos, links to source material) aren't included in even short reports by default.

In my mind, complex stories should be reported in a format similar to a small, mostly self-contained wiki where more details are linked or hidden by default.

The lack of innovation here surprises me because the news media is starving for reasons for people to consume their content. Involved, wiki-style reporting would be very hard to rip off.
> Also, why is it ridiculous to describe execution time as "time complexity"?

It's unnecessarily different than the normal definition of "complexity." When you say "complex" in normal conversation, you mean "complicated" or "hard to understand." You would never say "the time complexity of getting to the airport is 30 minutes."

It also begs the question. Wrapping your head around the idea of asymptotic complexity is the hard part of understanding big O. Defining big O in terms of complexity doesn't help if you don't understand the concept of asymptotic complexity yet.

I think the best way to explain this, by far, is with a graph.
It's interesting how people ignore the irony of the nature of Snowden's new home

If the world was Snowden's oyster – if he had the luxury to choose to live freely anywhere in the world and yet he still chose to live in Russia – then pointing out the irony and hypocrisy would have merit.

As it stands, he had little or no luxury of choice. What country would have taken him that wouldn't put him within the reach of the force from which he is fleeing?
...This difference is made up through goodwill is exactly why its a fudge factor, by definition.
And the flat screen TV? It seems to me that this family has many issues, one of them being how to prioritize. One would think that someone struggling at that level would sell the TV, and get books from the library for entertainment. How many of the kids have phones? I know of several upper-middle-class families where the kids have to earn their own money to buy get a cell.

A culture of independence.
Law schools would not make a change like that without buy-in from the employers that allow them to justify their tuition. If tech companies bought in the same way, I think you'd quickly see a change in how schools fill their classes.
It's an open source project.
https://github.com/petethepig/devtools-terminal
You can check out the source code and even build the whole thing yourself )
But presumably you also don't have the money to buy the advertised goods that they would make their money off of if it were ad-generated revenue (unless it were goods that you had to buy anyway, but I doubt Wikipedia would be making money off ads for ramen and heating oil).
True, but the risk profile for a late-state venture investor and an investor in public markets are very different. Let's say a company's valuation starts at 2 billion and drops to 200 million at some later date. If someone invested 100 million at 2 billion valuation, their losses from that value drop are very different. The private investor with downside protection due to liquidation preference gets their 100 million back, while the investor in public markets would get back only about 10 million. Late stage investments, such as those in Snapchat, are essentially bets that the value of the company at exit will not be below the value of the round in which they are investing.
Cohort testing. For users signing up between T+0 and T+2 weeks (or whatever), you randomly assign them to N test groups. Each of the N groups has some combinations of features turned on or off, controlled via feature flags. You collect aggregate statistics over time of the conversions in each test group. Presumably, if you want to track outgoing clicks, you have the page intercept clicks and fire a Javascript event with an anonymous ID number which your backend will score as a click for the appropriate test group. The technical implementation of this will take you between 2 and 5 days or less.

The math gets hairy and you need a metric truckload of time/traffic to do anything useful with this, especially as you get to many types of conversions of interest or many different variables under consideration, as the nature of statistics means you'll always be able to find some correlation if you look in enough places. "Look doing Signup Form B and disabling private messaging decreases friend requests by 18% in month 3 with 99.999% probability!" [+]

+ This is not actually what the math is telling you.
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Agreed. It was a great feature when the iPhone launched but it's barely been touched since. Yet amazingly, it's still the best. Android Chrome only just got Add To Homescreen functionality and it doesn't yet do anything special.

It's even more disappointing that Apple has implemented web push notifications... on desktop only. It's a natural fit for their webapp functionality but I don't hear anything about it being implemented. That plus the ability to register a URL scheme would really be all I'd want from Apple.
They may not have had the right to release these fonts under the Apache license in the first place.
Unfortunately, the way that I have begun to see things is that voting and representative-writing are pressure release valves for the public's discontent.

I have had poor results with both methods, though I have gained the all-important sensation of "doing something" while truly accomplishing precisely nothing tangible. In my view, the sublime difficulty is that voting, forming PACs to finance/bribe campaigns, and writing representatives are the only fully-recognized "legitimate" outlets for political discontent. These methods are absolutely ineffective in the face of money and power structures.

