skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did buy the stock at 27, and also at 17. Back then, thought, the naysaysers were all: Tesla will fail; Tesla will never make a profit; Teslas are too hard to recharge, yadda yadda. I invested $3K (today: $17K). I also invested in Ford (made 9K) and American Airlines (lost $600) and Washington Mutual (lost $300). You've got to spend money to make money.

My prediction? TSLA at 500 sooner rather than later. Who would have predicted Google at 700 three years ago? (it was 430 then)

Of course, now look for competitors, especially those who can poach Tesla people. I imagine all the car makers are researching aluminum bodies and electric powertrains. Do your research. I had already decided to buy TSLA 6 months before IPO, when Elon, A'nold and Toyota President made presentation at Google One on saving the Nummi plant.

My strategy on investing: stable, smart management; products people buy; stocks only. (no mutual funds, bonds, etfs, etc--if your company does matching 401k, take it, but don't bank on superior annual yields). Learn about foreign exchange. Read everything you can about the companies. Read all SEC filings on the companies you invest in and all their competitors. Stay away from tech, retail, and financial services. These are iffy. Read about the US economy, about the economy of large foreign countries: China, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Russia, India, and if you have time, Poland, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico.
Stay away from precious metals, they are a form of currency, with ill-understood inflation. Stay away from airlines. Stay away from very heavily regulated industries that are utilities (telcos, cable, etc). Stay away from disposable-income consumer products--consumers are fickle.

Sell equal amounts of losses and gains, to limit tax exposures. Don't hold on to a stock for sentimental values. If you can't afford to take the risk of it going to zero tomorrow morning, don't buy. Diversify your portfolio. (I have holdings in 60 companies right now.)

An interesting side-effect of studying the market: choice of programming language makes zero difference. If the company is successful, you will be able to hire people to rewrite it all in whatever language is fastest that day. To quote the Unix philosophy: Make it work correctly first, and make it fast later. Facebook today has a market cap just above $100B (price 41 and change) and got started with PHP. Don't knock PHP. By the way, FB's capitalization is 5 times that of TSLA.

Finally, and oddly, smaller companies tend to yield higher returns (not by much, but some).
I think the difficulties of communication, specially during incubation time and demo day, justify this qualifying as a bad indication. A great deal of YC value lies in the office hours and everyone has some bias to listen what they want to listen on a feedback session and to create excuses as "they didn't quite get my idea, that is why they are pointing these errors". When mentors actually don't understand them and vice-versa, this may totally nullify a feedback session. Networking on Demo Day (and subsequently fundraising meetings) also is seriously jeopardized. How to look formidable when you can't even sound "right".

But on the other hand, this shows a way of doing business that SV still suffers from: they are too west centered. These companies build things to US market and, sometimes, Europe. South America usually follow-up as we (i am brazilian) are very connected to US culture. But even we have our thriving copycat companies. But if you take Russia and China into account, then they often have juggernauts versions of SV companies (not regular copycats, but dominant companies) that the original ones just can't easily beat when they try.

I don't think there is causality here, just guessing that they are both reflects of a particular trace of SV companies: US is the Total Adressable Market. So, if you don't completely fit with the US culture, you will likely fail as a startup CEO in SV (for pragmatic reasons, not any "racist" bias or anything like that). At the same time, these companies usually take a little too long time to expand internationally.

This a diferentiation that 500startups have that, in my opinion, will pay large benefits to them eventually.
Out of six DNS servers, which are authoritative for zone .ps, only one gives out wrong NS records for google.ps . Is it pure luck for that answer to be cached at Google Public DNS, or it possibly had been done by some obscure trick?

EDIT: Ok, on the second thought it seems that the compromised server is just the closest to google. All that is left is to wonder, whether palestine guys did target that server because of it :)
> What's next, buses?

http://rt.com/usa/tsa-bus-safe-houston-403/

> What is the limit here, can we expect check points on roads?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...
Seems entirely appropriate in this case.
The college system will be drastically altered by mooc, for the better. No more of the circus acts.
That is indeed the case! See these two FAQ points[1][2]. Other examples include iPodLinux (remember those!) and TinyCoreLinux.

https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#justlinux
https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#linuxsyswithoutgnu
Have you heard of https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js ?
Pure hardware performance has never been the deciding factor in any console generation. Most of the things that give the xbox one an edge are not apparent by merely looking at the console in its inert state, they are built into how the system works as a whole.
> bring in the social media dollars

What does this mean in the context of Stratfor? Selling psyops?
Many people at elite schools get phony doctor's notes for unlimited time on the tests. Colleges are notified when a student had unlimited time, but since the US News report college rankings don't take it negatively, neither do they (if they even legally could).

