skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. I have seen the phrase "private equity" a lot of times.

I thought it meant "money that belongs to companies".

But after skimming through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity for ten seconds, I realize that I have no idea what "private equity" is.

This is embarrassing, but experience has taught me that I have to push through these situations, where I suddenly realize that my ignorance on some topic is truly profound...

I thought all companies above a certain size were publicly traded. ...Wait, do I have some incorrect definition of publicly traded?

It means there is stock in the company for sale, right? What percentage (by count) of companies are publicly traded? By volume?

If a large company isn't publicly traded, does that make it a private equity company?
> I think Elon Musk's solution is to convince enough people to buy huge battery packs that they occasionally drive around, but mostly leave plugged in to the grid.

Musk's plan is also to sell literal battery packs that attach to the wall, provide for expansion, and work in tandem. Which he is already doing.
Introducing Cronetes (cron on Kubernetes)
Audiogram: library for generating shareable videos from audio clips
That is all fine and dandy, except that what really makes the Olympics-as-media-circus possible is tax payer money.

Given that it is not a free market operation to being with, but rather a money extraction operation based on political pull, we could do without the supply and demand lessons.

It would be interesting to ask the tax payers if they think that executives deserve to take home all of their money while the athletes that they actually enjoy watching get none of it.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-u...

"Launch code for US nukes was 00000000 for 20 years"

Had it been in a James Bond movie, I'd have laughed "a good gag."
I upvoted the puns, don't worry.
They both just want what's best for their country.
Is there a name of this company or product?
Secondary hypothesis: Putin is ex-KGB, he's probably got closer contacts in the FSB than the GRU; easy to tell them to say "yes" to whatever deadline he gives them. Looks good all around.
Yeps, that's basically HATEOS :)
Unless you've gotten anoncvs.ca.openbsd.org's host key fingerprint through some secure mechanism (say... HTTPS), SSH only encrypts the transport. It does nothing to stop a MITM (eg a malware injecting proxy).
Because the athletes are eager to participate for free.
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If you draw the line that far away from sanity then, really, non-smokers aren't forced to breathe foul air (they must simply inconveniently hold their breaths and stay inside), poorer children aren't forced by drivers using leaded gasoline to have brain damage (they are simply inconvenienced by having to be born into a richer family), and illegal overfishing doesn't force other fishers to overfish to compete and eventually collapse the ecosystem.

Your appeal to worse problems[0] does not invalidate any of the problems with privacy violations we are discussing here.

Here's a better definition of externalized costs in the form of force: any behavior which, when engaged in by a company, causes other companies' or users' life options to be reduced (even if just by increasing inconvenience of safer/healthier/more private options), or which when practiced by a plurality leads to a net negative result for society at large, is an action resulting in externalized costs.

What is your horse in the race?

[0] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as
This may be a little anal but analogies between a typical von Neumann architecture computer and any animal brain are pretty limited. The brain is essentially like some next-gen MIMD processor.
D'oh! Thanks! Too late to edit my comment though...
Show HN: Public anonymous channel for your Slack
Replace one set of unknown athletes with another set of unknowns and it's the same event to the large majority of viewers.

Replace the olympics with the world championships and suddenly nobody is watching (in most of these sports). You remember how great that 2015 world championship in swimming was, right? It was all over tv, right?

People care about the olympics far more than they care about the athletes.

Yes I know men's basketball and a few others are exceptions, but they're also the ones nobody is worried about being paid.
Seriously, have you even looked at the economics? There are 10,200 people at the Olympics. Cutting a handful of overpaid executives on Team USA isn't even going to begin to scratch the surface of paying them a decent living, never mind the many who don't make it.
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I first read it in 2004 and it already felt like I was being handed the stone tablets down from Mt Sinai.
What transparency do they provide about how the payments are allocated? Can I see where the money went and which publishers actually collected their payment? Or is that all opaque, where Brave actually keeps "a portion" plus publishers don't actually get paid unless their payment is above some rarely reached threshold?

