skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if MSFT had 100B USD in cash and spent it all in stock repurchase, then, in theory, its stock price wouldn't move but its market cap would go down by 100B

? In the process of buying shares back, the market capitalization would increase due to the increase in share price. The share price would absolutely move. This is why companies have stock buy-backs, in order to pump up the share price.

The 'buyback ratio' is the amount spent on buybacks in the past 12 months as a percentage of the company’s market capitalization, and is often used as a means to flag companies that are acting in a manner such as this.

The market capitalization is just share$ * # of shares. Did you mean book value? The book value of a company would reduce if you burned 100B in share repurchases, but even then I don't think it would be so simple, as that 100B in shares would now be listed as assets to the company and could be used as remuneration for the employees, among other things.
I've been a FastMail customer since their beginning. I will not use anyone else as long as they exist. I have several accounts with them. Very much worth the money.

Rob, Bron, and the FastMail guys are the best in the world at what they do. I have zero affiliation with FastMail except for as a happy customer. And with these guys, you are the customer, not the product. The do email, calendaring, etc. better than any other company out there. I've been in IT for 3 decades and I can tell you that the level of quality and care the guys at FastMail deliver is so very, very rare. Money more than well spent.
Great company & example...however not SV & founded July 2011.
Algolia – DNS fallback for better resilience
OK, I'll bite -- I can see this would be annoying for some people, but it's something you can easily work around. This MacBook has Fn, Ctrl, Alt and Cmd down there, there are plenty of buttons to assign all the functions you want. There's no way to work around a bad trackpad.

Sometimes you want a mouse, sure (and Apple's mice are awful!) But if all you have is a trackpad, it has to be a great trackpad.
I've described it as "Clockwork Orange meets the Twilight Zone, with a technological spin."
Verizon Chipotle Exxon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFKoGtgg6Mo

...brought to you by YouTube, a Google company, whose parent company is Alphabet.
Nonprofits are companies...
I had a TURN server, I just meant I didn't host it myself. But the metering showed it was never active! I kept getting a connection that succeeded through STUN, but no audio would actually come through in about 50% of WAN cases. It would always work on the LAN. Is it possible to just have a janky STUN server that negotiated a bad connection for you? Seems like a really weird failure mode. I was using Xirsys at the time as they have a mostly bare-bones setup.
but to me tech never feels fast enough

Because of programmers and Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons." Coders will always use the computation, memory, and bandwidth resources that are there. "If I just use a little more, it benefits my app, but it hurts everyone else just incrementally." Everyone makes the same calculation, and voila, the machine that's 2X faster feels just as slow. It's the same reason why building more highways just results in more people stuck in slow traffic.
If you're attempting to understand the behavior of individual users of HN as a collective, I can assure you that your initial principles are hampering you greatly.
Colonial Americans believed that they were right in displacing native Americans due to that fact that God did not stop them from doing so. Basically its moral as long as nobody stops you.
Imagine migrating your website to a new host. A month later, you learn that a major ISP has decided that its customers don't need to know about the move, because they hold on to last-known-good records as they like. So half your traffic and business is gone. Or maybe you can't use anything run on Heroku, because the dynamicism there doesn't play nice with your resolver's policies.

That's the kind of world we used to live in when TTLs were often treated as vague suggestions.
If you don't install GApps package, no.
Both free markets and state-controlled systems reward centralized control of any given type of media. In the former case, it's the idea that a "network effect" drives revenue opportunity. There's a real sense in which, in either of these regimes, our organism cannot build an immunity to singular community-controllers deciding that they weren't going to give you the lollipop in the first place. That's their prerogative, whether or not it was written in a law. The question is, how do we economically incentivize decentralized social networks to the point where they're as feature-filled, advanced, engineered, and efficiently operated as the centralized ones? There's no simple answer to that question.
The S&P only had 500 companies starting in 1957 using that as the start date you get: 6.170%.

S&P has returned ~6.5% over the long term in inflation adjusted returns. However, the trend has been lower returns over time and inflation is currently very low. https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/ (You can look at the methodology, but they project further into the past.)

6.736% : 1871 to now
6.525% : 1900 to now
6.281% : 1930 to now
5.977% : 1960 to now

Further, there is a lot of volatility in these numbers consider:

7.446% : 1990 to now
2.352% : 2000 to now

PS Stable companies reasonably have a premium associated with that stability.
not everyone (I understand that might be a joke :-))

Right now I can't build nodejs apps because of unreachable external dependencies
Well said. How do you think it should be valued?
Isn't it more like the sinatra for nodejs?
Critical infrastructure was outsourced and now they've gone down! Yay, the "cloud" and all it's "glory" where some joker with an API thinks that magically means always available.
Trial run? Sounds like the spin machine at work to me. I wonder what a trial run to Mars costs these days.
> The person that benefits the most from web apps is the developer.

