skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they are talking about reserves worth at current prices?
Well, actually I think you quoted it yourself:

> [...] which was considered normal wear after 100,000 miles.

It's not really clear, but I think the "considered normal" applies to the point of view of the interviewed taxi driver.
I think this is pretty true for economic issues, but not for diversity/identity politics/social justice. On those issues, the HN-hivemind is pretty solidly leftist (though not to the extremes of some corners of the web).
It absolutely is. We were talking about C++ pointers. 15 minutes of casual discussion at a hot tub a few months back comes to mind - and I could tell they had no idea of:

What a factory was.

What a unique_ptr did.

The dangers of unclear object ownership in a manually memory managed program.

Difference between when to pass by reference and when to pass by pointer.
Mozilla Planet! That site was a big part of how I immersed myself in open source and software generally. When I was in high school I would read every post on the web site, and eventually started reading it on Google Reader.

It's where I learned about bug trackers, version control, Javascript, CSS, web browser development (obviously), and lots more. It's interesting to drop into a long-running conversation to see how professionals talk about things, and it's a big part of why I'm an open source contributor today.
I really wanted to give this a try, but the lack of first-class MySQL support makes it a non-starter for me at this point. There are third party drivers, but they don't seem to work with many Entity Framework features.
Just because you want to argue about politics with people doesn't mean that people want to argue about politics with you! Maybe they do, sometimes, in some contexts, but if the social cues (i.e., downvotes) indicate otherwise, then maybe not at that time and place. There's nothing wrong with people not talking about stuff they don't want to talk about.

Also, internet forums have learned over multiple decades that otherwise interesting discussions can easily get derailed by people screaming at each other over unresolvable issues. If the community doesn't keep a lid on it to a degree, the quality of discourse goes into a downward spiral that it can never recover from. It attracts people who just want to argue about stuff and it drives away people who want to have interesting discussions. This has been seen time and time again, in newsgroup after newsgroup, mailing list after mailing list, web forum after web forum.

Holding back that inevitable decline is like fighting against entropy- if it stays popular, HN is almost guaranteed to decline, and become more and more like Slashdot circa 2010, right before it poofs out of existence and/or relevance. But if users actively push back against the tides of forum entropy (i.e., discussion getting drowned out by arguments), a forum can at least have a nice long run before that happens.

I think what people want to avoid on HN is the sort of discussions where people are just asserting hot takes back and forth to no other end than the act of publicly asserting hot takes. This was never fun to watch on Crossfire or First Take or whatever, it's not fun at awkward drunken family gatherings, and it doesn't fit in with the vibe of HN. It's invigorating to the participants but much less interesting to read, and for every poster there are hundreds or thousands of readers.

That applies to online forums just as much as it does to real life, some forums are just more focused than others (just like some households are way louder, more chaotic, and have more drama than others). Almost every place other than HN thrives on arguments, so at least there are plenty of places to have them.
"No one's sky" is the way to say it without being sexist or sounding dorky.

Nonsexist language has progressed pretty far. Replace "him", "her", "him or her" or other awkward constructions with "that person".
How we use Slack for project management as a product agency
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Yes, roaming works. Preferably you use a HK sim. At least foreign companies can buy a connection to a foreign IX that doesn't go through the firewall. You can pickup HK 4G in SZ without roaming. International traffic from China sucks in general, not only because of the firewall. You can buy better international connectivity in some cases.
Just out of curiosity, have you looked at F#?

(I use Python at my day job, and C# on my own side projects at home. F# seems... interesting).
Response: Have worked at Verizon and am currently at Uber.
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Isn't this a first-party driver?
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/6.9.html
The old app was significantly better IMO. It takes something like 3 extra button presses to get to your own profile to see tracks you've reposted now. 1 song visible at a time in the stream as opposed to the old 5. Unnecessary segmentation of playlists/songs from your profile. God the new app is annoying.
PNAS (probably the highest-impact science journal) has something like this. Every Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. paper has an abstract, which can be quite technical and intended partly for insiders, but also a "Significance" statement, which is highlighted at the top of the article, is limited to 120 words, and is intended as a near-layman summary of the article. From the author guidance:

"Authors must submit a 120-word- maximum statement about the significance of their research paper written at a level understandable to an undergraduate- educated scientist outside their field of specialty. The primary goal of the Significance Statement is to explain the relevance of the work in broad context to a broad readership. The Significance Statement appears in the paper itself and is required for all research papers."

