skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone give the devil's advocate view? As others are saying, the judge's ruling is ridiculous. I can understand if there were material misrepresentations that affected the offer price, but to rule that you should offer more than the market was valuing it? Even though no one was actually willing to pay that price? And on the grounds that "investors are too stupid to correctly value it"?

Isn't the whole point of a buyout that you think other investor's are incorrectly valuing a venture based on the available information? If any buyout is going to be subject to this later, with-more-hindsight review that forces buyers to "top up" to the "correct" value, what's the point?

Sometimes I wonder how business manages to work at all in the presence of this "jackpot justice".
Concurrency (understood as message-passing concurrency) is much more expressive than either OO or FP. Milner invented pi-calculus because its predecessor (CCS) was not expressive enough. One example of the lack of expressivity is that the encoding of Turing machines into CCS is quite awkward, whereas the encoding into pi-calculus is smooth. Still, pi-calculus has expressivity limits, e.g. n-way synchronisation (n > 2) a la Petri nets cannot be encoded in a compositional way, and neither can broadcasting or Ambient-calculus mobility.
Ah - that does make sense. They were looking out for shareholders who didn't have a choice who would have been happy to wait for years to realize their gains.
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you should check out this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11737851
Posted another article on this topic before I found yours.

Microsoft is terrible at naming things. This needs to be called Microsoft Doors.
Not really. A typical IOT client sends a few bytes every few minutes or hours. that's not much.

But the "internet of watching things", a world full of connected cameras is a different story. But it ain't a great slogan :)
He does say in the footnote that he was kidding and that this is simply called "economics", if that makes you feel better.
That's exactly the point the Diggler parody is making about Nate Silver
Can anyone paste me the list of shortcomings that VR has to solve according to him?
yep, i'm a huge fan of kipling's writing in general, but what struck me about those stories was not that the writing sounded modern, but that they felt like modern science fiction in the topics they dealt with and the manner in which they were developed.
IIRC, there are no known breakouts with the latest version of Docker and the default settings are oriented towards preventing them where possible. The concern is largely around having privileges escalated by default if a breakout were attained.
Your many comments in this thread have had a trollish effect whether you meant to or not. Please don't do that here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11813571 and marked it off-topic.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11813876 and marked it off-topic.
The title of the article is "Microsoft unveils its new vision for Windows".
Please don't use your opinion as title.
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Wow!!

Is there a list of outages on other 'major' services of this magnitude?
I think the standard gender-neutral term is "congresscritters".
> Can you afford to not run on someone else's infrastructure?

Most businesses do, so I would say "Yes".

We'll go through this whole decade long period of how wonderful the "cloud" is, and then we can go back through the next phase where everyone is getting paid to move services back locally because of how "easy it is to manage with Docker/Kubernetes/$flavor_of_the_week_cloud_orchestration".

I'm old. I've seen this before.
The link 404s for me.
Property tax is often based on its potential value instead of its current use. Just the possibility that the land could be rezoned in the future could increase your taxes.
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It is almost as if you're telling us that you can code on a phone. "Mobile with high end GPUs" - what sort of battery do you have in mind for that?

If you're calling a laptop "mobile" then ah - okay, but that's not the general use of the term.
How come the discrete graphics is a deal-breaker if not for the price? Battery life?
Awesome, do more! It's not automated is it, like just type up a formula and it spits out code?
With regards to OS for microcontrollers, ARM's mbed has far better low-power,security and ecosystem story.

And as far as Linux OS's - nobody will buy an OS that can't be ported to ARM and be done so reasonably, so i'm not sure Wind River helps Intel that much in selling chips.
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A single circuit breaker shouldn't cause an outage if your servers are powered using dual power supplies from separate circuits or you are load-balancing across servers powered by separate circuits. This appears like mere incompetence.
So, I might have a use for Tofino in the future, so I figured I would google it to see how hard it would be for me to find in the future.

"mozilla javascript browser project" and variations don't seem to find anything. Most come up with https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects, which doesn't list it for some reason.

