skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine is a smart guy but often tends to oversimplify. It is not just one of the three, is all three at the same time.

The number 1 is more or less true for a good number of companies. Number 2 and 3 applies to the rest of the companies depending on the investor you are looking at. The number of gullible investors is non-zero. Throws in that many companies are in option 1, and distinguishing between 1 and 2/3 became a complex problem.

So, we have a subset of companies whose price is determined by the ratio between good and bad investors. Obviously, good investors will fly away from these companies. But these companies could make you a lot of money if you leave soon enough. And then in finance classes, they use to say: "the market could stay irrational longer than you could stay solvent."

The results? Inflated Pro-forma statements stay around for enough time to do damage.
It can be done, yes, but it's a risky hack of an operation that literally involves prying the cover off the camera with a knife and polishing away the filter. It's not production-ready by any means.
Yes. Just tell them you're not interested or don't answer the door. There's no need to lie.
I'm sure everyone is aware of the fact that all kinds of potential quality-of-service crosstalk/resource utilization issues are not prevented by a chroot.
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"To this day, there is little evidence on the University of Chicago campus that it has anything to do with Rockefeller." ...except may be for the campus centerpiece known as the Rockefeller Chapel where all the school ceremonies take place? (depicted in the photo right above the quoted sentence) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Chapel
When you're selling hammers ...
Think about how we view the ocean today, versus how people viewed the ocean hundreds of years ago. The same phenomena meant really different things to different groups of people in different cultural contexts and historical moments. The same is true with the view of the earth from space. "The Overview Effect" is the product of cold war total-system thinking; a combination of the gaia hypothsis, the blue marble, and "spaceship earth". Here is a really good paper--Bimm, "Rethinking The Overview Effect" (2014)--about the historical specificity of "overview" an how it is a cultural, rather than natural, product. https://www.academia.edu/5995107/Rethinking_the_Overview_Eff...
So it probably is an age thing. I would answer yes to all but the first, which I never do anyway.
like bitmessage?
1) Google the company. 2) GA is not open source nor does it matter when it's your data on someone else's server.
This could be the first "pimp your car out" service I'd consider using. If the manufacturer were behind it, on a leased car, and absolutely guaranteed any damage would be restored, plus compensated me enough to cover depreciation/lease mileage fee/etc., the only inconvenience would be "make sure your car is totally empty when you leave it parked".

I tend to buy/keep cars ~forever, so it wouldn't work as well for me now, but if I could lease ~3-5 BMWs for ~20-30 people to share (at a remote company office or something which has a lot of people cycling through, and where some cars are needed), and then add them to a fleet pool otherwise, I'd be in. That's somewhere between Zipcar, Uber, and leased company cars.

Managing maintenance, cleaning, insurance, repairs, etc. for them for me would be great, too.
That would make it tricky to change your keys if, for example, your laptop got stolen.
A thought experiment I like to use when working on a new user interface is to imagine if my mum could use it, or if I could easily explain it to her in a way that made sense. (she represents the average non-technical person)

I like to use this thought experiment when imagining Bitcoin adoption. And then I realise that after all the reading I've done and being fairly technically literate I can barely explain Bitcoin to myself in a coherent way.

The conclusion I come to with this over-simplified view is that highly technical people are creating a larger divide of Us and Them. This isn't through malice, people are free to create and experiment intellectually as they see fit. But it would be nice if the average persons use-case was considered when planning your utopian money system that you have a head start on in accumulating wealth.
VirtualBox and VMWare are hardly "tiny." I've never had a good experience with VirtualBox on any platform. Thing is constantly broken and endlessly updated to break in newer, less Google-able ways and just causes never-ending grief in unexpected places for me.
Or, even worse, there'd be a selection effect where the distribution of people who opt in is skewed from the total distribution of Homebrew users, ruining the dataset for any analysis one might want to do to it. There's a reason that Nielson Ratings collection isn't opt-in.
Efficient by what metric? By energy usage, sure, but the one metric that seems to override all others in the US is capex, not opex considerations (which over the long haul can overshadow initial capex acquisition costs).

The rule of thumb I've heard about construction is stick-built SFR is considered relatively baseline cost. Multi-Family Residential (MFR) with a few stories that requires some more robust structural elements is about 2X SFR per square foot. Mid- to high-rises are about 2X MFR (4X SFR) and up per square foot.

Economically living in high-rises is a non-starter in most of the US for many working-class and middle-class families, and you won't see Krugman's touted beneficial effects unless that middle of the population bell curve is in high-rises. I advocate dense urban development, but I have yet to figure out how it can be economically implemented without compromising quality of life, especially with the multi-decade long asset inflation we're experiencing in real estate that is ongoing.
I'm a node.js developer. I understand the benefit of using docker for deployments or CI testing, but I have yet to be convinced of the benefits of using it for development on my local machine.

