skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you read the stats right to be honest. The top 1% of producers aren't better than the other 99% combined.

And another point: I don't think all of Sam Walton's kids are even in the top 1% of producers even though they are at the very tip-top of wealth owners.

And the top 1% of owners don't have the same wealth as the other 99% in other countries, or even in this country in the past. It's not a normal thing at all.
When you start telling people that they can't build their own platforms, you're getting to a place where "you can say whatever you want" becomes a pretty empty principle.
A sanction may be either a permission or a restriction, depending on context, as the word is an auto-antonym.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanction
> I mean lets look here: variable value doors = [ for (_ in 1..count) closed ]; nobody even understands this. and this is the first "real" line.

Doesn't seem too bad coming from Python with list comprehensions.
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I'll be the contrarian optimist: Star Trek movies are, on average, bad. Compare Star Trek: Nemesis to an episode of TNG - it's guilty of everything you attribute to the new Star Trek movies. The only reason it got a pass was because of the goodwill that the TNG show garnered for its characters.

So I choose to believe/hope that a TV show isn't doomed to have the same outlook as the movie. I expect I may well be wrong, but...
Am I missing something, or there is no link to the claimed $1M bounty "press release?"

I have been on Zerodium page, and there are no indications that this has happened. Vice.com says really nothing, other than repeating what the bounty entails, and that some "unknown group of hackers" did it.
While most of what you say is true, they could at the very least reject AdSense applicants based on how often they copy-paste content from established publishers. I’m sure they have the means to figure something like that out.
My math going back five years says it hasn't been 16% by a decent margin?

Wouldn't P/E be a better heuristic? Either CAPE or just basic P/E?
You argument is a non-sequitur. How an idea started bears no relevance to what it represents today. IQ is not what is used to be, as you correctly point out; it is now considered to represent intelligence. This is only controversial in the political sense, but there is no scientific controversy, and the definition of g is broadly accepted.
One thing that often gets lost in the analysis is the distinction between changes and levels. Yes, S&P has been rising for 7 years straight ( changes ), but it is not at particularly egregiously high levels relative to GDP or relative to whatever metric you prefer, since 2001
No thanks, I'll pass.

I adore Star Trek, but this ain't it. It's just action crap dressed up in Star Trek's clothes. Which is a shame because too much of Sci-Fi on television and in the theater is just action, we need more thoughtful and interesting science fiction, the sort of stuff that made Star Trek a cult hit and transformed it into a cultural phenomenon despite running for less than three seasons originally.
Ceylon is too radical. If i'm going to invest the effort into Ceylon I might as well use Scala. Kotlin hits the sweet spot.
Yes, I wanted to change it, but.. too late. To partially re-balance things off, I'll post a direct link to the awesome video featured on the home page https://vimeo.com/20928390 :)

A pity the project stopped growing though.

This is where it took inspiration from: http://reactable.com/
> What we need is a decentralized and extensible platform that can be improved without introducing competition that leads to fragmentation. Too bad people don't know they want this yet.

It exists, and it's called RSS.
But it's much easier to make money in a walled garden, so that's what we have.
I think you have your "or" precedence incorrect. It is "sanctioned by the (United Nations or United States)" not "(sanctioned by the United Nations) or (United States)":

From their FAQ:

Researchers from most countries can participate in the ZERODIUM program, however, if you are a citizen/resident of a country listed on US/UN sanctions lists, you are ineligible to participate to the program.
Many powerful people use their power for good, but that doesn't make me want them to rule the world.
Explains why one of the first heads to roll was that of Wolfgang Hatz, head of engine R&D at Porsche AG.
Yeah this isn't going to be about the core of what Star Trek is about: Humanistic ideas, science, and exploration.

> a series like TNG will never be made again

I have higher hopes than ever actually. With Netflix creating their own TV shows, crowdfunding booming, as well as cheap alternative movie and CGI studios popping up worldwide, we might some day see something even better than TNG.

Edit:
I mean, look at Stargate Universe, that how had incredible potential, and fit pretty much with the above "new economy / new audience" description.

I wouldn't be surprised that once the equity crowdfunding JOBS act passes properly, we'll see independent Netflix style TV series be funded, at higher per-episode funding than current TV.
I guess our only hope here, then, is that at least some of those who gets ahold of the exploit accidentally triggers a crash report and autosubmits it to apple so they can fix the bugs...
Yes but a very interesting one.
Can't we both be in bubble and bust? They are not mutually exclusive. We have just too much money and excess capital chasing limited investment opportunities - so this creates bubbles.

On the other hand the increased inequality and concentration of capital in fewer hands means that a lot of financing strategies are performing worse and capital is less efficiently allocated.

For example - if the optimal allocation of $1B USD is 1000 investments of $1M - we could have that outcome if the capital is split between 300 people each having 3.33 million.

