skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You arbitrarily fixed the bond return to match that of stocks, but that's not how bonds get their prices set.

Bonds are fundamentally less risky than stocks because in the event of bankruptcy bondholders are paid first. Real recovery rates are around 40% usually.

> Ten years later, the bonds are about to mature and are valued at $150 (50% profit)

No, the value of of the bond is mostly independent of how much the company's future revenues are (as long as they don't go bankrupt). There are few future paths where someone will pay you $150 in the future for a bond that you bought for $100 today.

Bonds mostly have downside risk (you can lose everything), but limited upside participation. OTOH, equity has worse downside risk (if a company has $700m in debt and $300m in equity, it only needs to lose $300m in assets to go bankrupt--but in that case, bondholders would still get paid), but full upside participation.

Another way of looking at this is that if a company triples in size, your equity stake also triples because you now own the same percentage of a much larger company, but the bond cashflows did not change because bonds do not have that upside.
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I'm a professional web developer too. Sure code would be nice, but I learned these lessons: (1) kss-node exists and looks like a great documentation tool, (2) campaigns need to design around accessibility which means they care extra about making their rendered HTML+CSS semantic, (3) an input form is a good example of something that you can skin with different stylesheets without too much headache.
Thanks, it seems to me that Elasticsearch has better documentation as well.
I know a few people with very high IQs (3-sigma and above) who have been poor and miserable most of their lives, and they are among the most compassionate and sympathetic people I know. If anything, their ethics and compassion have improved during their fight for survival.

OTOH, I have met quite a few wealthy people who couldn't care less about the suffering around them.

But it's an interesting question: what creates compassion and empathy? Wealth? Suffering? High IQ? Combinations of the above? Which ones?
This type of hardware failure makes me glad to do software where the most damage that can happen is an unhappy customer, not a huge explosion. Also why I was glad to give up a chemistry career after nearly poisoning everyone in the building when the hood system failed.
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not really, prices are based on market demand. the market does not care about fraud issues and such.

whatever the theoretical rise in price would be (due to the fraud), don't you think the merchant would price things at that level in the first place to make extra profit, if they could?
Why Facebook's Oculus Team Rebuilt Some Virtual Reality Software
Kickstarter now accepts crowdfunding projects from Hong Kong and Singapore
But was Sears truly a mistake?

Companies have lifespans like humans and cannot continue forever. I would argue that Sears had gotten big and mature enough that its failure was a matter of time. At that level of growth and capitalization it would probably be impossible for any CEO to convince a board and shareholders to change a proven strategy for a new fad, especially when there is no financial pressure to do so.
This is definitely a great term and one that comes up frequently at work. I would like to mention "yak shaving" as well. Since it seems there isn't a day that goes by at the tech job where there isn't at least some amount of either "bike shedding" or "yak shaving" going on.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
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This article has some information on the new characteristics:

- Although considered to be an iterative upgrade from the Falcon 9 v1.1 that preceded it, the modifications to the Full Thrust version have increased the vehicle’s published liftoff capabilities by as much as 30 percent.

- A key component of this performance increase is the use of “densified” propellant. By chilling the liquid oxygen to minus 340 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 207 degrees Celsius) and the RP-1, a highly-refined form of kerosene used as rocket fuel, to 20 degrees Fahrenheit ( minus 7 degrees Celsius), SpaceX has demonstrated the capability to store more oxidizer and fuel in a given volume, as well as increase the flow of propellant through the turbopumps on the first stage’s nine Merlin 1D powerplants and on the upper stage’s lone MVac.
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Those rules are more commonly known as the silver rule (rabbi Hillel Sr.), the golden rule (Jesus), Lex Talionis (Hammurabi), and an amalgamation of appeasement, deterrence, and mutually assured destruction. That one hasn't been around quite as long, and isn't quite as glamorous, as it covers the value of bullying and cowardice, so might be debatable as to how pervasive it is. But it is the ethical basis for both the weaker-side tactics in asymmetric warfare and nuclear deterrence, so is followed more by national military policy than by religions. It might have been first put into print by Sun Tzu, maybe?

My personal ethics are far further from universal than the list I proposed.
"Inappropriate", "controversial" or "sensitive" in who's opinion?
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IBM's Watson supercomputer creates a movie trailer
Agree. "Sad" is the PC thing to say when something like that happens. In most people's lives it's a big "who cares". [1]

The fact that you were downvoted (at least when I saw your comment) indicates people don't agree with what you are saying and is an example of trying to enforce a particular type of thinking on someone else as far as what they should think or feel.

[1] Of course I wouldn't say "who cares" directly to someone involved in the project in some way then you extend your condolences.
Don't tell firmware/embedded programmers :-/
I never really understood the resistance to Hungarian notation. It greatly helps when you have large numbers of variables where their declaration is disconnected from their use (especially useful in languages like C++). That the information is redundant isn't a knock against it, it greatly reduces the friction in obtaining critical information about the variable. It certainly made reading windows code a 100x easier.
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So does this mean that the HP Chromebook 13 is the only ChromeOS device offered with 8G RAM?

