skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say anything as to whether Twitter was over or undervalued, just that it was significantly different than the dot com boom. Hundreds of millions in users and hundreds of millions in revenue is decidedly different than very few users and no revenue.

As for your numbers, there is no reason that a company needs to match their valuation with revenue each. That would likely be extremely undervalued. Apple had 170 billion revenue in the last 12 months and a market cap of 465 billion that many people think is undervalued. 63x is excessive, but 1x is silly.

>But what investors are interested in is not revenue
That's not always true. See AMZN

Profit is what I am interested in, and it is what a lot of people are interested though. Why are we comparing it to Apple, a hardware company with huge costs? It makes a lot more sense to compare to Facebook, which enjoys 50% margins. Also, why are we expecting it to have profits = to market cap? Really, 1x pe? Market average is ~15, with lots of companies being higher.

If, in 7 years Twitter has profit = to it's current market cap, it is an absolute steal at this price. Like unfathomably good deal. I'm not convinced they will keep growing revenue at 100%, certainly not for 7 years, but I am convinced that they will become profitable due to their low cost structure. I wouldn't be surprised to see 50% margins.
Why not cut out the middleman? https://archive.org/donate/
Protecting Windows users from malicious extensions
Ok, this is really good to know... Thanks.
Remember what's a "failure" for banks is a "win" for people like Zuckerberg.

Having a giant pop like this means you've left a lot of money on the table. If people were willing to pay $45 for Twitter shares and you sold them for $26, then you got ripped off.

The ideal IPO price is one that doesn't rise or sink, meaning you nailed it.
This is not true. I have windows 7, I check updates, nothing.

Also, IE out there is IE 8.
And WebGL can't do what we do w/ DOM, so nothing of use in IE11, other than they still don't update IE8 users, so I still have to support old IE.
Evaluating Google's Congestion Control for WebRTC // Speaker Deck
Hard to determine which part your most concerned about. When $25b of wealth is being created, there are going to be some folks making money. And you might not think some of those folks earned their take.

First, you're too fixated on "loss-making". IPO companies are almost by definition loss-making. IPOs are fundraising events. Growth companies use money to invest in the business for growth, not profits (yet).

Second, it's rare for early investors to cash out on the IPO (Facebook was an exception). Instead, they usually wait for a secondary or for the lockup expiration.

Third, yes, there is frequently an artificial "pop" on the day of the IPO because of the pent-up demand but that usually tempers quickly. Investors should definitely be careful and know what they are getting into. If they bought into Yelp, LinkedIn or even Facebook at the popped price and hung on as long term (read: every) investors should, they are doing fine.

Fourth, yeah, the investment banks get to dole out typically underpriced shares to their top clients. Get over it.

Fifth, the banks do take on some risks. Facebook IPO presented the banks with considerable risk of loss depending on when the banks were able to unwind their positions.

Sixth, the pre-IPO market has evolved such that a lot of people who want in are getting in prior to the IPO.

Feeling cynical might be fun but isn't very attractive or lucrative.
>So cannabis is illegal in the US under federal law, but not under state law in some states?
Correct.

It all depends on who is attempting the search.

City/County/State entities have their respective jurisdiction and all must comply with state law, and therefore some states no longer have reasonable grounds to search based purely on cannabis scent. It would be equivalent to police coming to your house and smelling alcohol on your breathe and attempting a search based purely on that.

Federal entities, such as DEA and Dept of Justice maintain federal jurisdiction and can come in and trump state law (by definition). The Dept of Justice (Eric Holder specifically I believe) recently came out saying they would not prosecute those who are obeying state law as long as they don't sell to minors and keep it away from federal buildings/schools ect.
> Would be interesting to see how this performs relative to CAL, in terms of both speed and space.

Indeed. Do you have some CAL installation somewhere to make a comparison? (The links I find are all broken.)
Hi mc32, thanks for your positive response. I'm glad you like it. Yes, we have a lot of expansion plans. But step after step ;) We're going into new countries first and working with beta customers to improve our existing product.
Unfortunately appears to be behind a paywall: "To continue reading this story, you will need to be a digital subscriber to SFChronicle.com."
Yes, David Pennock has had these results for a while. The economist would merely argue that results which are computationally intractible are equivalent to information which does not exist. And the computer scientist would point out this doesn't mean markets can't approximate efficient with a high degree of accuracy.
Russians are good hackers.
Next time when I want to explain why HTML/CSS can be a pain, I'll take this example.

