skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem now is, market capitalization is just a number on paper as it can't be converted to cash easily. So essentially they are spending cash to get more value on paper.

The only time market cap helps is when they sell their share holdings, or issue new shares. Because what they are doing is to convince people to pay more cash for a share, so that they can sell to them in someway.

Also the price-to-revenue ratio is not a magic number. It's most likely to be implied from the price and revenue rather than a valuation measure. It measures profit margin potential and growth potential. (Very) fundamentally the intrinsic value of a stock is made up of 1) risk-adjusted and growth-adjusted dividend payments and 2) cash-on-the-spot upon liquidation (so called "book value"). Price-to-revenue ratio is far less correlated with these two compared to price-to-earnings ratio or price-to-book ratio.

Acquiring a company: 1) may not help EPS (most likely hurt in the short term), 2) possibly help growth, and 3) may hurt book value. That's why for most acquisitions the acquirer's stock price is likely to fall by a small amount immediately after announcement. The exact market reaction will depend on the synergy of the acquisition, i.e. the strategic benefits in the long run (like reduced competition or cost savings).
Majority of the Most Prolific Haskellers Already Work in "the Real World"
This, literally. Back in my days programming at a banking institution, the COBOL mainframe programmers used to boast a 'better quality of life' and 'reduced anxiety' with their 5min jobs than us in the C team with our 30s compiles.
I presume "engineering tolerance" means increased quality over time?

Inefficiencies like that bother the hell out of me, and will nag me no end.

Right on! I wish hollywood have that kind of attitude toward inefficiency too. It's quite maddeningly to me the way they think. I just can't understand them.
> for x in range(10): setblock(x,0,0,DIRT)

So how long before they add line drawing turtles to Minecraft ;)
Node Toolbox
About JS MVC frameworks - It's about scaling your development teams by putting a re-usable pattern in place so that things will jell together.

HTML5 - My point was, understand the parts you can use now.

Optimization - Again, do it when you are ready to do it.
Why should they be?

There is little wrong with the current cab system. Sometimes a race to the bottom isn't what is best for everyone involved.
No I don't but just in case. The point is to have something secret that only you know and other people can't google or guess it (dob, first school, etc..)
The whole point of Retroshare is that you only connect to your trusted friends and route your teh warez requestz to other nodes through them. Retroshare is friend-to-friend, or F2F. It's not a closed darknet but it's a darknet. You need to have a friend (or preferably friends) through which to connect.

The guy in question had the local equivalent of MAFIAA as a trusted F2F friend. That's a completely wrong position to begin with. This doesn't make Retroshare or darknets or F2F networks illegal.

With friends, you can do whatever you want so as long as nobody gets hurt or the MAFIAA won't know about it.
Thank you for answering this for me. Even the trigger for this post was a series of interviews I did for .NET web developers in the last few weeks.
I figured it was salvageable, which is why I replied. =)
Time to recode email password retrieval.
Installing proprietary software without my consent was actually the main reason I ditched Ubuntu for Debian.
I'm really interested in this. Any links to more information/original research?
‘Hacking’ the college admission process, and reaching startling conclusions
You can scale development teams and put re-usable patterns in place without pushing all your templates and view logic to the client. That's what libraries like Backbone are made to do, and I would agree it is generally overkill to implement a site that way.
So the predictions are customized for each person, right? The computer has to calibrate your emotional responses to known painting in order to predict how you, personally, will react to a new painting. So emotional response to abstract art is still subjective and personal, and the computer isn't so much understanding the art as getting to know the people.
I have been on and off a programmer over the last 10 years. and the last 3 have been using vim(only these 3 were on linux), used to be scite for the first 3 years and whatever was available the rest of the time (which was mostly part-time programming, was otherwise studying cog. sci). I have so far been against the mousing faster than keyboarding argument and even now i reach more easier for the keyboard.
But over the last year i have been writing and i can relate to that effect of interference caused by planning keystrokes in my writing(guess still am not enough of a programmer to notice it in writing code).

So i am beginning to understand that the question assumes a simplicity that plain and simple speed in some specific and narrow lab task is indicative of real-world problems and challenges. (Aka, problem analysis, solution space search, choice of solution, planning execution and then execution).Depending on the experimenter and the lab group he's working with, these experiments tend to focus on isolating one of these phenomena/mental processes(sometimes not even clear to the experimenter).

Anyway, at the moment i am convinced that writing is best done in blind manner, ie: no visual input, switched off monitor. I currently use a white on black bg on 750 words, but wish i could find a way to turn off monitor on my laptop and keep typing.