I am disappointed. Should have bought a Pixel sooner. I really like Chromebooks. I guess after 4G aluminium-bodied FHD ones started coming at around $300, Google decided that the demand for the Pixel was not going to grow.

The biggest issue I have with Chromebooks is they aren't made with enough RAM. I consider myself a "chrome power user" - 2G RAM is barely enough for me to get by. While 4G RAM would be better, a higher RAM'd option would be best. The Pixel was one of those options, up until now.
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>leave him totally broke.

It might wipe him out, but people like Musk don't stay broke for long. Far too clever.
seems odd to suggest Colony is the new hotness, when there isn't a product available yet -- looks like Sep is the target date (https://blog.colony.io/an-update-on-colony-july-2016-7e2004e...)
I love BSD and would like to use it, but we're kinda in a Linux world.

Question: If I am building a custom hardware device (and we will be in the future, I believe) can we run OpenBSD on it using the ARM port, but also invoke binaries created for linux?

It appears that support was removed.

In the near term I need to build for Linux, But eventually we'll be able to target our own hardware, and one of our toolchain items doesn't support BSD right now (and is closed source, though we are considering an open source alternative.)

Any thoughts?
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On any project like that many engineers involved will have invested more than regular hours and pushed their work life balance - losing it all a couple of days from launch into space - that's harsh dude
The "clever calculator" mentioned in the post is perhaps a bit less clever than suggested.

500,000 quarts of beer, spread evenly over an 80-year drinking career, still amounts to 34 pints per day. However great his appetites, I'm a bit skeptical of that number.
You're absolutely right. But the EU has not been given direct power to set tax law. I'm not against more unification of the whole EU tax system, but currently, within the current framework, they are overstepping their bounds. I'm looking forward to the trial, and I'm curious what the ECJ will decide in this case.

Also, regardless of the company, don't you deserve a fair trial if the law is applied correctly? For if we disregard this, we might as well disregard other situations, which creates a dangerous precedent. Legislators shouldn't be putting the burden on companies, because they badly designed some law (or it had unintended consequences).

I've personally almost gone to court on a tax case, where the tax authority was pulling ridiculous arguments out of thin air with no merit whatsoever. The guy handling my case was extremely unreasonable, and it took intervention from some high up civil servant (who was more "up to date" on specifics of that law) to make him change his mind. It helped that I had one of the best local tax law firms represent me. These are often test cases to see what judges will allow, and to see if the precedent will stick. No point going to court if you don't have a good case and setting a bad precedent, since I said I would have no problem publishing the judgements for the entire tax community to see if I won. A full tax case can easily take 10-15 years.
Interested to know more about the fuels... when I searched for info about Falcon-9 fueling a week or two ago (having briefly conceived of a semi-idle interest in rocket propellants) I read it was RP-1 plus oxidiser - so basically "just" high-spec kerosene. That doesn't jibe with supercooling in my mind... Please enlighten us further.
Same reason anyone else does tests: Find potential and actual issues earlier than in production. The static fire they were doing is sort of a short integration / smoke (pun not intended) test whether the rocket as a whole (whether the payload is attached already depends on the customer; it reduces time between test and launch, though) works properly. Other tests are part of sort of a pre-flight checklist directly before launch and there have been launch scrubs due to issues at that point already. Every single engine is also fired for the full duration of the flight prior to installation in the rocket.

There's a lot of testing, both in isolation and in integration with other components. The risk of the rocket exploding should actually reduce with each test. Note also that in this case the malfunction was most likely with the pad equipment, not the rocket, so not doing static fires would in this case probably just have meant that you'd have an explosion at launch time one day.

EDIT: The static fire is more of a test for launch procedures, apparently:

“The goal of the static fire is to provide a dress rehearsal for the launch team, culminating in a three second firing of all nine of the first stage Merlin 1D engines to validate the health of the rocket.” (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/09/falcon-9-explodes-am...)

Makes sense in that the rocket itself is tested quite a bit beforehand already.
Oh. I see. My bad then. :P
If I remember correctly, didn't this host have their entire address space banned from a couple IRC networks because their support wouldn't act on abuse reports?
Is it solar powered?
>Going after the 5% of violators will change how the kernel team interacts with the 95% of good partners.

How do you figure that? The only way this could apply is if the "good partners" are violating the GPL on the sly, or with a wink and a nod (not bloodly likely) which would make them not so good anymore.

The GPL has no reason to exist if its terms are not enforced.
Maybe you mean "turn any web-article in to a document" ?

It seems to search for the largest body of text and omit the rest.
maybe he wishes he chose another license, but it would be very ingenuous to think the outcome would have been the same or better. Not saying that Linux wouldn't have succeed (or done better) without the GPL but you cannot say the reverse either...
> Going after the 5% of violators will change how the kernel team interacts with the 95% of good partners.