"Imagine it's 2013 and there is a website that has been online for years, where the greatest hackers and entrepreneurs exchange exciting ideas. When somebody posted an easy solution how to center something in HTML horizontal AND verical it was the favored post on that site for a day" ... ;)
PayPal sux! that's all.
It would be great if you could share your insights into handling authentication with an API. I am still yet to find a perfect way to do it.
Well, no. I don't think that spying on Hitler is morally equivalent to indiscriminately spying on your own people.
Microsoft could still build a standalone version of IE if they really wanted. The reason they cut off support is laziness, greed (pushes people to buy new windows licences), and there's likely some legal issues due to the old anti-trusts cases where MS argued that IE couldn't be separated from the OS.
Twitter isn't on NASDAQ. It's on NYSE.
I think these two earlier comments summarize my opinions pretty well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6691171
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6690477
The difficulty will increase in response to the hash rate of the network, it doesn't directly correlate to the amount of coins in existence. So when the last BTC is mined, if people stop mining the difficulty will go down (after about 2 weeks I believe) and if more mine, it will still go up.

The difficulty is designed to be at a rate that will see a block mined every 10 minutes. So the ideal max verification time should be about 60 minutes (6 blocks) on average, although you should see your transaction included in the next block mined (in 10 minutes-ish, assuming the miner included your transaction, which they have an incentive to do if you included a fee) but to stop a double spending attack, it would be unwise to consider a transaction verified after 1 block, 6 blocks makes sure your transaction is not lost in a blockchain fork or part of a double spending attack. Some people consider 3 blocks to be enough verification time, it depends on how much money you are dealing with but the recommended amount of 6 blocks is in the original paper.

The last block to generate BTC that will be mined should happen in around 2140 (with the reward halving every 4 years) and then there will be a maximum of 20999999.9769 BTC in existence.

Interestingly enough, if you flooded the network right now with your own transactions and included a higher than normal transaction fee on those transactions, you could conceivably block other transactions from being included in the blockchain, at least for a while. Last time I calculated the cost of such a scheme it was about 72BTC per hour, so even without fixing the scaling issues of transaction volume in BitCoin, the rise in price makes this sort of attack less likely (still theoretically possible).
's kinda ironic that Michael Zalewski now works for Google o_o
Life's too short to work for a crappy company.
Longtime product manager looking for a new challenge. I know hardware (esp chips) and software (esp open-source development), lean startup principles, how to run a project, and how to dazzle a customer. I sweat the details.

Not a rookie. Startups OK. Austin for the breakfast tacos - but I'm comfortable anywhere in the world.

www.brianpiercy.com
www.linkedin.com/in/brianpiercy
Maximize is control-win-uparrow -- I'm not sure if you meant that or fullscreen.
A lot of investors actually prefer a less known upside.
Here is a visual explaination: http://dabblet.com/gist/7359467

The pseudo-element (in red) is 100% tall and both .container:before and content are inline-block with vertical-align: middle;
"I think you must have misread the context here. "

Yes, you are correct. My apology to all.
Thanks for your analysis. Even if this new equilibrium claimed by Eyal/Sirer doesn't hold up under scrutiny, haven't they at least succeeded in lowering the controlling percentage an individual would need to "cheat" the system in some way from 51% to 33%?

In the ES paper, and in your responses, the assumption is a colluding group of miners. I find myself agreeing with you there; it looks like the colluders have more incentive to break ranks. But suppose a single individual controlled 33%. Couldn't they use this same strategy to benefit more than we previously thought they could?
Non-paywalled version via sfgate: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Square-talking-to-b...
There's nothing wrong with CSS the language. There are missing properties that could be better implemented, and hopefully future browsers will do so. But CSS is still a fine base to work from.

That said, I use LESS. But while everything compiles down to CSS, it doesn't impact me much.
Ask HN: Front End Developer moving to New York and looking for advice.
I am finally moving to NYC at the end of this month. I would like to settle on a job before then, but pursuing a position from Puerto Rico has proven less than optimal. So I am reaching out to you hacker news, in hopes of getting some advice/recommendations.

Is it at all feasible to get hired over Hangout/Skype, or should take on freelance work for the first couple of months so I can go job hunting in person?

What are some cool places* to work in New York?

Are open applications a thing, in other words, should I send out my resume unsolicited?

Here is my personal website http://ryanoliver.co

Thanks for any and all help
Super typhoon Haiyan closes in on Philippines, among strongest storms ever
I hate it because some people on the team come in at 6, others come in at 9:30, and anything in between. Some leave by 3:30, and others leave from 5 to 7 pm. I was at work last night until 11:30, working on a particularly gnarly task. (different schedules, because different lifestyles, different obligations -- remember, diversity is good).

