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"The P/E ratio is, quite literally, the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price at constant dollars and earnings."

Yes, this is what I mean. I'm no expert on stocks and am not familiar with the terms, but the principle should be there.

Say the "normal" P/E is around 15, which means that people think it's fair to be able to recoup the stock's price in 15 years. Now why Apple's P/E is only 10? That's because people think its future earnings will drop (in statistical sense), so that the current price will still be recouped in roughly 15 years. Similarly, Google's P/E is 20+ because people think its future earnings will rise, so that again the current price can be recouped in roughly 15 years.

Amazon's large P/E isn't that abnormal if you consider that there are plenty of companies which are losing money yet still have a positive stock price. Maybe they have lots of assets, and maybe people expect them to return to profitability soon.

For struggling large companies this can even be a gamble. If you think the company has a 5% chance of returning to glory and earn big, and 95% chance of never earning a profit again, the company can still have a pretty decent expected future earnings in statistical sense.
I completely agree. I'd love for somebody to maintain a repository that follows in parallel the real life of a bill. Introducing it to Parliament is like creating a branch, then debating and process can further amend the branch/bill, then passing the bill and submitting it for royal assent is like submitting a pull request.

I'm sick of 3-page bills whose entire purpose is to remove a word or two from existing legislation. A diff is a much more powerful tool of examining the impact of a bill.

Edit: "Aaron's Law" is a good example:

> —Section 1030(e)(6) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking "alter;" and inserting the following: "alter, but does not include access in violation of an agreement..."

Tell me a diff doesn't say that better.
That is very true. However, you do have much better reason to believe that the option is neutral than you have to believe that the option is beneficial. In an example like the one given in the article, you also likely have enough statistical power to be reasonably confident that the option is close to neutral, so if you're making a negative decision, it's probably not strongly negative.
Antigua has had the rights to $21M worth of US copyrights since 2005. They'd originally won $4B, but the US got that cut down to $21M.

Frankly, it's about time they started taking advantage of this. It's only been what, 7 years? That's $147M of unclaimed revenue which could have been used for schools and their local economy (it's a small island nation).

Back in the day, I thought it would be cool if they used the ruling to run a private World of Warcraft server. There are other more interesting things besides music and movies that they have the right to copy - e.g. Elsevier journal articles.
One way to see if words are synonyms is to apply them to compound terms. In this case, "bullshit artist" is something that "rubbish artist" isn't.
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I greatly prefer PostgreSQL. But it's for a Wordpress installation.
This is the first time I have seen the "blame the victim" approach applied to public ridicule. So I guess that now I have seen everything.
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The US blocks sites by seizing their domain names and drying up their revenue streams. For example, they could make it illegal for advertising networks to do business with the Antiguan pirate site, enact an embargo of Antigua banning all business with the country, or simply "exert pressure" on payment processors and ad networks to comply.
Almost everything is part of someone's identity. But I would venture for most people on this forum, they have a car but don't identify with a car brand.

It used to be of course that you were a Ford man or a Chrysler man. But nowadays it's become much rarer.

I agree that it's natural, but I think that the targets for identification shift over time and I don't think it's random.
That is not true. First, there is a common type of rainmaker who has developed a reputation as a very good lawyer. Second, the other reasons lawyers become partners are a) to reward them for their skill and loyalty to the firm, b) because of their connections which they use to negotiate, c) because of their skill in managing associates or simply the entire firm.
Postgres is hard to beat right now in terms of the community behind it and the rate of innovation. Everyone is using it in exciting new ways. Hstore is awesome. Postgis is awesome. Async indexing. Heroku Postgres. The list goes on and on. That being said, most of the big projects that I've worked on in my lifetime were on MySQL and it fared very well. Mariadb and Percona are both solid. At some point all of the MySQL variants are still MySQL though... Which means a lot of its inherent flaws are still there. At the end of the day it's not tremendously hard to switch from one to the other. See the recent posts from the Lanyrd dev team on migrating to Postgres.
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I know that it's not as draconian as others, but I don't like it nevertheless and prefer to support distributors with clear DRM free stance.
> I would appreciate if you elaborated on separating step definitions from dependency definitions

