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> Many of the small cap public tech companies have taken a beating this year. Companies like Yelp are trading at less than 4 times trailing revenue.

Could someone explain what this means please? Is Sam saying that the stock price of Yelp is lower than what is actually should be (based upon revenues)?
I guess 155 years is still "too soon" for you?
Turing's Red Flag
It seems to be a go-to phrase for him. From a video linked elsewhere on this page:
https://youtu.be/h66PNIUtaaE?t=17m38s

That video was posted in July...
The main advantage of this sort of font is that you can see the pixels. This may not be to all tastes, but at ~95dpi I find pixelly fonts easier on the eye. The right angles and hard edges seem to make it easier for my eyes to get the right focus setting.

I usually use the 6x13 font from here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html - all the Unicode you can eat!

(I think it's nicer than the 6x13 SGI one (Screen 13pt on OS X) which is a bit cramped-looking. The 7x14 SGI one (Screen 14pt on OS X) is much better - looks like basically the same glyphs as 6x13, but with an extra pixel breathing room.)
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MC10 | www.mc10inc.com | Lexington (Boston), MA | Software Engineers

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MC10 makes conformal electronics you can stick to someone for days at a time and have it beam a plethora of vital statistics to the cloud for analysis. We've made great progress in the last year and are gearing up for a big launch next year. We need more software peeps to help expand the features of MC10's cloud infrastructure and product offerings.

We just moved into a vast new office space as we continue to expand. Enjoy the climbing wall, 2 onsite gyms, ping pong table, and hoops, the free snacks and stocked kitchen, the nightly catered dinner, and the many trails and green ways adjacent to our office. Easily ride to work on the MinuteMan greenway from Cambridge as it's only 100m from the office.

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Don't be dejected! If your materials are good, people will continue learning from them, regardless of whether or not they finished the course. One of the major advantages of digital courseware is that you can take it on your own time at your own pace. Doing so is not an indication of not caring.
So... copied.
In a perfect market middlemen (i.e. traders) would make no profit - participants already have perfect information and there are enough buyers and sellers for all goods, so people trade directly and would get no value from intermediaries.
Probably because it seems to be a snarky comment attached to a meaningful/useful comment, and adds little to the conversation. (Plus it isn't really very funny).
Blue book value that recently dropped because of the emissions scandal? ;)

Requiring VW reimburse purchase price would make more sense, but still would not account for time spent having to look for new car etc.

On the other hand, there are numerous reports of owners not wanting to return their cars for software updates out of fear that such fixes would change performance characteristics of their vehicle for the worse.

In terms of banning sales, that would be an effective strategy to 'press' VW into acting faster but is likely to severely impact the co financially - something Germany simply can't allow due to huge numbers of people employed/at stake.
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Oh, V was much worse. Much, much worse.
Kind of. Though there's also the whole saga with the buyout and XenForo. Basically, a big company called Internet Brands bought Jelsoft, the makers of vBulletin. They pretty much said they wanted vBulletin 4 out stat, even if it meant outsourcing a significant amount of development.

The old Jelsoft team then left to start XenForo. vBulletin 5 came out (with half the staff being new and the price being ramped up significantly), and the negative feedback basically overwhelmed the official site for a few months. People left en masse to XenForo.

Internet Brands then sued XenForo for 'stolen code', which ended up costing everyone a lot of money and dragged on for a few years before the case was dropped.

They then released vBulletin 5. Reception was... negative. To put it lightly. Features were missing, the style was half complete, bugs were everywhere. People left even quicker. Marketshare for this version is roughly at about 1%.

Either way, you've got a company in meltdown that had to get somewhat inexperienced programmers to take over both PHP 4 era legacy code and somewhat put together a new forum script at the same time. Something was sure to break.

IPB released IPB 4, which cause a sizeable amount of discontent in that community, partly due to features that were removed because the staff thought they 'weren't necessary' any more. Many people disagreed.

Digitalpoint moved to XenForo.

And the free scripts? Well, there's currently a bit of a divide between 'old school' forum scripts and 'modern' forum scripts. On the one side, you have phpBB, MyBB, SMF, and their various forks and spinoffs. On the other, there's stuff like Discourse and NodeBB. PhpBB got a bit ignored simply because it was seen as behind the times and not adding new stuff fast as.

(that said, big phpBB sites do exist, Gaia Online runs a modified version and quite a few others are out there too, especially for large open source projects).
Yeah, I don't think Star Trek meshes with CBS demographics right now. They'd likely end up with NCIS: Star Trek Edition. That said, I probably wouldn't mind a young adult soap opera Star Trek for the CW network.

The issue with CBS' digital efforts is that they are a strange island unto themselves and Star Trek alone is unlikely to get too many more visitors to their island. They really need to consider a partnership with Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or something left field like Vudu or HBO Now. But of course they are stubborn and probably won't.

