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Star Trek movies are, for the most part, action focused instead of story or plot focused. But there have still been some movies that exemplified Star Trek fairly well. The Motion Picture, though much maligned, is a good example, as is Star Trek IV, though it's a bit campy. In Star Trek VI the values of Star Trek come through pretty well.

The movies were different than the TV show but there was still a shadow of the values and intellectualism from the show in the movies. For the modern remakes that's simply completely absent. And imagining that a show made by people who don't understand Star Trek will somehow begin to embody its values and qualities is, frankly, magical thinking.

It'll be fast-paced, it'll be gritty, it'll be dark, it'll be chock full of action and "intrigue" but it'll be brain-dead.
How are people still arguing about this?

Saying that someone is "stealing" when they infringe copyright is like saying someone is "killing you" when they present convincing arguments against your cause. It isn't literally stealing or killing, it's an exaggeration made for emphasis.

The reason there is so much contention is that a) the same language has been extremely common among hysterical content industry lobbyists who insist that it is literally stealing, and b) stealing and copyright infringement are both unlawful (and therefore more easily confused) even though there remains a meaningful distinction between stealing and copying.

But that distinction is very important in practice because we can't treat stealing and infringement the same. If you don't like someone's speech you can't be allowed to steal any of their webservers but you have to be allowed to copy some of their work in order to effectively criticize them.
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http://i.imgur.com/5ZexVCL.jpg

Was installing my copy of AppCode today when I noticed the named parameter in the background of the dmg installer. Sure enough, they're all slightly different, even 0xDBE.
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I don't really think this is the case. I think it's just a case of hyper-defensiveness going hyper-wrong. And I am truly sorry for this guy.
To be fair, some of the movie issues could be a question of the influence of the other "Bad Robot" collaborators. I've come to the decision to never pay to watch anything ever again that Damon Lindelof has been given the last writing pass on, for instance. Certainly, it seemed to be JJ Abrams pushing the heavy action "Wish-It-Were-Star-Wars" schlock of the films and on the flipside it sounded like Kurtzman was the only actual Star Trek fan and the voice of Trek reason in the first film (and too busy with the end of Fringe to do so for the second).

Fringe too is a possible reason for hope, but the science still seems out on how well Kurtzman works alone without frequent collaborator and fellow Fringe showrunner Orci.

(That said, I'm running on huge cynicism for this Star Trek project and my expectations right now are indeed rather low.)
Good article, and I agree with the main points. However, you have to be very careful comparing PE ratios between companies with different capital structures, it is wrong. For example, lets take two companies that are exactly the same, A and B and lets say they should have an enterprise value of $100 and have the same earnings before interest.

Company A is all equity and has a PE of 10 ($100/$10). Lets say company B is half equity value and half debt ($50 and $50). Lets also say the company is paying 4% on its debt. Its earnings are lowered to $8, however the PE ratio is actually 6.25 ($50/$8).

This company isn't "cheaper" it just has a different capital structure. No measure is perfect, but at least use EBITDA or Unlevered FCF for comparisons. This is especially important now with the large number os stock buybacks.
In America those two are synonymous. Well, at least socialism is, probably not anarchism.
At Google -- no. At OVH -- yes, apparently. Google have it's own outages, caused mostly by a network config change or software update, but not from fiber cuts.
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This is a really good point, and explains why later-stage investing seems so wacky vs early and mid stage. The decisions to invest in later-stage startups, eg Uber, seem more influenced by other investors and the fear of missing out, while early to mid stage might steer closer to the independent decision making model.
If X person(s) modified their X car(s) in such a way, they'd be forced to take it/them off the road.

The value of X should not matter.
> Ceylon. As a language, it's a great superset of Java

You're using the word "superset" quite loosely. A superset of Java would compile Java syntax into bytecode with all the same semantics as the equivalent Java code, as well as bring its own additions, which Ceylon clearly doesn't do. Groovy claimed to be a "superset" of Java but a handful of various syntactic elements behaved differently e.g. the == operator, catching many unawares. It's not introducing any Java 8 syntax changes, its backers flippantly saying "we'll leave them for Groovy 3". They tried to maintain a rough equivalence between the syntaxes for years by using annotations instead of new keywords, then one day its project manager changed "@Trait" to "trait" in a move that reeked of favoritism.
Totally agree on using unlevered FCF as the comparator.
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I've had friends put V and X on the same level, but personally I agree.
This gets messy when people disagree with what a 'political cause' is
True. It could simply be a list of people that some fraction of those hitching their horse to the "Anonymous" moniker believe deserve to be dragged through the media based on some perceived prejudice.

