skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to make the business make sense financially. I just needed to make my 15% look like his 50%.
To do so, I reduced the nut to split by first deducting the cost of packaging, of technical support, the salaries for some developers on my side of the business to implement fixes, and when I still couldn’t get the math to pencil out, I added a $6 per unit

Out of curiosity, is there an example contract text that demonstrates how to do this? Is it as simple as saying "You get 50% of the gross, but I'll deduct this, this and that from your share"?
Indeed, but it should be explained in the rules then.

How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles.
When two tiles with the same number touch, they merge
into one! Edge tiles that don't merge will split into
two tiles!

It seems a new 2048 tile is added when no split is performed during a move.
I don't know if it's the case there, but many schools have a requirement that assigned textbooks have to be available through the local university bookstore. Students don't have to buy them through that bookstore, but it has to be an option; you can't assign a textbook that the bookstore can't or won't stock. I believe the original intent of these rules was to keep professors from assigning obscure or out-of-print books that students would have trouble acquiring.
have the students learn the stuff via the internet. ~$0.
This isn't a column, it's a blog post. Nobody other than Paul Krugman is involved in what goes on Paul Krugman's personal blog.

This is one of two or three posts Krugman has made about 538:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/further-thoughts...
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/sergeant-friday-...

Krugman links to Tyler Cowen saying the same thing:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/03/nat...

And I don't think anyone could make the argument that Cowen and Krugman are backroom buddies.

Krugman has made many, many posts on his blog in full-throated support of Silver and his methods:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/the-war-on-objec...
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/triumph-of-the-e...
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/scoop-dupes/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/the-medical-indu...
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/reporting-that-m...

It's ironic that you're criticizing Krugman on this without looking at the data, which speaks to Krugman very much supporting Silver, and only now expressing distress over the future of Silver's site and his hires (he points out a particularly bad economics analysis by one of the staff and explains his issues with it), not Silver's analysis.
I think you misunderstand. This isn't "just do this and you'll be rich". It's obvious that it isn't because then why would they give out the ideas? This document exists precisely _because_ ideas are cheap.

Since ideas are easy and execution is hard, it makes no sense to hoard ideas.

The things that you say are necessary and which are in your control (seeing if you have a market, working hard, making smart decisions) are collectively what people call execution.
His main point over the past couple of years has simply been that under current economic conditions money printing won't result in inflation

But the reason it hasn't is that banks are not making loans with the new money; they are letting $2.4 trillion of it sit in their accounts at the Fed. Krugman most certainly did not predict that; he said QE would help restart the loan market. So he got one prediction right only by accident, as a result of getting another prediction egregiously wrong.
If there was such a fee, nobody would use your exchange.

That's the beauty of this whole thing. The users self-select exchanges that are insecure because they're easy.
Precisely, way to complain about free stuff geez, so you want me to execute them, pivot and mail the money? :-)
It is not necessarily a full-blown XP - it might be XP Embedded, which looks like XP, but is highly componentized to reduce requirements to the hardware or improve on security.

In either case, I don't understand why ATM industry should be pissed - it's not that they were patching ATMs on a regular basis... In case of XP Embedded the patching story is even more convoluted.
Oh there is a market just a small one. :-)
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I look more at the Ukrainian situation, or maybe Libya or Syria, when I think about defying an out of control government.

Waco could have easily happened 150 years prior and had a similar outcome; fundamentally a small group cannot resist the power of the state in a head-to-head confrontation. It's only a popular uprising that can put real pressure on the power of the state. If a group of people in one place resort to violence, the state can crush them, but as with terrorism, you cannot wage war against an idea, unless the idea is held only by completely powerless people.
I've seen some suggestions that the human brain is full of random pattern generators, and that some kinds of learning are selecting which pre-existing patterns most reliably match the external stimuli
Your argument makes sense. However, let us take into account the fact that there are all kinds of laws passed[0] that frankly shouldn't.

[0]Under the disguise of national security concerns.
Interesting. I left me twitter at the beginning of the doc feel free to reach out and we can talk it through.
In January 2014, OpenStreetMap saw its 20 millionth edit
:-) pivot. I wanna see your golden patented idea ;)
It's not just "US Journalists Against Transparency” up in arms about this release, apparently popular opinion is mixed too, as evidenced by the reddit comment section on the NYT article submission [1]. This firstlook.org article is important in that it highlights how journalists and editorial boards are deciding what to publish.