(Does it make financial sense to anyone right now to spend $5/month on just CBS shows when the same could go to most of a Netflix or Hulu subscription with a much broader content base?)
Totally agree. Both "enrollment" and "drop-out" are anachronistic when discussing online education.
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So surprising more people don't mention multi-line messages (whether code blocks or not). IRC doesn't have this because the protocol itself simply doesn't support it.

The standard answer is "pastebin" but that raises the barrier to entry, so to speak. We use Hipchat at work but I assume Slack has feature parity here: If I want to paste a code block to discuss, I literally press paste (ctrl+v) and send (enter). The first few lines show up for everybody, with an "expand" button so they can see the whole thing.

No one has to have a specific client, no one has to visit a separate website (including me). It. Just. Works.

Same goes for images, by the way: I can post a URL ending in jpg/png/gif and it shows up for everybody, inline (and intelligently: resized, and animated gifs are hidden by default). I can also screenshot an image and paste it into chat, and it automatically converts to an uploaded file: take screenshot, press ctrl+v, enter, image is there.
>Why doesn't the EPA simply ban the sale of any car manufactured by VW

do they have the legal authority to do so? If they did, I doubt the republican led congress would stand by idly.
it's not clear why Fidelity would want a cap on the upside, since it needs to beat an index. Most likely, it doesn't think it's giving up any upside.
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I believe he is attempting to illustrate that no matter what you do someone, somewhere will take offense to it.

Or he started drinking too early. One or the other.
Much as I'd like to see it happen, bankrupting a multi-billion dollar company isn't something that regulators do on a lark.
It's spelt nonna.
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I loved Stargate Universe! It was just getting really good when the series was cancelled. :(
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The harm is against society as a whole, not really against the owners.
I never understood why everything was built using old table html. I see the difference now is that you are td's with more reservation. I would simply switch everything over to div tags. Custom css works better this way.
How could The Drumhead remind you of Into Darkness? It is a incoherent action movie with plot points that function as an "homage" (read: shameful copy) to the original movies or they serve as a plot device, versus a courtroom drama. The only connection between them is that they both happen mostly in space and on a spaceship.
the release itself: http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac852...

As alleged in the NOV, VW manufactured and installed software in the electronic control module of these vehicles that senses when the vehicle is being tested for compliance with EPA emissions standards. When the vehicle senses that it is undergoing a federal emissions test procedure, it operates in a low NOx “temperature conditioning” mode. Under that mode, the vehicle meets emission standards. At exactly one second after the completion of the initial phases of the standard test procedure, the vehicle immediately changes a number of operating parameters that increase NOx emissions and indicates in the software that it is transitioning to “normal mode,” where emissions of NOx increase up to nine times the EPA standard, depending on the vehicle and type of driving conditions. In other tests where the vehicle does not experience driving conditions similar to the start of the federal test procedure, the emissions are higher from the start, consistent with “normal mode.”

I have not read a substantive response from any part of VW to today's allegations.
Small insight on the Paris metro system.
All systems run on 700V @ up to 5000A (yes, 5000).
There are substations scattered around Paris that do the required step up / down for their respective lines (Poste de redressement, or 'PRs' for short)

All of these PRs are supplied from ONE major PR. There is one tunnel, reasonably deep (~30 - 40m down) that carries 14 HT cables - one for every line.

Cutting these lines by any means could literally grind the entire metro system to a halt. That coupled with the fact that all water systems (3 main distribution points in Paris, North, South and East) are distributed through the sewers, the trunk lines are easily accessed and cut.

Last remaining one is power, which again - runs in trunk tunnels, all easily accessible.

You could effectively bring Paris to a grinding halt in an afternoon with some basic tools.
Try resubmitting this with the direct url: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-websit...

This current submission just links to Smashing's front page.
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There are race conditions in rc.d. Like most concurrency bugs, they are rare, but we shouldn't ignore them.

Consider what happens if you start a process, and then stop it before its pidfile gets written. Or, if you start a process that takes a while to initialize, and during that time you can't kill it normally. Now imagine combining these situations with auto-restarting daemons that crash, or shutting down a computer immediately after it boots.

The right thing to do in these situations is to block until the daemon gets into its normal run state, when its PID is known and you can kill it safely. rc.d init systems don't do this, they just fire off a signal to a PID and hope for the best. It doesn't always work and on top of that, it's easy to misconfigure something, like a pidfile path or permissions.
Oh man... Unfortunately I'm going to be out of the country during that or I would be ALL OVER IT.

Those dev kits are pricey... Is this the one? http://snootlab.com/shields-snootlab/829-.html
An easy solution suggests itself: abolish money. Free the web.
An individual doesn't have to be rational for the system as a whole to be.