P.S: i found the same thing about QWERTY vs DVORAK Layout. i was a touch-typist(barely average) on QWERRTY too and all the research suggested it's not worth re-learning DVORAK. I started it off as an experiment(1 hr a day of DVORAK for 2 or 3 weeks) find that my writing stamina has improved. I'll bet that there are hand/palm size(area, angle,distance between fingers etc.) variations in the effect of KB layout and that's a statistically significant factor.
I vote for the "it wasn't very hard, the chips pretty much just plugged together" part.
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engine type doesn't matter much, what matters is energy storage for use in that engine. batteries aren't even in the same order of magnitude of both energy density (energy per liter) and specific energy (energy per kg) compared to liquid hydrocarbon fuel and that's the problem that needs solving. tesla currently gets away with it by placing batteries in clever ways, but it's still inferior to plain old gas in multiple areas (recharge speed, maximum range, mass, etc.)

what's that got to do with the market? without pricing gas correctly, electric will always be inferior. technology can only help so much - it's a question of fundamental physics of chemical bonds.
I assume OP brought up market cap, because he assumed that the acquisition is (partly) done in stock.
The "average Apple customer" is in the same average as every other smartphone owner.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628916.000-computers...

EDIT: These are the Google Scholar profiles of the two scientists mentioned in the article:

http://scholar.google.ca/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&...

http://scholar.google.ca/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&...
The whole verification of somebody over a phone without a previously agreed non-personal identification code has always bemused me.

The difference between "Hello MR X this is your bank, before we talk any further we need to ask you a few security questions about you" and "Hello, what you wearing" are not that far apart.

I recall one long conversation with my mobile telco provider at the time becasue they called from a number I did not recognise and ended up in a you move first in the quest to verify each other. I asked ok so you want my date of birth, tell me the year and I will confirm the rest - you see the stalemate that ensured. For them to prove they were who they said they would of had to devuldge private information they can only devuldge to me after they have proven that I am me, yet you see the lament of it all.

The focus is all about individuals having the abiulity to prove who they are to people who do not prove who they are and then cause both stress with fraud and the like wondering how can this happen.

Sure you can use a different email address for every secure contact and even phone numbers and address's to some level of protection. But you only get one date of birth, one mothers maiden name, one my first pets name and with that I like to vary the pet and maiden names in that I never devuldge the true actual answears. Nothing at all saying your mothers maiden name is "Joan of arc" or other random answears that you will remember.

I do advicate getting a preium number or a number that pays you be it some mobile service that gives you minutes for every minute people call you or some payback premium number. Then let that spam out and enjoy all the cold calling and sales calls you like knowing you gain from it.

But when you get a call from somebody who has to ask you security questions then ask yourself, how do they prove who they are to you before you give them private confidentual information.
Did you not even ask who was asking?
You're asking for a business primer, but you're referring (basically) technologies. The ads business is not driven by technology (maybe that is your realization?).

It sounds like you've heard of most of the acronyms, so what is it you think you're missing. ~90% of ad buys are auctioned CPC or reservation CPM. Direct and exchanges "big deals" but most ad startups attempt to optimize a component (in Google this kind of image: http://www.cogmap.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/LUMA-D... was a classic "explanation" of the ads ecosystem). As you can see, serving is a small part, and the majority of that ecosystem works on reservation CPM or bid CPM.

My question to you is, if you know these tehnologies, what is your actual question (other than coming to grips with the complexity).
This needs to be renamed, keep original title.

Otherwise, this is an interesting article. I was surprised to see Toronto so high and Paris #11 topping out Berlin #15. What are big Paris startups?
What is Kaonji Seeds Oil, Black Currant Seed Oil, Nigella?
..because he ate us.

I don't trust this guy and I never will.
That is not the first time he becomes Super Kimble before he rips everybody off.
I assure you that it would be madness to try to grow food in the places where solar cells are most effective.
Try looking for the "Desertec" project.
The main cost of solar cells are the resources you need to built them and the chemical waste that gets produced
In the process.

Sent from my phone
Hmmm. I just re-upped my 3 year subscription that had 3 months remaining to a new 4 year subscription. New customers only get a discount on one year's service, the way I read it.
SpaceX remains private. Purchasing stock will be limited to accredited investors, and limited in quantity to 500(?) before the company must become publicly reporting, which carries its own compliment of pain - the new bill will raise that to 1000 I believe - still a minuscule number for a multi-billion dollar effort.

The recent launch success makes the likelihood of it going public soon a little higher, and then everyone will be able to participate - but I can only imagine all the caveats in the filing documents, and frankly after watching the debacle of a meltdown called Facebook, I wouldn't trust anyone on Wall Street to properly bring this to market unless a Dutch Auction was used.
Surely this is the only sane way to design a REST API? Of course taken to extremes, things can get silly.

