skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simonsarris,

I agree completely and would add that the common theme with all these "strategies" is that it is directly related to improving the short term stock price rather than the fundamentals of the businesses.

*The last part of your comment about "Part of the blame lies on companies/CEOs. Part of the blame lies on speculators/investors who turn into doomsayers overnight if every quarter does not look incredible compared to the previous."
is especially true with growth companies where the price to earnings ratio is far above market average. When this happens, they need to continue delivering exponential growth and when they fail to do so, that is when the stock drops considerably.

That being said, equity analysts see growth companies bust every year, year in and year out. Management is rarely presented with the opportunity to be the CEO of a high growth company more than once. (high growth companies are extremely rare, once they stabilize, management usually sticks around for the big paychecks.)

Because these events are rare in CEO's careers, they make blunders thinking they can trick analysts. This rarely occurs, and mainly with fraud rather than business tricks.
"Opaque" syncing of symbolic links means to sync the link itself, rather than syncing what the link points to. Copying or syncing what the link points to, rather than the link itself is called "transparent" copying or syncing of symlinks.

Transparent treatment of symlinks has been known to be incorrect and dangerous for about 20 years now. Unfortunately, both Dropbox and Insync treat symlinks transparently. In contrast, Unison, "rsync -a" and "cp -R" all do opaque syncing of symlinks, which is the correct behavior for a syncing tool.
Don't forget the initial line of deduction: Paul=Libertarian & Libertarian+StateResearch!=Love & StateResearch=Internet => Paul+Internet!=Love. He just wanted to prove that not only StateReserch=>Internet.And there are some other weak implications there.
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Yes, but that dedicated box (even an older/cheaper one) is going to beat the pants of S3's I/O. Apples and oranges.
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Follow-up: my (early!) cofounder pointed out to me that "late cofounder" is an oxymoron. To "found" implies being present at the beginning, or more precisely at the bottom (as in "foundation"). The new is oxymoronic in terms of the old.
In what college course does that paper pass, regardless of plagiarism? WOW.
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I would vote for Berlin, but that's Germany again, so what about London: http://nodejs.meetup.com/ (most ppl in Europe with interest on meetup.com).
You mean apart from where Ticketmaster is now having to refund these fees for years past?

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-12-01/tech/30462126...
For people who cant live without files and their associated tools, AND they have to run on the JVM there is Redline Smalltalk. http://redline.st

Use the tools you are used to, use the language that is super productive and run the result on the JVM.
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This article is a wholesale copy of one they only display (not link) to the url:

http://coedmagazine.com/2011/02/02/the-10-smartest-pot-smoke...

Scumbag, "Valetudocafe" is why old people want to pass SOPA.

Mistone, "marketing at TuneUpMedia", do you have a financial connection to these losers?
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Possibly because they implemented them before social media provided such a quick backlash.

We can all get upset about Verizon right now and spread the word very quickly in response to the recently announced change. It's much harder to foment a spike of reaction about ongoing bullshit fees at Ticketmaster.
My guess is because it isn't a day to day impact for most people. With Verizon, BOFA,and Netflix, it was a monthly charge for most people. People who use TicketMaster arn't billed monthly so a one time charge isn't that big of a deal. Also what ever that fee is is nothing compared to the $5 tax on nachos.
Definitely true, but the tax evasion is made possible by the nature of the work (i.e. it's not an option at all in the fast food job)
I don't know of any other way for a site to get banned other than PG banning it manually.

It might be helpful if we could find out what, if any, links to winsupersite were flagged to death (i.e. not autokilled).
Gosh Avi, you could have mentioned Redline Smalltalk http://redline.st
Wow. I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but you're absolutely right: we're one of the few industries that doesn't contribute much in the way of lobbying or other contributions, so we lose out unless we fall in line. It's shocking - our government is a protection scam.

It strikes me that this is a great opportunity for technologists to get into politics. It's been done before, of course, with semi-lighthearted endeavors like the Pirate Party. But there's certainly room for a new kind of democratic party that works like the web and espouses the combination of social libertarianism and progressive business that so many of us are behind. Human society is a complex system, made up of graphs and dependencies; there are so many political approaches we can apply to that idea.
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Is there an official list of companies in opposition to SOPA?
Yes I think you are right, it comes down harder on tech companies because of their audience, but that audience (social-media saavy) is growing much wider and more mainstream, and we as consumers are lucky to live in this age where we can actually create a tangible media backlash so early!

Another commentor mentioned Ticketmaster. They were fortunate enough to establish absurd fees before the social media era really took hold.