Personally I'd love to pay for using websites and get a faster experience (versus the alternative ways to do it), because I really want publishers to get paid. But I'm skeptical until I see that it's really happening. No transparency means 0% chance I use it.
Algorithmia and the Emerging Algorithm Economy
The guy literally lied about everything, including his name.
I've always imagined that the first trillionaire will be the person responsible for asteroid mining – and SpaceX does seem to have a good shot at doing that.
How can it be a "monopoly" when there are other championships in each sport?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAAF_World_Championships_in_At...
But that wouldn't have been accidental. They weren't necessarily trying to prevent attackers from being able to launch - more that someone couldn't put the wrong key in the wrong hole accidentally.
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What's prescient?
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Adriano Correia resmi milik Besiktas
Please fix your Python decorators
> With Didi, she can get a fapiao receipt, which she can then give to her company to claim expenses. She can't get a fapiao receipt with Uber.

And this right here is here is why you track down your competitors users and ask them why they don't switch.
> Those that fear Trump will become a dictator does not understand the checks and balances of our government.

Or they recognize that the checks and balances of our government are not magic, and that Trump being elected as the nominee of a major party would also reflect a shift in the political landscape which would be reflected, particularly, in the actions of other politicians in that party, especially in the other elected branch -- and that those two branches together have the power to reshape the remaining branch.
Looks like a good deal to me because continuing to fight Didi in China was a losing proposition. Also they now own 20% of the dominant chinese ride hailing company.
0 to 6K per month in 2.5 years
www.integratecloud.com from 0 to 6K per month with no outside funding and with 2 developers.
Any buyers
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I think we need to think two steps ahead here. Say everyone starts using ad blockers and disables flash. Then what? Websites still need to make money.

In this case Brave is betting that websites will want to ask for money from their users, but that each website maintaining their own subscription service is not viable. Maybe large websites like WSJ can get people to subscribe, but most probably cannot. Do you want to be subscribed to every website you ever read a single article on?

I think Brave in this case is positioning themselves to be the middle man. They want to become an essential layer that sits on top of the ISP. If their vision of the future turns out to be accurate, being the first mover here will be very profitable.
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Out of interest, what do you consider a reasonable price?

I have a physical copy.
YouTube's road to HTTPS
I've never been accused of premature optimization
Simple solution - relativity holds up. Our light cone is much smaller than the galaxy. The universe could be teaming with intelligent life but not so full that you'd expect any to overlap the period where we're both using radio waves to communicate.
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> It makes very little sense on paper

I'm never sure how I'm supposed to interpret "on paper". Purely on current financials? That seems a poor way to plan IMO. There seem to be quite a few ways to market to each others customers and provide a more comprehensive "package" with this deal. I imagine we'll see car + powerwall + solar packages marketed directly soon.
I'd be impressed if an "AI" could simply passably translate a natural non-Indo-European language to English.
Running out of disk space on any RDBMS is a bad day.
The y is pronounced like the ü in über.
Go and stand in their reception until they return them.
Common Lisp allows us to develop object oriented software while it is running. Interactively. It changes classes and other objects, based on programmer changes. We can also add behavior to OOP mechanisms, like instance creation, slot allocation, slot access, class redefinition. One can add/change/delete methods at runtime. You can even change the class of an instance.

This enables you to have large OO applications running and change them while they are running. This enables interactive incremental development.

Interaction with LispWorks:

Define a class with a slot.

CL-USER 61 > (defclass person () ((name :initarg :name)))
#<STANDARD-CLASS PERSON 4020002153>

Create an instance of that class.

CL-USER 62 > (defparameter *p1* (make-instance 'person :name "Drumpf"))
*P1*

What is it?

CL-USER 63 > (describe *p1*)

#<PERSON 402000DE43> is a PERSON
NAME "Drumpf"

Hmm, let's make a politician class, with person as superclass and a slot TYPE.

CL-USER 64 > (defclass politician (person) ((type :initarg :type)))
#<STANDARD-CLASS POLITICIAN 4020284743>

We change our object to the new class and add information about the new slot content:

CL-USER 65 > (change-class *p1* 'politician :type 'populist)
#<POLITICIAN 402000DE43>

What is it now?