Even the mildest in desire and most orderly in execution of protests aren't viewed as reputable by bystanders, typically aren't covered positively by media if at all, and thus aren't effective in creating change.
Snowden did not choose to stay in Russia as a political statement or out of some sort of ideological endorsement. He is there because he is not safe anywhere else that he can get to, and throwing himself upon the fire would do nothing to further his cause (and even if it would, he has done more than we could ask of him already. It would not be reasonable to ask more of him.)
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You only use them via out/ref. Section 13.4.2 of the CLI spec says:

- Managed pointers can be passed as arguments, stored in local variables, and returned as values.

- Managed pointers cannot be stored in static variables, array elements, or fields of objects or value types.

So you're right, they have very limited scope as it'd be messy otherwise. It's my understanding that the JVM does not have pointers even at this level, hence Java can't do out/ref parameters. (Sure, tuples are a better way to handle many cases of out params, but sometimes a well chosen ref can really be nicer.)

I think C++ also uses the term "managed pointer" but not in the same technical sense (I think it just means reference.) Using "safe" C++/CLI generation limits the scope of pointers just like we'd expect.
Snowden isn't living in Russia because he is unaware of its human rights abuses. He is living there because if he lives anywhere else his ass will get deported.

The guy met his martyr quota already, he doesn't need to go to jail.
Exactly.

When Bitcoin interacts with existing financial services, the regulator may decide to not allow those interactions to occur. This is no reflection on Bitcoin itself which is not illegal.
Minor nitpick, the parent said they pay 40% in state and federal taxes and social security and you quoted only federal taxes (looks like the last graph includes Social Security)

I still don't know how much the parent pays in taxes, but that didn't include state tax, either income, property, or sales tax.
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They can make web apps less convenient to use, but I don't think they are going to stop developing/shipping Safari on their phones.
True, but if you count student loan repayments and health insurance payments (something that most civilized countries provide for free or low cost)- those are almost a tax and quickly get you over 40%.
We wouldn't use the aquifers' water for drinking. (Or at least, drinking doesn't make a dent.) Agriculture and industry are the big users.
Not yet, but...

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/no-charges-opd-officer-a...
Insta-downloaded. Where has this been all my life?

However, how safe is this? Are Chrome extensions sandboxed pretty well? The browser being able to control my terminal seems kinda scary to me.
That seem to look at simple metrics which we don't necessarily want charities to optimize on. They are planning to work on measuring what really matters, results: http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&c...
With all due respect I think you're underestimating the effect of investors.

Insufficiently imaginative people do exist everywhere but they don't get to become founders and hire people to copy existing ideas unless someone funds them.
>> Because out here in the real world, ISPs are uniformly horrible.

Not really. Sure, there are a lot of bad ISP's and places to live with few options, but there's a lot of great internet service out there. Go on any message board and view the threads "Post your speedtest results", and for everyone who's stuck with some shit DSL provider with 1mb up and .25 mb down (my current situation) there's someone with 45.99/month 30mb up 3mb down cable internet or $89.99 FIOS.

Sure, it's not as fantastic as some of the connections you see from people in Europe or Asia with 100mb+ for $39.99, but you have to remember everyone doesn't have that mystical connection who lives outside the USA. There's plenty of bad internet to be had as well.
It's gone well for him so far. He's assassinated dissidents, whistleblowers, and reporters before, with seeming impunity. He colludes with other tyrants who are butchers and oppressors and is lauded for it. The west still treats him with kid gloves and more often than not fall prey to his machinations like the naive idiots they are.

He had an OpEd in the new york times and people ate up his phony ass rhetoric with a goddamned spoon.

Remember when Mitt Romney said that Russia was perhaps the greatest geopolitical threat to the west and everyone laughed in his face, said the cold war was over, and called him an idiot? People seem to have a vested interest in deluding themselves that Putin isn't a bad guy, and that a bad guy in charge of one of the most geoplotically active nations in the world with an enormous nuclear arsenal is somehow not a big deal.
Either that, or its just <doubly ironic> that this is where he is forced to end up...which certainly also puts the snide insinuations in this commet in a different light, no?
I thought they already were using all this information to figure out your location. Google Maps knows pretty much exactly where in my building I'm sitting at with my laptop (I live in a long building spanning a block and the dot is over my apartment). So maybe not all that information, but going from the idea of fingerprinting a location with WiFi networks to other kinds of radio signal information doesn't really seem like a huge leap in thinking (though perhaps the implementation is tougher)
There's a sizable portion of the country that has Verizon Fios - in a random suburb of Dallas, I can get 75/35 for ~$80 with no data caps. It's not amazing, but it's not horrid.
It's been proven mathematically that any sentence that begins with, "Wouldn't it be better If Wikipedia had ads than [X]" has the property that it doesn't matter what X is, the answer will still be "no."