If social media existed as well as it does today 10 years ago, I do not think we would be paying so much for things like Ticketmaster or cell phone texting precisely because of the backlash we are capable of creating these days.
ATT had something very similar in my area. I used to go to the store to pay. They would charge me 3 dollars to pay in cash.

It was outrageous. They eventually dropped the charge along with the ability to pay in store.
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Did you just not look at the first graph in the NYT article? It actually shows where the projections came from.

And i'm not really clear if you understand the difference between recorded deficits, which are year-to-year losses, vs. the debt, which is the cumulative total of the yearly deficits and surpluses?

Your comments about whether Bush's tax cuts are now Obama's, and whether or not he hasn't "been powerless" in the face of the ridiculous obligations previous lawmakers have saddled him with (Medicare Part D) suggests a smidge of ignorance about the process of policymaking in our country.

Finally, i'll point out that your objection to these "projections" because they are just that, projections, calls this naturally into question: Look at the two sets of projections, the one issued in 2001 calling for eight years of surpluses and the one issued in 2009 calling for eight years of horrible deficits. In what way can you really object to these graphs because of their "rosy assumptions"? Yikes.
I'd say it's because Ticketmaster sells a luxury good. People who don't like their fees can just stop paying them, and people who really want to see shows will pay them. Banks and phones, on the other hand, are more or less essentials which everyone has to deal with.
It makes perfect sense--those airlines have a website with no additional fee.

Verizon was charging for you to use the website but not charging if you went in to the store and tied up the service reps. Nonsense.
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Indeed that happens. But it's still not annihilation[1], it's just a conversion of relativistic mass (which comes from energy of nuclear bonds) into kinetic energy.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation
Um, because I thought posting the link to the pirated YouTube track would be a bit more tacky. But whatever.
I'm not a lisp pro (more like aspiring to be), but, for what it's worth, I think your use of eval is fine. It doesn't suffer from the "double evaluation" problem, and evaluation at compile time is actually what you want.

If you really want to get rid of eval in the macro, though, I suppose you could hard-code your loop to all-specs rather than attempt to supply the list as an argument. This would be contingent on all-specs being present in the compilation environment, via an eval-when or something.
Top C++ sounds complicated to me.
One of my own endeavors was to create a site for 'squeezing' books: http://www.squeezedbooks.com

It never really got anywhere, but I think business book summaries are a good idea; they're a direct response to all the added fluff.
what surprises me is that none of the c-plus-safety languages like cyclone and single assignment c have gained much traction
Interesting that this and the OP's solutions result in different answers.
What, you mean the Magna Carta wasn't in part a reaction to the economics of the thriving trade in duck feathers?
...or an ICE/DHS seizure conducted independently of your registrar.
Ignoring the Top C++ ideas, to answer the question of this article: C++ wants too much (high abstraction with high efficiency in the general domain) with too little to work with (a minimal type system, a minimal generics system). Classic work from a committee -- it's easy to agree to lofty ideals, but difficult to agree on how to get there.

So, everything built atop this doubly-pronged-mistake ends up paying the price, in complexity.
I would want someone who could explain (in non-technical terms) what all those are, and why I would categorize them into four groups.
I would like to attempt a thought experiment and see if you could buy this scenario:

Imagine if Ron Paul becomes President (yeah, right, but hang with me) and he does give states the right to do all kinds of things within the constitution. (Side note: I think banning the practice of Islam is unconstitutional due to the first amendment)

So let's say that some Southern states ban abortion and ban gay marriage. That sucks but there is some elegance here that you didn't notice. California is not about to ban abortion or gay marriage, in fact now they have fully promoted gay marriage, and legalized marijuana. Colorado has done all that and decided to exempt themselves from all of the SOPA stuff as well (they aren't as under Hollywood's thumb as California is).

While it sucks for those gay couples in the south while they grow up, it should be obvious that they (and others that support these rights) will move to a new state. A state can't hold those couples in their state and refuse them to leave and states can't go to war with each other. So now you have two groups of people: those people in more "civilized" places like California and Colorado are happy and those people in the traditional south are happy too.

There is an elegance in letting complex, controversial issues be decided at lower levels and leave the top level government only worry about states violating a core set of rules. And you better believe that a constitutionalist like Ron Paul would enforce state adherence to the Bill of Rights. I would hope that at least that part would be indisputable.

I agree it can be messy. I agree that some people don't get what they want immediately (they might have to relocate). But at least they don't have to leave the country. At least they still eventually find like-minded people and influence their own local governments to get what they want.