As I see it, the point of encapsulation is that you don't know what your system might be asked to do next. Keeping things reasonably generic allows you to respond without a major redesign being required.
That is not sarcastic, I bet most Americans would like to see her naked, for curiosity or/and hormonal predisposition. Maybe the word you were looking for was "comical".
So in summary, lawyers like software patents and software engineers don't. Nothing new.

Lawyers will never "see the shortsightedness of this policy." They will continue to dismiss complaints as "anecdotal." Lawyers stand to lose a lot more. Thousands of lawyers have built careers on software patents in the last 10 years and would have to start over at a time when there aren't many other jobs for them.

Of course in the long term this really hurts America's growth, but who will stand up for long term gain and endure short term pain? Certainly none of our elected leaders, none of whom know a thing about technology.
Neat. Problem is that I would not consider my birthday private data, so I must assume that an aspiring scammer can get hold of it. (If for nothing else, just because I broadcast it on facebook.)

They solved the first half of the puzzle: That is how to verify the knowledge of an information without any of the parties leaking too much of it. But they did this with an information, which knowledge is not worth verifying.
New open source crowdfunding platform
Thrinacia, a new open source crowdfunding effort has launched.
The number of devs I hear complaining about "but but but... I want my webforms!" when confronted with "use a client-side JS tool with REST/AJAX/etc" is staggering. How do they think the rest of the world works?

Adopting these 'new fangled' approaches will increase their ability to move between worlds - perhaps even leaving the .NET compound from time to time. And perhaps more importantly, it will make it easier for people already skilled in front-end JS to contribute more effectively on otherwise-.NET-only teams.

You will almost never find top-notch JS talent (freelance or full-time) who also know how to interop with webforms and older ASP.NET tech. Widen the pool, by changing your practices, and you'll be able to compete more effectively.
> How could this be solved?

It can be solved by firing incompetent developers. And promoting this video http://www.organizedwonder.com/videos/1400

On a software level, you can switch the browser's user agent to desktop, at least on Android. Doesn't solve the root problem, but you can use it as a workaround when you're in need.
Thank you for making the product open source.

Any "lessons learned" you can share on the venture?
Yes, but when great web developers on HN are a dime a dozen, I don't want to waste time on content that isn't polished.
One thing that I, as an older person, don't understand is the pervasive negative world view that so many young people today seem to have. I grew up with the threat of nuclear annihilation, burning cities, race riots, out of control crime, etc, etc. All that has passed. Things are so much better but the younger generations seem to see things in a much more negative light than when I was young. Why is this?
> Then there was the iPhone which was a really good effort but didn't really invent the smartphone

There was nothing like the iPhone in the market. Not even close. It was like alien technology at the time. You must be joking about Symbian. My brother's Palm from 2003 could play MP3s, 'browse the web' and install apps too, yet it looks as sophisticated as a wristwatch today.

The development version of Android before iOS still had physical keyboards and a trackwheel, running on 240x160 screens. I'm not even going to comment on OSX or iPad because that's starting to sound like a troll.

By your standards, Tesla isn't doing any innovation either. Batteries and cars have been around for centuries, in fact the first cars at the beginning of the 20th century were battery-powered. It's just a really polished electric car.
BT unveils first ‘real world’ trial of 10Gbps broadband in the UK
"The first ‘real world’ trial of hyperfast broadband is taking place at a Cornish electronics firm, BT has announced. The service offers a single business more bandwidth than was used at the highest peak for
the entire Olympics media network."
You already can, and you can program them in LUA http://computercraft.info/wiki/index.php?title=Turtle
Exactly, what's the point of a security check if
they keep asking you until you pass.

I had a similar experience when I tried to redeem some Travelers Cheques.
Clerk claimed signatures wouldn't not match, and wanted me to sign again at the back of the Cheques. She handed me slip of paper and asked me to practice before I tried again.

I was baffled but certainly preferred that over being
arrested;-)
Seems like a problem to be solved by a URL shortener. `t.co` is only nearly every tweet, and they could implement this to check the browser on the `GET` request, and modify the expanded URL on the fly.
I was thinking the same thing.

They are most likely printing things that 1) don't move, and 2) aren't subjected to any type of stress or heat.

I can't imagine that you can print something layer by layer with fused powder and expect to make anything as solid and tolerant as the normal (crystal) growth and/or casting/molding/etc processes make.
Show HN: Chrome extension to mark Reddit comment as tldr and show it on homepage
I still wonder why "Yatta, Yatta!" from Happatai did not become equally famous :)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=happatai+-+yatta...
Be your own code review
It certainly looks a lot more interesting from up high than from inside those blocks of people.

