skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Facebook v. Ford, in terms of how shareholder value gets built and sustained, yes, the market is being as rational as it ever gets. Consider the following five dimensions:

CREATING THE PRODUCT: Facebook's engineers provide the framework, but each day's content is created free of charge by 1.5 billion active users. That's great for profit margins! At Ford, cars don't get built unless the company buys steel, glass, tires, etc. and pays workers to put it all together. That really squeezes margins.

GENERATING DEMAND: Facebook's users share content and invite their friends to join, at no cost. Media companies beg to play in Facebook's ecosystem. By contrast, Ford needs to spend billions on advertising to get people excited about cars.

OBLIGATIONS TO CUSTOMERS: Facebook has a modest-sized fraud and security team that keeps everything tidy. They do heroic work, but there aren't 50,000 of them. At Ford, the requirements for inspections, safety tests, recalls, legal settlements when vehicles go bad, etc. are vastly larger.

OBSOLESCENCE: Ford has $58 billion invested in plant and equipment. Every day, those factories get a little closer to being obsolete. Ford must constantly either raise cash or reinvest profits to keep its factories competitive. That means less free cash for shareholders. By contrast, Facebook has just $8 billion invested in server farms, beautiful headquarters, etc. Its asset-maintenance burden is vastly less -- and should stay that way forever.

MAKING MONEY: Ford's net income zigzags all over the place, jolted by lots of market/economic issues. Net income was down last year; historically it's ranged from $11 billion to sizable losses. Facebook's net income totaled $3.7 billion last year and is climbing at a very snappy rate. 35% a year? Doubling? Still hard to tell, but it keeps going up.

Put all those factors together, and Facebook is a growth stock with a pretty straightforward path to making its business hum. Ford is a cyclical stock that may have already posted its peak profits. Ford may be a bedrock part of the U.S. economy, but that doesn't always get you a lot of love in the stock market, for reasons above.
Yeah, Ford has $150 billion in revenue a year and Facebook had just $18 billion. But markets value companies on their growth prospects. I've got no trouble believing that Facebook's overall opportunity to make money is 6x better than Ford's.
Yes, the manufacturer was sketchy as hell.

The prescribing doctor and clinic were quickly identified, by worried pharmacists and by the sketchy manufacturers.

This was during the time the "war on drugs" was pretty full on, and the risks of opiate prescribing were well known.

How did the various systems fail?

We see this across a range of different industries. People sort of report some concerns, but they often don't do it properly.

Sometimes that means mildly defective product is shipped. Other times it means many people are harmed.

There was a submission several years ago about an accountant who somehow got wrapped up in massive amounts of fraud. He said that many people along the way could have stopped him, and he didn't make much effort to perpetuate the fraud. He would just ask people to fill out that bit of paper, or to wait a few days before sending some other bit of paper, and they all just thought "he's okay, I'll do him this favour". Individually they were little favours. Collectively, it was pretty big.

(I'm trying to fidn the link now)
Wow, that it a lot of work. I found it amazing that the OWON folks thought emulating a DDR2 memory in an FPGA was good design. And I was blown away by the determination of this guy to figure out every pin, I picked up a few tricks I'll be using in the future.
Fair enough - my bad.
Richard Branson: '15 years from now, every car on the road will be electric'
This Is the Unity Desktop Running on Windows 10
The main downside of seqlocks is that you usually can't have pointers in them. Since the basic scheme is read, do stuff, check if sequence counter changed, you need to make sure that you don't dereference a potentially invalid pointer in the "do stuff" phase if another thread is concurrently modifying the data.

RCU avoids this issue by essentially delaying freeing of objects until there are no longer any threads accessing it. But it requires very complicated mechanisms to track all active threads, whereas a seqlock is a very simple and self-contained.

In both cases the read-side overhead is tiny: for example on x86, you don't need any memory barrier or atomic instructions.
This is getting scary. So far, Russia has bitten off a piece of Georgia, wiped out Georgia's navy, taken Crimea, wiped out Ukraine's navy, and has an ongoing war with Ukraine. And they got away with all of it.