Still - I thought it was interesting.
On the whole, it seems harder than any time in the past four years to raise mid-stage rounds. This is also not suggestive of a bubble.

It's suggestive of the end of a bubble, when the music stops and the last investors who have not yet exited are left without a chair. If any part of the path to exit breaks down, the whole system will start to fail.

There are real problems with these distorted "valuations". Employees these companies hire often think of them as real valuations. It also often makes the company think of itself as much bigger than it is, and do the wrong things for its actual stage. Finally, too much cheap money lets companies operate with bad unit economics and cover up all sorts of internal problems. So I think many companies are hurting themselves with access to easy capital.

Sounds like Sam has (unwittingly) become an Austrian. Friedrich Von Hayek on inflation (1970): "The initial general stimulus which an increase of the quantity of money provides is chiefly due to the fact that prices and therefore profits turn out to be higher than expected. Every venture succeeds, including even some which ought to fail. But this can last only so long as the continuous rise of prices is not generally expected. Once people learn to count on it, even a continued rise of prices at the same rate will no longer exert the stimulus that it gave at first." [1]

Sounds a little bit like QE stimulus which has been channeled into the private financial markets. I wonder why it hasn't translated into higher salaries.

But no matter what happens in the short- and medium-term, I continue to believe technology is the future, and I still can’t think of an asset I’d rather own and not think about for a decade or two than a basket of public or private tech stocks.

I'd rather own real estate than a basket of private tech stocks, especially if that basket includes Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, or really any company where user growth rates and advertising revenues are heavily informing valuations.

Users can and will migrate between tech platforms pretty easily - homes, offices, businesses - not so much. Plus, the government has been very pro-landlord lately, soaking up trillions in mortgage debt at the federal level and allowing insane housing bubbles like SF and NY to continue to grow unabated at the state level. Looking for fixed, usury income in a ZIRP and QE-infinity world? Look no further.

The only consolation one can take in this situation is the fact that less and less people are even able to play the investing game anymore. Only 26% of individuals under 30 are investing in the stock market, as compared with 58% between the ages of 50 and 64 [2]. So now the SEC wants to make crowdfunded equity the new way to channel middle and lower class money into risky ventures [3].

What's a poor young guy to do?

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-most-millennials-dont-i...

[2] https://mises.org/library/denationalisation-money-argument-r....

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/business/dealbook/sec-give...
Reminds me of Microsoft trying to convince us Windows RT wasn't in hospice care internally
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I think it's star trek canon that the Ferengi never had any internal problems with slavery (of other Ferengi) or genocide.

I think it would be much more interesting to explore the creepier side of this supposedly egalitarian post-scarcity economy... I mean think of how wierd it is that a military organization is in charge of scientific exploration, that all the individuals on the starship are tracked at all times, etc...
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> This has gone beyond PR disaster theater

I'm not sure this is a PR disaster. Googling, I only see major coverage in this HN thread, and on /r/technology on Reddit. There was a big thread on /r/programming but the mods there deleted that. There are another several discussions on assorted minor subreddits.

None of the major tech news sites or blogs seem to be picking it up. /r/technology can be enough of a cesspool that many tech people don't bother with it. Unless the news sites and blogs are just waiting for more information before running their stories, it looks like this might blow over with little damage to livecoding.tv.
> Cron is terrible. Paul Vixie says so himself. Get over it.

"cron" does not[1] necessarily imply vixie-cron. A variety of implementations are available that have different feature sets. What exactly do you not like about cron the concept, and how are you running periodic events without

> HUP ... listening for an event

HUP is an "event". What is this "event" you want to listen for that requires junking HUP support? A new event type that tells the daemon the same information is just as kludgey as sending SIGHUP while adding unnecessary complexity.

You can listen for an inotify event (or similar) on relevant file handles if you want, but that isn't applicable in all cases. If your complaint is that some daemon doesn't support something like inotify, file a feature request or send patches.

HUP has the advantage that it is well-known, and you probably probably still want a way to force a daemon to re-read it's configuration even if you are already detecting changes with inotify/whatever.

