skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think upon his passing there'd be plenty of time to exit without missing a beat.

The value of BRK stock is the net present value of Berkshire's existing holdings, plus perhaps a small and diminishing premium for the convenience of holding stock at the moment of Buffett's future sale and acquisition choices. Because Berkshire is fairly hands-off in terms of managing their holdings, and because its investments have fairly low volatility, in the short-term the stock price should hold steady upon Buffett's exit.

Thus, if owning BRK made sense 10 years ago, then it makes sense to own it until the very last day that Buffett[1] controls the company, and even afterward to the extent the pipeline is filled with his choices.

But maybe I'm misunderstanding something about market dynamics related to how end games play out.

[1] Presuming that Buffett remains Buffet, in control of his faculties and in particular his prescience.
WordPress has a history of almost embarrassing security vulnerabilities. To be fair, most PHP applications of that era have similar track records.

The newer versions have been _much_ better.
It's not a technological problem: you only need to catch someone cheating once.
> What is insecure about WordPress?

> If you minimize your reliance on plugins, enable automatic updates, and harden your installation, it's pretty secure. At least I haven't had issues.

My guess is that it was long too easy to not do any of those things, so it gained a reputation for being insecure. They might have mitigated a lot of the problems, but bad reputations die hard.
Instead of attacking their reputation, maybe pointing out actual flaws with the assessment as presented would be more constructive?
Yes, well, they just posted a CIV/NAV of $4.22, so that's probably the end :)

http://www.velocitysharesetns.com/xiv
False dichotomy
Agreed. But for a product like a car, it would be fair to comply much later after-the-fact; it's not like the car is driven straight into the junkyard ;). For products like food (packaging) it seems different though.
Be careful with the causality here. Some East/West distinctions predate the wall. A vivid example is the 1933 electoral map http://brilliantmaps.com/nazi-votes/ but this too reflects an older reality. (Of course some of the contrast is indeed due to the postwar history, just not all.)

And likewise, the US North/South culture war long predates the civil war. Puritans and Cavaliers didn't exactly see eye to eye 200 years before that.
They are not acquiring the company that maintains the open source CMS known as WordPress, which is also estimated to power 24% of websites on the Internet.

They are developing free, probably open source, plugins and themes for WordPress. Also they stated that they will help develop the supported AMP plugin.

That's great. Google will make it much better. It needs help right now.

I just don't understand why people are snubbing and thumbing their noses at Google for contributing their world-class resources to making free, open source software better.

Sure, their interests align with getting a foothold in this ecosystem, but I don't think their play is to poison WordPress.

Not that your wrong for being suspicious of their motives in general. They have broken some pretty cool stuff.
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This is certainly no conspiracy. More like inconsistent and ill-considered strategy over many years. I'm sure Google genuinely wants to help Wordpress here without making a power play; it would be very much in their interests to do so - thriving independent content platforms keep the web alive and diverse which in turn reinforces the value of search.

It's just a shame that unintended consequences things like Google Reader over the years have done much to harm blogging. It could have been so much better...
I agree that any responsible, sane congress would have impeached Trump several iterations of "new groundbreaking violation of democratic norms" ago. (And to be quite clear, this rests entirely at the feet of the current majority party: a democratic-led congress would have acted long ago.)

But that doesn't have anything to do with the comment I was responding to.

What we're discussing here is an action by a Trump appointee, who was not confirmed by the senate (Mulvaney is an "acting" head). The blame for that action lies with Trump and with Mulvaney. It does not lie with the congress that failed to prevent it.

The grandparent argument appears to boil down to "Trump & team did evil. Congress failed to prevent them from getting away with it. Therefore direct your anger toward congress." That's just an inch or two from complete nonsense.
> "Where sex could be determined, around 20% were women, and this is in contrast to previous assumptions that the Viking raiders were solely male. Of course, we can't know if these women (or men, for that matter) were 'warriors' but it demonstrates that the group was made up of both genders.

Well, from Wikipedia:

> When Leif Erikson's pregnant half-sister Freydís Eiríksdóttir was in Vinland, she is reported to have taken up a sword, and, bare-breasted, scared away the attacking Skrælings. The fight is recounted in the Greenland saga, though Freydís is not explicitly referred to as a shieldmaiden in the text.[0]

I love the shieldmaidens in Mongoliad and D.O.D.O. by Stephenson et alia.

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield-maiden
ICOs are a more immediate threat to un-savvy investors. Tether may also die or 'exit' on its own.
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I think you're overreaching by blaming Wordpress.