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1787712&page=1

"At the elite Wayland High school outside Boston, the number of students receiving special accommodations is more than 12 percent, more than six times the estimated national average of high school students with learning disabilities.

Wayland guidance counselor Norma Greenberg said that it's not that difficult for wealthy, well-connected students to get the diagnoses they want."

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

"Most of these students' diagnoses are presumably genuine. But in places like Greenwich, Conn., and certain zip codes of New York City and Los Angeles, the percentage of untimed test-taking is said to be close to 50 percent"
Is it my fault that insurance premiums would increase by my non-participation in the insurance company's ponzi scheme, or is it the scared masses fault that medical services are so high because they relentlessly pursue getting everyone to join in for their own security?

Here's the problem with the arguments of "all for one and one for all": Most people are not going to have hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills (millions is ridiculous. I have never heard of such a thing, and regardless, the prices are over reported to make the argument that high premiums are necessary). All most people are going to need is yearly checkups, a cost they could easily take on themselves if they pay out of pocket. But instead they put it on their insurance, like it's some kind of free money.

Every time someone goes to a general practitioner for a basic rhinovirus and only pays their $10 co-pay, they're making the rest of us (yes, me included, because you generous folk figured out a way to force me to buy minimum insurance) pay for the rest of the over-inflated price of their unnecessary visit. Take a cough suppressant, drink lots of water, and stay home, you'll be better in 3 days. You don't need a doctor to tell you that. I haven't needed a doctor to tell me that since I was a teenager. Stop going to work when you're sick.

But the average person is meant to lose out on their premium, otherwise the system wouldn't work. But rather than treating it as the sunk cost that it is, money they're most likely to never get back, the average person goes the doctor for every sniffle and ache.
could you share what you found? i'm curious
> If insurance weren't ubiquitous, service would be cheaper, sure.

It would also be cheaper if it were truly ubiquitous and single-payer. The prices European hospitals (even the private ones) charge to the various national health systems are a fraction of the list price for the same procedure at the average American hospital. It's only the current insurance system in America that creates perverse incentives to inflate list prices to the ridiculous levels we're accustomed with.
Taking a very selfish approach, it could be argued as positive that websites/services that sell themselves as secure but have been shown to be fundamentally flawed in that security are shut down. Losing a false sense of security isn't necessarily a bad thing. Also the fact this debate is even happening is a positive thing, the government wouldn't have been in a rush to let us know without a leak.

That said, I highly doubt anything will emerge to really combat this - cryptography is illegal in the US if you don't provide the keys when requested I believe?

If you're sending in plain text, or if Eve has the keys, and Eve can intercept the message, you can't keep it secret.
See especially the 9th amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
Resist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Ku17CqdZg
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Ask HN: how can I solve the SMS monthly fee for a few bits if data problem?
Cellco's raping us for fees on a per text or per month rate to send a few bits is simply unfair. I thought technology would fix this but it won't until we have a universal ID of some form.

We do, and in this case it has become our phone number.

Is it possible to have a cell number that works through your cell provider but change your gateway SMS provider?

Maintaining the same cell number seems critical. There is already significant confusion with a handful of iOS users and iMessage because it can use an email address and a phone number.

Where is a definitive resource where I can ask questions about this field?

There's many an SMS app, but you get a new number, or an ID, or use an email address. If Apple opened up iMessage that may solve it. Despite their gesture that they would, I don't see it happening.

And ideas on how I can do this independently?
The version at http://mrrio.github.io/jsPDF/ works for me (on both Firefox and Chrome)
I'd really like to hear about this story from a college admissions officer's point of view.

While I'm sure that they can tell the difference between an application from one of these tutors and a "genuine" one like yours, I'm not quite sure I understand why they put up with it in that case.
> You may be surprised to learn that the current director of the NIMH shares my views and is acting on them:

Appeal to authority does not make a valid argument. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your position here - only pointing out that repeatedly posting that the NIMH director agrees with you doesn't lend credence to your arguments.
Steve Sailer found out that American schools are really good when you break down test scores by race[1]. For example, the white American population does better on international tests than most European populations, American hispanics do better than all Latin American countries, and etc. Unfortunately, the original article is not available because VDARE is having a fundraiser[2], but why not drop a dollar to keep Steve in business?

Since then, US government has stopped publishing PISA test scores by race. It's embarrassing for people on all sides of the aisle, including right-wing school reform movements that need the purported terribleness of American schools for their political momentum.

[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4ify7vDXrDs/TRFeGl7ocuI/AAAAAAAAGz...