Even searching for "mozilla technologies" doesn't find it (except for articles about new technologies in general, including this article), and it's not on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech.

If I search for "mozilla tofino" I'm not finding any links to mozilla.org. Even restricting the search to mozilla's site only comes up with themes, addons and mailing list entries.

Any clue on why this project is so hard to identify with Mozilla?
> @Intel: how about thinking about 10GHz single core CPUs?

They tried that -- the Pentium 4. The key design goal was to push clock speed as high as possible, and they used some crazy tricks, like 30-some-stage pipelines, a really long instruction scheduling loop with a pretty long lookahead, a double-pumped ALU with staggered 16-bit half-adds, etc. Fascinating from a microarchitecture perspective, but the big lesson was that high clock speeds sacrifice efficiency. The tricks needed to get there cause a lot of performance outliers/bad cases too -- e.g. the instruction scheduling replay system on lookahead conflicts was notorious for "tornados" which would kill IPC. And the branch prediction of the day was somewhat suboptimal for the pipeline lengths involved.

> Why are we stuck in 2006 era CPU singe core performance?

We aren't! The core microarchitecture teams at Intel and their competitors have made a lot of incremental progress -- Intel gets about 15% single-thread performance per generation, for example. No one is evilly scheming and holding back from turning a knob higher. There's just a lot of really hard engineering. Clock speed has topped out due to power limitations so we're at the point of looking for better branch prediction algorithms, cache replacement algorithms, and lots of little tricks everywhere to optimize bad cases. It's hard work (this was my job for a bit).

I'd recommend looking at, e.g., the proceedings of ISCA and MICRO conferences in the 2000-2006 timeframe -- this was when the industry and associated academia figured out that chasing clock speed was a losing battle after a certain point.
Gave me an error the last time I tried to that.

Plus even if it did work, it involves logging into the server, activating my python virtualenv, pulling the data out via the python / Django shell an unpickling and printing it. As opposed to running a query on my local machine connecting to the database. When you are debugging a problem and just want to get an overview of what is happening, that is a hell of a lot of hassle.
Atom is no longer needed since their non-atom CPUs have a low enough power profile now. We're stuck in single core performance hell because physics.

I don't know where you've been but GPU competition between nvidia and AMD has been pretty healthy for the last few years, and AMDs specifically have been quite affordable. (That's not even taking into account they easily paid for themselves with Litecoin mining at one point.) It's only CPU competition that has been dead, but that's been the case ever since the Core line came out. (I guess you could count ARM too for low-end CPU competition, but both Intel and ARM can actually afford to lose that market entirely as their businesses are propped up by other things.)
"Why not err on the side of making non-males feel welcome? Isn't that more important than nice-sounding words?"

That's a false dichotomy. "Members of congress" is also gender neutral and doesn't require making a ridiculous new word.
Religious flamewars are not welcome on Hacker News. Please don't post any more comments like this.

Also, please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11816578.
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You have a good point. I was following the submission guidelines on the title.

Anyway, it's sometimes hard to figure out an a propos title until after reading all the insightful HN commentary. :)
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A new car! Think rod roddy's voice from the price is right. You just won a $20,000 new car. This corporation, The Price Is Right, Inc. is going to pay you a car worth $20,000 in exchange for filming you jumping up and down. You get the car. They get the video footage. But that year you'll need a 1099 tax form showing $20,000 extra income from this corporation you did work for. That free new car, you have to pay $5,000 for it. Cough it up.

And if you don't have the cash. Well I heard you have a $20,000 asset you could sell. Sell it and pay the IRS $5,000 from the sale.

Now let's say TPIR, Inc. gave you $20,000 shares of stock in exchange for $200 cash. The stock is worth $2,000,000 but they are letting you buy it for $200. At tax time, you'll get another 1099 like you did for the car. This time it says TPIR, Inc. paid you $1,999,800 and you owe $500,000 in taxes on that income.

