skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they aren't growing and they aren't paying dividends, why would anyone buy their stock?
>who makes out those valuation numbers.

Uh...what?

No one is making up those numbers. It's a financial metric.
There was an article on HN recently which I believe applies equally well to technical stacks: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-companies-keep-fail...
There's the cultural aspect too...

People tend to over-rely on email, and on communication in general...

If people stopped work at a sane hour and limited messaging to times when it is actually necessary...
The way I had to take out loans when I went to college, I knew how much more in debt I was getting every semester and the total debt. I had gone to a public university in the US. Since I had scholarships, I had to take out "only" $1000-$2000 in loans per semester. Every semester when disbursement time came around, the university financial office would send me an email informing me of all the money that was coming in from scholarships and loans, how much of it would be applied to tuition, and the amount of the rest that would be deposited into my account. If I recall correctly, I think they even made me see the balance before the money would be disbursed. In this way, I knew what my loan balance was when I graduated, and instead of panicking about it, paid it off gradually over several years.
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I don't see Apache Avro in your comparison table. Have you looked at that?
'X for Y' analogies are older than technology... good luck...
Fusion experiment yields Hydrogen
This "article" is just an ad, once you reach the last paragraph.
Well, the media mischaracterized what she said in order for it to sound more shocking. What she actually said was that people use more medication than they need, in general. Still preposterous, but I'm saddened that the media makes these outlandish claims that only hurt its credibility in the long run.
Farouk al-Kasim, if memory serves. And yes, he did design the reserve fund financial structure.
The correct tool for the key-splitting job is HKDF.

If SJCL doesn't offer HKDF, I'll be surprised. It's not hard to implement, however.
How is it "no big deal" for some companies to get a new CEO and catastrophic for others?

It probably doesn't satisfy, but isn't one answer to this question: "Because there are countless convoluted variables"? This would depend on the outgoing CEO, the incoming CEO, every key employee, the state of the company, the company's sector, the state of the economy, etc.

I guess you're looking for consistent rules of thumb, but is it possible that there are too many factors for their to be any good rules of thumb?
I agree goldenrod is just about right. My first monitor was amber-on-black HGA, and setting that color with 9x14 makes me feel nostalgic.
I have had some success in affiliate marketing using an approach that I think many on Hacker News could duplicate. I launched my Amazon affiliate site about a year-and-a-half ago and its earnings have increased by about $100 per month with December being the first time I earned over $2,000 in a month.

The approach is to find a type of product where Amazon has thousands of listing but the specifications are not very accurate and the filtering criteria are limited, and where there are highly active forums with people talking about and asking about these products. Then you build a proper searchable catalog for the products. Include lots of search criteria, sorting criteria, side-by-side comparison, recommended accessories, anything that would be useful for people looking to buy them.

Once my catalog contained over 1,000 models I started replying to posts on forums with a link to my site that provided what they were looking for. People loved the site and it wasn't long before they were posting links to it to answer each others questions. That's all it took to start ranking on Google which is now responsible for 3/4 of my traffic.

Initially this is not passive income. The first few months are a lot of work for very little money. Eventually the balances shifts to the point where additional work is only needed if you want to keep growing. Amazon's product advertising API allows you to get current prices, availability and popularity (sales ranking) to keep everything fresh.
( unless things go comically wrong )
Well, why would it be? That's internal.

Hasn't been published as far as I can Google.
Here's a recent example case: A judge recently dismissed a defamation suit against Bill Cosby on the grounds that he has a First Amendment right to deny accusations against him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/w...
Parse's valuation proposition makes a ton of sense. It however, made very little sense under the Facebook banner. Just like Crashlytics/Fabric makes little sense under Twitter's banner.

As a developer, I want to build my software-based business on top of a provider that is focused on making money from software developers. Facebook and Twitter make money from advertisers. Amazon (AWS specifically), Google and Microsoft explicitly have revenue incentives to make money from software businesses.
Borrow $1 million from a Japanese bank.
It didn't make sense to me until I had a.) started a company and b.) saw the historical tech stacks of a number of companies (eg. Google, Facebook, EBay) that had hit it big.

I started my career with the belief that your company has one tech stack, the chief architect chooses it when the company is founded, and that you never ever rewrite it because you're in for a world of pain if you do.

I learned that basically no company that experiences hyper-growth ever does this. Instead, the founder chooses a tech stack based on whatever he knows best and will let him write a v1 quickest - whether it be Java (Google), Perl (EBay), PHP (Facebook), or Common Lisp (Reddit). The first few employees collectively say that the founder is an idiot, choose a different tech stack (usually whatever's hot right now - probably Go or Node.js at this time, Python or Rails in 2005), and rewrite the whole product. They hire an experienced VP who says that the first few employees are idiots, chooses a different tech stack (often the tried and true enterprise favorites of C++ or Java), and dictates that everyone rewrite the product. Eventually, managers with more recent experience in that language get hired, who collectively say that that VP was an idiot, and the real way to do C++/Java is with Guice, Boost, C++11, etc, and rewrite the product that way. Development grinds to a halt, and the company buys a bunch of hot startups who wrote in whatever language they were familiar with, who are technical idiots but managed to build a product that everyone likes.