[1] I use fcorn ( http://fcron.free.fr/ )
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It's been a while since I saw Insurrection and Undiscovered Country, but you could make a similar argument about Star Trek into Darkness. It was about the struggle between a militarized starfleet and a starfleet about discovery and exploration.
I would imagine ceding the cap makes it easier to get the 2x liquidation preference.
>Nobody is claiming that climate change is "completely wrong"

I think the fact that the climate is changing isn't what some people have a problem with. Of course it is changing, we see it happening and know about cases throughout history (the "Little Ice Age", the Medieval Warm Period). What people have a problem with is being told they have to do something about it.
I'm no fan of Gore's, but I don't see a Gore administration using the opportunity that 9/11 presented to work out both a commitment to a new way of warfighting and a hyper-muscular American foreign policy by attacking what was well understood at the time to be an unrelated sovereign power.
Isn't that wrong because the preferred shares always have the right to convert into common?
I might want my wealth in tech stocks. But I sure as hell wouldn't want my wealth in advertising-funded stocks. How many tech companies have any other revenue stream? What does the landscape look like if 2016 is the year that Twitter finally runs out of other people's money?

If you'd invested on demo day you'd be happy with current valuations, sure. But that just means the valuations are as high now as they are then. How many unicorns have repaid their investors in terms of dividends?

Altman is right that there's been a cooling off in 2015, and right that it's a positive sign - we may yet avoid a dramatic crash. But that doesn't mean there isn't a further contraction to come. We could just be seeing stagflation finally catching up to the tech industry.
Since some people have written to me for internships, I just wanted to update this thread saying that we do not do internships for software developers afaik.
Nemesis was rather poorly received among fans of the series. Though honestly, so were most of the other Star Trek films.

Out of the pre-Abrams Star Trek films, four were generally well received (2, 4, 6, 8). The first and third films have a few people who like them, but are broadly disliked. The fifth, seventh, ninth, and tenth are almost universally disliked.

Even among the four generally well received films, only #2 (The Wrath of Khan) and #4 (The Voyage Home) are generally considered as good as the best television episodes from the first two series. Maybe #6 fits in there -- that one's actually my favorite, though I might be biased because it's the only TOS one I've seen in theaters.
Can you please give me an example of a web site that will grind computer to a halt. I am yet to encounter such web site with this old and weak computer of mine. I would really like to see it.
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It has only been 15 years since Ralph Nader got W elected for two terms and cost us about $10 trillion in stupid wars and bad economic decisions, and just about destroyed the US economy to boot.

Do you already need yet another new lesson on why Lessig running as an independent could easily be disastrous? Really?
> Unless this is the tip of the iceberg and everyone is cheating but hasn't been caught yet...

Perhaps it's time to examine these standards. Perhaps the standard is what's unreasonable, not the vehicle's emissions.

If these vehicles achieved greater horsepower and greater fuel economy, perhaps the long-term net pollution caused by these vehicles is equal-to-or-less-than the standard allows.
Oh great, then the only AIs we have to worry about are the ones that have both achieved sentience and learned how to lie to humans.
If benchmarks were rising tenfold nobody would want to put money into startups.
The Trek movies were all bad, and I think the only ones to get a pass were the even-numbered TOS movies.
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> 2015 has seen the lowest level of tech IPOs as a percentage of all IPOs in seven years.

Healthcare and finance are leading the IPO percentage. That seems to reflect new opportunities created by legal changes (ACA + Dodd-Frank). I'm not sure you can draw much of a conclusion about tech bubble status because regulatory changes have fostered growth in other industries.

> The S&P Tech P/E is lower than the overall S&P P/E. Neither of these facts seems suggestive of a tech bubble.

Overall tech P/E may be low, but the recent names are filled with companies that are not making profit, and don't appear on a path to do so over the next few years. Examples: Pandora (-0.65 eps), LinkedIn (-1.15 eps) and Twitter (-0.86 eps), Zynga (-0.20 eps), Trulia (-1.82 eps) and Zillow Group (-2.47 eps), Box (-1.66 eps), Etsy (-1.02 eps) and Shopify (-0.23 eps).

(To be fair, there are "winners" Facebook, Kayak, GoPro, Fitbit).