Example:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/07/27/1603632113
I wonder if Cisco has any legal basis for suing the NSA for developing/allowing the leak of this software?
Do you realize how annoying those "SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER" modals are?
I was under the impression that Tesla deliberately de-rated the battery. Meaning that its true capacity is greater than the "full" capacity that is reported.

I'm sure they're doing some clever things with not charging the packs to 100% because the heat and stress decreases the lifetime.

I am not a battery expert, but I believe that these can extend the number of charge/discharge cycles considerably.
There is an excellent Django package/adaptation for Lambda or serverless mode [1]

[1] - https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
Now is the time, Microsoft. Go for it!
I admitted to it being anecdotal and coming purely from limited interaction, and not seeing their work. I think that is enough preface to be the salt with which my opinion should be taken.
I was under the impression that the purpose of the private healthcare marketplace was to satisfy the right-leaning Democrats who were on the fence about passing Obamacare and as a pacifier against a full-scale filibuster by Republicans. I think the architects have known it's going to fail, and want to use this failure as leverage for the creation of the public option.
As somebody who generally posts in a contrarian manner (to a right-libertarian): there's a lot less grey here in general than there used to be. I also think that in recent years greying algorithms are protecting controversial comments to some extent (comments with lots of upvotes and downvotes.) I've had negatively rated comments that were not grey. Also, as mentioned below, greying seems to attract attention to comments, getting them upvoted until they ungrey. Downvotes are limited; I don't think anything gets lower than -3 or -4, so greying doesn't have the ability to reinforce itself very much. You have to keep posting to allow people to keep downvoting you.

Just offering my perspective.
Good luck predicting how public shareholders will treat a company like that. Same goes for Airbnb.

Does it really make sense that Twilio has gone up so much since its IPO? Is it likely to crash hard back to earth in the next year? Who knows, maybe it's one part sentiment, one part broad market euphoria, one part hitting their next quarterly numbers, one part story, etc.

If you were to run almost any kind of reasonable attempt at analyzing and valuing Tesla based on what it should maybe be worth via comparables, you'd get a figure dramatically lower than it is today. Do you compare it to a solar company? To Fiat? To GM and Ford? To Porsche? Doesn't matter, every example gets a Tesla worth far less than it is today. Public shareholders disagree however, they think it has a very bright future.

The same has been true of Amazon for most of its existence. Try to apply any of Target or Walmart's valuation ratios to Amazon, and you'd have to reduce the market cap by 3/4 at least. Should Amazon be worth 50% more than Alibaba? Investors think Amazon is going to grow a lot yet.

Does Google's (ever slowing) growth rate really justify a PE ratio 2.5 to 3 times that of Apple? Microsoft hasn't really grown its profit level in years. Should it have a 20 to 25 PE ratio, roughly twice that of Apple? So far as public shareholders are concerned, these things make sense today.

So Uber is really worth $28b, not $62.5 billion? Good luck with that.
>Saudi crude accounts for about 1 out of every 9 barrels of global production.
I've got your prospectus right here:
http://rameznaam.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Welcome-to-t...
Trust me, you don't want EF--no matter how many times they say "vNext is gonna be great!!1 for real this time." Consider a micro-ORM like dapper[1].

[1] https://github.com/StackExchange/dapper-dot-net
Well at least in the short-term: Due to the oil-price shock Saudi Arabia's state earnings turned negative and at the current burn-rate are supposed to erase it's monetary assets rather in months than in years.
I think the 500 limit is justified as a means to discourage vote-brigading. Age of the account, by itself, is not a good enough indicator, because a person might create hundreds of accounts to be used for brigading at a later date.

But, yes, both downvoting and flagging can and have been abused here, despite measures to prevent them.
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What are the pros/cons of doing this in HAProxy natively?

Could you just use something like a health-check on a cluster system like zookeeper/etcd/consul/keepalived/... to simply peek at the lag time, and then mark a replica as unhealthy and regenerate your HAProxy config?

Just curious as I have very little experience with HAProxy. I do everything with consul right now and it works very well (previously I used keepalived + vrrp, or pacemaker/corosync but no multicast "in the cloud.").
It may not be a matter of the release being particularly special; rather, they might've been tipped off to some insider information or otherwise be aware of some information they felt it'd be best not to describe in detail right now.
It's not that you can't buy shares. It's that ownership doesn't give you any influence over the thing. Look at Yahoo's troubles with Alibaba.
Can you expand on that? What mode of failure do you foresee?
One wonders: if publishing a key fingerprint on a website in advance is considered a reasonable warning, would a torrent magnet link prove just as effective?
Don't look now, but you just moved the goalposts.
And http://rameznaam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nature-Clima...