However, this safeguard is made more problematic by the fact that journalists outside of the US have access to the same set of documents and don't have the same degree of concern over exposing US national security interests.

I can't decide whether or not I think this info should have been published. I liked the irony of the NSA deeming it necessary to compromise telecom equipment while simultaneously declaring said equipment unsuitable for use in the US since it may have back doors. On the other hand, this does seem like an expected function of the NSA best left implicit instead of explicitly exposed.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2139b3/snowden_do...
I can't figure out the rules of this game but I can get an arbitrarily high score most of the time by holding down a key :)
Yeah, this generally works for small courses but not large ones. The library can often come up with 10 copies of a book, but probably not 500 copies. It's how many grad students (who are usually in smaller courses or seminars) get their books, but undergraduates usually have to buy, borrow, or download their own copy, especially in the core classes that everyone is taking.
I've tried to get the kids to start with robotC and friends but with the short length of the season and the "intimidation factor" of writing actual code I rarely get past a simple "Hello world."

The kids that are interested in coding usually get started when I show them Eloquent Javascript - I suppose its introduction is more simple and captivating than most other books.
> That said, Krugman is more of a data-minded columnist, as you would expect since he's an economist, so I find his objections to Silver's new site surprising.

Krugman in his earlier blog posts was more specific:

"I feel bad about picking on a young staffer, but I think this piece on corporate cash hoards — which is the site’s inaugural economic analysis — is a good example. The post tells us that the much-cited $2 trillion corporate cash hoard has been revised down by half a trillion dollars. That’s kind of interesting, I guess, although it’s striking that the post offers neither a link to the data nor a summary table of pre- and post-revision numbers; I’m supposed to know my way around these numbers, and I can’t figure out exactly which series they’re referring to. (Use FRED!)

More to the point, however, what does this downward revision tell us? We’re told that the “whole narrative” is gone; which narrative? Is the notion that profits are high, but investment remains low, no longer borne out by the data? (I’m pretty sure it’s still true.) What is the model that has been refuted?

“Neener neener, people have been citing a number that was wrong” is just not helpful. Tell me something meaningful! Tell me why the data matter!"

krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/sergeant-friday-was-not-a-fox/

So his objections do take the form of something like you'd expect - this post is just the latest in a series. Krugman clearly had very high hopes for the site - this is his 3rd of 4th post about it, which makes sense given Krugman's prior cheerleading for Silver.
with all these stories coming about Snowden revelations, it's not very clear how this information is obtained or revealed

It's been written about quite a bit. Unless you want it mentioned in every single article that reveals another document, it's pretty well out there. I don't even think this is the first time Greenwald has written a clarification article about it.
Just managed to get down to a 1 tile, with only 5168 points. Is that supposed to happen?

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/aedhjuk2bbta8yp/nwzf1-CLhv
I think you read too much into that. I didn't find any innuendo in reader5000's post.
Seems like he could have easily had the meeting in a private conference room, where no one would be eavesdropping. Then he could have quickly and calmly explained the situation to her.
Keep going, I got the 0.5 tile once, but having trouble repoducing. Who can get the 0.25?

Edit: Also fun to play this reverse 2048 backwards :-) Got a 32768 tile.
During my freshman year at Georgia Tech I had two classes with text books written by the instructor. My chemistry teacher was one of the authors of textbook we used. The other was my CS1311 class, but instead of a traditional textbook it had a plastic comb binding and was really inexpensive compared to my other books (I actually still have it sitting on my shelf - $17.50).

Edit: Now that I look more closely at it that CS book was just a supplement to the actual textbook, which was written by the instructor.
I think the idea is meant to be that you split tiles until you get a 2, with as few points as possible.
Oh! You should have won once you got to the 2 tile. I'll check it out.
Exactly. To quote Jerry Pournelle some time before Waco, "I don't plan to conduct a point defense against the government".

Heck, even the first day of Waco supports the point, the BATF goons came in shooting (by their own admission they started first) and were repelled. A lot more than 4 would have been killed (note, some were own goals) if the Branch Dividians hadn't ceased fire when they retreated. It has been noted since then to not make that mistake....

Also think about acceptable costs to the foot soldiers, so to speak. Take the Connecticut example I mention elsewhere: how many officers would die trying to take away the guns of 300K civilians before they'd mutiny? What small fraction of point defenses taking an officer's life would be sufficient for that?