In this context, Parse and other BaaS providers makes a lot of sense. You can get your v1 product out there really quick, get customer feedback, improve it, take VC, and hire lots of programmers to call you an idiot and rewrite your product into something saner. Then you get bought, everybody at the new company thinks you're an idiot, but you have at least cashed out. Or you don't get bought and hire a VP who'll force you to rewrite your product, but at this stage you have so much of a market lead that it doesn't matter, and the BaaS got you to the point where you have the resources to free yourself of it.

(I wonder if I'll end up tripping some HN flamewar auto-detector with the number of times I've said "idiot" in this post...)
This is less than I spend on coffee in a month.
Yeah, I was sold on Dropbox the first time I stood up a machine and it synced a couple of GB in a few minutes. After scratching my head because my broadband isn't that fast, I realized it had quietly sideloaded the data from my other signed-in box on the network. That was pretty spiffy.
I see that some people disagree with that claim. I'd like to hear their explanation as to why they do not believe this is evidence.

Note in particular that I'm not claiming this as absolute proof, just that it's evidence. While one might argue over the weight that should be assigned to it, it seems sufficiently irregular that it should be hard to claim that it's not even evidence.
It looks like it needs the www subdomain.

http://www.predicto.ai/
Don't forget the price controls he instituted. The Chavez government mandated a price for televisions that was below the wholesale cost of them. When this went into effect, the stores were cleared of TVs in days (obviously this measure was super popular with the people), and then the shops remained empty, as the store owners didn't have the money to restock. And weren't inclined to do so, as selling below the wholesale price is a fast way to going out of business.
I wonder how long that monstrous law is going to stay in effect?
I think you meant http://www.predicto.ai/
I'm beginning to categorically distrust these "Made with Love" people. Obsessive, made-with-love types seem to be these hard-charging, work-at-all-hours nerds that need to get out more
Is this weave/brillo but not Google?
Answering this question has been harder than I thought. I hate to say "Don't go to my country right now". But I've to be honest, I don't think it's worth the risk visiting right now due to crime, robbery, murders, kidnaps and more.. Even though a dollar will go a long way, your life is worth a lot more.. Hopefully things will get better soon you will be able to see the Angel Falls and Los Roques with your own eyes!
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Per 13 USC Sec. 2331 [0]:

(5) [T]he term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a
violation of the criminal laws of the United
States or of any State;

(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

(ii) to influence the policy of a government by
intimidation or coercion; or

(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass
destruction, assassination, or kidnapping;
and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial
jurisdiction of the United States.

How is the Malheur occupation not domestic terrorism, under that definition?

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331
Cheap labor from South and South East Asia have a lot more to do with Qatar and UAE. Also lot of India-Pakistan trade (because of hostilities) happens via. UAE and Qatar(to a lesser extent).

So, there are elements, like demographics, stability and geographical and geo-political issues casting bigger shadow than we think.

Dubai is 70% non-citizens, and majority from India.
This was not shorting +Vpp to GND; this was putting -Vpp in the +Vpp pin. All pins are referenced to GND, which is 0V by definition, so if you put +5V in it, it's the same as subtracting 5V from the voltage in all the other pins. And since they put the 0V in +Vpp, it became -5V. Most devices aren't prepared for negative voltages.
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Yes bout not with an unblanced amount of debt. My oldest got a sociology degree and is working part timne and living at home. All with our good graces. She wants to be a librarian and has to pretty much get a MLS. She will incur some student debt along the way. But it won't be a huge amount. She will mostly pay for graduate school out of her salary.

She has zero undergraduate debt. But that is because I took a pay cut and went to work for the university she went to. Tuition was free. I'm very glad I made that decision. As mentioned about my youngest is getting an Engr degree so the free tuition does not count because where I work does not have a Engr program.
Let me quote README file first:

It was originally written as a supplement to git, which does not store
all metadata, making it unsuitable for e.g. storing /etc in a
repository.

metastore can also be helpful if you want to create a tarball of a file
tree and make sure that "everything" (e.g. xattrs, mtime, owner, group)
is stored along with the files.

You may use it to store stuff on filesystem that doesn't support perms, owner & group for instance, like FAT, yet still be able to restore it later. Well, FAT doesn't support lot of things, so it's maybe a bad example. Anyway, I did use metastore to store metadata of some ext4 filesystem tree before backuping it on NTFS. It worked quite well.
Isn't that how they heat the core to initiate fusion? That's the opposite of what I'm asking.

