skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla's P/E ratio is literally 1000-1[A]. Most of that market cap of $20B is based on expectations that Tesla is going to have hockey-stick growth rates over the next 5-10 years. So in order to keep that stock price, they need to go gangbusters - "we sold more cars than last year" is bad news for them because investors are counting on them to like double or triple sales. A sustained anti-Tesla campaign (which you'll notice is already underway) combined with a few minor setbacks could cause some big stock price losses and make Tesla a more attractive buy.

Personally though, I don't think it's that likely that Tesla will be acquired in the near term. The only reason the article gives is "GM sucks at making electric cars for consumers" and buying Tesla would help GM solve that problem. But the fact is that Tesla hasn't yet solved the real problem either - they can build kickass electric sports cars and luxury sedans, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a viable consumer car. Ford and GM have tried selling consumer-model electrics and they've failed because of budget - when you try to build an electric car with today's tech for $30K (the average US new car price) you wind up having to make a lot of compromises, even accounting for the generous tax credit. Ford and GM are building inadequate electric cars at roughly the $30K pricepoint, while Tesla's building a great electric car at twice the price. Tesla's doing a lot of clever engineering and making good cars, but it's not really clear to me that "cut the Model S's price in half" is so much easier than "make the Volt/Leaf/etc. not suck" to justify a buyout/merger.

[A] - Stock price divided by this quarter's project earnings per share.
During the passed 4 times flying on United, the return flights from the Bay Area (SFO/OAK/SJC) were either delayed or cancelled. Very unreliable IMO.
Please do. There's a very good reason nearly every framework goes with 12 cols these days.
The Meanings of the Selfie
Many, many people in jail were severely mentally ill. There was no support for them.

So UK is getting as bad as the US? Or has it never been good over there? Given how mental health conditions and incarcerations (for whatever reason) go hand in hand, I'd expect any sane society to tackle the former even more ferociously than the latter.
Nope. I've always found it odd when clickable things have cursor:default.
Mantenga a los niños fuera de las ondas electromagnéticas,
Unwrapping Christmas Data
I have witnessed on two separate occasions a laptop left with a TSA security check point (Dallas and Cleveland) and both times they dod the right thing and too possession of the laptop and locked it up, both time it took aprox 48 to contact the airport (after the situation was realized) and the laptop was properly retrieved. That being sated - would I recommend TSA? No!

Further I worked for both AA and Untied (granted in IT) and have flown over 2M miles - this guy got lucky a honest person found the laptop - period. You cant rate an airline on one honest or dishonest person (further it's possible it was not even a UA employee who found the laptop!).
Yeah, but then you don't get typography, buttons, tables, or forms. If all you need is a grid, then Simple-Grid is nice.
I appreciate your insight, but I have a family now and it wouldn't be fair of them for me to put 150% effort into my work life just to try to earn just as much as someone else who works 100%.

I would rather work for less money as long as I spend time with the people I love.
Another one of DMX's classics: X Gonna Give It To You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkeRpQKFDg

Arf arf
Yeah, yeah, yeah (Grrrr)
Uh, Yeah don't get it twisted
This rap shit, is mine

What if X is actually Google? Could DMX have predicted this whole ordeal? 63% drop in traffic is absolutely insane. It's not like Google is going to backtrack their decision so recovery seems impossible now when typing rap genius doesn't even show up their main site.
GMOs are bad? When did HN become anti-science?
How To Make Yourself Disappear Online Completely
That is exactly the sort of risk I wouldn't take - how can anybody invest in them when they can be deported at any time for a long stretch of time?
I live in a neighborhood where UPS drivers are not permitted to deliver after dusk (see: Google Bus Attack). It's a local policy, so the tracking status will show that my packages (in last year's case, a retina MBP) would arrive by 7pm.

There's that moment when you feel the chill in your bones; a lone mourning dove flaps its wings in a bare-branched tree. You're sitting on the front steps of your house to prevent the dreaded door tag when you realize you've invested far too much into acquisitions and material goods and the international supply chain.
Ask HN: What is the best cloud ERP system for startup?
Yes, i've also read them all by publishing dates. It makes the most sense and since they are all very good you really shouldn't try to follow specific story arcs because there is nothing gained by doing that.
"My personal belief is that, devaluing the site for the BRAND term e.g. [rap genius] actually devalues Google's quality."

