skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supply curves are overwhelmingly determined by the marginal cost of production. Fixed costs and barriers to entry help determine the number of supplier firms trading in the market.

The suppliers do not know, a priori, the tastes of buyers and the shape of the demand curve. They only know that they can stay in business as long as their marginal cost per unit is less than the sale price on the open market. You don't know whether 500 people will buy at $2 or 50000 people will.

That $1000 is the entry ticket to the market. If the supplier produces just one unit, it is already paid and gone. As they say, sunk costs are sunk. That up-front cost is not recoverable through per-unit sales. (It is possibly recoverable through the sale of the business or its capital.)

So with respect to your example, the seller pays $1000, sells 501 units at $2, then sells the business assets while exiting the market. The buyer and seller benefit to trade is entirely unaffected.

The total amount buyers would pay is $1800. The total cost to sellers for a cleared market is $501. That makes a potential total benefit to trade for a cleared market of $1299. But the market clearing price only allows the seller to capture $501 of that benefit.

The seller probably does not know those exact numbers beforehand, and cannot use them to conclusively justify the $1000 investment. How does the seller know that one buyer is delusional enough to pay up to $800 for an item that costs $1 to make? If he does know, he simply charges that person that price and removes him from the equations. Then you're still stuck needing to know the next most demanding buyer, and how much they would spend. Each party has imperfect knowledge of the market, and there is no way for any one of them to make decisions based on knowing everything.
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One reason people (and particularly businesses) tend to not defraud you over amounts too small to sue over is that the value of continued business and/or word of mouth is larger than the one-time payout of defrauding you. This effect is obviously diminished when dealing with the state, since the difference in physical power between the two parties in the transaction is immense, and the idea of you ceasing to do business with the state is mostly nonsensical.
I did for android app. we simply looked at number of installations by country and we had a lot of people asking for their language to be supported. we used google services to do the localization. for us, main thing was simply making all labels, etc make sense for native speakers of the two other languages (beside english) that we added
Good summary, but it is happening. Cloud storage is a commodity, and now almost free.

The problem, not addressed in this article, is that it is not free. Microsoft hope to recoup the costs of giving storage away through Office purchases. Google perhaps through knowing more about Google Drive users and selling targeted ads.

The medium-sized companies like Dropbox and Box may be the ones squeezed out.
I simply don't believe you have a blanket right to inter operate without the consent of the creator.

The courts have regarded interoperability as a fair use in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
There's very little incentive for the people who get to decide how the Consititution is interpreted to adopt interpretations that favor individual rights (or even broader social benefit) over state power.
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Yeah, and every third boot my display manager segfaults :P

I know it's possible to write good systems software in C/C++, I just think writing in Rust is a marked improvement.
Is there a reason it needs to be the parties that push for change. If the parties are reactive to popular opinion, then we can influence policy through some non-party organization, such as the ACLU.
"Aaron Levie, CEO of cloud storage company Box just told The Information, "We see a future where storage is free and infinite."

I'm not a big bubble proponent, but this sounds so 2000ish, it's not funny.

I see a future where Box disappears. And then Dropbox. And then many other cloud companies.
As far as I know, most jurisdictions require write-in candidates to officially register as such, and will count yours as an invalid ballot. Literally no one will see your "message" except for the one person counting write-in ballots.
"Potential liberty minded candidates may then see an opportunity."

Legally change their name to "Libertarian"?
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The project is mostly dead since I haven't had the time to work on this in years. If anyone's interested in picking it up and porting it to the latest kernel version, I'd be happy to help in any way I can!

The interesting bits are mostly in the a.out (plan9's executable format) loader that enable implementing the small set of plan9 system calls.
Lets change the way we meet new people online, this is not another Facebook
You should give www.iknowthecity.com a try, it is a new free platform alternative to dating sites. It allows people in your city to request to join you based on the status you post, which could be whatever it is you are looking for such as; a date, someone to go watch a movie with, dog walk partner, study buddy, someone to go watch a basketball game with, relationship, single moms, friendship, gym buddy, travel buddy, bbm friends or anything you want and you have full control of who can join you in whatever activity you post. It is the most effective way to meet people. People can’t chat or message you unless you approve their request to join you in whatever activity you post.
It's not even true in general that you can write in anyone you want. Many jurisdictions require write-in candidates to register themselves, and write-ins with any other name or text are invalid ballots.
I personally prefer the use of fuzzy words and don't see them as scammy, but rather as an indication of someone being honest with me. Remember: Only a sith deals in absolutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgpytjlW5wU) - SCNR :-)

OK. Back to topic: The language is fuzzy, because no one knows the Google algorithm. The best SEOs can do is make predictions and tell you the general steps to make your site rank: Nail your on-site SEO and build links.
There are two good resources for this: http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-link-building

As narrowrail said Moz holds a lot of information for SEO marketers with an interest in playing nice with Google.
Then there is the whole topic of "blackhat" SEO - i.e. people who use techniques that Google does not endorse (e.g. private blog/link networks). They know a way to make it to #1 on Goolge right NOW, but are running the risk of being caught by Google and loosing all their rankings. IMHO the best resource for "short-term SEO" is www.viperchill.com.