[2] http://www.vdare.com/articles/pisa-scores-show-demography-is...
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Keep in mind that some of this stuff is designed for near-zero-admin desktops, not just the cloud.
How Snowden missed his flight to Cuba
In Pushkin's "The Captain's Daughter" there is a very nice piece in the very beginning:

"Матушка была еще мною брюхата, как уже я был записан в Семеновский полк сержантом, по милости майора гвардии князя В., близкого нашего родственника."

"My mother was still pregnant with me, when I was enrolled as a sergeant in a Semenovsky Regiment, by the grace of Guards Major Prince V., our close relative."
If you can handle craziness, try to sell and cater to super wealthy. Sometimes the more you charge the more "elite" and "special" it seems. It then becomes more about your attire, language, non-verbals, your office how it is marketed and so on. It has to be exclusive, special and reserved for the best of the best. 1000/hr tutoring is like wine. You can sell $1000 bottled wine to some people. It could even be the same $50 wine from regular stores. It just matter how it is marketed.
PHP's continuing evolution is also represented by the frameworks available for the language. For instance, Symfony2, paired with Composer, is (IMHO) analogous to Rails for Ruby and Django for Python.

HN can be an echo chamber for Ruby, Python and Golang. But outside of the Bay Area, a lot of people are very excited about Symfony2.
I don't know when you went to school, but most people who went to the best school (ish) they got into wouldn't be able to get in again today. Especially since the elite schools essentially became free for middle-class folks (it happened sometime in the mid-2000's I think), competition has gotten fierce. In 1985, Harvard's admission rate was 16%, versus 6% last year. Penn's was 35-50% until the 1990's, and is 12% today.
So, your opinion is that we should ban cars from highways so people can use bicycles to go to work?

BTW, I call bullshit on "folks" you talked to - if one really wants to "move to active form of transportation" one just do it. Instead of sitting in the car and complaining how life isn't fair.
I don't find the closure syntax simple really, since it's essentially a hack to copy the variable into the current scope, since PHP doesn't support lexical scope.
Early reports were from the new generation engine's specs[1] and some talked about an aluminum unibody. It might be some misinformation in the end. Fuel economy is a new Ford goal.

If they also do the diesel for folks who need the higher tow weights or assume they will start buying the F-250 / F-350, then it might be a very good deal for the professional.

1) it also is rumored to have stuff like stop/start technology that shuts off the engine while idling in traffic except when hauling a load.
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And the one before it: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
> Actually, if we could get 50% of all engineers and technophiles to flee the US, the insanity would have to stop.

On the contrary, I'd expect it to worsen. Engineers and technophiles are some of the most outspoken groups opposed to the surveillance state and other abuses of power, especially technological ones. They're also the groups most likely to invent technological workarounds to abuses of power.

> How would they continue to pay for it?

The same way it's being paid for now: massive debt.
Ask HN: How to promote to web designers?
Hey,

Right now, I'm building and online course aimed to teach web development, from novice to employable. For free. It's located at http://howtocode.io

So far, I reached a little over 50% of the targeted users registrations. Surveying the users so far, I notice many have a technical background of some kind. Still, I strongly believe that web designers (not coders) would not only benefit from the course but also be interested.

My question is this: how do I get in touch with them? I don't want to spam or spend fortunes on ads. How would you tackle this?

Thanks!
one time, rob malda commented back to me on something. if you could do that same, that'd be greeaaaat
Switched to my phone's LTE - it said "This Account Has Been Suspended"

Refreshed site on my computer connected to wi-fi - it now appears to be return correct Google site.
Yeah but will you still say the same when the doctors say to you like mine did to me "we are putting you on the kidney transplant list"
I think they're using it to mean "this is not a typo".

Sort of unusual use since they're not quoting anything.
They have their issues, but quality ear plugs can be a decent substitute for a quiet working (or sleeping) environment. The key is to find a variety that is comfortable and works well for your ears. I started by ordering a variety pack of 35 different types: http://www.earplugstore.com/unfoamtrialp1.html

From these I ordered a large box of the two that I liked best:

3M E-A-Rsoft FX:
http://www.amazon.com/3M-E-A-Rsoft-Uncorded-Conservation-312...

Howard Leight Max Lite:
http://www.amazon.com/Howard-Leight-LPF-1-Uncorded-Earplugs/...

The (green) MaxLite are the most comfortable I found and quite effective, and the (yellow) SoftFX are quite comfortable and extremely good at blocking noise. I mostly use the MaxLite for sleeping, and the SoftFX when I want something in the daytime. Since each pair can be reused at least a half-dozen times before they become too soft and start losing their effectiveness, I should be set for another 5 years or so.