But a single billionaire will prefer to make 10 100M investments, because the cognitive overhead of taking so much decisions will wear him down.
Wow, okay... the first sentence reads so straightforwardly and the following one is like some kind of reverse judo takedown maneuver. The essential point is to correctly interpret who exactly the "no one" in question is referring to.
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I wonder if all the things we think of as particles, like electrons and protons, are actually quasiparticles on top of more fundamental mechanics.
rocket.chat seems pretty cool. Just signed up however so I will have to dig deeper. Nice.
Even hn users can't take neutral and analytical approach without being triggered. Don't say I am surprised, most people here seem to lean towards feminism and liberalism. Is it because you are afraid to lose your "circle of friends". Kind of like highly educated people sometimes refuse to vaccinate their kids so they could continue belonging to their circle which are anti vaccers?
And yet, if you proceed as if it were correct, you'll be amazed at what you'll accomplish. The comment I was replying to was essentially asking, "What would've helped you back when you were in my position?" Ten out of ten times, I'd choose to tell myself, "Stop trying to read about how graphics engines work. Figure out how to get triangles up on the screen, without copying someone else."

The best I can say is that my career began from that method. And by asking a lot of questions on IRC.
These are specifically in late-stage deals, like Uber's recent rounds.

The investors aren't traditional VCs, but companies like Fidelity. They don't want a 5% chance at a 100x return; they would much rather a near-guarantee of 2-3x with downside protection. That's why Sam compares them with fixed income.
I understand wanting to discourage directly mutating Objects, but I wish we knew what was going to replace O.o. IMO, we should have access to something like NodeJS' EventEmitter in the browser natively.
Anybody used it compiled to JavaScript? What’s your experience? How does it compare to TypeScript?
This is a very good piece, particularly: "In a world of 0 percent interest rates, people become pretty focused on finding new sources for fixed income"

The amount of money coming to pay up for growth/quasi fixed-income is almost certain to increase as there are a lot of investors who need to hit 7-8% nominal returns in a 0% rate world:
http://www.ecstrat.com/research/why-large-funds-are-piling-i...
I don't think this premise holds:

> A unicorn that is doing very well would not agree to a 2X liquidation preference at late stage.

Debt isn't always worse than equity. It is not a last resort source of funding. For example, if you are bullish, it is better to take debt than equity. It means you have to share less of the upside. If you believe you're about to experience a 10x increase in value, it's great to take money with a 2x liquidation preference and a 3x liquidation cap! You get to keep the remaining 3.33x for yourself. And startup founders are not usually the pessimistic kind...

I think late stage debt-like investments are copying the leveraged buy-out model from places like Bain Capital. They do many of these deals on the east coast: buy a company, load it up with debt, go for aggressive growth. Here is one example: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/01/15/sevone-lan...
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Fair enough. And I agree that progressive/hybrid approaches to teaching don't all translate/scale online well -- I'm thinking for example of programs built on being highly project-oriented in applied engineering or vocational schools, or the Khan-academy-style of doing homework in class (which I would have loved in high school)

But presently for me this is not a requirement. I suppose that, being okay with the lecture format as the core, I wanted to pursue learning but with less of the contextual hassle and inefficiencies (I have enough of my own!). On that, online courses certainly delivered -- which is what I wanted to convey.

However, I won't deny that this may be approaching the upper limit of what online education can manage to do well.
Yeah. It's really friggin good. I highly recommend it. And I'm an entrenched libre open source kinda character.

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Not quite. There's a difference between an overpriced market and a bubble.

A market can be overpriced when the consensus view is that stocks are more valuable than is actually realistic. When more sober judgment sets in, stocks go down to more appropriate levels.

In contrast, a bubble is when stocks are going up, and so everybody wants to buy stocks because they're going up, and so stocks continue to go up because everybody's buying them, and so people continue to want to buy them because they're going up. It's not a bubble until you get that positive feedback going.
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I'm not sure if that helps, because here in the US "price" is by default listed before taxes! I would read "net price is price excluding tax" as "net price is price, ignoring taxes," and thus "net wealth is wealth, ignoring debt."
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My dad mentioned that about automotive design, pretty much everything interesting had been invented by 1940. After that it's all new manufacturing technologies, materials, or economies of scale. Or some other technology from another field. (Good example is developments in power electronics meant electric cars were viable again after an 80 year hiatus)

Also I like that 'It Has To Work' is numero uno.
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It would be interesting to know how large this demographic is: one of the interesting possibilities we have with LX-branded zones on SmartOS[1] is that "SMF for Linux" is a distinct possibility, albeit by bringing Linux to SMF rather than the other way around.

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Thanks for the updated list, Anthony!

On the practical side, what packages are you guys using? I'm familiar with JavaPlex for Matlab:

http://appliedtopology.github.io/javaplex/
Mostly it's about recentism. Wikipedia, as all encyclopedias, is usually very good for stuff that doesn't change frequently or in large amounts.

But there is a continuing problem with recent and current events. You get a lot of people trying to produce a single article, and disputes occur.

One example: the Amanda Knox article spent literally years in a slow-moving and entrenched edit war (which nearly gave me a hernia trying to unpick) over whether she was guilty or not - all of which was up in the air due to pending court cases.