As I said, I only very quickly skimmed since I'm busy, I might have overlooked information, and apologies in that case. But take the example from the front page:

evergreens.csv <- contracts.csv
grep Evergreen $INPUT > $OUTPUT

So now suppose a new requirement comes along - Evergreen is also called "Neverbrown" sometimes. It's decided the best way is to convert all references at input so nothing else gets confused downstream. So I need an extra step, now

renamed.csv <- contracts.csv:
sed 's/Neverbrown/Evergreen/g' $INPUT > $OUTPUT

evergreens.csv <- renamed.csv:
grep Evergreen $INPUT > $OUTPUT

Adding this step forced me to modify the declaration of the original command, even though what I added had nothing to do with that command. With Bpipe, for example, you say

extract_evergreens = {
exec "grep Evergreen $input > $output"
}

fix_names = {
exec "sed 's/Neverbrown/Evergreen/g' $input > $output"
}

Then you define your pipeline order separately -

run { fix_names + extract_evergreens }

If I get contracts from a different source that don't need the renaming, I can still run my old version and I'm not changing the definition of anything:

run { extract_evergreens }

Hope this explains what I mean, and again apologies if this is all clearly explained in your docs and I just jumped to conclusions from the simple examples!
Sorry for nitpicking, but the Statue of Marlborough was repealed in 2008: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/imperial/1267/0023/latest...
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I stumbled across this working on my latest rails app. When I clicked the link to test my apps functionality, I was certain something was broken.
I believe the next version of WP is supposed to move away from a MySQL requirement by way of finishing their database abstraction. If I wasn't half asleep, on cold meds, and typing from my phone I'd validate that and share a link. I'm pretty sure it's in their near future though. Something in regards to PDO is ringing a bell.
Does it run a routing protocol?
Wrt the "the E you use to calculate P/E should actually be the long term expected earnings" comment I made..

I was not trying to say that the standard financial metric called P/E ratio should be calculated this way. Rather I think that ideally or principally it should be calculated this way, because what matters is "how many year will it take for me to recoup the money?", not "how many years will it take for me to recoup the money assuming that the company's earnings remains the same?".

But obviously you don't know the company's future earnings, so to make an actually computable metric you can only use the current earnings as an estimate.
It can be said for nearly every other space venture, period.
I run mariadb on my Mac instead of MySQL. It's been fine as a transparent replacement thus far on my contracting gigs.
What issue? Please cite your sources...

The best part of Bitcoin is that when a problem is found, people can upgrade the software and move past it. Even if there was a weakness in certain cipher, the way Bitcoin is constructed it would take multiple serious vulnerabilities in ECDSA, RIPEMD160 and SHA256 _at the same time_ to have any effect on the security for the end user.

Bitcoin itself has been around for 4 years with some serious attackers already on the core protocol, and it is still pretty much unchanged. It is unfortunately much more rewarding and much easier (sadly, but that is improving) attacking services that use Bitcoin.
Id software did that with Quake 3.
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CD Projekt Red who own GOG naturally distribute their own games through GOG, but note that they as well distribute them through Steam. I see no clear reasons for Valve to restrict the distribution of their games to Steam only. Yes, historically it came with this not very invasive DRM, but there is still no reason to keep it forever, since DRM has no good reasons to be used altogether.

I understand that Valve can be already too involved with game producing companies which still have backwards thinking that DRM is a must. But Valve can start pushing them to drop it, instead of being passive.
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Why are people even arguing about this? Is there some religion that forces people to only believe in and use GNU tools that they can't appreciate a competing tool?

A tool's a tool. If it's useful to you, use it. If you don't need it, then don't. Why does this have to turn into a debate about why someone shouldn't have invented another tool because one already exists?

Look around the world, there's competition and choice in literally everything. Why can't they be choice in what CLI tools to use?
Playing with those URLs is not hacking, even if it was illegal.

Trying a key in a door isn't lock-picking, trying an obvious URL isn't hacking.
Seems like overkill power wise though, right? I wouldn't mind repurposing an old box for that either but even something with a 250w lightweight desktop PSU is gonna out-juice a little embedded device.
All it took was one short call to Sprint to get my iPhone 4S unlocked for international SIM cards. Domestic cards still say invalid, but everything else works.

That was about 6 months into the contract.
This looks interesting. So one can get the installers for these games through Steam and use them without running their client and etc.? I thought all their games require the client running and it's already DRM for me which I don't accept.

