skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
| "And the more of it that is out there, the more thieves will be drawn to it.

Bitcoin will eventually be the defacto valuable item to steal, however I see the community is in its early days and perhaps Bitcoin will lead to even safer computing as our operating systems will need to be more secure.

Theres a lot of things we can learn.
I'm not sure how authentic this is. But I saw this on Quora and it explains well how money spent of Space programs helps mankind.

http://www.quora.com/NASA/How-necessary-is-the-NASA-program

Read the first comment. I can't post the whole thing as HN has a limit on the comment length.
Similar, but with bars "reaching" towards the top.

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,24,1,14,2,1,2,0...
They're not doing that. They're describing their ideal of a good agreement, ie signalling what they would like to see.
> It seems like investment priorities or consumer demands are out of whack when electrical utility companies (PEPCO) are valued less than social media platforms (FB).

This is really not a logical comparison. These are 2 companies in different fields and have very different characteristics. Investors almost certainly have different reasons from buying one or the other. The comparison between their value is not really relevant.
I understand that startups are about promise and potential, and that a company with no revenue might be fairly valued at billions of dollars.

A startup (or any company) is worth something like the integral of of the graph of probability vs. outcome. The problem I see right now is that people are overvaluing the positive outcomes and discounting the low end.

"Because a small float was offered, and demand was prescriptive by the bankers, it's impossible to say that because of how it ended, trying to raise the price to $40 would have resulted in the same outcome."

I'm not completely sure what you mean by this, but I spent time on an ECM desk one summer and I they aren't aiming for a 75% first day pop. The bankers get paid less, the company raises less. You want a pop to satisfy buy-side clients and to keep a positive public perception, but 75% is too much.
Considering that html emails simply are not going away, no matter how much one hates them, isn't the best course of action for us developers to mitigate, as best as possible, the risks presented?

Yes, text-only emails make things much simpler from a security standpoint. Text-only websites were also much simpler from a security standpoint.
Thanks for open sourcing this. We are using it at http://blog.sdslabs.co/
Twitter/snapchat are media companies in competition with prime time television and daily soaps. It's okay, IMO, if justification for their valuation consists of mushy statements about user feelings. It's their business.
> I'd also expose the company name.

Defamation lawsuits are expensive to launch or defend; but a vengeful founder usually has more money that an individual.
It’s not just girls asking “Am I pretty or ugly?” on the Internet
What Do You Mean, “Agile”? (2011)
I'm not saying anything needs to be excluded.

However, there is a human tragedy here, for people who have done good work for us, and we want to help out.

If you don't want to, that's your prerogative.

I'm glad that you've scanned books and released them. Maybe scanners will become trivial; you might be right. They aren't there yet, though, and I feel like I owe these people a debt, to help.

I'm not telling you what to do or think. I'm just answering why I think there's more to the issue than that there could be a centralized storage, and that in the future maybe it gets easier to do.

Sometimes when there's a fire you just put some money in the hat to help, buddy. It's more about compassion than anything.

Thanks for hearing me out.
What's even more depressing (no pun intended) is that this kind of junk science is published by the Washington Post, one of our nation's most highly esteemed newspapers.
Bit of a difference between passive smoking and drinking water around colleagues who are having a few drinks.
What?

Not making money isn't a bad thing for startups? I must be really out of the loop, I didn't realise startups run on Unicorn smiles and jellybeans.
DHTML Conf
Naive interpretations of the current console generation will lead to incorrect conclusions.

Microsoft unequivocally won the 360/ps3/wii console generation. Not because they shipped more consoles, no console maker actually makes the majority of their profit from raw console shipments, it's a very misleading figure. What matters more are sales of games and DLC and subscriptions to services. In those measures the 360 has been trouncing every other console maker. People who own 360s spend more time playing the console, they spend more money buying physical games, and they spend more money buying DLC and subscribing to xbox live gold. Microsoft does more business on higher margin items than other console makers.