Ukraine thought it had a security guarantee from the US and the UK.[1] That's why they gave up the nuclear weapons they had left over from their USSR days. When the crunch came, they weren't defended by the US and the UK.

So far, Russia hasn't attacked a NATO member country. So far.

This could lead to WWIII.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
I've started http://www.piosolver.com and I run it with a friend.
It's a very small niche and getting less popular but we are still doing very well.

It was my hobby project for more than a year before any commercial plans appeared. It took very little money to start (basic Shopify plan, github, Dropbox, a few hundred $ for sponsored thread on a popular forum) but it took a lot of time.
I am not a millionaire yet but well on the path to become one. I've learnt a lot about product development, handling customers and had many choices along the way I was completely confused about. I hope to put it all in text one day but for now I am too busy adding features, developing new products and optimizing the code :)
Absurdly funny, but true.
The various Landesbanken (banks of the states), the Bundesbank (federal bank) and KfW (kinda the federal investment bank) will be kept afloat in some way (although there might be mergers, as there were in the past), since they're public entities.

However Deutsche Bank is a private company. It's still likely to be kept alive, but it's not as certain.
Y Combinator has funded lot of single founder compnies. So, Y Combinator seems like it might be the Y Combinator for single founder companies.

pg has said it's a negative, and it really is. The likelihood of a single founder company growing huge is smaller than if there's small team at the start, for all sorts of reasons (which pg and others have written about). But, if you've built something awesome, YC isn't going to say no just because you're a solo founder.
St. John's point was that programmers with autism spectrum disorders are easier to take advantage of. Further, ASD's are not a superpower and don't rededicate parts of the brain to other useful tasks.
Has anyone used it in production before?
It is a good stress test of the implementation
Yes, those ruskies! How dare they react to the coup in Ukraine? How dare they save their naval base in Sevastopol? Base that is longer there than the US of A exist. How dare they, among other things, react to the request to tender [1] by the US Navy to renovate a school in Sevastopol and put US troops there - right in the Russian garden?

[1] https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=2bb691b...

Pay attention to the timeline. Writing of the documentation for this project had to be started at least three months prior to the publication. It was published on 2013-09-05, Euromaidan begins on 2013-11-21, 2014-03-16 Crimean referendum, 2014-04-15 tender is cancelled.

One million dollar question: How did US Navy know in summer of 2013 that it will need a school in Sevastopol in 2014 considering that Ukraine was still under Yanukowich (and close to Russia) at that time?
It always starts that way. We don't need a special instruction for X because we're so much faster and cost effective. And so far, that reasoning has always fallen under the need for "just one or two" special instructions to make what ever the killer algorithm of the day is, go a bit faster or smoother.

The thing is, since transistors are so cheap and plentiful these days you either waste them on bigger and bigger on chip caches or you use them for some special purpose action (like a fancy instruction or maybe a simple co-processor).

RISC was compelling when it was hard to make transistors, and simple has always been compelling in the quest for correctness, but simple != RISC.
Thank you for answering. My clumsy intro up-thread appears to have gotten in the way of getting this answer.

And, that makes perfect sense. I could imagine that for the shifting quicksands underlying front-end web development that this could be (almost certainly would be!) a real issue.

In most of the projects I end up being engaged on, for various reasons, we have to take control of the maintenance path ourselves and we get to treat the web interface as slim 'shim-to-the-world' slapped onto the core of our 'real product'. I have had blinders on, I guess.

Thanks!
> What is going on?

Russia is putting war on world? We have biggest war in Europe in the last 25 years at the moment.

"Hybrid" army from Russia side which is so called "rebels" is stronger then army of any country in Europe and is actually killing people, bombing them and threatens everyone who can't protect himself. They have tanks, drones, buks, grads and more.

It's natural to mobilize people and try to protect sovereignty of your country isn't it?