As soon as the case died down and tied up, the article instantly became a dead zone and is mostly OK.
Can't capped preferred still convert to common? As long as they can do that, the upside is still unlimited (though perhaps reduced compared to uncapped participating preferred).
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Impressive. I keep using bare xterm since it still supports Tektronix emulation (but, unfortunately, no Regis nor Sixel). This seems like a viable substitution for all three.
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While I certainly don't buy the "pesky engineers" argument, it's actually somewhat plausible Porsche didn't know about the cheating (beyond what everyone knew, which was that the stated mileage and emissions were virtually impossible to achieve by any known mechanism). Since they dropped a VW manufactured engine (3.0 TDI) into a shared VW chassis (Touraeg) and built the Cayenne around that, there's a good chance the engine and engine management were treated as a black box and simply integrated at face value.
Nemesis didn't get a pass with any fans I know. It's pretty much considered the worst of the first ten movies excluding possibly 5, depending on the fan.
At OVH's scale, I doubt that this is a realistic cost issue. In fact, it is my understanding that OVH was already planning to bring more fiber connections online, and they've accelerated that process in order to get their network back up today.

I don't know. It just irks me when people start making these kind of statements when they almost certainly do not have the data needed to support them.

It smells of hype to me, especially where it concerns the 'hip' services like AWS, DigitalOcean, (previously) Linode, and so on. Trying to find some way to turn the narrative into something that puts those providers in a positive light, when it most likely had absolutely nothing to do with it.

EDIT: And again, "it's cheaper so that must be why it has worse redundancy" is far, far too simplistic. There are many more variables at play.
Yes, it was totally Nader and Nader voters that caused the invasion of Iraq, not the 50 million people who voted for Bush, nor the hordes of people who cheered on going to war, nor the butthurt NYPD that suppressed protests (only mentioned due to personal experience), nor the mass media that started fanning the flames and beating the drums before the dust had even settled.

Let us remember, Bush II ran on a platform of no nation building. Then an opportune event happened that made it time to perform some already-planned nation building. Why are we so sure Gore would not have approved the same invasion?

The protest vote is called so for a reason. This system takes your dissent and converts it to support by frightening you with a scarier bogeyman. I would respect its elegance if we weren't all trapped in it.
After the last decade of TV, what a lot of people refer to as the Golden Age of Television, I'm not placing my hope in something that CBS is producing. I have a feeling it'll be a dash of the Abrams-verse, mixed in with Voyager and Enterprise writing and style. I'm hoping that's not the case, but I worry that whatever debuts on CBS will appear incredibly underwhelming compared to the last 10 years or so of television drama.
The article is an advertising piece for Wayfair, and doesn't even try to hide it.

The truth is that retailers, especially large retailers have a lot of tools to fight back against e-tailers:

- Demanding manufacturers to set and enforce Minimal Advertised Price.

- Exclusive products. If Macy's ask for a new product to be theirs only, they usually get their wish granted.

- Geo lockout. Smaller retailers are granted geo-local monopoly.

- Custom SKUs to thwart price lookups and price matches. Samsung makes the same TV in BestBuy SKU, Sears SKU, Costco SKU, generic SKU, and likely others.

- Own ecomerce portals, like Macy's or Nordstrom.

- Local returns and repairs.

And that's not all of it. At our startup we're making many of these tools available to smaller retailers and manufacturers, if you want to join, my email is in profile. In particular we're hot on post-visit engagement workflow, the stuff of the 21st century.

Retail is far from dead. If it were, they wouldn't need the advertising piece in HBR.
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Yes, I should clarify

Cron doesn't understand system load
Cron doesn't understand suspend/resume
Cron doesn't understand *anything*

Disk intensive daily jobs shouldn't run if the system is being crushed. I don't want to update my locate database during a backup or during a zpool resilver.

If I pause/suspend a {VM, server, laptop} and wake it, jobs are missed ... because it's not time to run them. What if I'm live migrating a VM and there's an important job that needs to run during the time it momentarily freezes the VM for migration? VM resumes on new cluster, job wasn't run. Sure if you're doing this once by hand you can be smart about making sure the timing of migration is safe and the job actually runs. But what if you're running thousands of servers? Ok, so now we throw a ton of code at the wall customized to our environment and hope we don't miss any edge cases. Or we can stop reinventing the wheel and use a job scheduling system that solves this problem.

Have you had the fun of cron jobs getting stuck and seeing them just endlessly build up, each one starting the job over from scratch, I/O grinding to a halt as the server gasps for breath under their weight? Alright, lesson learned, customers were angry, now we know we should wrap the job with a lockfile (and hope it's a proper BSD lockf(1) which guarantees atomicity) ... or you can have an intelligent scheduling system that knows not to do such a thing.

The possibilities are endless when you feed intelligence into a cron replacement.
People decry career politicians and wish for an alternative, and when we finally get an outsider like Lessig to run and he's weak and apologetic about what he'd do if he won (pass some reforms, step down). That's such bullshit, he should have run like anyone else and then I would have supported him.

It's his own fault for being weak.
Silicon Valley's productivity will fall by a few percentage points during that week. So excited :P