There's an apropos Solzhenitsyn quote from The GULAG Archipelago that also speaks to the very different cultural DNA we have:

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria [Government limo] sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked.

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!"
Programming Quotes
The fact that a lot of the best quotes we have are a bit self-deprecating in one way or another surely must say something about us.
So, "Open Link in a new tab" ?
This protects you from a busted exchange but it does not protect the exchange against fraudulent users or criminals.
Yes it does; China most definitely attempts to spy on foreign companies that do business in Taiwan.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972635#up_3974503

My personal single biggest objection, though, is that the review appears to be used as a sort of conversation-ending trump card, usually posted with very little comment, sort of like you might see from a fan of talk radio posting in a newspaper comment section.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cscs.umich.edu%2F...

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fvserver1.cscs.lsa.umi...

It's about as bad as bringing up Wolfram's ego--the consequent discussion never leads to anything interesting. Witness this thread that marktangotango started. I don't believe he was being malicious, but it's clear that rather than start a discussion about cellular automata like he intended it spawned a wasteland thread about attribution.

Why must we talk about TMZ-level bullshit when we could be talking about Turing's paper and the original paper in the post? Why is that discussion losing out to gossip?
Where there are banks, there will always be bank robbers. This will never cease to be the case and the banks will always lose money this way. It's inevitable.

So, the problem becomes one of scale. For example, a bank can survive a small unauthorized withdrawal, but large thefts are what kills the business. Limit the withdrawal sizes and shut down everything at a core level when that security is breached.

The ability to move massive amounts around securely is a pipe dream.
Actually, of the three, China is the only country that has no demonstrable history of imperialism outside of its historically occupied borders. Setting Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan aside (for at various times throughout history, all three of them have been occupied or fallen under the umbrella of Chinese influence), China as a civilisation has operated on a tribute model. Not one of imperialism.

The same can't be said of Russia or the USA.

While it's convenient to portray China as just another modern (western) country with the typical aims of a modern western power, the facts don't really fit this view. For thousands of years China has been content to stay within it's nominal boundaries. Even now, most of the forays China makes that the USA or Russia feels threatened by are economic overtures (hospital ships to africa, supporting less desirable governments, etc) designed to secure raw materials and achieve economic (not imperialistic) objectives.
This is absolutely fantastic. Patient education is one major and crucially important part of healthcare beyond hospital/clinic walls that is often overlooked because staff don't have time and don't 'dumb' things down enough for the average patient to understand. One thing that may be useful would be an online portal with videos/quizzes for patients to reference after discharge. Often times patients will express understanding of the education they receive only to, presumably, forget it all when they get home.

On a semi-related note, the use of iPads is an interesting channel, and one that's been long overdue. I'm surprised that no one (that I've seen yet) has started a company providing bedside iPad media services -- movies, games, messaging, etc. Outdated TVs running local cable still seem to be the standard form of inpatient entertainment.

Also great to see designers getting into healthcare! I'd love to help out any way I could.
interesting. There's also apparently a company going public that's also, tho the doc is a bit crazy right now maybe once it cools down you can see that comment.
Or one teacher for four years.... For instance, an education in a foreign language or computer science for dozens or hundreds of people depending on how time is spent. If criminals have and use high powered weapons the cops need that capability, but if that situation isn't realistic, well look what you're giving up.
Who else commands that kind of money to be able to ensure a bunch of exchanges and other bitcoin-holding businesses? Just MtGox alone needs somewhere around 400 million USD right now. I guess if someone like Google, or Donald Trump, decides to start a bitcoin insurance company... but that sounds unlikely.

The 2nd problem and more serious problem is insurance fraud. You cannot be sure the people claiming to lose the coins actually lost them. In fact, forget my first point. The insurance fraud aspect renders any hope for bitcoin insurance void. If someone has any ideas how to even begin to run an FDIC-type thing on bitcoin, I'd love to hear how one would deal with insurance fraud.
Sometimes I get confused. Am I reading Argentina's banking history or am I reading bitcoin stories?