Unfortunately all I can see from west side of globe is "green-peace" and hippie-like talking about peace and "talking" with russia. At the same time russian soldiers are killing hundreds people each day saying "they humiliated russian speaking people".

Wake up. Otherwise you'll experience war one way or another at home. And it is not propaganda. It is reality.
It used to be the premise in the UK, its not anymore and hasn't been for a long time. The UK police is the army of the government deployed on UK soil, its definitely not by consent.
Says Ivan :/

Ротфронт though.
> as long as setting up a cluster is a bit easier!

If you're on AWS, it's already quite easy to set up a cluster today, no?

There's EMR of course, and there are tools like spark-ec2 [0] and Flintrock [1].

There are a few more tools listed on Spark Packages that target different cloud providers [2], too.

Disclaimer: I am the primary author of Flintrock and am a contributor to spark-ec2.

[0] https://github.com/amplab/spark-ec2

[1] https://github.com/nchammas/flintrock

[2] https://spark-packages.org/?q=tags%3Adeployment
Putin's doing it because he realizes he is not going to be challenged. He is basically demonstrating the western military powers are all show.
Sounds a little bit like slashdot in here with the pointless Microsoft/Unity hate rants. This is really awesome and I can't wait for more and more integration. This is nothing but awesome
Other countries have high percentages of guns in their populace but without the homicide rates. The USA has a homicide issue and a large chunk of it is done with guns, but its not a universal trait that countries with guns have lots of homicide. Its not unique to the USA but its not correlated on a world level.
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The International Incident – Gaining Control of a .int Domain with DNS Trickery
You may have that opinion, but 9,999 other users don't. Who counts more to a creator trying to generate a paycheck?

If you really want to make it as an entrepreneur, dogma has to go out the window, and data based decisions have to be front and center, especially when weighted for cost/benefit.

If data shows that search engines don't link to your site and don't index your content, that would be action actionable data.
I wonder if a "scorched earth" plan could be pitched to old school TV advertising giants, in order to score billions for adblocker research. Adblocking has "needs AI" written all over it.
> Are you seriously arguing that the natural climatic conditions are
> responsible for there being a higher population density in southern
> Canada than, say, Argentina?

As others have pointed out already Argentina is less hospitable than
Canada, but no, that wasn't what I was getting at.

The chart shows that give or take some variations due to political
borders, regional climates etc. the human population is pretty much
distributed like a bell curve as a function of latitude.

I.e. despite all our technology and adoption skills very few people
live in Northern Greenland or in the middle of the Sahara. Climate
change might change existing population centers more towards either of
those extremes with bad results.
As a senior marketer who has to combat this myth frequently, thank you.

Modern day marketing is a complex orchestration of many parts that are often highly technical. Further, the discipline as a whole has some incredibly hard unsolved problems when it comes to measurement and analytics (attribution and viewability I'm looking at you).

If anyone has a product with initial traction but is unsure of where to go next, feel free to ask, happy to answer questions.
I've seen some semi-recent activity on both Twitter and Facebook, but haven't seen a github repo linked anywhere.

The reference to github was a (probably faulty) mental consolidation of people mentioning their concerns about a project that appears to not have many recent commits or releases. And then I foolishly mis-attributed the same concern to the poster top-of-thread.
Snore. It's just advertising. If internet advertising is overvalued, then SV company valuations are dramatically too high.
Per the FDA, at least in 1995, you're correct, OxyContin was only allowed to be prescribed in 12 hours doses, not 4-6, per the FDA.

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/u...
Russia has annexed Crimea. ANNEXED!

Russian tanks, grads and soldiers are killing people in Ukraine every day This cannot have any excuses.

Your logic makes me feel disgust.
Its definitely not acceptable in the UK to save more of a shops property by murdering someone, that is a sure fire route to jail for life for a police officer and rightly so.