But it's not really a queue, more a buffer that prevents the entrances to the exhibition halls to be overwhelmed at opening time (with possibly lethal consequences). There are some much more queue-like arrangements inside - I remember rope barriers guiding people in a spiral pattern towards an escalator representing a bottleneck.

And the once you're in the actual exhibition halls, there are streams of people moving into various directions, but so crammed that you have to navigate by finding the stream that eventually reaches the place you want to go to.

Ah yes, here's some photos: http://imgur.com/a/E6Aw6
I'm proud to be in the NEVER WATCHED THIS CRAPOLA category, evidently not important enough to be counted.
This is another branch of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4823139 to be used on Reddit. I've added also hide/show buttons per redditor request and working on undoing vote as well. At some point I want to combine these two extensions, since the only difference are backbone's views. And may be adapt it to more sites later. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!
What does 1Bn views equate to in real money if you have the normal amount of youtube advertising? I know this may vary depending on the audience but I'd love a ballpark if someone has any idea. I was under the impression 1m views = ~$3300 but I could be mistaken.
As there are lot of comments here, thought about clarifying few points in that article

1) About clean separation of concerns.

A lot of customers expect you to cleanly separate your client side javascript/css/artifacts from your server side implementation. Even to an extent where you can just take it and repackage the same with minor modifications using a container like Phonegap, and distribute it for mobile devices later. HTML5's significance is beyond web - it can take your app beyond the browser.

2) About the REST Layer

Anyway you are investing in building a web application, so you need to ensure the plumbing portion is re-usable beyond your traditional 'website'. If you want to build a native phone application or a Chrome plug in tomorrow, you should be able to use the same service layer.
That's only half true.

An organisation such as your bank is in the Yellow Pages. Your customers or users will know how to use that at least.

In fact, people who don't understand Google have a better understanding of the Yellow Pages.
Actually it turned out they just went lowtech. Al Quida has just taken 'honor' for a suicide attack at a funeral arrangement that left 20 dead.
I think the 'stupid typo' argument is not really valid if you're using syntax checking (e.g. jshint/jslint) in your stack.
Ill start doing that. Just in case.
Point taken. A solution for wider customer coverage is to include the appropriate contact number on the back of all bank issue debit/credit cards.
> sudo print me a jet engine

sudo: can't open /private/IP/license/jet-engine: Permission denied.

sudo: no valid Intellectual Property license on file to print object.

sudo: contacting authorities, reporting potential IP violation attempt.

sudo: locking down local system to preserve evidence... [done]

sudo: quitting. have a nice day.
People have really bad infodiet. They eat junk information rather than analyzing if their information is wholesome. On local news, you hear about the latest shooting or the latest robbery or the latest bad thing that happen, all of which doesn't mean anything until you aggregate them into statistics and analyze them.
Overall demand may not be going anywhere, but any individual can decide that they don't want to send money for murder and torture. Or they can decide that they don't mind.
The question is this: I'm seeking someone or something to validate my naive and nascent understanding of a seemingly complex and somewhat opaque host of concepts and patterns that the industry leverages for delivering ads. A list of terms and an acronyms is far, far away from an understanding of how things work or work together optimally.

Maybe most people just use dfp but I'm guessing that a number of publishing oriented startups and new businesses are having to learn and grapple with this stuff - was hoping to learn a bit from the collective
You can't criticize it if you haven't seen it IMO. Also it seems odd to be proud to be ignorant of something (regardless of your personal music preferences).
Here's the Mojang announcement: http://www.mojang.com/2012/11/minecraft-is-coming-to-the-ras...
Worth mentioning that the someone is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Peter_Deutsch

Not in Emacs btw but in Smalltalk with Emacs keybindings.
Alcohol and tobacco are taxed heavily in most countries, and most people still prefer to buy it legally.
I'm sure your parents' generation would ask why you were so negative. They vanquished Hitler and saved the world. So what's there to complain about?

It's that these damn kids just don't understand everything I had to struggle for. Or maybe, just maybe the older generations have forgotten what it's like being handed a world with unsolved problems.

We are trying to fix things that your generation gave us. Things like an increasingly warming planet, awful race relations, a failed and unjust war on drugs, lack of LGBT rights, and a huge aging entitled population who feel it's my responsibility to pay for their medical expenses. I'm sure my children's generation is going to deal with the issues we haven't solved and will (rightfully) be pissed at us about it.

But on the flip side of that coin, my life is easier than almost any other human's in the history of this planet. I live the life of a king from 80 years ago. I have the sum of human knowledge in my pocket. I can communicate with people across the globe for like no money. I have access to art and information and entertainment that my parents could only dream of. It's important to keep perspective on what's really going on.