skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the text of the article, the Benedeks lost $20MM and Reissfelder lost $12MM.

The sums you quote ($656MM and $85MM) are what they sold their companies for, respectively; maybe those numbers are from public records. But, the primary sellers didn't necessarily retain all that money. There were other stakeholders, legal people to pay, and so on.

Also it says the Benedeks bought another German company after they sold their own company. So I guess that cost them a few million, too.

Your point is still valid - these people handed over substantial sums, between $10MM and $20MM each to a custom investment house.

What amazes me is...where they thought the money was coming from, for the helicopters and private jets.

If a single client justifies a private jet... well, for a going business, the money for the jet (whether chartered or owned) is coming out of that single client. $40k is 0.4% of $10MM. That's a pretty high cost for one meeting.

If the company treats all of its clients this way - each client has to pay that 0.4%. If the company treats only one its clients this way, or only a few of its clients this way, then it's a shady company. Either way, it smells, and it seems obvious from a distance. It's true that the article is the source of the $40k number for the jet, but fees for private jets (chartered or not) are not hard to estimate. Just read the economist, you can see the $$ in the ads.

I don't have $10MM to invest, but the unsustainable overhead seems obvious to me. It would be reckless to ignore it.

If the investment is $1B... a private jet seems required. $40k against that is tiny. I would EXPECT a private jet if I were investing a billion dollars. But for $10MM?
Adafruit makes a nice ruler for a reasonable price:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1554

as did eevBlog:

https://www.eevblog.com/projects/uruler/
It's having "skin in the game", in the sense that Nassim Taleb uses the phrase. The trust goes both ways and both of your reputations are more or less equally at stake. With a bank, the stakes are not symmetrical.
It is shocking how they do not understand how racist they are.
Funnily enough, I have a friend who organized these exact events. He said many doctors combined these events with vacations - take the family to a resort for a week, spend half the day with them, the other half working towards their continuing education requirements.
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> Correct me if there is evidence to the contrary, but I don't think humans were designed to sit or stand in one position for extended periods of time, habitually.

Hard evidence? I can't give you that. But look at all of the other mammals out there. Almost all of them spend substantial amounts of time sitting.

Traditional hunter-gatherer societies do almost of their work and food processing sitting down. Every hobbyist flint-knapper works sitting down.

The difference is they don't use chairs. Sitting in a chair is bad -
just consider the risk of embolisms on long flights. It removes the need for your body to actively support itself and restricts motion. Anecdote of size one, but for me the biggest help was getting rid of the traditional "throne" chair and replacing it a very broad stool. I can comfortably sit cross legged on it all day. I'm constantly moving and shifting my weight forwards and back, leaning and reaching since I can't just roll a chair around.

It has required making some unusual furniture to use a computer comfortably. Like all of my keyboards are tilted the "wrong" way (away from me) with the front higher than the back. Much easier on my hands and wrists.
I have also literally been hired for jobs based on the expertise demonstrated through my open source work; my connections to a large open source project were sufficient bona fides for my first team-lead position after I left a large company. But after looking at your comment history it's pretty clear you're just looking for fights anywhere you can and so I will admit to not being terribly interested in how you will next except that.
Writing a Better Abstract
Did I misread the article? I didn't get the impression that they handed over the entirety of those figures. Reissfelder lost "only" $12M. It seemed to me like they invested a lot of money, but nowhere near the entirety of it.
I'm on a 7, and it's nearly no improvement over my 6 (The only feature noticable is the better water sealing). Not looking to upgrade any time soon.

And unlike previous generations my last phone is still so good that after a battery change it will be a parent/sibling phone for 2 more years without problem. That means that they are less likely to get a new one too. They can drop their iPhone4S and take my iPhone6, instead of going to the store to get a 7/8.

I think this is great, and not surprising. There is a point when perf and features give diminishing returns and we are there. Good!
Maybe people are defining waste differently (equating "high cost" with waste).

What you may call waste is in a way the cost of the operation of the network (and its properties and guarantees and so on).

Waste suggests that there is an easy, equivalent, much more efficient solution around the corner but no one cares and wastes resources instead when they could have been doing the same thing with fewer resources.
You could store them chronically on paper and do the actual sorting on your computer or server.
But that's the problem in reading an English translation of a 2000-yr old text. Too many handlers have intervened, one must assume the purity of the original has been compromised.
I will try. I didn't even know they were a thing.