I'm not sure you can draw a conclusion about a tech bubble by looking at entire sector. Recent names seem to justify the "unicorn" meme.
I feel like the lofty valuations of very early-stage companies these days really creates an unfair dynamic for early employees. I've seen people claiming $5MM valuations for fancy powerpoint slides and no product, which seems really high to me.

The founders then recruit people and give out equity based on these sky-high valuations despite no product or real offerings. Early employees end up sacrificing significant pay in exchange for equity that is priced far higher than it actually should be.
This argument might make you feel better, and it sure sounds sympathetic, but it doesn't change the fact that Nader's hopeless campaign gave the election to Bush. It's not as if the concept of spoiler candidates is new to US politics; it's how we got Clinton, the President in office at when Nader ran!
How do we go about measuring this "harm"?
Did you ever read the virtual third season?

https://empeopled.com/p/31640

Was a fairly descent wrap up if you're looking for some closure.
Is that another way of saying that the Netapp boxes had battery backed RAM that'd promise to really, for sure, absolutely, persist data written to said RAM? (And, also, that two boxes with twice the RAM has, well, twice the RAM)?
Wow, it was nice of them to send you a review copy of season 1.
Trinitron CRTs with the SGI cube at the bottom of the bezel were perfect for these fonts, they did the sub-pixel anti-aliasing beautifully thanks to the wonders of an analog signal with a little bit of interlacing thrown in for good measure. 1280x1024 was big back then.
I've come to the decision to never pay to watch anything ever again that Damon Lindelof has been given the last writing pass on...

After watching Prometheus, DL is right there with Uwe Boll on my list of people to avoid.
I'm not the OP but want to see this discussed. I submitted here:
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Full discourage, I work for plex on plex media player and smart tv platforms,

we removed the plex pass requirement for smart TVs a few days ago, they are all free to all users. But as someone that works with smart TVs many hours a day, I would stay with rpi, it's a much much better platform, can direct play more formats without need for transcoding and in general more stable.
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True, but in these cases I would still want original/canonical/fastest/best source first while the others are probably only valuable as backups.
Trailing revenue makes more sense than net earnings when a company has proven profitable unit economics but hasn't yet saturated its market. At this point, it always makes sense for the company to reinvest any profits into additional sales & marketing rather than bank it, because it earns a predictable return on capital > the market as a whole. A company in this stage will show zero or negative earnings during the entire growth phase (see eg. Amazon.com), but future DCF will increase in proportion to CLV of the whole customer base. Assuming stable CLV, trailing revenues is a pretty good proxy for this metric.

Yelp seems like a fairly good candidate for a business at this stage; its unit economics are probably known to Sam, but it's doubtful that it's saturated all local businesses out there.
> the current algorithm's obsession with "freshness."

Which is how Google makes blogspam such a good business to be in, even if your content is inferior to the post you used for "research".
I searched for axolotl and got some cute pictures but not much information. Why this thing rather than OTR?
Officer's mess would be interesting.
This perspective totally ignores the history of the Iraq war, and the distinctive influence of Bush's idiosyncratic cabinet and vice president, all of whom had outsized influence due to Bush's own weakness.

The idea that Gore would have invaded Iraq in response to an attack from Afghanistan is not well supported by evidence, and not common among historians.

Just making this argument is a kind of "tell" that the arguer refuses to entertain the idea that third-party candidacies can harm the country by splitting the vote. I guess there are intellectually consistent ways to make that argument, but "Gore would have invaded Iraq" is not one of them.
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Alternatively, why not embrace immutability and add native immutable data structures to JS? I believe there is a TC39 proposal for this, in fact. Even if O.o had become mainstream, I would've stayed away from it. The immutability trend is not due to the impracticality of dealing with object observation, but due to inherent issues with mutable state.
If anything, that article gives an inkling of the infinite multitude of ways to screw it up. It's amazing games work as well as they do.
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We're constantly inundated with best practices, theories, lists about doing better in all aspects of life (being successful, a good manager, efficient, happy). How do you actually cut out the noise and make use of the important tips?
Classic example... I login to the EMR system my GP's office uses, and click around a bit, looking at test results, notes, etc. Then, for whatever reason, I happen to reload the page or click the "back" button. Boom, I'm out of the application and have to login again from scratch. Grrrrr... SPA's and this fancy stuff have their place, but let's not pretend that it doesn't come with a cost.
I'm wondering: if people run something like an unstable Fedora or Ubuntu distribution, could they have an option to automatically run rr for certain software?