For example:

Q: Wouldn't it be better If Wikipedia had ads than planet-wide thermonuclear war?

A: No.
That is indeed what I am saying...what good will (no pun intended:) ) it be post-deal signing?...if you read that section "Modern Meaning" you see it alludes to brand,customers and IP...in the case of zero-revenue startups that translates to hype,users and maybe an iPhone app.
I doubt Snowden actually thinks Russia is a lesser evil, Russia just doesn't have any reason to jail him, so Russia becomes the only choice.
Nice!
Ambilight on non-philips tvs

Too bad you need a HTPC..
Ditto. My only complaint is the price. I pay for 10 mbit service from TWC, and regularly have speeds of 18 mbit. Also, my external ip hasn't changed since I installed my modem, and I don't pay for a static IP.
Are Chrome extensions sandboxed pretty well? My browser having control of my terminal seems kinda scary.
1.8% of 4 km is 72m, which is very significant when talking about sea level changes.
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Yes, but at the time, her name was Bradley Manning. I generally split references to Pvt. Manning based on time. I don't find it insensitive.
- Thanks cprncus, but where can I find this mathematical statement from?
Actually, for the record, I did ask very politely. Unfortunately, I ended up getting hit for that... So let's evaluate, I asked politely, verbally, then got physically assaulted.

Also, did I ever mentioned race or ethnicity? No! All I referenced was that this was a poorer part of Los Angeles than I live in, close in reference to the "20 blocks down" that the speech referenced.

This has absolutely nothing to do with race or ethnicity. It has everything to do with upbringing and economic situation, and, ultimately, personal choices we make.

Did the person who hit me have to hit me? No, I was not assaulting him. This was a personal choice.
Not for me. Not much of a person that likes to look at random pictures online.

Critique:

* Why are all the images full screen? This is something that makes sense for mobile, but not for desktops.

* Big problem: you force the scroll to be slow which makes it impossible for me to quickly skip images I immediately flag as uninteresting. Just let the native scroller do its thing.
It makes me sick that I pay around 40% in state and federal taxes and social security (not that much lower than Western European countries) yet there is still so much poverty and poverty related issues in our country.

I wonder how much of this has to do with scale. Americans often look to European countries as models of what governments should do, but I think we often forget that most of those countries have smaller populations than New York City[0]. And, if I can vaguely trust what I'm reading, many of the larger countries have poverty issues that are not unlike those of the U.S.

So, your 40% tax rate is used to combat the issues of ~313 million people across wildly different situations. I'm sure that if NYC could collect a 40% tax rate and implemented programs focused on its own issues, the government could do a lot more to combat poverty. But, NYC only gets a piece of the pie, and the federal government needs to figure out how to help the homeless in NYC as well as the homeless in Washington, DC, and Chicago, IL, and.....

Given that, I tend to think there is not a technocratic solution to poverty in the U.S.--that is, it isn't just that we haven't quite found the proper program, or implemented it properly. Homelessness and poverty have been around for a long time, and while during some periods, some governments may have done alright in dealing with it, no one is ever going to turn a knob and make poverty magically disappear. That's not say we shouldn't try, but we also need plenty of organizations that simply get out there and provide basic help for the homeless (food, shelter, etc).

[0] I'm making a broad generalization, yes.
They are releasing documentation based on Snowden's desired timeline, not based on some profit motive you are insinuating.
A friend was let go, as was an acquaintance who was hired in senior management of the group (Todd Beaupré). Investigating his LinkedIn page, he had circular recommendations with five others on his team, all who had finished working there at the same time (not including my friend).
That's not a big issue, I think, as Putin had control over it before. The strange thing is, even "Novosti" workers got known about transformation today(my friend works there).
No. There are a few reasons why this isn't an apt characterization:

- Unlike somebody who flips a car, early investors are (typically) not selling their shares to later investors. Investors in different rounds do have differing interests, but they're not diametrically opposed like the interests of buyers and sellers

- The article is about high valuations in late investment rounds, not early ones.