The Wii made ok money for Nintendo but the sales dropped off really fast, and people didn't end up playing it much, or buying many games for it. The PS3 took a long time to reach a state of maturity where there was a sufficient stock of good games on the console to actually justify owning one. And eventually the PS3 managed to get to a state where it was actually doing well. But from a business perspective no matter how much better it was doing the 360 continued to outpace it (in game sales especially). These are some of the major reasons why there even is a new console generation this year, Nintendo and Sony need to put themselves on a new footing in order to have a chance of growing their market share.
If you agree to indemnify them against defamation claims, I'm sure lots of people would be happy to name names.
Its not cheap compared to what?

What could you get in the equivalent of $72 million?

A holly wood movie? Series A funding for yet-another-photo-sharing start up? Opening ceremony for Olympic games?

Things like the Mars mission has profound implications on the very survival of human race over the next 1000 years.
Unfortunately, for every thousand new tech millionaires there is maybe 1 or 2 that is doing anything interesting or daring with their money. The energetic give it away to charity, the lazy park it in an investment fund. Few are the Elon Musks and Peter Thiels.
The battery cooling prolongs the life of the batteries but they won't go critical or something without it.

The presence or absence of that liquid won't affect the outcome of what's happening in these accidents, which involves driving steel into the battery packs, compromising the batteries and causing a short circuit.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's not my read. Options given the amount of time he was with the organization? Maybe, but highly unlikely.
Yes. Even without subsidies, a grid-tied solar power system will pay for itself well within the lifespan of the cells (the lifespan of solar panels is 25-50 years). A battery-backed "off the grid" system is not there yet, because the batteries are expensive. How soon it pays off will depend on how cheaply you obtain the panels and how much you pay for installation; these vary wildly depending on the location and vendor.

I did my own solar installation for about $1000, and it's enough for me to live lightly on (no AC, no microwave, no electric heater, but laptop and phone and hotspot stay charged, and fans can run indefinitely). Fridge runs on propane, when I'm off-the-grid. I'd need to quadruple that to turn on the AC or electric heat for any length of time, and would need a lot more batteries (I have three group 27 deep cycle batteries and a 3000 watt inverter).

Anyway, I got sidetracked a bit. We're currently at the point where a DIY installation can pay for itself in under 9 years. Maybe even as little as 7. Professionally installed systems, with subsidies, are probably around the 10 year repayment mark. And, the panels get cheaper every time I look into it. The batteries stay pricey, though.
This is TPP, not TTIP.
That's what's broken. The fact that "value" is irrelevant. Imagine life without utility companies and imagine life without FB. It's absurd.
AppFog's CTL-C: http://ctl-c.io/
>Not everyone is willing to deal with graphics drivers and endless installers.

To be fair this is much simpler now than it was 5-6 years ago.
I thought the same thing. I also think first world countries will diagnose the disease far more. If for no other reason, there are expensive pharmaceuticals to be sold.
Markets value companies based on, amongst other things, profits and expectations of growth. According to their most recent quarterly results, PEPCO's revenues shrunk by 3.2% and they made roughly $250M in profits. FB, by comparison, grew revenues by nearly 100%.
green goo: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#10,11,7,3,1,7,1,3...
Not really. First it's not sold on an exchange, it's only available over-the-counter, meaning very few brokerages are going to grant access to it. And even for those who do you can't just submit your order anytime you feel like it and get executed against, you have to apply to buy the shares and the brokerage has to find a market maker willing to facilitate the exchange, it can take days for a trade OTC to go through.

Third, the volume for that stock is only 1.5 million shares a day, that's only 40,000 dollars worth of stock traded a day. To give perspective that's less than the average amount of Microsoft stock traded in a single second.

So no... you really couldn't have done this strategy.
The 10,000 year clock
I've passed through a few distributions (Slackware -> Conectiva -> RedHat -> Mandrake -> SuSe -> Debian -> Slackware) till I stuck with Slackware and have been using it for the last 10+ years.