I install node, postgres, and redis natively and it all works fine. What benefits does docker provide to my workflow?
What makes you trust Homebrew over Google? What makes you trust anyone with your data online?
I've been using the Mac Beta for a few weeks and I can also say it's great. Install is easy and it just works. It's such a relief being able to do dev work directly on my machine without docker-machine/VirtualBox. I've been hitting it with a variety of Ubuntu-based containers without any issues.
Doesn't miniLock do something like that?
I've been using the following docker-machine plugin and found it to be great:
https://github.com/zchee/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
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> There are a lot of one liners that are much more composable in the fat-arrow syntax. The default returns takes a lot of it out, and makes it simpler the simpler it starts.

They’re not more composable… they’re slightly shorter, and anything non-trivial doesn’t fit on one line. Template literals are nice, sure.

> the local name doesn't have to match the name of the module,

But when it does, everything is a lot more obvious. It works fine for all the Python modules, too.
Why are white people responsible for everything negative?

Do minorities not vote for the same politicians these "awful awful white people" vote for? Is Hillary Clinton (who will do less about the War on Drugs than Bernie Sanders) not getting a majority of the Dem. African American vote?
Glad you did. Had a quick look. Found this post quite interesting http://datagenetics.com/blog/march12016/index.html
Indeed it was, I was replying to arcticfox, who I thought overgeneralized (hence my reply).

[Edit] and I now realize that this whole subthread could have been avoided had my original comment lead with "In this case yes, but...", live and learn :P
A public key is pretty long for an address (eg ~500 bytes for RSA-4096).

Instead, you can use a hash of the public key for an address. That's what I'm doing for Ensichat [1]

[1] https://github.com/Nutomic/ensichat
You might need different node/postgres versions for different projects.
By contrast, I've never once had an issue with VirtualBox. Vagrant and VirtualBox are my best buddies.
You are right that prepaid debit cards are relatively easy to get. My region is still mostly cash though, so you don't use the cards much locally. Bank accounts are less common because of minimums to start one (though I haven't checked this lately.) Credit cards are even less common.

My earlier statement still stands. You would still probably be targeting people who could get a credit card or a card from a bank account. Most of the rest is a difficult market to run an e-commerce platform funded by outside investors.
In general the idea of running things as a business is not to say they should be run at a profit, it's to say they should be run efficiently like a free competitive market typically does.

Sure, but the alternative to inefficient government spending on mass transit isn't some free market solution; it's inefficient spending on automobile infrastructure.
Did you try the move office and find route feature ? Those 36 are the buildings in San Francisco where we have instant book (many properties per building). There are about 400 buildings but most are not automated in booking as of now.
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The Grugq has a better (IMO) article on the topic:

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/anonymous-messaging-3032319192b...
Here's a quick and dirty way to opt out for BASH and ZSH users for easy copy/pasting.

BASH:

cat <<EOF >> .bashrc
# Opt out of Homebrew analytics
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
if [[ -e "$HOME/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid" ]]; then
rm -f "$HOME/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid"
fi
EOF

ZSH:

cat <<EOF >> .zshrc
# Opt out of Homebrew analytics
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
if [[ -e "$HOME/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid" ]]; then
rm -f "$HOME/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid"
fi
EOF

Cheers.
Yes, it has a gateway between the high level stuff and the low level stuff. It's fairly secure too. You can't just make calls to the can bus all willy-nilly either.
Programming while driving isn't illegal! :-)
It's different when the manufacturers get behind it though. Cut out the middle man.
"Who cares if you have the formula of a drug to cure cancer if it takes many manyears to produce it from said formula?"
The article seems to indicate that the non-owner drivers would not be the end users of the service, but would be Uber-like drivers. This is not a great article.
Are there useful heuristics on where GSL is most applicable? Where it is relevant and powerful and not too meta; just the right amount of abstraction to represent a problem and its solution.

For example, "GSL is likely a good choice at <abstract problem description>, such as <some very concrete examples>. And it may not be appropriate for <abstract problem description>, such as <other concrete examples>. Because of <some specific reasons>."

I looked through the GSL website and also Scalable C and wasn't able to find any descriptions that place limits on the applications of GSL. A description of what a complex something isn't, from an expert, is almost as important as what that thing is.

Your writing style in Scalable C is incredible and enlightening. I will be studying and referencing that book, even if I'm not directly coding C.
I know who I'm inviting to Vegas next trip. Assuming you haven't used up all your luck. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
Very courageous and visionary. BMW is canibalizing their sales as this will cut down on car wastage. Short term pain for long term positioning. This could be the tipping point as it forces other manufacturers to follow suit.