As soon as we hit $100/kWh in the next year or two, that oil is worthless [1] (Tesla will supposedly hit this target when the Gigafactory is at full capacity).

Clean energy investments year over year:
https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iWfsqt_Qmf9...

[1] https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/energy/energy_archive/en...
That's definitely much easier. Crossing Shenzhen to Hong Kong is literally getting off the Shenzhen subway, crossing a bridge, and entering Hong Kong immigration and MTR.
tool to simplify common tasks for iOS app security assessments and research
> In the case of Justin.tv, pivoting to serve video gamers was the right move. Our video game broadcasters always represented a small but consistent group of users. It tooks us 4-5 years to realize how important they were. Serving them didn’t change the costs of the business too much: our major costs were salaries and bandwidth and we didn’t care what video was being streamed as long as people were watching and chatting. Also it opened up monetization avenues that were very interesting: online video advertisers would prefer to advertise against video gameplay than general UGC content.

It also happens that UGC pertaining to video games is a huge category of content on YT and represents a very lucrative audience (25 year old males with disposable income): http://www.tubefilter.com/2014/12/19/15-percent-youtube-vide...
GitHub has screenshots: https://github.com/websitesfortrello/classless
> having the creation and deployment of a server being 100% replicable

The problem of ensuring that upstream dependencies can be reproducibly installed and/or built is, of course, left as an exercise for the reader.
10 trillion is crazy! the US GDP is 16 trillion and world economy worth 100 trillion, to think one company worth this much is ....
Our HN can decline 5 x more and it would still be wonderful. With out ever seeing, talking to, meeting any HNer I am connected with smarter, curiouser, open minded (er) people than I work with everyday.
Maybe they're attempting to make the peer-to-peer network resistant to partitions caused by what is commonly called the Great Firewall Of China? In that case, they are not crazy to think that would draw adversarial attention.

Mentioned more-than-obliquely here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4l564f/bitcoin_cor...

(I have not been following this issue in close detail.)
So what you're saying is it would be trivial for, say, a state actor to tap into the fiber optic cables and snoop for this unencrypted community strings going over UDP? And then to use them to gain access to internal networks?

Well fuck, NSA was inside pretty much any corporate network they wanted then.
Production is analogous to revenue, and is the wrong measurement.

Reserves matter more for market cap.
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This is exactly how I wanted GitHub Pages to work since it was introduced. Thank you!
This is not just limited to science articles, and it's very serious because it leads to people walking around with incorrect and often very dangerous ideas about fitness, diet, politics, and just about every aspect of the world.

I think the solution will be media outlets that not only insist on honest reporting, maintain high standards, and admit mistakes, but that dedicate a lot of their space to directly and savagely mocking unscrupulous reporters from other outlets for their shoddy reporting or purposeful disinformation.
the bob dylan line "it's only people's games that you've got to dodge" comes to mind.
> "only worth 28B"

I feel like this statement is telling in and of itself - since when is a $28B startup with Uber's (lack of) revenue and lasting IP considered normal?

Perhaps these numbers have yet a ways to fall.
Recommendations for a CMS for self-hosted portfolio site?
My friend and I recently built a shared projects site that is structurally very similar to a designer portfolio site. It used to be a static site built manually page by page using HTML/CSS/JS with no template system.

We recently switched to a self-hosted WordPress installation to allow for some kind of templating and to allow page and content creation via a basic management system. But we seem very restricted by what WordPress and the chosen theme allows.

Are there any recommendations for a CMS that fit the following needs?

- Free and self-hosted

- Very basic template to manually managing and creating pages (doesn't have to be as overkill as WordPress)

- A basic interface for creating a page of content, and to add to a main page with a gallery of items leading into those individual pages

Thanks!
$2trillion would be 2.5x the next largest sovereign fund (Norway). That is enormous.
isn't the valuation based on:
(1.00 / (percent sold off)) * (amount the chunk was sold for)

so 1/.05 = 20, and 20 * 100 billion = 2 trillion?
Verified, this is what I'm seeing on that page as well.
Where I live, I'll occasionally see a Police Interceptor that has been retired from the police department, then bought by a taxi company, driven for a few years, and then sold to a private owner.

I can't imagine buying a used car with 500K miles on it, but people do it.
> There is no "extent" to which CRDTs are conflict free, CRDTs are by definition always 100% conflict free.

CRDTs are always conflict-free. I am not disagreeing with that. I was trying to draw attention to the fact that just because the CRDT always commutes does not mean that a user does not perceive there to have been a conflict - out of a multiple contradictory edits the commute operation will ensure only one succeeds. So yes, the CRDT itself is conflict free, but it wasn't my point.