Users also benefit. For instance, linux users can use the same web apps as windows users.
related to DNS, having the same issue here trying to build a node app
They had such an amazing life! They were completely dedicated to their work. They attained a perfect equilibrium where, by perfectly complementing each other, they managed to focus on their work. The other spouse was never a hindrance in one's work. Such a rapport is so hard to achieve. Nearly all couples are bogged down by some form of family issue (raising kid, problematic relatives etc.). In fact, he faced similar issue in his first marriage which ultimately broke down. It would be so beautiful to have a partner like that. Coming from a third world country where 'starting a family' (which definitely includes having kids) is everything, I am extremely lured by this prospect as I know how difficult it is to achieve here.
I work in the gambling industry, and the amount of money bet on this market by Irish and UK customers (most of Paddy Power's userbase) would be a relatively very small amount. So they settle all bets on Clinton as a winner now and reap all the free publicity (which PP are experts at doing). Aside from that, the type of user betting on this market are not going to withdraw their winnings, it will go straight onto the next horse race or premiership game :)
Any regrets?

Maybe Garfield.
Yep, this should be a good standard practice!
They do that if:

1. You don't log in from a first world IP (the terminology from their user operations team), but previous logins were from them.

2. You registered from an IP in a country where they don't have access to sending SMS, but they go to a country where they have.

3. Bot detection algo flagged you, and bot detection algo are one of their crown jewels that they don't tell to support people.
Nonprofits are still corporations. LetsEncrypt is a service of Internet Security Research Group:

https://letsencrypt.org/isrg/

ISRG is a Secion 501(c)(3) corporation.
I've met and worked with people like that, whether it's from a cult upbringing, a personal traumatic history, mental illness, or whatever. I doubt they hang out on HN, but they probably have Facebook accounts like everyone else.
It's less about US vs. Canada (or country A vs. country B), and more about multinationals vs. citizens.
> I've been singing the praise of AWS Route53 for a long time, they up and running.

I'm a fan of Route53, too.

But can we say that it weathered the attack? Or was it just lucky that its systems weren't targeted?
All new Teslas are equipped with Nvidia ’s new Drive PX 2 AI platform
Yup our cows and our women should be in good health.
It's not so much the thing that makes you switch to a Mac, as the thing that makes you stay there.

Every time I use a Windows laptop I recoil in horror at how unusable the trackpad is. How do ever get anything done?? It just seems bizarre.

(I realize plenty of people do get things done on Windows laptops; I'm just describing the visceral reaction I have, along with quite a few fellow Mac users.)
that being said, I think there is probably legal precedent in holding Youtube accountable to the public interest given its breadth and depth. Looking at the typical 1st amendment litmus test re: falsely yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater - even if that theater is private, what is yelled inside becomes public interest if it affects the public welfare.
> IMO, Enterprise adoption of Azure is growing specially enterprises that rely on Microsoft stack exclusively.

Sure it is, I have no doubts about it's growing use. But that use is still in nascent stage so when Microsoft is reporting a sudden increase in cloud revenue is actually nothing but smart manipulation of ELA terms.

In reality Enterprise Customer aren't cloud ready . Simply running on premises virtual machines into cloud does not result in any benefits. Enterprise customers are not yet there to realize the cloud benefits like on-demand compute, containerization, resource right sizing. Though Windows 2016 might tip that balance.
"unlock the power of the human brain" lol, why not save yourself $100 million and just take a Deepak Chopra seminar?
There could be other biases too. For instance, if the Mac users at IBM were in largely technical roles (e.g. working on their MacOS integration service) vs large non-technical departments working on Windows machines (e.g. HR and accounting).

It wouldn't be very surprising that technical departments had less help-desk complaints than non technical departments.
The sarcasm is unhelpful and detracts from any potential discussion. Old articles and stories show up here all the time, simply because they are interesting and worth discussion.

A more useful/helpful reply would be to note that this article should be tagged (2013).
github.com seems to be down because of this.
pretty cool stuff Pieter - I currently use placehold.it A LOT, any chance you could do keywords and size? like /coffee-250x250
If Javascript were an acceptable Lisp, you could have written async/await as a small set of macros instead of waiting for a huge third party project that knows how to parse the grammar.
I still think Murray's Razor's Edge is one of the greatest coming of age, life lesson, philosophy movies. It made me think and more importantly it made me curious about world outside my bubble, about people's motivations, about the point of life and how I should live mine. In a phrase it woke me up. Thanks.

It's too bad audiences couldn't get past expectations for a slapstick comedy.
Scala.js is an attempt at this
Perhaps Google had old (but valid) records still in their cache for a while. Google DNS was working for me for a while, and then stopped. Apparently Dyn has the problem fixed, but maybe there is some TTL based propagation delays still. I updated my internal network to use Dyn's internet guide/public DNS and the problem is fixed.