There's absolutely no question nor doubt that every fusion research reactor in history has been capable of sinking a tremendous amount of power :)

Edit: ah, I imagine you meant to direct me to the later "Power production" paragraph.
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Well, I'm glad that's solved. You've convinced me.
Or an untrained or too-tired worker puts the assembly in the jig upside-down and pushes the button. ker-chunk. Then the worker throws the cable in the good bin because he gets paid by the kg of cables produced, and fired if the bad bin fills up.

It's 5A, they could install a polyfuse, or they could monitor the current and turn it off with a transistor.
Not in America. In America, people think anything involving public spending is socialism. We also don't know what social democracy is and we define "liberalism" in a different way from everyone else on the planet.
We replaced the misleading and linkbait title with a representative sentence from the article.

Submitters: the HN guidelines ask you not to use the original title of a post when it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interesting insights until you realize that the author has a not so hidden agenda for posting such an article.
"Best viewed in IE 6.0"?
The problem is his SSL certificate expired last week! You can see the site if you go to https://www.predicto.ai/ and make a security exception.
Unfortunately for you, the exact same problem can happen with plain old regular USB; in fact, this cable had only the wires from plain old regular USB. Reversing the wires on a USB 2.0 cable would have the same effect.
Is anyone here aware of Hololens? I am not understanding why people are claiming ms is missing out on the vr revolution, unless you consider AR to be so wildly different that it doesn't qualify as similar?
https://usbccompliant.com/ is one output of the engineer's work, for anyone curious
Nice goals, but why does that require the participants commit financial suicide?

Its hard to do it with a straight face, but you can kinda pretend that keeping the chemistry lab stocked and the electronics lab bench gear repaired costs $100K/yr. Maybe $10K/yr for some of the individual goof balls I went to class with, but certainly not on average. You can also pretend that paying the PHD student TA stipend costs $100K/yr/student, when the TA is getting less than minimum wage and is on food stamps. But its hard with a straight face to claim that talking about philosophy or gender magically costs $100K/yr/person.
1> Most of it is straight up Apache 2.0 license. The only thing that is not Apache licensed is the approximate query processing piece which is closed source right now. We intend to build out a community and that predicates that much of what we do has to be open source

2> Since we have spliced a database into Spark such that Spark and Snappy share the same memory space. Everything that Spark supports will be supported. The data can be accessed as data frames and accessed using the Spark API (and we will be a 100% compatible)

3> Absolutely. In upcoming releases. Both from a data standpoint and from a management and monitoring, and security.

4> I think becoming a full fledged tool is not on the cards. Think of this as a enterprise class real time operational analytics platform. But we intend to integrate and work closely with the leading tool vendors (especially the AQP piece is great for aggregate class visualizations)
> Anyone saying these kids or their parents should've known better need to get real. Most of the middle and lower class was hustled.

This may well be true in the general case (and by extension, in the majority of individual cases), but I've started to lose sympathy as I see more and more people who were told about the risks up front but still decide to get degrees that aren't good economic propositions.
We will help you sell your car  We will help you to buy a car
From that list I would only consider the first one.

Using sun.* packages or relying in GC behaviour is a way to make Java code not portable across certified JVMs.

For example I took part in some projects that were married to IBM JVM, because they were relying on its features.
Having been through this once and now doing it a second time as a parent the information is available. It is not hidden. The undereducated parents are the ones that need help. But I see well educated parents not pay attention.

My comments apply to the traditional not for profit schools. The for profit ones are probably as you say.
We have never claimed that Protobuf could not be used for network applications. We have claimed that Protobuf is a bad choice for messages have have to be routable by intermediaries that do not know the schema of a Protobuf message. Where does one Protobuf message end and another begin?

Additionally, Protobuf is not good at encoding raw bytes - according to their own words.
Fusion reactor designed in hell makes its debut
Don't go. Venezuela has many beautiful sights to see, unfortunately now is not the time. Wait some years and check again.
It's a term of art in development economics. Norway is an interesting case because it had a developed economy before petroleum exploitation, but even so a lot of Norwegian policies depend on having a large fiscal buffer based on resource extraction. Developing states without strong social structures generally follow maladaptive development paths when exposed to lots of resource revenues, which is a tragedy in its own right.
In my mid 30's and that's the common theme in my very highly educated city. The average home has been re-pumped up to over $500K, high property taxes, etc.

Unless you're in the top 10% of wage earners, you'll need two incomes. Day care costs would eat a lot of the second income anyway. The college loans still exist as many here have masters and PHDs. Singles at 35+ live with roommates as if they were in their early 20's.