My CSS fluency is on a need-to-know basis!
> No.... You buy from a dealer in a club or somewhere else

Have you ever bought drugs? When you move to things like pills, and don't have the ability to test yourself, the dealers reputation or trust with you is paramount.
I don't pay much attention to this sort of thing in general, but with how often they're wrong about Apple, it makes me wonder if they're that inaccurate about everything else too
Yep. If you use Intel ISPC to write vector code (and you should, it's seriously underrated) it can also target multiple instruction sets and dispatch to the best supported one at runtime.
don't you get banned for life from the finance industry for this sort of scam
And here is their similar guide for Flexbox which I actually have bookmarked and attached to a keybinding in my editor since it's so goddamn useful!

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
This is one argument against capitalism as a whole, and it's worth taking seriously. Capitalism is still the best tool we have, but it's not without downsides.

Example: open source is the communist model, and it works very well. To each according to their need, from each according to their ability. No one owns anything, and you're free to fork or vote with your feet.

Ditto for illegal drug markets. If you're unhappy as a merchant, you have a number of options. No one owns you. You can switch to a different market, or start your own (if you're suicidally ambitious).

The interesting part is that the drug markets end up combining the best of both capitalism and communism in that sense.

But only in that sense. Obviously, unregulated drugs are risky. Yet even without regulations, it's remarkable how rare it is to hear about unhappy customers.
Thats federally insured. You are paying taxes for your 'still have your money'.

Not as clear cut as you think it is. If the government insured bitcoin 'for free' you would also see a major surge in confidence.
I think it's a really positive thing that people are able to leave reviews for drug purchases. In the absence of FDA regulation, a public reputation system incentivizes dealers to avoid harming their customers with dangerously-adulterated products.

In the midst of an opioid crisis, with people overdosing on heroin cut with fentanyl, having this accountability can save lives. There's a subreddit (whose name I won't mention) that facilitates meetups between opioid sellers and users, encouraging buyers to leave feedback once the meetup is complete. I'm glad it exists.
Basically you stated that there are entrepreneurs and then also people who just wanna put bread on the table, just like any other discipline.

There are two types of hair dressers: ones that open their own shop (startup), and others that join existing shops (corporate)
I believe crypto/blockchain will have tremendous use cases, and could end poverty via GBI... BUT BTC itself has MANY flaws, for instance if I want to send someone $10 of bitcoin it'll cost me $26 in transaction fees.

I might as well wire them the money it'd be cheaper...

The tech is good, but BTC itself not so much... My money is on Ardor. I'm putting all my money on their tech... so far I'm up 10x over what I started with.

edit: You also have to trust btc companies, miners, exchanges, developers, etc to all cooperate and move things in a positive way.. one bad fork, or 51% attack and it screws everything.
> Plus, its a lot easier to look at something with a coworker standing for some reason.

So true. I think this is because legs are not in the other person‘s way vs sitting.
Next Level Spatial Augmented Reality
Why would Bob take my gold? More importantly, why would he take my gold and not my dollar bills?
Other than people not being able to use all coins in their possession, how does tainting coins achieve "an elegant way for regulation"?
I was hoping you hadn't seen this reply of mine. Because it turns out I was wrong. I do have a /boot/grub2 directory. And it has a symlink named 'grubenv' to ../efi/EFI/fedora/grebenv. Grub is actually using /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg. I realised this a few minutes ago when the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg I generated was having no effect on grub, after making a few timeout changes.

Is it possible that the grub2-mkconfig only updates the config file if there is a change in the system? I ask because, earlier in the day when I ran your grub2-mkconfig example, it had no effect. But since then I've removed 3 prior kernel versions so I'm guessing that would have caused an update of the config file. Although I'm still unsure as to why grub wouldn't load the config file earlier.
To do this you can only make money if the insurance is priced at more than the chance of it happening. Or the reinsurer wouldn't be able to offer any insurance either, & the float wouldn't exist because it would be paid back in claims.

Insurance runs on the same premise of making money a casino does. If there was no casino edge, there would be no cash for the casino 'float' back into bets.
This scrimba looks like a pretty good technology for learning, but some of the highlighted videos are not up to par.

Have you guys recently started? Why not highlight quality videos at the top, to showcase this learning platform?
Thanks for sharing, I was wondering if others existed

Also, lol, eevBlog:

> A handy 7″ PCB ruler, don’t settle for an average 6 incher!
That isn't true at all.
We have something similar these all over the office, they come free w/large orders from digikey and mouser I think

https://www.mouser.com/images/adi-engineering-discovery-pcbr...

https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/pcb-ruler-12inc...
Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection for forking processes
My stock response is "treat it as gambling - put in only what you can afford to completely lose, because I feel like it's a massive bubble, but it's impossible to predict when it might pop".
I've had a 5 camera system for the last few months. It works well and didn't need any wires ran. The app needs some improvement, but overall a pretty neat product.
I hadn't really thought about it but I suppose the current width is why I'm so comfortable typing on it coming from an iPhone 7. If I'd had the Plus, it might have felt like kind of a downgrade.
> The most impressive one is too expensive; the others aren't worth the upgrade.