Slackware 3.6, my first distribution was really scary but it's been a few years since I had to do too much of basic configuration by hand. Of course some stuff took me sometime but right now I can use the touchscreen on my laptop, listen to music using my bluetooth headphones, use the HDMI to show video and play audio with THAT much work. <ad> If you need some tips checkout my blog http://dallarosa.tumblr.com </ad>

For the people complaining about Slackware's package system:
I don't what's people's problem with dependency management. Doing everything from existing packages is great while packages exist. When you're out in the wild and can't have proper packages You'll see all kinds of weird stuff. The most interesting problem I had was Debian trying to uninstall the kernel and all basic libs cause I was trying to install a newer version of Qt.

For those calling Slack users arrogant:
I think we can talk about arrogant people in any area. But as someone already mentioned, if you take a look at LinuxQuestions, you'll see that people have been nice for the last 10 years or more. I never had a question been answered with arrogance or bad manners. Most people were very helpful.

Slackware is a great distribution and I intend to keep using it for as long as I use a computer :)
The trouble is that there are a lot of ways to slice the data, and just not a lot of data yet.

For example, I wonder what happens when you group the Tesla S in with cars that can do the quarter mile in under 13 seconds... http://www.wreckedexotics.com/
Come on, journalists. What is a 54 kW battery pack? Is that the peak power it can provide? What about the far more interesting capacity?

It is like failing to mention the range of a car but insisting it can produce plenty of torque.
My issue with this is selective discolure. The idea that you only disclose XYZ treaty to PQR special interest and then not show it to the public is BS. I understand the logic of the fast track, and I also understand to concept of too many cooks in the kitchen. But strategic, manipulative, selective disclosure is another ball of wax.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6694617
You can generalize that to "many people love making less experienced or knowledgable people feel dumb."

Feel free to add qualifiers such as "experts", "position of authority", "newcomers", and "it's tradition!"
Same as lots of other negotiations; the more people at the table, the longer it takes to get anything done.
I agree. There was one casual social event at which some people drank or played table tennis, OP left early on account of their mother's health and then that early departure was raised as a secondary point by a desperately-reaching manager trying to explain why someone should do unpaid, non-compulsory overtime.
Fully agreed. I just implemented Stripe to take payments for my consulting business online, and it's really nice. My only complaint is that Stripe takes a week to initiate a bank transfer, rather than Square's one business day.

I think right now there's a large difference in culture. Square is really hip and tries to avoid exposing 'nerd stuff' to their users, whereas Stripe focuses heavily on API examples etc. Seeing them combine but stay two different 'personas' could be beneficial for both.
My interpretation is that you were fired for reasons which would be embarrassing or illegal to admit, e.g. because you were embarrassing the team with their XSS bugs.
Call me a luddite if you like, and I will probably be left behind in work and life, but I really can't shake the feeling that Bitcoin is an unworkable bad idea. Taking into account the risks of theft, the risk of government legislation, the risk of the system being gamed, the risk of wild fluctuations in value without rhyme or reason....
It could easily go into a project such as something like Masdar City.
>>That doesn't change the fact that other wealth was shot into space.

No wealth was shot in to space, or literally negligible amounts of it. The wealth is the know-how, and expertise that can replicate such a mission again. Which exists in tact on earth.

One of the goals of the mars mission is - to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission.

In other words, this is just the beginning.

From -

http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/mission-objective.aspx

The 'other wealth' you talk about is pocket change, in comparison to any public project.
Why would I want to have a laboratory feed me when I can enjoy fresh vegetables and other real foods? What the hell is wrong with this world.
Because that will be forgotten in a matter of weeks as more titles begin to roll out for both platforms.
Hey, that's my "local" library!