Wonder why Donald Trump has risen so high so fast?

Lots of hispanic women with 2 or 3 little kids in tow, another on the way. Guess who gets to pay for them?
Google removes Samsung's first Android ad blocker from the Play Store
I wrote the layout code you're talking about. There is no unsafe in the layout algorithms, just in the work-stealing deque and the logic to share DOM nodes over to the layout thread. You can think of both as low-level generic memory management primitives, essentially as a GC. We do not allow the layout logic to be unsafe.

As for string lists and such, those are core collections. Again, those are low-level primitives and relatively easy to prove safe. We should be migrating more of that code to the safe language, but it never causes problems in practice. That's because the "build simple abstractions out of unsafe primitives and keep the complicated code safe" approach works. (We have empirical evidence that it works, you know. There are incredibly few segfaults in Servo relative to any other browser engine we've worked on.)

I am convinced that writing in Java would not make the browser any safer. All you'd do is to move some unsafe code from the engine to HotSpot. The only real effect it would have is that the word "unsafe" would not appear as often in the code.

> It generates machine code that's then handed off to the JVM for execution.

And there is absolutely no difference between that and what Servo/SpiderMonkey does, because you're trusting the millions of lines of code in HotSpot. Servo is just being explicit about the lack of safety when touching the JIT.
These are awesome! I've been learning d3 and have been struggling a bit with animations. Does anyone mind breaking down one of these tweets and explaining how it works? I understand it's minifed but learning how to loop animations would be great.
Identifying a problem, choosing an algorithm to solve it, and implementing that algorithm.

I'd say 1 is the hardest for computers and 2 and 3 are the hardest for humans.

There's a cliff in artificial intelligence that people have been saying is just on the horizon for decades. Eventually they'll be right.
To spell it out for you, sending keys unauthenticated is scary. Double scary because these folks are writing security software so it ought to be in their motor memory to avoid trivial mitm attacks.
Thanks. I researched key splitting when I was building the CBC+HMAC version of the crypto, but HKDF never came up. This is why there are experts (which I do not claim to be).

Your feedback on the crypto side of things is really important and well received. I appreciate you taking the time to look through the code.
AngularUI Router and Injecting $state vs. $stateParams
Are you really saying that the US government is Stalinist?
I'm currently living in Montreal. I love Canada and all the opportunities it offers. People are very friendly and it's extremely multicultural! But my heart will always be in Venezuela.
>Can you trust your platform of choice, or will they close shop on you tomorrow?

I'm thinking about moving to IBM BlueMix with parts of my business and asking myself the same question. What do you guys think? Will BlueMix still be there in a couple of years (3,4)? I know nobody using it, but IBM is promoting it quite aggressively, and it makes sense for me to have an alternative for both self-made AWS clusters (IaaS) AND BaaS like Parse.
Regarding your closing statement: http://slickdeals.net/ is awesome.
The Venezuela wikipedia page makes it sounds as if the Bolivarian Revolution is a repeat of history:

The election of Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1973 coincided
with the 1973 oil crisis, in which Venezuela's income
exploded as oil prices soared; oil industries were
nationalized in 1976. This led to massive increases in
public spending, but also increases in external debts,
which continued into the 1980s when the collapse of oil
prices during the 1980s crippled the Venezuelan economy.
As the government started to devalue the currency in
February 1983 to face its financial obligations,
Venezuelans' real standards of living fell dramatically.
A number of failed economic policies and increasing
corruption in government led to rising poverty and crime,
worsening social indicators, and increased political
instability.
To what degree can one expect to extrapolate this behavior up/down/across the taxonomy of species? (I assume the more predatory, the more likely this would evolve.) Once you have a theory of mind, you can move from seemingly-intelligent but simply emergent "flock/herd" behavior to actual co-operation with peers or "disruption" of the out group, which would be interesting to look at. I think anyone who has had personal (and I mean personal!) dealings with crows can tell you they seem to have a theory of mind, and moreover, they hold grudges :)
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11026480
I'm also interested about how you curate the list of products. Do you have some kind of semi-automatic system or something? Or you just add them by hand?
Good point, although I wasn't using it long enough to know exactly. I imagine you could apply the same rule of thumb as with other gestural controllers.

Another aspect of fatigue would be: does the user become fatigued/insensitive to the haptic interaction over time?
> And as many anti-libertarians will point out, the lack of a competent government does not result in a paradise emerging from the work of motivated individual actors within.

There's a big difference between an incompetent government and a libertarian free-market paradise. The two aren't even comparable. A corrupt government bureaucracy with central economic planning based on nepotism and cronyism (presumably, Venezuela) is pretty much the polar opposite of what any sane libertarian or anarcho-capitalist would be advocating for.