Perfectly summarizes what Apple has been producing lately, and this isn't just exclusive to their phones. I wonder when they'll make something worth buying?
I think the main take away is, "trustworthiness [consist of] competence, reliability, and honesty" and how these markets/vendors/customers create it; by satisfying all the above.
Pity there aren't too many commenters here; like stefantheard, I'm actually quite curious if it's just me(/us) and if there are plenty of people out there who'd really grok this.
Amazon has their own delivery service, bought wholefoods, and now bought blink. Blink has a doorbell offering plus the camera's that you already know of. It's not a stretch to have groceries delivered all the way to your fridge and put blink cameras all over the house to make sure the delivery guy walks back out when he's done.
We also have immense global money laundering from banks.

And in return, each bank account cost of regulatory compliance is pretty large.

Im not saying all bank regulations are bad, but its not like bank regulation is an example of policy success.
There is one banner on the bottom that's added by WordPress. Maybe in you meant 10 in binary?
Normally translations and rotations conserve volume. But not when you have these extremely non-smooth pieces.
> according to a survey of 300 iPhone buyers by technology-analysis firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners

Is 300 the right sample size? I recall reading that Apple sells over 500 iPhones every minute (on average), so I wonder if such a small sample is appropriate here.
> A lot of the reason I remain living in New York is because of fusion voting.

Fusion voting is actually one of the exact mechanisms that the two dominant parties use to ensure that third-parties remain completely non-viable. As you point out, fusion voting means that third parties have a stronger incentive to endorse one of the Democratic or Republican candidates instead of running their own, because it ensures their right to ballot access.

> primarily because if they don't get enough votes in the elections they cease to exist (i.e., why Working Families endorsed Cuomo instead of Teachout last gubernatorial election).

It's a little more complicated than that. Cuomo promised the Working Families Party that, if they endorsed him, he'd push for a particular piece of policy that they'd wanted. After they endorsed him, he then started the "Women's Equality Party"[0], which also endorsed Cuomo, in a direct attempt to split the vote from the Working Families Party.

His goal was to drive the Working Families Party vote under 50,000[1], which would have denied them ballot access in future elections, so that he wouldn't have to worry about their influence or endorsement in the future.

Fusion voting is an embarassment to democracy. It's "hilarious" when you show up to the ballot box, and the same candidate is running unopposed on three party lines: as a Democrat, a Republican, and an Independence party candidate[2].

[0] led by himself and his family, run mostly by men.

[1] Don't quote me on the number, but I think that's the threshold

[2] For those who aren't from New York: yes, this is sadly pretty common. Though more often than that, only one party even bothers to front a candidate in the race in the first place, so the general election is a series of uncontested elections, with each candidate running on only one party.
Importance of documenting your API
I was thinking it was https://www.blinkfitness.com at first and assuming Amazon had gotten into the gym business for whatever reason because scale/logistics/something something. I was already imagining the breathless bloggery that were coming shortly.
Safari is faster than both Chrome and Firefox at rendering large  arrays
Just as something very stable to bootstrap the network. The paper also talks about pegging to a basket of good (e.g. CPI) as the end state if it ever ends up superseding the dollar.
that guy has his 5m from a series transactions, you will need to drop the entire bitcoin transaction history to deny him do you?

You can censor him though I guess, ignore all his transactions.
Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping It Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance
pretty bad - hack it together with docs and stack exchange really. I did manage to deploy an app with a django, nginx, gunicorn stack which doesn't crash, so there's that. But as far as good coding skills, I don't really have any - but I'm learning as I go. I also have full management support for this, which is nice, but very rare. I more so play around with pandas and matplotlib to get what I need - pretty much just a step above shell scripting.
Note that Plan 9 is already licensed under GPLv2 (with caveats I guess)[0][1]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7232042

[1] - http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/files/Plan9License
It was also about mortgage fraud ... bond rating fraud ... multinational banks selling fraudulent mortgage backed securities based on the previous two frauds. Almost no one went to jail for any of it, the few who did were little fish. The SEC, Fed, Treasury and DOJ were asleep at the wheel before and during the crash and did almost nothing after other than reward the perpetrators:
A. threw $700 billion in tax payer funds at them
B. forced mergers that made some of them even bigger
C. the Fed printed $4 trillion dollars and handed it to them to plow in to the stock market and juiced an 8 year bull market which enriched all of them.

Cryptocurrencies certainly have their problems but the last 10 years have been a case study in how horrible fiat currencies and the current global financial system really is. Japan's central bank has printed so much money they own something like 65% of all the ETF's on the Nikkei.