Likely they are getting ready for self driving cars business model that come will come at a press of a button.

I can see Tesla probably the next to do this.

The world is a changin'.
This is exactly how I think of it. No one questions people doing mechanical work on their car, but touch the software and you get crucified.
I saw this a few days in the DARPA SBIR/STTR release. My understanding is that they do not want to use a public blockchain, instead just utilize blockchain technology across DoD servers to make them less susceptible to a attack, while also giving clear transaction logs for certain military requests that have compliance needs.

The private blockchain will give them state machine replication, some kind of method of encrypted authentication, and a platform for transaction verification across military/dod (or whatever the specific use cases are). The communication bit could work as well since they don't have to store the messages themselves in the blockchain. Since the blockchain is private, this also somewhat solves the problem of transaction speed. There would probably be some lag, but probably just a few seconds or even less if optimized.

Something like Ethereum (with whisper and and swarm) could work if they were looking to use a public blockchain, but they specifically reference Hyperledger.org in their publication.
I'm aware of the issues with /alcohol/ that exist in my family, and detest the smell of smoking (heavier smoking also makes it harder for me to breath).

As I choose not to drink and not to smoke, I feel that others can similarly make /informed/ decisions as /adults/ about which recreational drugs they want to use; and I also very much agree with the approach of that third covered plan; drugs with worse consequences should be harder, but still fully legal (even /without/ a prescription but under supervision; possibly requiring a physical for health evaluation first) to gain access to.

My complete goal with this policy is fighting CRIME, not /drug use/.
Running a VM means you have to allocate X amount of RAM regardless if how much is actually needed by the containerized processes.
Bitcoin is for the underserved. Further, it's subsidized by the premium on fungible value. So it's necessarily not posing a threat to incumbent currencies.

Taavet Hinrikus certainly drew from his own failed endeavor. But I don't know how he didn't extrapolate the state of the wider market.
Consider using a different user per account - the gain having a dedicated chrome / safari password. Auxiliary gain, this will keep you more focused on one client at a time.
Can anybody in HN provide a quickpath into the beta? I signed up when it was first announced (seems to be over 30 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352389) but haven't heard anything back yet.
I haven't used MS Office in about 10 years. To be honest I've never had "quality" issues, unless you're referring to the look and feel of the UI, which yes has come leaps and bounds in that time (although I'd argue you to the grave on that being a more important standard of quality than standards compliance, and MS Office has always been shocking at that. They had to be ordered to implement ODF by the European union if I remember correctly).

It remains quite different in workflow, so the transition will always be jarring, but I find it just as odd going back to MS Office now as you would going the other way.
I'm not saying the addiction rate would go down if it were legalized. Undoubtedly, it would increase. But there are still questions... how much would the addiction rate increase, and what is the social cost of that addiction, relative to the social cost of our current policy of criminalization?

Certainly, violence among dealers would disappear. Liquor stores don't have drive-by shootings to settle their turf. America's absurd incarceration rate would drop tremendously. Incarceration is a major contributor to child poverty. Moreover, a felony criminal record makes it extremely difficult for many adults to find productive work even after serving their time, which begets more crime and more cycling of the system.

The incredible militarization of our police forces, the costs of civil forfeiture (which doesn't require a conviction to take someone's property), the racism, the myriad other ways the "War on Drugs" damages our society and our souls - are you certain that an increase in addiction is so profoundly evil that it's worth this price?
Even if the universe is infinite, it's impossible to interact or even perceive anything beyond our lightcone. Within that finite (albeit vast) region of space is a finite amount of matter and energy which is constantly and irrevocably subject to entropy, and will eventually be torn apart and decohere with the heat death of the universe.

So... no. In literally no way known to physics can anything other than spacetime itself grow exponentially forever, and even that may not necessarily be the case.
Given the nature of Cruz, Trump and especially Clinton, we can only expect even more allowance of fake accounting data in the future. Wouldn't surprise me if the SEC was simply closed.
BitSquare - The decentralized Bitcoin exchange
Now you can feel doubly awesome since you successfully trolled me at the same time as you hacked your Tesla!
This doesn't scale well and is impossible if you want to send any media. If such an app were to become as popular as iMessage, it would need to handle 200k message per second. I can't download so many messages per second on my phone. You could send blocks with 2000 messages but you could easily be deanonymized (look, out of those 2m messages, he requested 5 blocks with the same author. I think they talk to each other). Don't get my started with kilo to megabyte big images.
If you would not want to scale the app, you could also be deanonymized because you're talking with a niche that has less then 10,000 users.