The answer is the insurance company. Property isn't worth more than a human life but I know in the USA they do have the premise of defending your property lethally, we don't have that in our culture we don't believe in capital punishment regardless of the crime. Shooting a man for property damage is a conviction and sentence to death by a police officer, that is not OK this isn't Judge Dread.
Russian politicians make crazy promises all the time, and deliver almost never.

All their recent tech projects have been disastrous, either technologically or financially, or the funds were simply stolen.
> But I'm at a loss to draw the correct conclusion from this. Is it rational that Facebook is now worth 6x as much as Ford?

I worry that I see it as over-hyped because of my discomfort in the future it proposes. Its valuation represents the market's belief in what I feel is a very dark future.
Maybe you've not read the western news, do you?
Every piece of it filled with fear of Russian, people get thrown shit without any proofs of aggression or anything else. Just to put more NATO (read: US) bases in the world close to Russian borders.

If you think that this is "good", and Russia response is "bad", then you deserve everything what will happen because of that US politics.
This person is not joking. Just scroll down this site for an example: http://russia-insider.com/en

Likewise, this is part of a larger, organized effort. For more information: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/rus...
I'm a static types kindaguy. So I've rewritten some of this code using Typescript to see what that looks like.

https://github.com/joost-de-vries/typescript-ramda/blob/mast...
Your entire reply contains nothing of relevance to anything I have said. I do not see any way you can reasonably be just confused. It appears as though you are very deliberately dishonest. Please stop.
I use ansible to manage several hundred servers. So not your scale, but I've felt some of this.

I stopped trying to write completely agnostic roles. This does result in some duplication but much less hair-pulling overall.

Yes ansible is what made me grow to dislike yaml.
> and have lost access to the videos.

One thing I like about Udemy (disclaimer: I work there) is the lifetime access policy for premium content.
I saw a couple of them with MP7's in Farringdon station at 8am in the morning with all those rush hour commuters about. What is discouncerting about that scenario is that at no time could any officer ever fire a weapon in those circumstances, the station is absolutely jammed with 1000s of civilians and any would be terrorist would have a screen of 10's of them in the way of any shot. There is simply no way those weapons could ever be used without a massive loss of innocent life.

It felt more like a show of force by the government against the populace not as protecting us, the police were the actual threat that morning and a credible one.
That's quite an assertion. I think it is a leap to compare tech on a scale that has never been made with a novel rail design. Maybe it is commentary specifically on the funding of projects in Russia, but the hyperloop design seems quite a bit closer to reality than nebulous "nanomachines". Nanomachines are still very much an open ended research subject whereas the hyperloop seems more of an engineering project.
FUD, you say? Well, you should be afraid.

You should be afraid of having the social graph of half of the Western world on Facebook. You should be afraid of storing most people's email unencrypted, in only a handful of data-centres.

Then there is the progressive lockdown of the whole internet, where it becomes increasingly difficult to speak your mind, simply because it's harder and harder to get your own blog. I mean your blog, on your domain, hosted by yourself (or at the very least a virtual hosting provider). These days, it's Facebook, Medium… places where an overseer has the right to block whatever you write. A good thing in most cases, but at least we should be able to speak elsewhere.
Just to clarify my comments here. I'm not in any way suggesting that Putin is an angel. He (personally) is a thug, a thieve, a liar and a murderer. His government reflects all of this.

Yet I have FAR more respect for him than for ANY western politician. Putin is transparent. He goes after what he wants in an unapologetic way. It is very easy to see right through everything that he does and is also quite predictable.

Western politicians, on the other hand, seem UTTERLY clueless, impotent and chaotic. They are weak in a way that is repulsive.

And no, lining up untold billions of dollars of military equipment alongside Russia's border is NOT a show of strength. It is the opposite.
Totally different. A bank generates a return on it's deposits.

Madoff just paid a dividend or phony appreciation to investors based on money deposited by new investors -- except for the money he stole it was a closed system with no return generated.