SEO is an easy-to-learn marketing channel. It is relatively low-cost, but slow on the uptake. If you make your way to #1 for a keyword, you usually stay there for some time. That gives SEO a fantastic ROI - at least in my experience and that of a few other founders.

Regarding your specific questions, this might be helpful: http://www.brombone.com/
Additionally, you should sign up for the Moz community (IIRC that is free) and ask your questions there. A lot of good SEOs hang out there and are willing to help. Also try http://www.reddit.com/r/bigseo - pretty helpful crowd there, too.

Disclaimer: I am the maker of www.linksspy.com, so I am slightly biased towards SEO
To get a time dilation of 1 hour = 7 years, the planet would have to either be moving extremely fast or be very deep in the black hole's gravity well (or both!). Either way, a dinky little shuttle craft is not going to have the power and fuel to get there and back.

Supposedly the signal from this planet had just been saying OK over and over again. We learn that is because of the time dilation--in local time, the probe just landed there a few hours ago. But in reality the time dilation would produce a Doppler shift on the probe signal. Instead of hearing "ok" over and over, they'd hear one super-slow "ok" signal at a super low frequency.

What did the guy on the Endurance eat for 23 years while he was waiting for them?

If the "frozen clouds" are dense enough to walk and land a spaceship on, how are they staying in the air?

Etc.
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If you are talking about search engine bots, then try to look for articles about 'how to get indexed by search engines' or similar. There are lots of them.
Which for reference was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich.

Another fun one is when they ruled that growing wheat to feed your own chickens (all in one state) is interstate commerce: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wickard_v._Filburn
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Yes that is an interesting question. My co-founders were so incompetent at this business that I took over all business development. I personally met with a dozen casinos owners in Las Vegas, 4 massive odds tech companies in Great Britain and about 7 off shore, billion dollar gambling firms like pinnacle, william hill and the like.

Not a single one committed on the spot to give me money despite my API being faster (in GPU and C++) smarter (generating 6% ROI on the dollar staked ON TOP of their juice) and better coded (All Haskell, Python and occasionally C). I was floored. Technology meant nothing to these wealthy people.

I realized that the people who ran the sports books were so lazy and incompetent that they would never understand what convex optimization was and that If I instead committed to learning how to bet, I would eventually grind millions of dollars out of their archaic systems. Quite simply, anyone with enough commitment and resources can outsmart the index.

Its not that they were dolts, but that their focus was not on math and better real-time odds; the focus was on bilking very poor bettors out of their money and preying on them as much as possible. These guys just worked 9 to 5 collected fat paychecks, basically work in palaces with sweet perks, and abhorred (and scoffed) change of any kind.

Once I realized that being smart and capable would never sell, it was an elementary decision. I quit, let my investors down, left a quarter million on the table (which my foolish co-founder burnt through and AGAIN got a $3m term sheet pulled at the last minute by the SAME jewish lawyer investor guy lol) and simply said, life is easier when I only have to deal with myself. The rest is history, I surpassed a half million dollars and now sustain an excellent lifestyle. hit me up anytime at @ess2dashizzleC on twitter. (yah I like snoop dogg)
Harry Connelly, the one discussing "little goodies" to be seized can be contacted at harryc@las-cruces.org

I've sent him an email expressing my displeasure at his use of Civil Asset Forfeiture.

I'd like to send a similar email to Sean McMurtry, but came up empty trying to find his email address.
This is the kind of thing that happens when the victims family members are forced to rely on the prosecutors office and the courts, both of whom are far to effected by politics and media, to represent their wishes in court. A complete mess and pr disaster for everyone involved without a single consideration for thr victims feelings. They will never have peace.
Nobody seems to talk about how much Apple paid U2 for the right to give the album away for free. I suspect that U2 may have made more money from this album than they did from the last-- and that's just in the free period. (after some amount of time it goes back up to normal price.) I bet even after it goes up to normal price it will do better due to the publicity of being free.