Maybe this is their strategy: we break it, you buy it ;)

https://help.dyn.com/internet-guide-setup/

If you can't load that page, the public DNS servers are:
216.146.35.35, 216.146.36.36
The problem, AFAIU, was that some user had a password-less key stored on some external system (their personal home computer, for all I know). That system was hacked, and allowed the attacker to access the HPC system. I don't see how the HPC center staff getting the Puppet-gospel could have prevented that person from using a password-less key. Well, except by disabling key-based logins (which, AFAIU, they could have used Puppet/cfengine/whatever for).

My point is that in general it would be better to disable password auth and only use key based auth, but only if you could somehow guarantee that the users wouldn't do crazy things like use password-less keys. But as you can't do that on the server-side, what other options do you have?
They don't need to remove porn though. They could keep a NSFW counter and increment it for every piece of suspected porn you post. If your NSF counter / post count is greater than 0.2, start hiding your posts from people with a low NSFW ratio.

This way, even if they mis-categorize a medical image it won't be banned, just not widely disseminated.
I'd like to respond by this and saying I'm porting a largeish codebase over to Rust for one purpose: I can embed it other languages, and I can into it from any language that exposes an FFI.

The goal is to move all business logic out of javascript on an nwjs desktop/crosswalk mobile app and move it to Rust. The interface would still be javascript, but the core logic (and crypto) would live in Rust. This gives me a portable core I can move between platforms, and in theory all that has to change is the UI (but not really, because in most cases the platforms run Javascript).

I don't think Go can be as easily embedded (because of its runtime) but perhaps I'm wrong.
That site made all that chaos better somehow.
Snappy Ubuntu Core on Switches
Suddenly I feel the pain of having infrastructure-as-code hosted on github. Pagerduty was hosed too.
Well their actual mission was the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Since they were sending hardware to Mars orbit anyways, they decided to try and attempt a landing. The rover was not designed to last very long - 7 days battery. Their actual high quality lab on wheels will be going out in 2020.
So they allow people to choose their platform since 2015 and then compare the support costs for brand new macs to all existing windows PCs?

Not to mention the possible selection bias since people chose a mac themselves and were not randomly sampled.
I'm not the person you replied to but I've considered allowing nothing but live music. Maybe buying and learning to play an instrument. My very distant family (only met them once at a reunion) are farmers and they entertain themselves by playing their own music and have a band. It'd encourage me to actually go to concerts rather than have the instant gratification of electronic media. For me, at least, its about forming habits against that instant gratification digital media provides. We've decided on an middle ground, we're going to start buying CDs (which are really cheap these days!). I don't remember the last time I listened to an album all the way through instead of flipping from song to song.
Even with movies, we were watching "Meet Me in St Louis" and it was interesting to learn that before TV people would put on skits for their family rather than passively being presented with a movie. We'll still be watching movies (in theaters) but only sometimes.
What you describe is software tool chains that can take formally verified (or partially verified) code and spit out lower level code that is also formally verified. There is no theoretical breakthrough there just lots of new tools.

Actually writing that code is still slow process.
>Someone who is as passionate as you are in your business / industry / niche

But is willing to do it for a 0.1% equity stake...
Excellent feedback, thank you! I will work on this.
The 3K screens are seriously drool-worthy. I don't have a really pressing need to upgrade, but that 3K screen has gotten me wistfully playing with their laptop builder a couple times. It's literally quadruple the real-estate of my current screen (1600x900).
I agree. Building science technology has been great but I wish the botany biotech people would get on with making hardwoods that grow in a year with hundreds of rings (artificial wintering). Maybe this is off topic but I have seen no serious innovation from biotech. GM food is mostly banned in Europe, but even outside of food we should be seeing great strides in raw material production to a higher standard and I'm just not seeing it.

I feel that most people building today optimize for the cheapest per sq ft, but if you are a builder owner and are a geek, you can really buy some amazing materials and employ some clever methods like advanced framing. You can construct a house with an energy bill of $100 a year if you want.

I think the future is in building smaller and smarter.

> Changes in land use regulation are going to cost you a lot more than material changes.

That's a fact. However I'm going for a tiny/small house in the countryside so I'll just dodge that bullet.
Switch to OpenDNS servers - 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. Even google NS are down it seems. Heroku works after switching to opendns.
Just about! For lots of fun info, check out the interplanetary Expensive Hardware Lob League:

https://www.strudel.org.uk/lob/
Not quite.

Pins are either built into the browser by the vendor, or assigned on first access AFTER a successful server authentication (via the cert).
Pins are trusted/verified through another channel.

SSH Tofu trust occurs pre server authentication. It has no defense against an ALWAYS mitm. Of course there are far less ALWAYS MITM for SSH than TLS.
You have no way of validating the pubkey you have written to known_hosts against anything else.
Yep, sounds like it would be useful for this case.