Trove is also amazing, but fairly biased towards Australian history (for obvious reasons).

http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Say what you like about 'fiat money' and 'taxation is theft' and big gov't and etcetcetc but if somebody robs my bank it doesn't cost me anything directly.
Ember-app-kit: starting point for "ambitious web applications"
wiggly lines: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,3,3,1,3,3...
LovePalz Connecting Lovers
All valid points, but a bit too removed from the 99%.

Here's the real reason Twitter's IPO is bad for most startups:

Their API is no longer going to be free in the future. That or they're going to impose harsher rate limits.
First world problem: "I can't get acquired because my valuation is sky high!"

Just sell for less. If everyone else demands high valuations, it's easier to sell, not harder.
It is either ignorance or a reflection of good hiring practices and management. IMO, company cultures which are transparent spend less time mitigating FUD by spending more time finding people they trust and respect.
NASA's Hubble Sees Asteroid Spouting Six Comet-Like Tails
No, that is not what I am trying to describe. Passive aggressive behavior is still acting with malice. I am talking about people who want to do the right thing by someone, but can't figure out what that is.
> And doesn't charging a battery generate heat, which you would need additional air conditioning to remove on a hot day?

Hot days are peak demand meaning batteries are discharging

> Are there even enough known lithium deposits in the world to make this practical on a large scale?

I don't know but given almost every rechargeable is Li, I'd say indicatively, yes.
As a web designer myself, I shall restrict myself mainly to the web design aspects.

1) Like diorray has pointed out, start by changing your fonts. Verdana and Georgia may not be able to cut through. Have a look at the Open Sans and other Google fonts like Lato etc.

2) Dont restrict yourself to mere CSS. Start utilizing the power of JS and AJAX. I see that you are currently using jQuery and jQuery UI, but you dont seem to be using AJAX with your forms.

3) Start using CSS sprites. You have way too much HTTP requests, and on my system its taking close to 20s to load your page. A normal user is never going to wait that long.

4) Change your logo. Make it look professional

5) You seem to have a lot of CSS and JS files. Minify them all, and merge them into one or two files.
> It's still a decomposing dead animal, preservation just slows down the process.

Isn't that the same for all dead vegetables as well? You can dry cure meat to a point where it will barely change if the environment is just right.
I think you should be able to compare the value of any two companies, no matter how different their distribution of possible outcomes or how differently they fit into an investor's portfolio.
Your favourite spam filter should be catching that already.
I highly doubt that assertion, it's a handwavy extrapolation. The current GPUs have significantly higher TDP, 3 years ago, state of the art GPUs had 3 Billion transistors and power consumption over 150W.

The Playstation 3 is based on 2004 era (cut down G70 )chip designs, so you're talking mobile devices next year catching up with a chip that's almost ten years ago, based on a 90nm processor node. Today's PS4 will be based on a 28nm node, there's no way in 3 years you're going to shrink the PS4 GPU and 8GB of GDDR5 to fit into an iPhone like device and not heat up like a welding torch and drain the battery like a blackhole.

It's a common, but incorrect assertion that mobile devices are going to replace game consoles. It might replace them for casual gamers, but not hard-core gamers. I don't know anyone who wants to play CoD or Half Life 2 on a mobile device. They want to play them on a high end PC, console, or SteamBox.
Hmm?

In my experience, that's exactly where Wikipedia often shines: many articles offer quite broad coverage of their subject, approach it from multiple points of view that do a good job of making it accessible for people of many levels of knowledge.

This especially seems to be true of articles on math. Whereas something like mathworld.wolfram.com usually offers a concise, accurate, and well-written article on a subject, it's quite often at a fairly high-level, and may be hard to understand for someone missing some background. The equivalent Wikipedia article on the other hand, is often much longer, because it approaches the topic from many points of view: concise technical explanations suitable for a mathematician, more intuitive (but maybe less rigorous) explanations aimed at a general audience, implementation hints and algorithmic summaries for those interested in using it in a computer application, etc.