Why would it? If they are not violating the terms of the license, what would change?
In French language: to comb the giraffe.
Here's a polyglot that's valid in a large number of languages: https://github.com/mauke/poly.poly

At least the following:

* C (89)
* C (99)
* C++
* Haskell (multiple extensions, not sure how that works)
* Bash
* ZSH
* Posix SH
* Make
* Perl 5
* Perl 6
* Ruby
* Python
* Brainfuck
* HTML

edit: formatting
What happens to your password vault when the key suffers a malfunction? Or you lose or physically break it?
I thought so too, but the article then compares to funds started in the same years (like 2010). That said, not having lots of exits within 6 years of starting a fund doesn't seem strange (anymore).

Also, comparing Sequioa's 50x return on WhatsApp to anything is going to look bad ;). The percentile data is more revealing and does suggest that the A16Z fund from 2010 is currently middle-of-the-road. Unfortunately, the article doesn't cite sources for this percentile data.
How do you expect all these android phone makers to make android without the linux kernel?
Looks more like Facebook than a forum?
Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
burning any organic material, and most others produce carcinogens. hence vaping - heating material to boiling temperature of pot resin while not burning rest of the plant, in ideal conditions.
> ... Bradley isn't the one making the decisions here. It's the developers

Gee, this debate seems to have given some large amount of power to the individual contributors to the kernel. Any individual developer could defect from Linus' stance and work with the SFC on an infringement case. I'm curious to see if any of them are more dogmatic with respect to copyleft.

I suppose it makes sense that features CONFIG_'d off shouldn't be considered for infringement, but for many binary distributions of the kernel it probably still catches a lot of developers.

I always thought it was baloney red tape to do copyright assignments but if it had taken place here it would be a very different debate. The developers would have effectively ceded all control over this discussion to the assignee (who probably would've been The Linux Foundation, if anywhere).
Particulates and byproducts from burning matter - the reason smoking cigarettes kills your lungs isn't the tobacco, it's the tar and other garbage you're inhaling from combustion products.
Loading the payload isn't a quick thing, it takes time and a lot of careful work to do. So doing it before the tests can save a lot of time and I'm guessing money.
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Not a rocket scientist; just an electrical engineer with plenty of failure analysis experience. Here is generally how I would translate my process to this case.

As a sibling mentioned, there will be lots of telemetry about what was going on with various systems during the incident. That data may indicate a few specific points to start, but it will mostly be useful for putting other facts into context. In parallel would be an effort to comb over the pad, recover as much as possible of what remains of the rocket, and try to identify what parts are what. There may be some obvious forensic evidence of parts to concentrate on, but in all likelihood the analysis will be guided by a combination of analyzing the telemetry and the damage patterns on the remaining pieces. Hopefully the combination will narrow the probable causes down enough to concentrate analysis on a couple-three theories.

Once plausible and probable theories are identified, teams will start to drill down into what event chains could cause them and look for evidence to confirm or reject those. Some of that will involve destructive analysis of the wreckage; you can glean a surprising amount of information from high-magnification images, x-rays, and sections of what otherwise looks like a twisted hunk of scrap metal. Some will involve modeling; no doubt the engineers who designed the engines have some sort of model they used to test it, and the parameters on that model can be varied to create various out-of-spec conditions. Some will be design analysis, to see if some previously-unseen corner case could have caused an otherwise-conformant system to fail catastrophically. Test data on the involved systems will be analyzed to look for any anomalies that might have been passed off at the time but that might be significant on hindsight.

Assuming possibilities still exist and are not sufficiently firm, or even just to be extra thorough, a few possibilities may be tested in practical (and possibly destructive) tests. In other words, try to blow up (or simulate blowing up) another engine in a controlled manner. That may or may not be possible, depending on what the root cause is; a parts tolerance issue, for example, would be practically impossible to recreate unless it were possible to manually change affected parts to match the suspected tolerances that caused the failure.

I'm sure an actual rocket scientist will come along and provide more detail. My work was limited to exploding caps and FETs.
The dictionary also contains lots of Chinese, Russian and Arabic
Map of Syrian Refugees in the United States
As an advertising statement -- "built with love" -- means nothing to me as a consumer. If there is nothing more interesting to tell me in that space, then it suggests there is some kind of lack in the product.

All I care about is the value, quality and cost of the product.
That may explain part of your negative bias. I barely eat during or after (munchies are emotional in nature), don't have TV, dropped net/phone addiction (far more insidious an evil in this age), and usually get high to sing, compose on the guitar, dance, stretch, sometimes some light programming.. I do it every day. It's about what you do with it, isn't it? Get high every day to be a vegetable: train to become better vegetable. I'd rather train useful skills when I'm in a THC rush of relaxed flow.
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Watched the live feed. That "smoke test" failure definitely made some smoke.
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Is this robust against locating `Transmission.app` somewhere other than `/Applications`? (I put my applications in `~/Applications`, but I don't know the specifics of Keynap; maybe it ignores applications not in the usual location.)

Might it be better to replace the first two tests with something like `-f /[star][star]/Transmission.app/Contents/Resources/License.rtf`?
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