China, EU, U.S. and Japan have printed something like $16 trillion dollars since the crash. If banks leverage that at a conservative 12X that's $192 trillion. The world is awash in fantasy money.
AvE also has one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/464202928/one-rule-to-ruler-the...
Yes this is bizarre I know who id call if I one the big euro lottery (the chairman of an investment trust I hold shares in) and I know roughly where the first 400k I would invest on my own behalf.

It sucks but did this guy not know who the really safe banks are for this sort of thing? if it had been me I would have been of to coutts or drummonds the day after selling my stake.
You might like Spark by John Ratey. That book dives into a bunch of the studies related to this kind of book and got me off my ass and into the gym.
I wish you could have personal blacklists of sellers so they don't appear in your own search results.

Many years ago I avoided leaving negative feedback on a seller that agreeably accepted a return on stuff that was obviously counterfeit. A couple years later I felt like an idiot when I received garbage again, then realized that it was the same seller that had tried to quietly scam me before.
Was bewildered for a moment as I thought the Google Chrome rendering engine had been spun off as a company and suddenly acquired.

Stranger things have happened this year.
Yes, the statistics were available publicly for a short while.
The Science of Sample Rates (When Higher Is Better – And When It Isn’t)
I presume the audio sources would have been bugs placed in nearby structures, etc.?
> pay increases that basically track the cost of living in NYC

There's the problem. Half the population is convinced that the people who do all the work to make living in a city possible should not be able to afford to live in said city.

San Francisco is the most extreme example of this insanity, where everyone in the service sector either has multi-hour commutes, or live in a closet with 3 other roommates.
I was going to check this out, but couldn't find a privacy policy or other statement re what you might do with harvested email addresses. https://github.com/scrimba/community/blob/master/TERMS.md seemed like the obvious place to look. I'm not remotely anticipating anything malign, but clarity of intent is important.
How the Tether (USDT) distribution system works
Seems closely connected with something I happened to submit recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15839654
Coinbase trading is down after Bitcoin price plunges
As long as the existing system is fully funded and properly maintained, there is no pressing need to replace anything. The original signal system worked fine for a century and could continue working fine for another century, as long as maintenance is being done. I would suggest that what the system needs more than the new signal system is expansion; there were actually more transit lines the last time the system had to handle this many passengers. One of the things that 2nd Ave. subway does -- in a small but meaningful way -- is increase the number of trains that can operate in Midtown during peak hours, because it creates a new branch line for trains to terminate on (capacity at terminals is a limiting factor in some cases; this is why 71st-Continental is used as a terminal, despite the fact that the 4-track line continues to 179th St., and why several E trains terminate at 179th or Kew Gardens during peak hours.).

The 2nd Ave. subway would also have helped to reduce crowding on the Lexington Ave. line if it had been built to 125th St., where there is a Metro-North station. That is an unfunded plan at the moment, and there would likely be opposition from the wealthy Upper East Side residents to such an extension (not just the extra crowding, but also the poorer people who live in East Harlem taking the train).
resonance is a hellofa thing

Can carry information, cf. Huygens synchronization, oscillators sync up through resonance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaxw4zbULMs
Definitely, it's just that moving away from Bitcoin is not much more easier than moving away from Facebook.

I agree that it can happen, like the exodus from Digg to reddit, but the brand is strong and it will have serious financial implications making it significantly harder than creating an account on the competitors product and continue as is.
Agreed. It sounds gnarly, but I would rather they test and practice with cadavers rather than live humans. This is all so they can perform better as doctors...
Regardless of what chemistry they are using, a lithium cell should be capable of producing more than enough power for a cellphone at any residual capacity before it becomes useless. You aren't discharging at more than 0.5C on a portable device.
Serious question: what the heck is your point?
There are a few things you forgot

$2 CPM!! That's not even close to what shitty ad networks pay. Majority of traffic comes from countries with < 5 cent CPM

HOSTING COST
It's not just about running a wordpress website here.
Most decent site run auto uploaders which need decent size seedboxes. Easily hovering around a thousand dollars

Sources/runners:
If its a scene pre-d site you need access to some runners. Scene access isn't cheap

Changing Domains & black hat seo:
These sites are constantly loosing domains and almost all google ranking ones are using black hat seo to get their ranking. Usually means paying someone to do the dirty work.

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Some revenue streams you missed

- Pay Per Link (aka locked/paid link shortner)
things like AdFly

- Background Crypto miners (becoming rather popular on streaming sites)

-'FTP ACCESS' / paid subscriptions

Still millions? Not by a long shot.. Few thousands.. Probably yes
ConTech is booming