Is there an easy way to filter games by this criteria on Steam itself?
>Amazon is just another middleman begging to be cut out of the picture

Can you really cut storefronts out of the picture? Even if you replace that with google+paypal, does paypal become the middleman?
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http://blog.sachleen.com/ - just little stuff I've made. Now I'm focusing on an Arduino project.
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I was not planning to go into MAB approaches because that quickly gets into material that I don't know how to easily explain at the level that I am trying to reach here. And if I did go into that material, it would be an extremely idiosyncratic take. But if you're interested in an overview of my general thoughts on MAB approaches, http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2012/09/ab-testing-vs-mab-algor... may be of interest.
On a pet peeve tangent... I dislike the "Six Sigma" meme because, having a semimechanical heart, one-in-a-million failures would mean I'd be dead by now. I need one-in-a-billion reliability at minimum.
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They look good. Thanks for the link.

I'd be interested to see if there were any that you can lock and unlock remotely
SpaceX has the lowest costs of any launch provider, and within about 2 years they will have the greatest capabilities in launch vehicles with the addition of the Falcon Heavy. That combination has already allowed them to gain an impressive amount of launch contracts, fulfilling those contracts successfully ought to cement them as the most favored launch provider in the world. And the combination of low internal costs and high volume will likely translate into a profit windfall of the sort that we are more accustomed to seeing from dot coms. Based on every indication they will use that windfall to finance R&D on even more audacious plans such as super heavy lift rockets and the colonization of Mars.
Yes, finally a way for me to have more unreadable C code.
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Yea, it's the same shit, just wrapped with the money of major label marketing. Funny thing is, some of these "artists" actually take their music seriously.
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wow thanks for that, kinass !
This can't be overstated and I am loathe to admit it but I have a feeling that a large part of the panic today was the fact that it was widely reported that Apple's earnings were "flat" year over year. They weren't, they were up by about 7%, which isn't stellar but is a far cry from flat.
I keep wondering why all legislation isn't done in a git-like format. It really seems to be the best platform for being able to attribute and track changes on complex text documents with a large body of contributors.
Thanks :)
The interesting thing is, that atleast in India and Pakistan, the private sector has never been "allowed" to work on large-scale government contracts. For instance, all think-tanks in New Delhi and Islamabad are government projects, where people are still stuck in that Cold War mentality: two superpowers, and India's stuck in the middle. Unfortunately, while the world has changed, these views haven't. This was just an example of the prevailing situation here.
So that's the problem - what I'm attempting to do is actually a lot more difficult, simply because the kind of partnership you'd see in the West between companies and organizations like Stratfor and Lockheed, and Western governments, simply doesn't exist here.
It's unreasonable to expect the average person to follow the goings on of the US courts.
ok, see you're entitled to your opinion. you think i'm an idiot, and I think you're an idiot. but that's kinda besides the point. the thing with opinions is that's a little bit like taking a dump. everyone takes one, but it kinda is a reflection of what's in your digestive system.

look through the tweets.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40harthvader&src=typd

noone personally shoved it down her throat. it's new to me that you get personal messages for someone talking about your github repo somewhere.

the blame the victim talk is like saying getting personally assaulted is the same as someone getting his car destroyed after parking your car in front of central park in new york. sure you could argue that they did it solely, because they knew the person, but this is clearly not the case here.
I really like these, even though the standard English interpretation of the haiku form bugs me to no end.
I'm talking about that peak right there in 2011. I can't find whole-year data for 2012 yet, but 3Q shipments were down over 2011 (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/11/horror_idc_pc_sales_...
), and Q4 was not expected to make up for it (http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/10/technology/pc-shipments-decl...). Also, smartphones had already surpassed PCs in unit sales in 2011.
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> Unity is getting to be quite tolerable.

Never have I heard such glowing praise.
Because you think in programming languages. They're not just a tool to get from X to Y, they're part of your thought process and literally a significant part of your life experience.
Actually, as it so goes - I do. I majored in history and computer science. I've worked with IBM, on a contract with Amazon, harnessing EMR for analyzing customer sales, in order to figure out prevailing market patterns.
Apart from that, I've freelanced as a policy analyst for think tanks in the Middle East, which in turn, collaborate with the State Department.
My apologies for the apparent casualness - but my view is that even if I - or anyone else for that matter, doesn't know much, should it matter? It musn't serve as a barrier to doing something new. As long as one is ready to learn, though. That's the clincher.
Plugins and themes assume MySQL. Not all of them go through the Wordpress interface to the database.
I've only used MySQL in jobs, but for a personal project I recently changed from MySQL to Postgres just as a learning exercise and because everyone has such great things to say about it. I'm very excited about learning more.
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I write about product quality and attempt to encourage the greater software community to pay attention to details and make great products. I review products and try and find what makes them not crap and what makes them total crap. I sift through the the crap to show you how to make sure your product is not crap. Don't make crap.
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You should remove the deprecating remarks from your readme/code/headline.