In your example, that billionaire's 10 $100M investments will underperform. Meanwhile, some of the 300 people who each invested $1M will overperform. As a result, in the next round of capital allocation, the billionaire is no longer a billionaire while some of those single-digit millionaires are now billionaires.

This is actually not all that far off from how things are actually working right now - a number of people from humble middle-class backgrounds are getting phenomenally rich because they understand tech and make smart capital allocation decisions, while a number of rich billionaires who can't be bothered to update their mental models are riding their companies all the way down.

All of this is capitalism working as intended. It's only a "bubble" if everybody is a winner; it's only a "bust" if everybody is a loser. Normal operation in capitalism is for there to be both winners and losers.
Yeah the real part of the tech that kicks me out of the show is how shitty the computers are. Having manual pilots doing anything seems absurd. In some episodes, rigging the computer up to do something is seen as something tricky and complicated.

Even in-universe, it doesn't make sense. The Holodeck is sophisticated enough to fly ships through physically real environments. (They do physics tests in the deck.) So just use whatever great AI system powering the Holodeck to do whatever advanced maneuver you need.

Also, the biggest fake tech: The communicators. The show clearly shows a person hailing another on the comm badge. BUT there's no delay in the response. "Captain to LaForge" - "LaForge here". We see that the recipient always hears the entire message. We also see there's no delay in the reply, much less than "Captain to" takes. I suppose this is easily solved by the commbadge just reading neural patterns and determining who you're gonna call. But there's no mention of that, and the badges don't seem to function that way.
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Also, be aware that fiber sabotage is a thing that happens. It's rare, but it's bad, and in my experience even top-notch providers take days to recover from it.

Even if you aren't the target, it doesn't matter how many redundant links your single uplink provider has if the threat model is hostile actors with their infrastructure mapped out vs. wayward backhoes.
I feel like there's a lot of armchair scientists playing this like baseball fans, rabbiting after every press release and paper only in the light of what it might say about their already-preferred answer to a rather narrow question. The professionals are trying to advance our measurement and modeling capability, perform calibration and validation, tighten error bars. It's about more than a graph of temperature vs. time.
I am only somewhat familiar with Star Trek (mostly by way of TNG), but I think it would be cool to see a conflict with a re-imagined version of the Ferengi.

I never heard any exposition on the details, but the Federation is supposedly an essentially egalitarian post-scarcity economy with a religion of space exploration. In contrast, the Ferengi always seemed much closer to our own society: they are cold blooded capitalists with misogynistic tendencies, but still manage to maintain a vibrant civilization in space, in which they uphold contracts and maintain infrastructure. And so it would seem that at the hypothetical interface between the Ferengi and the Federation there would be not just a huge culture clash, but moral and political scandals of the highest order, mostly concentrated around (1) the exploitation of Federation members by Ferengi (2) incidental macroeconomic chaos within Ferengi society due to the Federation sending free aid, setting artificial price restrictions within their markets, etc.

If one redesigned the Ferengi with a non-goofy appearance and a cool demeanor they could be made relatable, in the same way that one can relate to the various capitalist villain archetypes: wall street narcissists, oil tycoons, drug kingpins and so on.
This is a quaint view of the world that those in power built up to keep those without power quiet.

Society doesn't use shame to make people polite, society uses a power dynamic. If an equal tries to assault your brain, you check them for trying to assert power over you. If someone who already has power over you is not polite, you grin and bear it, and in today's world maybe go online to complain about it.
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Just look at Lost: JJ is incapable of developing coherent storylines.
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Upvoted for displaying perfectly reasonable paranoia.
Serious suggestion: disable JS. I use surf/tabbed (suckless.org) and it makes the web great again. If I really need JS for a tab, I hit CTRL-SHIFT-s. Also, consider local dns caching/filtering: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate

I bet there are firefox extensions to make a hotkey to enable JS.
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They have prevented the sale of all current model year diesel VWs and that is sensible.
Insurrection was the closest film to a TV episode.
SA is saying that cheap money is still available to tech cos., hence there couldn't be a bubble? (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

It sounds a little like circular reasoning to me.
there is a lead programmer where I work, a fiercely intelligent man.. the kind of person you want to be an architect of a project.. the kind of man that invents solid things _ALWAYS_ says.

"Do a thing, do it well, do only that thing; if you build things stupid and predictable they can be robust and reliable"

He's a C++ Developer working on windows. Not some GNU nut.

intelligence is fine, but it's hard to code, does unpredictable things and becomes a burden.

also, you can turn Cron off, it's not like it's a required system, it doesn't even come enabled by default for desktop distros (such as would be used on a laptop)
It's not snarky, I'm trying to get the average HN to acknowledge reality: grandma is the average user, not you. You haven't got a clue how she sees the web, and sneering at her and downvoting her idiocy won't help.