He also concentrated his efforts on courting a relatively insular community (religious Jews) via trusted community figures to avoid awkward questions.

Thats usually a sign of a scam -- banks don't send your priest/rabbi/community leader to hawk CDs. But there are many hustles (Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, and various savings clubs) that are common in ethnic and religious communitiesand apread via word of mouth.
Adam Langley answered this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051438
Ask HN: Googledrive.com showing up in my torrent's peer list?
How is googledrive.com showing up as a peer in my torrent's peer list ??

Here's a screenshot I've taken - https://imgur.com/j8yYOqq

UPDATE: Looks like it's been solved. Apparently http seed are a thing.
Here you can see the seed specified in the torrent properties - https://imgur.com/MXF2yfA
Why did you chose to sell your software versus a subscription model? Was it just easier, or did you do research and find that selling was more profitable?
I agree that artificial gravity, plus radiation protection, are must haves for long duration deep space flights.

With inflatable structures, artificial G is possible to do with much less mass than you think. Using Bigelow Aerospace's BA330 as a proxy (60kg/cubic meter of habitable space), you would need between 5,000 to 20,000kg to build a 100m long passageway between 1 to 2m across on the interior. Inflatable structures are made from materials that handle tensile loads well (the hoop stress from pressurization in particular).

As an added bonus, the inflatable passageway, besides functioning as a tether, creates usable habitable space, so if one is clever, it is not strictly speaking deadweight mass.

Alex Tolley and I looked at this in detail while working on papers related to our "spacecoach" design pattern, you can find a good intro at https://medium.com/@brianmsf/traveling-to-mars-just-add-wate...
> Using throwaway so customers don't find this comment.

Not sure about your customers, but if I was a customer of some product I'd be happy to know they're are doing well :)
Did you willfully ignore what the person you're responding to said? Russian news is largely constructing an alternate reality where facts don't matter, and it appears it's even working on those outside the country to some extent if your comment is any indication. Go visit some Russian news sources and look around.

Here's an example of what's been going on:

>Take Novorossiya, the name Vladimir Putin has given to the huge wedge of southeastern Ukraine he might, or might not, consider annexing. The term is plucked from tsarist history, when it represented a different geographical space. Nobody who lives in that part of the world today ever thought of themselves as living in Novorossiya and bearing allegiance to it—at least until several months ago. Now, Novorossiya is being imagined into being: Russian media are showing maps of its ‘geography,’ while Kremlin-backed politicians are writing its ‘history’ into school textbooks. There’s a flag and even a news agency (in English and Russian). There are several Twitter feeds. It’s like something out of a Borges story—except for the very real casualties of the war conducted in its name.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/rus...
"However BTreeMap is implemented using a modest spoonful of Unsafe Rust (most collections are)."

Unsafe pure Rust code reflects a lack of expressive power. How raw memory becomes a typed object is a touchy area for arrays. To do collections safely, you have to be able to talk about an array which is partially valid. This is quite possible, but you need formal verification like constructs to do it. You need to be able to express that a slice of an array is valid, even though the whole array isn't.

If you can talk about a slice being valid, and an element being valid, you're almost there. It's a theorem that if an element is adjacent to the end of a slice, the element has some property, and all elements in the slice have a property, then a slice containing the original slice and the element has that property. Using that, you can prove by induction that as you grow a collection, the elements in use remain valid. If the access primitives don't let you access outside the valid range, they're safe.

With some extra predicates and a modest theorem prover, much unsafe code in the collection area could probably be proven safe.

Rather than describing unsafe code as a "dark art", it would be more useful to try to formalize safety in this way. The theory is well understood, and there are many proof of correctness systems around for other languages. It might require a lot of annotation in unsafe code, to help the prover along, but that's not a bad thing.
Running all the benchmarks takes a few hours.

I'll keep that in mind for the next round. Let's see if that works nicely. Would you still drop outliers?
Oh man, that was fast. I didn't tell anybody I had released this yet, and here it is!

Uhhh, AMA?