I wish there was an easy solution to this problem but we already see how badly Bitcoin scale and there are great articles why Bitcoin with its current design can't be used in the real world simply because the block chain has a pretty low limit on transactions per second.
A Docker engineer got so many threats the company hired security to protect her
Bitcoin is for the undeserved. It's unbelievably clunkly, but when you have no other choice - you'll learn to use it.
Closest they're gonna get to self-destructing messages on a blockchain is trusting the recipient to delete the decryption key after a certain amount of time, along with pruning expired messages from the chain (not perfect, probably good enough).

To their merit, blockchain based messaging is an easy way to prevent a great deal of traffic analysis.
I believe we're in agreement. I only mention my upbringing to note that Protestants had their own reasons for keeping their charity private and just how hard it is change one's early indoctrination.
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17 for me, and this is exactly how it is for me. Gentoo taught me Linux, and I have enjoyed it ever since. I use other distros as well, but Gentoo will always hold a special place in my heart.
But the military can't always use secure connections. That's why the invented the tor project.
Uninformative news. What is a section? What percentage of the reef area are them? How near?
Same experience here, both on Mac and Windows. They've done a great job making it "just work". The user interface pieces are a bit raw -- perhaps "minimalist" or "unobtrusive" would put that in a better light! -- but clearly most of the work has gone into the lower level integration, where it shines.

Docker for Mac/Windows, once released, will nuke the ick factor on those platforms from orbit, which can only lead to even more adoption.
For an explanation of why the Japanese government keeps kicking the can down the road instead of facing their problems directly I recommend the book "Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan" by Alex Kerr. It was published in 2002 but nothing has really changed.

http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780809039432
Until they realize offering unlimited storage is unsustainable and scale back the limits like countless cloud storage services have done before...
> You can't just make calls to the can bus all willy-nilly either.

What do you mean by that? I would think that once you get UID=0 nothing can stop you from doing whatever you want to that device.
Disappointing? You are the one coming to me expecting an example-oracle that produces them on demand.

E.g.

Computation / representation:

2 + 2

Graph

[+]

/ \

[2] [2]

There is a way to produce the graph from the computation / representation and vice versa. There is a way to do that for every possible computation / representation and every possible graph (though, not necessarily with every pair).

This could be described as a compiler or compiler-like. There are many interesting things to do with them, but in this example all that is needed to consider is the construction of an Abstract Syntax Tree from a string and an in-order tree walker that emits the contents of the nodes to an output string.
Wit.ai is joining Facebook
AFAIK, Max Howell was rejected from a position at Google, and now his trademark making use of Google? Let him take a look at GNU.ORG; if he can see any GA code.
Could be alluding to the appointment of Condoleezza Rice to the Dropbox board, and implication that Dropbox just gives them access versus requiring pesky NSLs or warrants (given Rice's defense of those NSA programs).
That's pretty interesting. I remember some years ago there was car sharing service like Zipcar (do they still really exist?) where you could rent out your car and they would pay you for the miles driven. Not sure how that worked out.
I suppose BMW would be the middle man? I have a hard time envisioning how a manufacturer provided service would be better than a neutral party since GetAround can provide the same service for all brands of cars. GetAround already provides a lot of useful features to participants such as remotely unlocking cars (that way you can keep your key inside for guests) and monitoring the location (primarily for the guest to find your car in the first place when it's inevitably parked randomly on the street).
I've had some problems with Virtualbox but I was able to overcome them. I'm sure that using Docker will be much the same.
set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
Wait, not even another kind of VM? Have you ever had to work with a team that has an unreliable environment? And had to walk them through debugging an error message for installing one of them, or wanted to add something with further dependencies?

(Not to say Docker's immune from that; the sudden deprecation of docker-compose for docker-machine was a nasty surprise.)
I keep having the idea of setting up a community Linux server: you have to be in a certain geographic region to get a shell account. I think it'd be a fun way to meet people, in a classic hacker setting.
You're still running a VM with Docker for Mac/Windows. It's just beautifully integrated and focused on the use case.
To clarify, I'm about half of the way through the book, and I have found a couple arguably-correct points. Complaints about Usenet and Unix vendors have mostly gone the way of the dodo. The author consistently ignores any distinction between the filesystem and the rest of the OS, which may have been accurate at the time of writing, but hasn't been true for decades. Similarly, we don't distinguish between a given shell and Unix as a whole, even though the book makes explicit mention that other shells exist. And why there is a chapter on Usenet passes understanding. Suggesting that shell expansion be handled by an external library is equally bizarre.
So far the valid points are:
* command input syntax is inconsistent. I don't know that this has a feasible solution, but it is true.
* tar specifically sucks
* sendmail configuration sucks

The real crime of UHH is that it merely hates, it does not instruct. When we do find valid criticisms, there is no suggestion for how to fix things, or how other OSes are better at the same role. I've resigned myself to read the entirety, but for all the authors' complaints about not learning anything from history, one can only feel like they have themselves to blame.