By far, the bulk of the time loading your site is TTFB or Time Till First Byte for your website. That could mean that your hosting company is extremely slow, your theme is doing something very awkward, you have a million plugins running, or something along those lines.
in an different life, I was responsible for maintaining a MUMPS application that had been built by a contractor as a SaaS app. it took until the first set of feature requests before I made the decision that it needed to be rewritten in a language that allowed for tests and maintainability before any additional features could be added (not a decision made lightly). to this day, I am shocked that so much medical software is written in this language.

as an aside, there were some positive notes, as it was my first real introduction to a noSQL database (Caché) in a professional setting, 2006.
> 1. Running strip on go binaries is a BAD IDEA:

This is old information. It is perfectly fine to strip Go binaries and has been for years. This post does a pretty decent job of summing it up.

https://dominik.honnef.co/posts/2016/10/go-and-strip/
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Taking down nazi content but then losing some Sci Hub domains is a net positive, so even if there was causality (there isn't), it still looks like a good decision.
No, just experience in other industries.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not making excuses for Toyota. I get the same BS from my own car's manufacturer. Their map updates are more like $300, and even the dealer thinks it's a galactic ripoff.
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This.

You have to take a look at percentage market moves. The markets have been moving up for a long time. A 1000 point drop when the market is at 26,000 is not the same as a 1000 point drop when the market is at 16,000.
Mumps is cool and all but I think the author’s work on the constitutional convention of 2022 is better http://threadsafebooks.com/index.html
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Thanks for several comments pointing out the unclearness of what's being "more modern".

I've updated the README to be: "The advantage of Mark over S-expressions is that it takes a more modern, JS-first approach in its design, and can be more conveniently used in web and node.js environments."

Hope it's clearer now.
> I agree with this: certain things need to be in the spec.

That was my main point. In the second part of the comment I didn't mean to discourage use of reader macros - it was more of an aside that the general facility of CL-style reader macros literally makes READ "shell out" into EVAL, so you need to (diligently) disable it for untrusted input (or reimplement a limited READ by hand). So we can't say "oh, but S-exps in Common Lisp can have anything through reader macros". Presumably if hash table literals were specified as a part of basic syntax, we could depend on it being standard and part of the safe subset of READ's duties; as it is however, we can't depend on it for arbitrary inputs.
Do you not agree that relative moves (%) are more useful in characterizing the significance of a selloff?
There has been some research from Sun Labs, the VNC people, and even krh himself showing that sending entire canvasses across the network is just as efficient as sending drawing commands. But no one has bothered to implement it for Wayland.
To be fair, this isn't a consumer product by any stretch of the imagination. HP has been in the business market for a long time on large format printers as well as servers, where the money isn't as much in the media as it is in the premium price tag up front and service contracts.
That's one of their offerings, actually: https://www.happy-or-not.com/en/web-smileys-2/
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Should be a fairly easy social experiment to do. Take a good sample size of families (>20000) and provide compulsory paid leave (and counselors that checks that no extra work is being spent at home or the government pay is taken away) so that both parents are away from home at exactly equal amount from inception until the kid moves out.

After 20 years, compare the control with those families that successful follows the trial (and for fun, throw in people who take sabbaticals as a third group) and see the results. Have poll questions about the size of social support networks, social status, income, carer, stress, perception of self worth, and so on. Last make a follow up in 50 years for life span and final carer, pensions and social support networks.

I have some predictions for all of those, backed by the research I have seen so far, but it would make for a very interesting read if such study would be made.
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Fair enough, I've seen mixed reports. I have the care program, and everything I've ever seen about that has consisted of people saying they got their drone replaced quickly and without fuss.
The Dow 10K (let alone 20K) still takes getting used to for me -- I remember figures around 4000 in my childhood. ... at which point a 1000-point drop would have been seen as much more significant.

Edit: although apparently I'm remembering a slightly later era than I thought.
Wow, what a horrible article.

First off, the chemical is used as a substrate for growing "hair follicle germs", not as a direct treatment. If the hair follicle germs had been grown in glass Petri dishes, would the headline be "Chemical Used in Baby Food Jars May Cure Baldness"? No, of course not.

(BTW, I suspect "hair follicle germs" is a bad translation from Japanese -- "stem cells" is probably nearer the mark).

Secondly, this stuff is used for all sorts of purposes (see the Wikipedia article that someone else linked), so drawing a connection to McDonalds is...questionable. Ethanol is used as a disinfectant, and is also found in Jack Daniels, but you don't see articles like "Chemical Found in Jack Daniels may Prevent Infection, Study Says".