- The reason for the high valuation is that risk in the late-round investments is comparatively low, not that investors want to hype the company for a future round that's even higher.

- To the extent that valuation in late rounds is "bullshit" it's because that valuation really only applies to the investors in the latest round, not to all shareholders. If somebody buys 10% of the company for $200M, we infer that the rest of the company is worth $1.8B, even though you couldn't actually sell it for that price.
I witnessed some pretty questionable police driving in Boston. The greater Boston area is not known for stellar road quality and there are lots of poorly designed lane merges. For example, one time I saw a state trooper zooming between lanes, cutting people off, not using his turn signals. The cruiser's lights and sirens were off. It is possible that the officer was trying to catch up to someone in moderately heavy traffic without attracting lots of attention, but turn signals are really not that hard to use. My problem with this behavior is that aside from the obvious safety issues, this sets a bad example. It tells everyone around that turn signals are optional.

On an unrelated note, so many of Boston's driving problems can be fixed with paint. There are many miles of road surface where the lane markers have worn out and it is not clear where people should be driving. When it is not clear, each driver makes up their own rules, lanes, etc. What's worse, the places where the paint is most worn out are typically busy intersections or the rotaries they use so much, which leads to some of the most hectic driving conditions an unprepared driver can be thrown into. As a side note to this side note, I actually wonder how something like Google's self-driving cars would do in an environment like this.

The only place where I have personally seen worse driving is in Ukraine, where despite having lanes, they are typically just ignored. For example, if there are three wide lanes at an intersection, they become five very tight actual lanes.
I realize that it isn't- what bothers me is that it is high, nearly as high as European countries, yet we have exponentially more poverty and poverty related problems.
- Yes cprncus. I wouldn't have the money to buy the advertised goods, but whether I buy them or not as long as Wikipedia is making money, it is okay with me.
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While a name like Circle has obvious and immediate meaning to everyone who sees it, I guess?

I haven't really discovered that many connections between start up names and their purpose.
How long until the stolen lives of bicyclists are treated with the same respect as pedestrians and drivers?

A 'police car' hits a person, not the person driving the vehicle? The police officer's injuries detailed, yet no actual details of the accident of quotes from witnesses? Lets see if charges are pressed for this potential vehicular manslaughter... or even a criminal investigation! You know it would be if this were a pedestrian or other driver. My law-abiding friend, during a group ride in the bike lane, was struck and killed last month on Highway 1. The cops let the driver off, his illegal speeding and loss of control of his vehicle being simply 'an accident.'

So, who wants to bet this cop will face charges?
On Europe and Foursquare: is it just me or their data quality in Europe is really weak?

A couple of weeks ago I tried using an app that uses foursquare's API and I couldn't find 4-5 restaurants in London I wanted to tag/save (each time I was sitting at the restaurants in question). Instead I had to use Google Maps to save the location of these places, otherwise I couldn't of done so.
Why is this in the top of Hacker News? I live in Russia, this may be a big concern for me, but even in Russia it's not the top news of the day, this media, which was dissolved, it always was pro-government, the funding came from state etc. It's easier to say that it just was renamed and will now make more propaganda than real news. But how is this local political news about one media from one single country is something that is of any interest for Hacker News?
Clearly Steve and his love of simplicity (which is really hard to do well) live on even in those who have moved on.
I don't see the recent "secret weapons" in Iraq thing.
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What state has a ~20% effective tax rate? I don't see any marginal tax rates that even come close: http://taxes.about.com/od/statetaxes/a/highest-state-income-...

I'm obviously estimating, but when I look at which is more likely, someone misunderstanding tax brackets, or someone paying an insane amount of property tax in a state that doesn't exist, the first choice seems more likely.
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Tell Snowden yourself that. He's the one who wants them released in this manner.
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"The fly over states are more concerned with the latest developments in pickups and gun racks to care much about checking in at the hottest espresso bar."

I hope with that username this is a parody account because that line is by far one of the most ignorant, prejudice lines for HN.
This is obviously related to the fact that they dont know how to charge the 30% comission they usually do.

Bitcoin is a risk on the controlled environment they have.
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- So Wikipedia makes more money from Donations than ads. Thats cool then.
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