CL-USER 66 > (describe *p1*)

#<POLITICIAN 402000DE43> is a POLITICIAN
TYPE POPULIST
NAME "Drumpf"

Class of the instance has changed, the new slot has been added, and the old slot is still there.
So sad I missed this year's conference in Barcelona. Loved it last year.
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I've phrased this as, "Regardless of the increased salary in the NFL over the last 40 years, they're still only producing one super bowl winner every year. On a per team basis, production has actually gone down."
There are some sports with untested "federations", see e.g. powerlifting.
There was a discussion thread a while back about this on HN [1].

The first argument is a fairly weak argument/theory but about the same strength as most of the other common arguments/theories.

To me the strongest argument that there is a paradox is the idea of probes that can replicate. That it would be fairly easy with some sort of advance but not FTL technology to easily deal with the size and expansion of the universe (of course I could be full of it on this as I haven't looked into this idea in some time).

Basically why haven't we run into a probe yet?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9916085
I don't remember the details at this point, but somewhere in the IEC 62304 regulation, there is language that suggests that you have to assume 100% failure for software components.

I think it's in regard to risk controls, but I'm not certain of that.

Edit: Just looked it up: "If the HAZARD could arise from the failure of the SOFTWARE SYSTEM to behave as specified, the probability of such failure shall be assumed to be 100%"
The article mentioned that the crews started their 24 hour shift with top-secret security briefing on the world situation.

Considering cases like this, it was probably quite good idea to share the information with the crew so that they could make more educated decisions instead of just blindly obeying orders.
Minus the writing style, explanation of a 'wat' in JS which turns out to be the equivalent of boxing in Java/C# (behavior which looks odd and comes from cases where the operations involved convert a primitive type to an instance of its wrapper object type and back again).
> But many, many good companies have been days from bankruptcy multiple times

This. For many (most?) early stage startups, every single day you're on death's door. You learn to live with it.
Moving to California
Once you get through the horrible way of presenting information that goes far beyond of https://xkcd.com/1273/, there isn't much to the message. Yes, in a country whose citizens distrust the government and firmly believe in the invisible hand, products and services are produced and served by private firms rather than the government. Isn't this what you always wanted?
Isn't this the by-product of the neoliberal mindset we have been promoting in the United States for at least a century now? This isn't a surprise to me and I suspect the article's real intention goes beyond conveying how PE firms actually work - and simply demonizing Wall Street - an industry that comprises a substantial percentage of our workforce.
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> Use a Single Editor Well

This seems impossible to me, although I agree that it would be an extremely useful practice. I mainly develop Java and Swift, and both languages are extremely dependent on using an IDE. I honestly don't see how I would ever be able to use only a single editor across all the languages I use, even though Jetbrains seems to be trying their hardest to make that possible. (Unfortunately I don't think AppCode is quite there yet.)

Even using the same tools across operating systems causes issues: Using IntelliJ on MacOS at work has entirely different keybindings than on Linux, because MacOS doesn't monopolize the Super/Command key so heavily.

...Or is this just referring to things like having Vim bindings across all your editors? That seems much more doable.
> I thought all companies above a certain size were publicly traded. ...Wait, do I have some incorrect definition of publicly traded?

Size doesn't really matter. I suppose you could say size and public status are correlated. Companies who are publicly traded have gone through an IPO and their shares are available for purchase at stock exchanges.

For instance Uber is large but not publicly traded.

If a large company isn't publicly traded it is a private company. I don't think "private equity company" is a term in wide use, but a private company has private equity that is available for VC and private equity firms to invest in.

As a HN user you may be familiar with how VCs work? VC can be thought of as a subsection of the PE industry.
Roy, you seem like a good person to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12204481.
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Yes, but this is a quantitative way to measure those things.

"Smart and gets things done" leaves the door for touchy feely interpretations, which leaves the door open for gaming the system.
For comparison, the EXIST Business Start-up Grant from BMWI (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy) provides 2500 EUR/month = 30k€/year.

http://www.exist.de/EN/Programme/EXIST-Business-Startup-Gran...

So PrototypeFund (BMBF) pays twice as much for open source project development as EXIST for founding a startup. Yet, startups in EXIST get also something for equipment, marketing, coaching etc. Also, they probably will be taxed differently.
Due diligence is to be done prior to contract or prior to entering into agreement. The poster learned that, but it's too late.
geography makes it impossible