Someone will tweet them for you.
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This is really sad: "patent issues (specifically on living organisms) may complicate distribution for pharmaceutical companies wishing to have exclusive rights over their "invention", making it unlikely that a for-profit corporation will invest capital in the widespread application of this technology."
Can you make this into a ruby gem?
Okay. That sounds a little daunting, but hey, not going back now.

Actually..I'm not in DC. I'm based out of New Delhi right now. My take is, that the lack of such a consultancy in South Asia and the Middle East would mean, that my thing could really work here. Is that being naive, or am I actually on to something?
Thanks a lot for the offer, though!
Fine, I'll admit it -- I used Unity again last week and I liked it. And if compiz weren't so buggy, it's a really good environment all around and I'd probably have stuck with it. HUD is absolutely brilliant. I literally can't say enough good things about how much I used it in that week. It makes development so much faster, especially if you're using an IDE.

Unity allows me to utilize more screenspace, very effectively. The latest version is pleasant to look at. I'm still not a huge fan of the default lens, but that will get better with time or as someone creates a replacement for the default lens.

Beside, that's a pretty pithy lame reply to your original remarks. Disappointing.

Elementary is great, although currently only working well with 12.04. Cinnamon is great, my mother figured it out intuitively immediately based on Windows XP (much faster than with Windows 8 or OS X). Gnome-Shell is "OK", I find it's a taste thing and most people what more out of it.
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Carmack mentioned moving to functional C++ programming recently. http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programm...

Perhaps you are onto something here.
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It used to be more personal, but now I try to blog about things related to work, including my photography.

It's Wordpress hosted on Dreamhost. It's been on HN a few times and the WP Super Cache plugin has handled it like a breeze.

I've always thought about changing everything to Octopress, but as long as Wordpress cache plugins work as promised, I guess there's not much need to
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You beat me to that comment. Log-Log plotting is an aberration. Pseudo-science as its best.
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Although perhaps not quite the standard sort of site to be mentioned on Hacker News, I always enjoy reading this website. I write about my explorations of ruins, travels in Japan, photography and the occasional piece on design, SEO and other branding and marketing related material. Feel free to have a read if you need a break :).

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It's also important to note that aapl has $150 per share just in cash. They actually have more cash than Amazon's entire market cap. If you discount the cash, their PE is closer to 7.
I'm a designer, and I value AB tests, but the math required to make sure I can trust my results is not what I want to focus on. There should be a startup that offers a some sort of framework, instruction, and automation for this stuff. I would use it.
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Looks like it comes from squarespace?

http://static.squarespace.com/universal/scripts-v6/012420132... is the thing that references it. Lines like

a.all(".sqs-block.map-block[data-block-json]").each(function(e) {
d.Squarespace.Rendering.renderMap(e.one(".sqs-block-content"), d.JSON.parse(e.getAttribute("data-block-json")))
});

inside the "var Squarespace = {load: function()" namespace.
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A general point and not meant as a criticism of you, but is there a gender-neutral way to express "This, of course, makes him a gentleman" as you use in your final paragraph? Or a clear female equivalent? It seems "This, of course, makes her a lady" does not mean the same thing at all, and an obvious alternative (either non-gendered, or symmetrical to "gentleman") does not readily spring to mind when, one feels, it ought to.
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Apparently, according to wikiquote it's misattributed to him:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#Misattributed
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I'm in the process of learning Obj-C and the cocos2d framework in my free time after work. I'm building a game incrementally.

I spent about 3 hours troubleshooting why one of my layers was not displaying sprites while another layer would even though they were seemingly identical. Turns out that by overwriting the init function to enable touch for the layer I overwrote something that dictates sprite behavior (seems obvious in hindsight).

This led me to ask, how do you guys manage bugs and problems when you're on your own and inexperienced?
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Started this year. Has some Riak Core posts, some personal content. I'm looking to post more about Erlang and other technical topics.