I don't think Apple got the album for free. :-)

All in all, I think it was a great deal. I didn't get the album pushed on me-- I went and chose to download it from iTunes-- and I think the "album as promotion for larger brand" method is kinda win-win. It's not relevancy U2 is chasing but awareness, and that's the trade they made with Apple. That plus bags of cash.
The port the pastebin claims is VNC. BrowserStack has a VNC repo and one of the two contributors to it https://github.com/browserstack/OSXVNC/graphs/contributors has the same github handle as the alleged VNC password.

Putting said nick and VNC into Google also finds emails from quite probably the same person to some VNC email lists.

I am not saying the pastebin is right but this makes one wonder.

Also, the VNC password -- at least by default tools -- indeed is stored in plaintext (see http://linux.die.net/man/1/vncpasswd "Note that the stored password is not encrypted securely"). It should be readable by the owner only, however.
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I find that statement to generally sound good, but there are lots of nasty details that are often overlooked. Taken to it's extreme, it leads to overly commented code that tries to explain to non-programmers what a program is doing. I find my time better spent than doing that for all code I write. Then there's the question of who the expected reader is? Some future version of you? Some coworker or successor in the same field, expected to be at relatively the same level in the relevant areas? Some beginner in those some fields. A programmer without experience in the relevant areas, or not yet comfortable in the chosen language and able to understand it's idiomatic usage?

Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of the concept, I just find that most people seem to put very little thought into what it means in practice.
Levie is the CEO of a cloud storage company. You don't think he's thought through implications of his own statement?
Most libertarians, and a healthy chunk of republicans really hate this nonsense. Enough that Republican opposition is explicitly called out in the article.
I really don't get why people are this upset over this little stunt. I remember when I bought my first iPod it came with a U2 song. Winamp came with the "llama's ass" thing. Other players had their own promo songs. Now Apple has taken it to the next level and pushed a song to you rather than sold it with the device. It's a little weird, a little selfish, maybe even a little desperate, but I wouldn't characterize it as anything but at most mildly annoying. Who cares? Unless you ran out of room on your device and couldn't take that one in a million picture because of it, what does it matter? I am not defending it, just trying to figure out why anyone would give it more than 30 seconds of their time, to complain, etc.
My problem is that I did learn to touch type -- back when keyboards didn't have a ctrl or alt keys. Of course, I'm referring to the IBM Selectric keyboards. So my fingers only know to hit the left/right shift keys when needed. Once keyboards grew the ctrl/alt keys, they only came on the left side. So my natural hand movement for something like Ctrl-C is left pinky on the Ctrl key, and an awkward stretch to put the middle finger on C. So annoying that my right pinky or thumb never learned about the right side ctrl/alt keys.
If I want a modal editor, Vim is there. I don't want a modal editor.

Breaking Emacs to make it more like Vi is cargo culting.
Or approval voting. It's much easier to understand, and not really gameable.
> To know about such TorHS address the attacker must be running a malicious Tor Relay acting as a TorHS Directory, with Tor's code modified to dump from the RAM memory the TorHS list, then harvest them with an http client/script/crawler.

Given that, I think a case could be made that even doing this for research is acting in bad faith, if not "malicious."
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> People I do business with don't routinely defraud me of amounts too small to sue over

Then you're lucky, because it happens all the time in a lot of industries.
Meanwhile, with AWS services are still expensive, especially bandwidth. While storage providers may be willing to subsidize my stuff, my data providers are my real cap in usage.
More parties wouldn't fix anything. Under the US voting system they end up eating each other anyway, because whichever two parties are most alike do better to not run viable candidates against each other since that gives the election to the least similar party.

I'm almost tempted to think that all the gerrymandering they've been doing could be a good thing because it takes the parties out of it. If your district is 80% one party then the primary is the election. Then you can vote for a primary candidate from that party who wants to fix the things you want fixed over the ones who don't.

The problem is then they go to Washington and end up in a Congress which is approximately half of each party and everyone has a safe seat but there are no moderates, so instead of compromising somewhere in the middle you get winner take all and screw the other guys. But when you need House, Senate and President to pass a bill, that means unless one party controls all three nothing gets passed and if one party does then we get some kind of unaccountable shit tornado that one way or another kills thousands of Americans and adds five trillion dollars to the debt. So I'm going to have to say the gerrymandering is net negative (and half of the problem).