This sort of shotgun coverage can result in rambling, lengthy, and sometimes redundant articles (it's usually pretty clear that many different authors have edited it, and the collaboration mechanisms are far from perfect), but I've found it immensely helpful when trying to understand something which is just a bit beyond my level. Seeing the same subject explained from multiple points of view is often just what's needed to make things click.

That's one of the reasons I love Wikipedia... it's not always the most elegant, but it's proved a very practical and helpful resource.
> Perhaps a different failure mode for the batteries; built-in extinguishers?

I hesitate to say 'it's not possible', but:

-Until a new battery formula becomes viable, we're pretty much stuck with batteries that light up when abused. Hopefully new formulas come online soon, but who knows wether or not they'll actually be safer.

-Chemical fires are pretty tough to extinguish via conventional means.
I'm not sure "inexperienced" investors "missed out" on Facebook. It was a very risky purchase, and for a few months there lost quite a bit of money for a lot of people. Only until the stock really stabilized did we see it sort-of hover around the $30-50 range. And even then, I feel it's priced much less at the moment than many people thought it would be when it IPOed. It even made a few acquisitions like Waze and Instagram in order to boost its investment value, but the main product still isn't as valuable (on Wall Street, that is) as people thought it was going to be. In my opinion/from what I've read, anyway.
Better take the wiki down then
The author had to work 'Spark' into the title.
Few make nearly as much as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to have nearly even close to as much impact.
communist / 3rd world countries pretty much win this one
HN Title: Vinod Khosla: An Evil Man.

Article title: Billionaire Closes Off Access to One of California's Best Public Beaches
You don't put an experimental design into production on day 1. This is similar to the classic "let's rewrite the whole thing" problem. Maturity of a platform is an important factor, and it's often difficult to pinpoint all of the particular aspects behind the maturity of a given platform.

Intel made the same mistake with the IA64/Epic/Itanium architecture. They were banking on that to be the future of high performance computing and then AMD kicked their ass by using an iterative approach with x86-64. The irony is that today the Itanium architecture is actually pretty good, finally, but it's been relegated to a tiny market niche.
I'm not debating why things are valued the way they are, I am stating that I think such valuations indicate a critical flaw in the behavior of market participants.
>>But ultimately that money could have built a big dam, or a few beautiful bridges, or a small power plant in a country with lots of power outages.

Why can't they be in parallel?

And this is some what unfair to the people at ISRO. India spends a great deal of money on infrastructure too, bulk of that money is either stolen brazenly or sunk to corruption.
Your site went viral
I agree that one party night with beer doesn't really add up to a 'culture of beer'. I was hoping for a much more gripping tale of a beer-oriented office.
Thanks for letting me know!

I should put it somewhere that if you end up using it, I'd be interested to know.
Imagine charging these at night, and selling back to the grid at peak demand. Granted, it'd probably kill these things very quickly.
"That sounds richly valued to me, but not insane."

The threats to airbnb are much greater (and of course different) than the threats to IHG.

IHG has a lock on locations because of contracts in addition of course to locations which they own.

IHG has brands.

And they have standards. You book with them because you expect a certain level of service when you visit one of their hotels (regardless of who owns the property). They have a functioning marketing machine which fills up hotel rooms with conventions and corporate travel.

Otoh, airbnb is much more susceptible to a threat from someone else doing something similar, slightly different, or essentially the same.

There is a barrier to entry in being IHG as they have infrastructure and an established brand. To me that makes them valuable.
Mission to Mars at $72M or just about ₹12/KM which is cheaper then my commute at ₹14.25/KM
I think it represents the illusion of a casual and collegial work environment. Rather it's the lube they apply before sodomizing you. My new employer is not a startup, but tries to emulate that culture. Workers are encouraged to leave at 2:00 for company booze fiestas, but I just got a warning for taking unplanned days off to be with my sick child.
In aggregate however I think it is relevant. What it indicates is that there are more total capital interests in a website than in a basic necessity.