Not sure why people are down voting my answer. The other person posted "Chargeback?" - note the question mark. So I took that as if they were asking what a chargeback is, and was trying to explain it as simplified as possible.
Letting Verizon have Yahoo looks a lot smarter now.
The article had nothing to do with guns, yet they mention it in two places, specifically to associate it with possible criminal activity.

The media only reports the bad use of guns. If you want to read about the numerous self defense instances, you'll have to read about it from the gun lobby. The NRA is comprised of 4 million dues paying members, which it represents just as much as it does it's corporate members. I actually prefer the GOA myself.

Also, the article mentions a shotgun with a "flash hider". Thus is pure embellishment. Besides, it's a muzzle break to reduce muzzle lift, not a flash suppressor, which would be pointless in a shotgun that would be used at most tens of yards. Though even a muzzle break would be of questionable use on a shotgun.
>"you could in theory have a black hole which has dark matter around it"

Well, the link I provided gave me the impression it is plausible that the black holes are dark matter. This sounds like a different idea than what you are rejecting as "possible but unlikely".
Well, with you putting it that way, I can't say too much against the tactic. :) It's actually quite similar to what I wanted to convince courts to allow as a default in the event that they don't already. That is to let me withhold a smoking gun on a case where they might get low charges or punishment due to technicalities. Let them argue their case with lies to the court. Then, show the smoking gun with a follow-up of perjury to keep them from dodging a significant punishment.

How feasible does that sound? I know people do it to themselves accidentally but not sure if judges would allow the tactic intentionally by a non-prosecutor.
What other providers would you recommend than Dyn? Route53? Cloudflare? Something else?
Not everyone is into music. Months go by sometimes when I have my head down working on a project that I realize I haven't listened to music the entire time.

Then there are times I can't go an hour without playing something. Losing music for a year though wouldn't be a noticeable change in my life.
>The OCR has a reproducible bug and has trouble differentiating small l and the number 1. It also has trouble differentiating the number 0 and the small o. Instead of fixing the bug or not using such obviously unsuitable software the software apparently evaluates the following characters - if there is a number after the small l it reads the l as the number 1. Similar issues with o/0.

So what they're saying is y0u can fo0l their servers with 1eetspeak?
Good for them. Next: stop the Prager University videos from being suppressed.
Why would you pay $300 to fix a 5yo MBA? Just dump it on eBay or CL and buy a new one...
Congratulations then. Charter is by far the best cable company I've ever dealt with.
Yeah, that is definitely possible.

I mean, hopefully it is over HTTPS so they can't do anything with it... but if it isn't then it can definitely happen. Our servers get random web traffic all of the time.
What can they do? It's not Twitter themselves being DDOS'd, it's a DNS provider. This propagates up the chain to impact both a Tier 1 network and cloud providers, which hits tons of stuff on top of that.
I'm starting to hate the word "fallacy". What's the free market fallacy? The idea that not everything that's driven by free market is great? Why call that a fallacy, why not just call it being wrong?
It would be like the owner of a coal mine campaigning for a carbon emissions tax

Not necessarily so strange. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists for instance.
Exactly. I wandered around, finally I headed for Docs (ugh), but even there I got releases and downloads thrown in my face, no code in sight
Twitter isn't down, just DNS resolution of twitter.com
Thanks, that's a cool idea!
A JavaScript watcher that works just right
Zzzz.

The USG is not responsible for a corporation that runs DNS services.
The self-signed cert you are seeing could be the one that my MiTM proxy has substituted on your connection!

Which makes that MiTM the one and only one party with whom I am communicating. And I know no other party is surveiling or altering this phishing attempt.

Over this secure channel, my phisher and I can negotiate authenticity, which hopefully he will fail.

If this is the case then please use my proxy server and do your banking.

Sigh. My bank is not ycombinator.com. I don't think YC is even a bank. My bank is one of the few sites I mentioned where I do care about their authenticity because I do trust them more than I trust a potential phisher.
As someone else pointed out this is a classic false flag operation. Look up Gleiwitz incident and Operation Northwood. It can be very effective. With good opsec and anonymity online it can be even easier.

> kind of conspiratorial thinking?

You mean like lizard aliens infiltrating our planet? -No. But in the realm of "shooting down of passenger and military planes, sinking a U.S. ship in the vicinity of Cuba, burning crops, sinking a boat filled with Cuban refugees, attacks by alleged Cuban infiltrators inside the United States, and harassment of U.S. aircraft and shipping and the destruction of aerial drones by aircraft disguised as Cuban MiGs", yes.

It was mostly a reply to "US would have absolutely no reason for doing this" and the reply is there cold be a plausible reason.
Fair enough. Can't argue over style.

(Btw. this is officially the best house on the planet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth_House)