It's atrociously bad science journalism, even by the lousy standards that exist in that field.
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It's more about Google helping Wordpress the CMS that powers 27% of the web than Google helping bloggers, IMO.
Someone please write antivirus software in this language.
Barclays did that I think in 2011. Their ETN was badly designed, the termination event was based on an absolute $ price, not a % movement.
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I see what you're saying, I think my definition of EAV is probably not the correct one. In a real EAV where you have just one table and you only change data not the table structure you can only really query for a list of attributes. In that case there is no performant way of querying for a specific attribute.

The value of this style of database seems limited because you have to change the application in order to make good use of the new attribute you've added but you refuse to change the database at the same time. The best systems are where application and database match; either both contain knowledge of an attribute or neither contain knowledge of an attribute. The case of neither having knowledge is only useful where an outside party (such as the end user) alone can interpret the attribute. For example listing device specs where the user alone can compare them and not the application like: backlight = LED, subpixel = PenTile, power-supply = switch-mode.
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Because contributing world-class resources to projects outside their ecosystem was sometimes the first step of how they and other companies acquired, ran into the ground, then shuttered otherwise successful businesses. This comment is not an attack against in you in any way, shape, or form, but an honest reply to your question.
> Gnome didn't believe people needed the ability to minimize windows

If that was true, why does GNOME include the ability to minimize then? The only thing that was removed was the minmize button. Try Super+H or right click -> Minimize.
But whats the objective measure of corruption or otherwise unethical behavior, that delineates the difference?

For most, I think, its mostly confirmation bias.
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Can you polyfill with one of the libraries to close the gap?
I don't even use tor but have to fill these stupid things out just because my ISP is stretching some IPv4 things a bit too far. Sure wish they would stop doing that, I have to fill out like 10 cloudflare or google captchas a day.
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We pay some people far more than 115K. Not everybody has the same level of skill.
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That should've been obvious.

To be fair, from what I understand the no fly zone restrictions thing actually does require geolocation lookup and I think those no fly zones can change, so pinging a server and checking in makes sense.

From just a pure telemetry perspective, knowing where people are flying the drones at is useful for product development and marketing.

(In response, DJI did release a privacy mode that doesn't need internet.)

A sizable % of websites visited want geo-location data, which, at times, gets sold on the open market!

Then there are background phone apps that grab location data. Even when rate limited, once every half an hour is plenty enough to figure out where Military Secret is at.

Infosec, it is a thing for a reason.
If I were to try to buy PDMS by itself, would I then be asked, "do you want fries with that?"
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The specter of rising interest rates in the US (driven by higher inflation expectations) appears to be a factor.[a]

Fast-growing companies that are investing aggressively today and whose profits lie far in the future, in particular, are exposed to rising interest rates, due to the higher duration of such companies' cash flows.

Duration, for those here who don't know, is a measure of the sensitivity of present value to interest rates.[b] Duration rises with the amount of time an investor must wait for cash flows, and vice versa.

For example, the present value of $100 of cash flow in 10 years, if the 10-year rate is 2%, is equal to $100/(1.02^10) = $82; if the 10-year rate rises, say, from 2% to 3%, the present value declines to $100/(1.03^10) = $74, or a -10% decline. However, if the $100 in cash flow is in 30 years, and the 30-year rate rises from 2% to 3%, the present value declines from $100/(1.02^30) = $55 to $100/(1.03^30) = $41, or a -25% decline.

In this example, an increase in duration from 10 to 30 years caused the sensitivity of present value to a 1% rise in interest rates to change from a -10% decline to a -25% decline. The longer an investor has to wait for cash flows, the greater the sensitivity of present value to changes in interest rates.

The same ruthless logic applies to companies. The present value of companies whose profitability is in a distant future declines much faster when interest rates rise than the present value of companies certain to generate cash flows in the near future.

Until recently, due to historically low interest rates and no prospects for inflation, the stock market has been rewarding high-investment companies that are sacrificing current profits for growth.

If interest rates continue to rise (along with expected inflation), I'd expect this abruptly to change -- in which case, strap on your seat belts!

[a] https://www.ft.com/content/af1f8e4a-0a23-11e8-8eb7-42f857ea9...

[b] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/duration.asp
I'm the last one to defend Tether because it looks as shady as hell, but ...

> This is willful money laundering

Money laundering is the concealment of the origins of illegally obtained money. If the money was legally obtained then it can't be money laundering.

Just creating an alternate way to move clean money isn't prima facie a crime.

> If a bank is hiding its direct or indirect relationship to Bitfinex, they are betting the bank on Bitfinex

Banks probably don't even know about Bitfinex.