If you've tried ear plugs before and felt that they weren't effective enough, it's possible that you weren't wearing them correctly. They need to be inserted quite deeply into the ear canal, and need to be rolled tightly before insertion to make this possible. And then there is the slightly-embarrassing-but-essential "pinna pull": http://www.e-a-r.com/pdf/hearingcons/tipstools.pdf
But almost every implementation of Marxism in recent history involved totalitarianism and ignored the part about decentralization of power post-revolution.

I recently came across a very interesting thought, which is that this observation (which I also believed until coming across that thought) is induced by a kind of selection bias. The original article in which I encountered this thought is here: http://www.pieria.co.uk/articles/men_make_their_own_history_...

The synopsis is this: Communism tended to develop in poorer (and therefore militarily weaker) countries, and communism was vehemently opposed by the ruling elite in capitalist countries. The worldwide interference of the CIA is probably the clearest evidence of this. So from the start, communist countries had to defend themselves against powerful adversaries.

Given that communist movements were attacked quite violently by foreign interests, it stands to reason that those countries which implemented a "softer" approach to communism did not survive. Foreign propaganda, wars, and coup d'etats sponsored by capitalist nations killed communism in many place where it had been democratically legitimized and could in principle be sustained with the consent of the people.

But, to put it bluntly, the consent of the people may not be enough when what really counts is a handful of oligarchs in the US.

So the examples of communism that survived are those that were able to defend themselves ruthlessly against equally or even more ruthless aggressors. This defense then grew abominations like secret police and what have you.

The secret police was thus not a function of communism, but of the paranoia caused by foreign aggressors. Look at what secret state organizations in western capitalist countries are doing these days, and the idea that the development of secret police is related to economics starts looking a bit far-fetched.

I am not certain that this is the ultimate answer in this debate. However, it is a plausible enough story which has a lot of historical facts on its side.
Yes, this is frustrating me as well. I have confidence it will get resolved.

I noticed that on my phone, it has actually vanished from notifications at the moment and yet it's been there all day, so maybe something is already underway.
How might the feds have snooped on Lavabit?
I don't think the irony is missed on anyone, no doubt the AdBlock guys them themselves... and the ability to watch or not watch ads is not the point I was making. The point is we have a choice of whether to use or not use, either Adblock, AdBlock plus, something else or nothing at all. But more so, the general state of the web and the big brother on everything. It's a slippery slope :)
Implying it is not a typo? A somewhat unconventional usage.
COBRA should fix the former, but it doesn't appear to cover the latter.
Err... if you read the article, he says "one quality", not "the number one". Also, it's worth considering that this is something that has jumped at them only after a number of batches of YC, not something that they started out with, so it is, in some way, based on actual data. They probably already filter out people based on any number of more important criteria.
.....so?
> You can argue about whether this is racism or classism.

Or it could just be avoiding high-crime areas. Given the vastly different propensities of people of various races to commit crime, avoiding crime tends to make you look racist[1]

[1] http://www.ronunz.org/2013/07/20/race-and-crime-in-america/
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Could someone elaborate on the significance of this?
He's saying: yes, a thousand dollars, that's not a typo
The Problem With The “I Forgot My Phone” Video
I agree.

When Carmack speaks, I do listen. He's a very good programmer and has the level of experience and technical expertise few will get to enjoy. I think it's awesome to see how far he has come from being a C purist, to C++, and now nice functional languages like Haskell.
You're right, driving was a bad example. That being said, it's silly to continue adding modes of transport to things that are "privileges, not rights" until people really have no real and significant freedom of movement. Perhaps my example should have been "walking around outside your house".
If it were illegal for all companies, you could probably assume each company would have approximately an equal number of men and women. They could charge the men and women the same price - the average of the old men's and women's rates. The income would be the same.
A new stress on California's stretched energy grid
Right, and nowhere did I say everyone should have a truck. But that number is higher than 'niche market'.

Also, only one time a year? I guess I move a lot of things.
Death in service (normally 3x salary) is another cheap benefit if the worst happens your partner wont have to deal with any debts (mortgage mainly).
Awesome keynotes on DevOps, software engineering history, and more (videos)
I used to be a subscriber to Stratfor, and have enjoyed George Friedman's books. He presents a very interesting, Geopolitical perspective.

A bit of Friedman's personal political leanings "leaked" into his books/essays, but they are interesting enough that I was able to ignore it.

I don't see anything in the info on Wikileaks that makes me consider Ohanian's conduct remotely inappropriate.

FWIW the Geopolitical perspective Friedman advocates in his books is perfectly useful as a tool for analysis and does not dictate any particular approach to governance or diplomacy.
PHP is unlikely to power the next start up. But I wouldn't be so cynical about it's success, especially in other segments of the web.