Another point I want to make is that marriage is not a right explicitly guaranteed by the constitution and neither is having an abortion or smoking weed. And you'll only hear a libertarian note that the 9th amendment acknowledges rights outside of those explicitly guaranteed. So while you believe that these are rights (and I agree with you) not everyone does, and more importantly, not all of the Judicial branch does.
And we care whether a pile of front companies hires some P.O. box to watch over their Chinese juice mill? Have to make sure we get our daily melamine...
Back in the day QKS Smalltalk Agents had a really nice IDE. (90s). Wonder what happened to QKS ...
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I like to use the following flowchart when deciding if I'm going to be using C++.

Do i need to do alot ----Yes-----> Java[script]

of string parsing?

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No

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v

C++
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The Spamhaus people are bad guys. I gradually realized that during the time I worked on spam filters. They presumably started out with good intentions, but the position they're in has corrupted them.

It's true of a lot of the guys running blacklists. And more generally, of a lot of people in the position of police. You tend to become a mirror of whatever bad guys you're fighting. Your tactics have to match theirs, and pretty soon your principles start to as well. I suspect this tendency is so universal that you have to make a conscious effort to avoid it.
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This kind of weak-minded opposition actually makes me think that I'd rather see SOPA proceed as-is. If SOPA were amended with some provisions for cargo-cult "due process", most of the corporate opposition would disappear but we'd still be left with the same broken internet.

> It’s hard to make a coherent case that you should be able to download a full movie or album completely for free

Actually, it's hard to make a coherent case that it's even possible to police such downloading when universal computing devices and networks exist. The internet community needs to wake up and realize that the copyright cartels (and political groupthink, in general) are their mortal enemies, stop kowtowing to them, and write code to defend themselves (and push these realizations to the masses).
No one besides the particularly clueless should use spamhaus and similar services as a black or white answer on whether to block, as they don't care about friendly fire and are run by neckbeards.

Spamhas should be used as part of a body of evidence, like in spamassassin scores.
It seems to me that it's impossible to solve this bug in the general case. If the user enters March 15, 2012 before the switch, should that become March 16, 2012 after the switch, or stay March 15? Either scenario could be correct depending on the intent of the date. Messy.
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Pssshh. The real money was in manure.
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An alternative (more feasible in suburbia): buy a duplex or multi-unit dwelling, live in one and rent out the other(s).

That's what we did, and though a bunch of our savings lost it's liquidity (now encased in real-estate as a down payment), our equivalent rent is about half of what paid before (esp. including tax deductions)... it's like an investment with a great return, even assuming 0 or mildly negative house price appreciation.
Ticketmaster works for the venue, not the event. If a band wants to play in Boston's TD Garden, they must sell their tickets through TicketMaster. For the most part, ticket revenue goes to the event. Fees go to the venue. It's in the best interest of TM and the venue to charge more.

StubHub rakes from both sides of the secondary ticket market just because they can.

(plug: I'm trying to change this, slowly but surely, with my own project: http://www.boxrowseat.com)
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Be careful that you're not falling for the "honeymoon" part in the culture shock curve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_shock

I've known quite a few people who moved somewhere, made big commitments, only to find out that they just couldn't deal with the new place after a year.

IME, it's best to first live there (rent!) for a year, figure out if it's right for you still, and then go for it (-:
I get your point, but as a counterpoint consider this: my mother's cousin recently scanned a picture of my grandmother and her brothers (one of whom was the cousin's father) as babies, along with many other old family photos. I posted the scans on Facebook, so now everyone in the extended family (dozens of nieces, nephews, cousins, what have you) can see them. The pic of my grandmother is around 85 years old. Is the original photo a precious object, worthy of cherishing? Certainly (and obviously, given that it's survived all this time). But, you know, it was her precious object alone. Now all of us can see the picture any time we want. This is GOOD.

Is a first edition of Robinson Crusoe a precious object? Of course. It's also (I'm guessing) quite rare and extremely expensive. Yet anyone with a Kindle or Nook (or even a computer) can get Robinson Crusoe from Project Gutenberg for free. Most of the PG audience isn't going to be able to afford a library full of fine leather-bound books. The choice isn't between the fine leather-bound book and the etext. It's between the etext and not being able to read the book at all.

We've seen this play out in many other areas. Mass-produced clothing is another example -- is it as nice as individually-tailored clothing? Nope. But most of us can't afford a wardrobe full of custom-tailored stuff (and historically, people didn't; most folks had a set of "work clothes" and maybe one set of "Sunday clothes", if that).

For that matter, exactly the same scenario played out when the printing press was introduced. Esthetes decried the loss of the hand-written medieval volumes, lovingly calligraphed and illuminated by highly skilled scribe/artists. They were breathtakingly beautiful. One book also cost somewhere around a year's wages for a skilled worker.
One way my reading habit has changed is that now I read even upto 3 books at the same time ( as in reading them not one after another, but switching between them.)
'"Discipulus tuus hunc tractatum non scripsit."
Loosely translated to: “No taxation without representation.”'