I guess that's it for all the technologists giving simplistic lessons to some States about how they should manage their economies/banking systems.
They took the path of least resistance and it paid off until now. Now that path is a dead end and they face a painful upgrade. But arguably it was still worth it in the long run.
It was a terrible idea to hide the most interesting part of the graphic behind the title like that.
Indirectly you've identified a product in great need - a sarcasm detector for the humor impaired. ;-)
Sure, we're just regular people. My small biz is making a few k right now and I'm looking into testing new ideas this week for something bigger. If we're similar lets connect: https://twitter.com/VladMkrtumyan
How to Charge for Websites: the Agile Way
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You're oversimplifying the rationale. The cops have to prove that the property is the fruit of a crime. Thus, even if they don't have enough evidence to pin you to the crime, they can prove you don't have a legitimate right the property.
Sure, just give me your email address here on or on twitter or request it on the doc if it ever settles down. https://twitter.com/VladMkrtumyan
It's funny the author uses an example of an array indexed by 199x values, as the 90s were in some way "the lost decade" of C/++ development, and an utter lack of concern for this sort of checking.

The realities of internet exposure put an end to this recklessness for casual^H^H^H^H^H "enterprise" software development.

I love C A Hoare's comments, reference in this link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounds_checking) about "some languages" (cough cough - C)

Interesting how the Go language now includes array bounds checking. While 2 of the main designers are ex Bell labs, 1 of them is from U of Zurich. (I'm assuming he would have had some Pascal/Modula exposure there)
OK, this is completely and absolutely inspired. Brilliant, especially the redirect handling.

The design needs a bit of polish, but the core concept is just so damn good it's blatantly going to be copied.
I got 0.5 btw
Once again, you make a series of pronouncements without any explanation or argumentation.
I agree, it's interesting that the Chinese build their Great Wall and haven't expanded past it since. Is that mostly true?
What I learned was that radios actually didn't any like buttons. It was just an idea.
Why are these more important than the ability for developers to make money?
Balaji S. on full stack startups
This is what happens when people follow recipes blindly for something that isn't cooking: doomed to fail.

First, I'm guessing the author's standing desk was simply not the right height for him. The "$22 Ikea" is a fixed height and I suspect he never adjusted it to something comfortable, customized for his height.

Second, as someone said earlier, he approached it like it was some kind of marathon - he planned to stand at the thing all day, right away. You actually have to work up to using a standing desk -- alternate sitting and standing and slowly increase the amount of standing time.
It seems clear to me that qualia must affect physical reality. If it didn't, we wouldn't be talking about it. If it was just a byproduct with causality going only in one direction, then we'd never talk about it, because the behavior of a physical system with that byproduct would be identical to that same physical system without it. There has to be a causal chain from this discussion back to qualia, unless the discussion happened by coincidence, which is extremely unlikely.

I don't think this tells us anything about what qualia is or whether it is or isn't a material process, but I don't think it's tenable to say that it either doesn't exist entirely, or exists but doesn't affect anything.
I have to add that it's not my intention to bash Google. I actually think their privacy policy is actually readable in comparison to many other services. Also, most other large services don't provide something akin to Google Dashboard.
Vircurex does charge a withdrawal fee.

https://vircurex.com/welcome/help?locale=en
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Wow this paper is great. Back in November, I implemented the "Trend or No Trend: A Novel Nonparametric Method for Classifying Time Series"[1] paper in node.js and then I hooked it up to Twitters API. The algorithm was able to find trending topics pretty quickly and accurately. Does anyone know if the source for these algorithms is implemented anywhere?

[1] - http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/85399/87030495...
NSA's reported Huawei hack gives glimpse of agency's role in 'cyber Cold War'
Looks like they are missing a massive 1200 BTC and making just shy of 65 BTC a year in trading fees.

https://vircurex.com/Reports/2013-11.pdf
Firstly, fuck you. Secondly, this is based on a specific example of a friend who worked for a Renault dealership and then stopped and received roughly that amount from the state while she didn't work with no time cap.

Don't like the prices in Paris? Fucking move. If you play your cards right, e.g. if you're a member of a minority like the Romanis you can live for free in perpetuity in several areas of southern france - and I don't mean in a caravan. In a large building with many apartments provided and supported by the town mayor - another specific example because I'm friends with the mayors wife in one town.

France is beautiful, but it's economically completely screwed with Hollande in power.

Sorry about your little expensive apartment.
It's more of an innovation than an invention, it seems. (nothing wrong with that, to be clear)
Too easy, just spam two directions and you win almost always.

5000 points.
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Kottke isn't a journalist, he's a blogger.
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