The other half is that the federal government is doing things that it shouldn't. Even if you think recreational drugs should be illegal, how is that a federal issue whatsoever? There are still dry counties in this country and there is nothing wrong with that, because that's what the people of those counties want. And judging by recent referendums, federal drug policy is not uniformly what the people want.
What if you want an editor with a powerful customization language, sophisticated notetaking (org-mode), directory management (dired), as well as modal editing?
I plan to most def, and I plan on open sourcing the machine learning tech once I hit my first million next year. The odds are nothing like poker however, it takes a long long time to understand all the ins and outs of making money in sports gambling and the strategy is much different. FYI: I am awful at poker.
> I don't think Apple got the album for free. :-)

In other words, it wasn't exactly pro-Bono. :-)

I didn't get the album pushed on me-- I went and chose to download it from iTunes

Many people did get the album automatically downloaded, which is really what angered them, and not the fact that U2 is giving one away for free.
Prelude (https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude) has a pretty nice set of basic dotfiles. I find that Emacs with Prelude is much more fun to use than vanilla Emacs.
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I agree that storage, which is to be the focus on this article, seems to be a race to the bottom. But when it comes to computing, EC2 and friends are still many times less efficient (price/perf) than non-cloud solutions (cheap vps', dedicated or colo). A lot of these value added services sit on top of this infrastructure, so you end up paying quite a bit more than you would have in a non-cloud era.

But people say: well, you're outsourcing your devops. This is absolutely false when it comes to the pure compute offering. At best, an EC2 instance is as easy to manage as anything else. It's more true of things like SQS, SES, RDS, DynamoDB, ... though personally, I cringe when a team of developers can't manage their own production postgresql or rabbitmq servers.

Still, clearly people are seeing some value in these services. Softlayer, Rackspace and friends dropped the ball here. 15 years of fat profits rendered them sterile. Go back 6 years, sell the performance of bare metal, add quality and affordable managed services (not a $1000/m load balancers), and you might have been able to compete.

Case in point: Softlayer's listed prices are still complete bullshit. If you work their sales, you can get servers for 50-60% less even on small orders. But you need to spend 10 days emailing back and forth. Can you even get prices from Rackspace's website? I just went on their site and it made dell.com look useful.

IBM should have bought DO or Linode.
Because if you don't want them to take a mile, you'd better watch out when they start taking an inch.
Oh no, this is what happens when I take 5 minutes to HN and don't check my math.

I put an edit in the bottom as a testament to my eternal shame.
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Silk Road, other Tor “darknet” sites may have been “decloaked” through DDoS
there was recently a case in which Iowa (my state) seized ~$100K from two poker players passing through the state. (They got pulled over on a bullshit traffic stop). The state only offered them 90K back, but it cost them $30k in legal fees to fight it. Its just disgusting.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/01/iowa-troopers-steal-100000...
>then use database migrations (e.g. with alembic)

+1 for Alembic, it makes database schema changes a lot less painful. It's definitely good to sit down and figure out high level architecture before building, but for small one-off projects code that works today is usually worth more than better code tomorrow.
For the same reason you would eat Chinese food when there's hamburgers, listen to Gangnam Style when there's Beethoven, or watch Japanese anime when there's Disney?

Also, China's a big place, the developer putting up a replica of the Eiffel tower is doing so precisely to separate his development from all the other ones out there.
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Thanks. How close are you to achieving that?
Do you know who this quote is attributed to?
> [...] and the idea of you ceasing to do business with the state is mostly nonsensical.

Why? You can move away. (Or, more likely, a bad reputations will deter people and businesses considering moving in.)
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Get eg a Kinesis Advantage, and use your thumbs for the heavy lifting.
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> Is there a way to disassociate enforcement from penalizing?

You could just not give the government the revenue. If you get a traffic ticket the fine is paid to your choice of any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

In theory you could still have police issuing tickets because they want to increase donations to the Red Cross or something, but the cops have no control over which organization gets the money, and they certainly don't get to ride around in toys the money bought.
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> But I'm at a loss what to do about it. Is there a way to disassociate enforcement from penalizing?

One way is jury nullification. If a small fraction of the jury pool refused to let the state prosecute these cases, that could be an effective check on certain abuses.
If one claims that "techni-quarks" combine to make the "techni-Higgs" then the obvious question is what about the other combinations -- which must give rise to more such Higgs-like particles. We've seen only one new particle and that makes technicolor very unlikely.

It might be possible to beat the model into shape to match observations, but that would make it very contrived. So, while not impossible to find some weird model, most typical models of technicolor are ruled out.
Well I'm not from a web programming background, I started with game programming in C. Maybe since web is so design heavy it doesn't matter if you don't understand what I would consider fundamentals.
> fta: Once it finds the nearest fit, the tool will clip any unnecessary parts, polish the code further to come up with the best solution it can, and make sure the final product has no security flaws

if this alone were possible (and imho, that's a huge if) it would be money well spent. perhaps, doing it over an existing code-base might be a good measure...
The BBC has a story in English:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29982960