And if you don't have the cash. Well I heard you have a $2,000,000 asset you could sell. Sell it and pay the IRS $500,000 from the sale. Oh you can't sell it because it's not a public company? Too bad. IRS says find the money somehow because you owe it.
> WTF are you on?

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most of the popular editors have racer(autocomplete) integration.

Personally I've found visual studio code to have a good mix of light weight and functional.
It depends on whether or not it was a 'drag along'. That can make a big difference in how the price is interpreted after the fact. It means you don't exactly get a say in the price at which you sell. Of course it also matters if you were on the record as disagreeing with selling your shares at that price.
I don't understand all the rules at play here, but from a fairness standpoint, you shouldn't be forced to sell. That is the real problem as I see it. At least people forced to sell here got some money to kind of even things out.

Can someone enlighten me here? What is the reasoning for allowing people to buy from people who don't want to sell?
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That is awesome, what do you get with writes? (rw=write)
The argument is that while detecting cancer earlier is usually a good thing, you have to be careful how you measure the effects. Looking at survival X years from detection can give you false positives about what is best.

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I'll lay out a particular scenario where this happens:

Currently we detect a cancer moderately far along, and aggressively treat it. The five year survival rate is 50%.

We figure out how to detect it two years earlier. We use the same aggressive treatments, and the five year survival rate is now 70%. Hooray! But looking closer, if we wait another two years to correct for the early detection, the survival rate is only 45%. Only some of those tumors would have continued growing. Of those, attacking early is only marginally helpful. In others, the tumor wouldn't have killed the patient, but the radio/chemotherapy killed a quarter of them.

In this case, we magically know we detected everything two years earlier, so we could look at the seven year survival rate instead of five year. But the real world is not so clean. It's very hard to figure out a timescale and normalize everyone to it.

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Catching cancer earlier screws up your ability to measure survival. A naive analysis will see higher survival rates when smaller/earlier tumors are detected. A sophisticated analysis that corrects for this is actually hard to do.

Even when you do save lives by treating earlier, it's very hard to figure out how many lives are saved, and how much of a confounding factor your detection method is.
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Really there's a referendum on all big projects? Is this governed by a certain threshold i.e above amount X it gets put to referendum? That's pretty awesome if so. In the US this done in a back room away from public view it has various names - pork barrel politics, horse trading, etc. And such allocations are often tacked onto other legislation that might have nothing to do with the project.
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what is the existing alternative for storage in distributed container environments?
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Competition is good, even in open-source land. By the way, I'm still hoping for an open-source competitor for elasticsearch.
let me get this strait kbenson,
you are saying: take money from (tax) people who are skilled / educated / work harder to better themselves and give it to those who don't. they will have increased spending power now and purchase things that the skilled/educated workers where buying so the skilled people will face a double whammy of both loss of wages and loss of buying power.
Vice Chancellor Lester quotes in an opinion from 2014[1]:

[S]elf-interest concentrates the mind, and people who must back their beliefs with their purses are more likely to assess the value of the judgment accurately than are people who simply seek to make an argument. Astute investors survive in competition; those who do not understand the value of assets are pushed aside. There is no similar process of natural selection among expert witnesses and [] judges

And

―The benefit of the active market for UFG as an entity that the sales process generated is that several buyers with a profit motive were able to assess these factors for themselves and to use those assessments to make bids with actual money behind them. For me (as a law-trained judge) to second-guess the price that resulted from that process involves an exercise in hubris and, at best, reasoned guess-work.

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I know this is not a productive comment but I hate editorial or commentary from companies that chase crisis for more business. I used to work in hosting and these things happened and then all our competitors would jump in on the bashwagon... it got to a point where everyone was chasing each others tails and not productive.

Plus I don't care who you are or how big you are. If something goes wrong there's a possibility your app will go down. H.A. notwithstanding is a best practice but some of the most robust systems in the world still blow up. They were invented by people ergo they are inherently flawed. That's the beautiful thing about them.
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