It actually means: "Your student did not write this essay"
The biggest problem with C++ (in my opinion) is a lack of a good library manager.

As installing C++ libraries is a pain, and testing them on a large range of compilers is a pain too, the only library of note anyone ever uses is boost.

Most of Boost is a horrible templated mess. I consider myself fairly expert on C++, have contributed code to both clang and g++, and worked on C++11. I still don't use boost, and am slowly taking it out of projects which it has infected.

Boost is interesting as seeing how the bounds of C++ can be pushed, but as a library for day-to-day use it is horrible. It is just about usable if you limit yourself to a few small pieces. For example at first glance boost::spirit is a really nice parser library. However the error messages give me shivers to this day and a parser I wrote using it takes over 1GB of memory and 40 seconds to compile.
If he's doing around 2.8-3.2 million pages views a month he's most likely in the premium program that allows for things like that.
I demand half your salary. My economic theory permits me to take this from you. Don't worry, it's supported by academia and Paul Krugman, therefore you love it. Following your logic, this represents virtue.

Yes, there's a wide array of economic theories. It's the equivalent of religion. Everyone has their own belief. Libertarians believe people shouldn't impose their beliefs on others. Why are you against choice? Shouldn't I get to choose how I invest my earnings? Do your theories trump my liberty?
Of course what follows is anecdotal, but my first dabble in teaching at a college level (which is something I very much enjoyed) was for a entry level class in Finance. About 60 students or so in a class.

Now, I might have been a lousy teacher, or some of my students could not have cared less about introductory Financial concepts, but what I witnessed between my students and my colleagues' made me very skeptical of any value a college degree has. This was simple math, simple concepts and even simpler recitation of various facts. But I suppose that can be excused, some people just don't jive with such things, but worse:

A large majority of students were numbingly apathetic and put forth 0 effort,
but still came crawling back after tests asking for extra credit or mulligans.

But of course, some students were wonderfully engaged as well.

So, in summary, I guess I wouldn't be surprised at a paper like that passing at university. Students turn that crap in all the time and they still somehow graduate.
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I tell users to copy photos in, and they're deleted after upload.
Technical books are so HEAVY and I actually prefer the Kindle for them than carrying those books. Also, reading a huge technical book in say, an airport, would bring you lots of stares ( don't say you don't care about them!)

Yeah it is tough to jump around and some books just cannot be read on a 6" screen ( and I doubt that the DX fares better.) but for most books I found that I am good with reading them on Kindle. The benefits far outweigh the cons for me.
The more I reflect on it, it seems that honeypots are the optimal way to conduct any sort of intelligence gathering.
Don't learn any of that! Non-technical founders shouldn't focus on becoming semi-hacks. That won't really help anyone.

There are many technical founders, like me, who have interesting technology and a unique viewpoint, but who can't package it and proposition it to the right people.

That's what you can bring to the table:

- Figure out who might be avid users and target them.

- Figure out which facets of the technology shine most brightly and get the focus on that.

There are many, many things you can do to add infinite value, but learning Rails is not one of them.
Disclaimer: this is by no mean an endorsement of plagiarism in any of its forms.

It is one thing to catch someone plagiarizing an already fake essay. In my opinion though, exposing the cheater on the Internet by name is a punishment with far more severe consequences, that does not exactly fit the crime. Furthermore, we're not even assured that the student managed to get a passing grade for his version of the paper. If he did, maybe his teacher was also part of the problem.

This type of insensitive public lynching is so reminiscent of primary school. Fortunately, we grow up, develop a conscience and learn to regret some of the stupid acts we took, just because we could, that still reverberate in others in present days.

Before blowing your horn, please make sure that you're actually righting a wrong and are not causing more damage than you're repairing.
Yes--although according to the article, "Ticketmaster can continue to profit off transactions — they just have to say they're doing so on their website."

Plus, as far as I understand it the settlement is a coupon award, meaning you get $1.50 back the next time you buy from Ticketmaster. So if you decided they were in fact deceptive and you don't want to give them your business again (difficult if you ever want to see another concert, I agree), you get nothing.

I'm not an expert on class action lawsuits but this whole thing seemed like it didn't benefit the consumer much, but was worth multi-millions for the firm bringing the suit.
Is there a port of it you'd recommend looking at? The only ones I've found look abandoned (Plan9 from User Space, and Acme Stand Alone Complex).
And even setting aside the nonsensical aspects...

Assuming that it was all correct and coherent, it's just so shallow. How could that be a college-level essay? I'm thinking that's a high school effort, for sure.
Add the higgs as you go. ;)