If Fuckwit Capital Partners has $100m on deposit with Wells Fargo and pledges 10% of it to buy Ethereum, those dollars stay in FCP's account and the bank has no idea that the funds are pledged.

Upon receipt of the promissory note from FCP, 10m new Tethers get created with the Ethereum as collateral.

> claim that Tether has a "relatively simple balance sheet."

The balance sheet could be very simple, but devilishly difficult to audit.

ASSETS

Accounts Receivable from Investors, $2.4 billion

LIABILITIES

Tethers Payable to Traders, $2.4 billion

If Friedman LLP wanted to prove all the pledged USD to back up the receivables, that could be an expensive and invasive audit of counterparties who don't want their banks get wind of their cryptocurrency activities.
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"Well the stadium/store/restaurant/security-area has cameras and we saw you pressing the button [at all]. Care to explain that?"

(Also: why would they press the button? bad reviews being given)

"We see that, while your over all ratio of good to bad isn't horrible, you have quite a bit more bad than usual and more votes than usual without the sales we'd expect."
Docker Inc. bought a unikernel startup a while back. Presumably they see that as a possible endpoint.
"Cannibalising your own market is meaningless" --> No it isn't. Revenues are moving from one BU to another, with the latter forecast-ed to grow exponentially. It is an expected outcome of moving to the cloud.
Consider a reference frame rotating at say 1 RPM. At 1 light year from the center a 'stationary' particle in a non rotation reference frame is now moving in a circle at 2 * π light years per minute. At 2 light years from the center it's moving 4 * π light years each minute and that continues the further from the center you get.

GR is fine with most reference frames as long as it's translation. Rotation is however not ok.
Knowing Intel, project will be canned in a year or two; back to x86 chips and related peripherals.
I think the argument is that someone needs to distribute more vaccines against this language.
For instance: SPY
You know that RDP has the same latency issue described in the article?
Doing NPS is impossible, because nobody will use the intermediate ratings.

Besides, people are pretty much incoherent about what is the difference between a 3 and a 7. Some people's 3 are a much higher rank than other people's 7.

Putting 10 options in front of random people is mostly useless. There are very few places where it will lead to meaningful choice.
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>> If stocks have been on a recent runup, gaining, say, 50% or 100% over a period of a few years, then they are very likely to grow more slowly than average (i.e., revert to the mean) over the coming years

This is incorrect. Prior performance of the market over the span of years has little to no predictive power on future performance of the market.

Your statement is like saying: Because I flipped a coin and got heads 10 times in a row, I'm more likely to get tails in the future.

While it's true you should expect the market to revert to the mean over the coming years, there's no evidence that it will grow 'more slowly than average' in the coming years to 'make up' for the hyper growth in past years. If you were a betting man (and a non-sophisticated investor), you should bet that the future years will grow at exactly the historical mean.

Edit: I did some analysis on historical S&P 500 pricing to validate my intuition.

On average, the monthly growth rate of the S&P in a month following a bear month is -0.39%

On average, the monthly growth rate of the S&P in a month following a bull month is 1.08%

You might argue that it takes longer than 1 month for the market correction to occur, so I've included the script and data set I used here for you to play around with: https://pastebin.com/F78pLUka. You can use any cadence, and will find the same relationship.

Empirically, you cannot time the market, which implies future growth rate is not affected by past growth rate.
Percentages are important, but one day movements are not. I think GPs point went to this logic: comparing one-day moves is irrelevant once we have, say, weekly or annual data.

I think this movement is very interesting, but only because I expect more of the same and/or a distinct lack of recovery. If a 5% one-day move is really it then I don't care. I've never paid any special interest when the market rises by 5%. Markets go up and down.
Just last night I found myself watching some Wordpress-related videos on the Chrome Developers Youtube channel [0], building on a talk given at the Chrome Dev Summit last year [1]. The Docker implementation is something I'd been considering for a complex Wordpress install recently, so it caught my eye. Building in more PWA features is no harm either.

I have no idea what it all means for the bigger picture of Wordpress/Google/Automattic, but these are nice little tips and ideas to start with anyway.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jav5hPmUaUw
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7RvMlk9io
Nothing in the gdpr would ban equifax. Creditors will continue to have the right (legitimate interests) to create, submit data to, and use credit reports in decision making.

GDPR would have attached more liability to equifax (though 4% of global revenues really isn't that much), including a much shorter timeline on reporting the breach.
Yep, Etherium is down 50% from peak as well :-)
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The only problem is that you don't see this outside western countries. Countries with much stricter gender roles have much higher enrolment in STEM for instance. It's obviously not biological, it's cultural.
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BMW certainly doesn't pay them to rip apart an i3. Their competitors do.
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