When we need to talk to people to find out what's going on, we just talk to them.
Another interesting way to interpret this is that perhaps the Zeigarnik effect is a good description of the "psychological" cost of unpaid technical debt. For instance, during any project at my job I run into at least 5 things -- bugs, code improvements, components I could build to make this task easier -- and I jot them down. When I finish, I move on to the next feature, and that list grows to 10, then 15, then 30... the anxiety that "man I really need to fix this shitty codebase" actually affects me psychologically in tangible ways, and IMO is one of the under-talked about aspects of ignoring technical and design debt.
Moving from WordPress to Static Blog Generation
In the US, if your employer pays for your health insurance, they pay for it with pre-tax dollars. If you buy it, you buy with post tax dollars. That's why employers pay for it in lieu of paying you more.

If your employer pays for your car insurance as a benefit, they pay for it with post tax dollars, so they don't do that.

So, employers pay the premium on your health care for the tax advantage. Now consider the how psychology behind not being the one who pays for the premium.

Do you care how much your services cost? No.

Do you care if the premium goes up? No.

Do you shop around for better insurance? No.

Do you care if you loose your job if you're sick? Hell yes.

In effect all normal market pressures are gone. No one who consumes resources cares about their costs because they're are completely disconnected from paying them or some derivative of them.

This is why doctors don't post prices.

While the net effect for people with employer provided health insurance is ever increasing rates, the effect on those people without health insurance is brutal. They are trying to enter a market that has no price pressure.
Your point is valid, but past performance is not indicative of future performance. Just because Twitter went from $0 to $168M (which is chump change on the NYSE), that does not mean they will continue on that curve or that there's proof that they haven't already tapped their market.
give me a fucking break. people (including lots of loyal democrats) are getting their plans cancelled because their plans don't cover things they'll never need. Are you 60 years old, childless and single? Does your existing plan cover pediatric dental? No? PLAN CANCELLED.

http://www.propublica.org/article/answered-why-two-obama-loy...

My brother is a healthy, single, childless young college student who has a cheap, catastrophic plan to insure (aka share risk) for a major accident or major ailment (cancer, etc). He won't get to keep it after Dec 31st. Instead he'll have to pay a dramatically larger sum to offset risks that he doesn't have.
> What, in the end, is this new currency? It is a list of authorized transactions, beginning with the creation of the unit by a miner, and ending with the current owner.

Eloquent summary from a skeptic :)
IE11 has been, in my experience, the largest source of awful, browser-specific hackery since the Galaxy S2 or Blackberry mobile browsers.

You might think that, if you've worked with IE10, it's going to be smooth sailing. It's not. IE11 is a regression in comparison.

The browser quirks aren't things like "Oh, you need a vendor prefix here." They are things like, "no matter what, keyframe animations will never work at all in the presence of the Facebook API, and transition animations will work sometimes (but not always!) because reasons, and sometimes (but not always!) animated elements will reset back to their original position after the animation completes."

Because of these browser-specific quirks, you'll be spending a fair amount of time in the IE11 developer tools, which are very nearly unchanged since interns wrote them in IE7. Worse, they frequently crash and take the browser down with it. Or, they get out of sync with the browser, and "Inspect Element" stops working until you restart the browser. You'll be restarting IE and staring at the "Searching for solutions..." dialog quite a bit.

When the tools DO work, you'll find they've added a bunch of new stuff like the "UI Responsiveness Wizard", but that's a poor consolation prize for losing the great debugging features of other browsers, like "Break on attribute modification" and "stabililty."

And, after spending days poring through JS, trying to find any sort of IE11-specific bug or behavior on these complex sites that work in very nearly every other browser, including IE10 and an array of mobile browsers going back to Android 2, you'll find that adding random timeouts will start fixing some of these weird behaviors.

I've been mired in IE11 support for the past several months. It's been a nightmare.
Chrome DevTools Workspaces
> which suggests that the author isn't interested in supporting Haskell's idiomatic concurrency model atop the JVM

This is not quite true (I am the author). Yet I know my limits. Every contribution from the community is welcome, OTOH.

The point of the blog posts was only to explore how far one can get with what Java has.
CSS is not great for its original use case. It was poorly designed by a group of people who chose to ignore existing understanding of layout models. The TeX boxes+glue model, had it been adapted for CSS, would have made all the absurdities and nasty layout workarounds of the last 20 years unnecessary.
Advertising will be a major component. But I think there are some other powerful revenue-making opportunities around data and services.

Many investors appreciate a blurrier future since it can lead to more upside.
How to build Vagrant Machines with Packer
IE's compositing and rendering are far ahead of Chrome, honestly. Direct2D and DirectWrite are really really good at using the GPU to render content, and the D3D-based compositing is really good. Microsoft is very good at graphics (and it helps that they control the whole stack of course).
Deep Web for Android
Being a developer is a very valuable skill. Presumably, working for eight hours as a developer can pay for a number of volunteering efforts, so it's strictly more valuable.