They aren't magic. The deal with tie breakers when they have to. I've seen posts where suggestions of building a CRDT-based source control system are being bandied around with claims that there will be no conflicts - sure, there won't be. Will the code make sense or even compile - probably not.

A conflict to a CRDT is one thing and a conflict to a user is something else entirely.
I'm experimenting with it. Does it pop up every time you go away with your mouse? It should appear only once.
Edit: I started my PC and went incognito to check newsletter pop up - it appears only once to each new reader, and you can click anywhere to get rid of it.
I just saw that Dribbble will host your portfolio on a custom domain for $18 a year now. I almost considered it except that I also blog on my domain.
I'd just reply to this even though it's probably too late, I hope you'll get notified in case you're interested.
I've built Trackin (http://www.gotrackin.com) then MobyDish (http://www.mobydish.com) powered by Trackin.

First don't forget that the money doesn't get into OUR pocket, but to the company, then I'll have two reasons for me to share this info:

1- Having competitors is actually motivating, forces you to always do better and validate your market.

2- What matters the most is the execution. Google arrived after Yahoo, Apple took over Microsoft, etc.
Nowadays, it's pretty "easy" to copy a software, but the way you'll deal with everything else (employees, customers, communication) is what will make you be the winner (on top of a product that people want... and some luck!)

3- (bonus answer) I'm not doing this for money anyway, mostly because I'm passionated about the delivery business and the food space and I believe it's lacking good tech. I started this as a full time job, and I'm still working more than everybody else in the company, while paying myself less than my employees.

I believe most of the founders feel the same, and if you think of starting a project that you want to make full time, you shouldn't do it for money. But if you do want to work on a side project as a complementary of your income, then it's a totally different approach. But in any case, you shouldn't be scared about the competition, if they do better, then learn from them as well :)
I've heard two narratives, that being one of them. The other is that they're keeping output artificially high to lower the price of oil in hopes of "pricing out" alternative sources like shale.
Oops, I meant $48 a year.
Gotcha. The very best of luck!
This thread would've made a much better example for the "users you don't want" article[1] than disabled children. It is not reasonable to expect a free service to solve all certificate related problems.

On the other hand, it shows, yet again, how dysfunctional the certificate industry is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12306284
This is a great collection of books.
Many that I already own and love :)

Thanks
If the Saudi government thought that the company was a good investment, they would invest in it themselves and reap all the rewards, even if it meant they had to print currency to do so. In other words, they'd continue doing what they've done all along.

Instead this seems like an "exit" event. A way to sell at the top and use the funds from the greater fools for other means.
>If you were to run almost any kind of reasonable attempt at analyzing and valuing Tesla based on what it should maybe be worth via comparables, you'd get a figure dramatically lower than it is today. Do you compare it to a solar company? To Fiat? To GM and Ford? To Porsche? Doesn't matter, every example gets a Tesla worth far less than it is today. Public shareholders disagree however, they think it has a very bright future.

If Tesla succeeds in finishing the Gigafactory on a reasonable timeframe and delivering a large number of Model 3 cars by the end of this decade, why would it be worth "far less than it is today"?
Sorry, I should've clarified - I'm not opposed to the principle, in moderation of course. You're hitting on places where it is quite useful.

It's incredibly mind-numbing when it's being used to justify laziness and short-sightedness. Worse, it's not exactly a misuse of the phrase, as per the original XP article:

> Always implement things when you actually need them

Security is, as an example, one of those things where you'd face a disaster if you just implemented it when you actually needed it (i.e. when an attack occurred).

YAGNI is incredibly short-sighted in situations where rectifying the situation later will be an absolute nightmare (or just impossible). An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and all that.
PetroChina's valuation in 2007 has very little to do with Aramco pricing its future IPO. That said, you can just go short oil in general, if oil demand is lagging Aramco will be worth a lot less than $2t.
You're welcome, glad to hear that.
Links to article and book referenced in parent:

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/build-big-bill-article-1....

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040JHNR0/
As a novice developer, I find it tremendously helpful reading about thought processes and real-life development of apps. Does anyone know any more case studies like this one? Perhaps, something more technical, too?
What are the biggest benefits of using NET Core in comparison with Go, Ruby, Python?
Influence seems theoretical anyway due to the enormous size of the company.

How much would you need to buy of a $2 trillion company to get a board seat? 10% might not be enough even in an ordinary public company, and that's $200 billion in this case...