If a charitable organization needed some software written, volunteering to write it would certainly be helpful, but this still requires you to be a domain expert in two things, rather than one.

Unless you mean "valuable" in the sense of "makes you feel more fuzzy," in which case you are killing people and I advise you to stop.
We built an Android Arduino Cake
I wonder if auto manufacturers are starting fires as a sort of false flag operation against the good name of Tesla. It absolutely makes no sense that a fender bender would engulf the car in flames.

The driver safely pulled over to the side of the road and yet the car is in the middle of an intersection with the hood engulfed in flames. Check for accelerant.
Efficient float32 arithmetic in JavaScript
>Just to be clear, the rest of the browser world offers modern browsers across a wide array of operating systems. Microsoft can't even be bothered to offer a modern browser across more than two of their own Operating Systems.

Keep in mind the rest of the two browsers aren't tightly integrated with any OS, thus can enjoy the flexibility what IE can't.
Fixes are (finally) coming in for layout in CSS in the form of flexbox (http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/) (and mayhaps grid layout, we'll see. You can create most layouts with flexbox but it's pretty low-level, grid works at a higher level and looks more modular but has seen less implementation so far)
Looks cool. I don't give to charity because I'm still establishing myself, and I don't think I'd give to charity in the future because it's such a cop out.

I'd much rather kick someone with an idea a bunch of money, or put it towards something that benefits my community. But when it's this easy, who really cares about 50 bucks here and there?
Show HN: Hosted Docker-as-a-Service on SSDs for $5
No it's exactly what caused the massive asset inflation across all major assets in the US economy in the last four years. Look up the perfect correlation between the S&P and the Fed's pomo shots, and its balance sheet expansion.

But don't take my word for it. Recently the US Treasury conveniently wrote a paper admitting that the Fed was responsible for spurring the asset inflation.

The dollar has lost 97% of its value, according to the Fed, over the course of a century. That was before they were knee deep into the economy 'printing' trillions - having increased their balance sheet by 300% in five years. How can they ever stop printing while the US Govt. runs a $700+ billion deficit? They can't. The outcome is obvious.

The Fed intentionally re-inflated assets, because it's the only gimmick they have left. Once you lower interest rates to zero, there's nowhere else to go but to intentionally try to spur asset inflation and generate a fake wealth effect, which the Fed has done two other times in the prior decades. They use their POMO program, along with mortgage purchases and cheap interest rates to inflate the stock market and the real estate market. It's real simple.

There has been no job recovery. There has been no manufacturing boom. There has been no improvement in the welfare and poverty picture. There has been no improvement in incomes. And we're still missing seven million full time jobs, and millions have fallen out of the labor force.

So why are asset prices booming? The answer to that is obvious as well.
Looks like the google's external style guide is saner than the internal one :-) I was talking about the internal style. I can't even begin the fathom the reasoning for the internal style.
"Compliments should always go to the team. Credit should be handed out freely and generously. Success belongs to the team but failures belong to you."

This is a distinguishing trait of every great manager that I've worked with.
If you believe this, you might also believe the republicans are DDOSing the new gov health care website.
How well does this compare to Reveal?
My father is currently a Police K9 trainer for a city Colorado. About 2 months ago they retired a dog and the new dog they received is the first in Northern Colorado which does not hit on cannabis, but does on all the other typical drugs.

When cannabis was legalized here, any previous dog which hit on cannabis could not longer be used by local and state police for drug searches due to anything found related to a dog that hit on cannabis is dismissible in court since it is no longer illegal.
2014 Price is more expensive (but relatively modest ~$50/month), but co-pays and deductibles are dramatically more expensive than in 2013.

http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/815691-kaiser2014be...
Track account activity in the dashboard
This is easy, Frege is (to my knowledge) the first one who mentions "functions, that take other functions as arguments".

In other words: higher order functions.
Make your own wrapper.
I agree! Most entrepreneurs are focused on short term results these days. So when they're reaching out to people for help, all they do is send a link and call it a day. But I believe in building high quality human-to-human relationships. I think the marketing game is all about helping each other to create win-win situations.
>So clearly, this must be factually true, correct?

I didn't say that. You shouldn't try to put words in someone else's mouth. I was mainly looking for some credible, unbiased facts. A lot of the positive anecdotes seem to be ignoring price reductions due to tax credits or something but I am not sure. Huffington Post's story has a family of 5 getting insurance for $100-something, while I see people saying their family went from like $600 to $1,000+.
Looks interesting. We are dealing with finding better shipping prices for international shipments on shirts and what we have found is that distributors that ship really high volume are able to negotiate better rates. Does Shippo have the ability to take advantage of the scale as the site increases in shipments? How do you differ from EasyPost?