I absolutely second this because I just did a search for Rap Genius and it only showed twitter.. So I did a search for it on Bing instead.
Publish Date order was forced on me by circumstances - mainly that I started reading these books in 1986. This is a fine way of seeing the universe and Pratchett's writing craft evolve over time.
Still much less than AWS, and far short of the $37 billion mentioned.
"...don't realize that this is advice for how to respond to crimes against you"

I missed that in the answer by Anonymous on Quora. Can you point it out? Anyways, seems like you've attached a meaning to this that most people haven't and now you're making all sorts of assumptions about those that didn't attach that same meaning.
The multitenant stuff in Oracle 12c is actually pretty good, and JRockit is a great JVM.
I like the discounts and free shipping as web merchants try to boost their numbers for the year. :-)
The virtual world doesn't always scale for that matter either. Try getting a new, in demand, instance type days or even weeks after release, you'll be waiting in line for access to that virtual instance just as you would for a new iPhone on release day.
They got the bulk of their packages out AND let their works take christmas day off? How many Amazon warehouse workers who were scheduled got Christmas off?
You're wrong. The majority of Uruguay is religious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Uruguay
Advice is fine and it's interesting to hear about one person's success, but you're overstating your opinions. Things like "I cannot over emphasize the importance of this question", if written by someone reviewing applications, would be really valuable insight. But from an applicant (n=1), even a successful one, seems quite baseless.
No. Had one but delete it.
Yeah but they are telling you to get a job for a reason. Because chances are, you'll never make it big as a writer, painter, or entrepreneur. And te ones that do make it are so dedicated that nobody can change their mind anyway.
I love S.F (especially classic hard S.F fiction era, but also later stuff), and I like stuff like Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Neil Gaiman, and the like.

Never could like Discworld. The jokes are few and far between, and the insights are only insights if you are a fifteen year old. As for the story, it's mostly a lame subtext for the non-jokes.
I was talking about legal clones.
They should build giant benevolent statues of him wherever children gather with the intention of soaking each other for fun.
I don't think "entrepreneurs are bad at finding their competition" as the OP suggests.

In my experience, "We don't have any competition" usually translates to "We are so differentiated from the competition that it effectively isn't competition." That's more often than not an unrealistic conclusion, but the reasons an entrepreneur might favor such a conclusion are fairly obvious.
I had to let go of my full-time assistant today. The holidays are over; do what you have to do.
I think they were too strict on this one. I don't think it's fair to bankrupt a company forever for dodgy seo. hopefully it's not permanent?

Let's be honest, their competition is probably doing the same, but since they are famous on the tech scene, and their actions get on news sites google people read, they get penalized.
I'm not convinced. I've gone back and re-read "The Colour of Magic" and found it to be significantly less entertaining than "Guards! Guards!" In fact, I found "The Colour of Magic" much better after having read the other stories.

A colleague of mine agrees with you, saying that TCoM was published on its own merit - others may have ridden the wave of success, but I say that the canon of work is there, why not pick a good place to start?

As a metaphor, you don't insist everyone learn ForTran, then BASIC, then Pascal, etc., before learning a modern language. You choose where to start.

<fx: shrug />

Start somewhere.
I'm not discounting your criticisms at all. Yes, data processing services have existed for a long time -- EDS offered this as a business model on mainframes rather famously. And while good at it, they were also highly despised for their contractual and service terms. I worked in the 1990s at a site making use of Everyone Dresses the Same, and there was a tremendous amount of friction, as well a strong internal incentive to get away from the service, however contractual obligations largely prevented this. A cautionary note to those presently looking at cloud services, though the lock-in's much smaller.

Sun faced multiple challenges, largely being a legacy product with legacy offerings in a world where price point was key, their service commanded a premium, and much existing infrastructure wasn't positioned to properly capitalize on it. That's just off the top of my head, though I'd be interested in seeing what other factors accounted for the failure.

Oracle has the kiss of death for far too much in my book. I'd consider any offering it presented with extreme reluctance.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965372
What I Learned from Sam Walton, the Legendary Retail Growth “Hacker”
I don't like those charts at all. I want to see the progressive Ruby versions on the X axis, I think. The dates are pretty meaningless. If it's the same code, it should run in the same number of cycles; anything else is just noise.

That said, +1 for having a go at it!

Also, yes, Ruby is pretty slow. But it's fast for getting something up and running quickly. If you get wildly successful, you can always swap it out for something else if you need to.
I think it's a nice way to keep track of people that I otherwise would not have the bandwidth or time to keep track of.
I have 2 accounts. The second one is for testing/dev purposes, and has only 1 friend (my real account). Feels liberating to log in and see nothing.
I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this kind if thing, but would you care to explain how you go about "selling covered calls".

The how, where, why and the what's of this kind of financial transaction would be really interesting to know.
Same, had one but deleted it along with reddit, yahoo, twitter, linkedin, stackoverflow and others.
I wish I could say "no", but having a considerable part of our customer feedback/engagement on our FB page, Page admins are required to have one...
Deactivated mine this morning. Early New Year's resolution.
Sort of. You're banging the hell out of my JSON API with gets? I'll just write it out into S3 and serve from various S3 endpoints around the globe (or even Cloudfront/Cloudflare, depending on how stale the data is permitted to get). I need instances? I can get them from AWS, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, etc.

There is only so much road, aircraft, and people willing to work Christmas Eve/Day out there. The physical world is inherently inelastic.
Maybe your brain doesn't need sleep because of nvidia drivers, but please do not so easily dismiss those who do.
It's particularly important to get donations from a large number of donors, even if they don't add up to a huge dollar amount -- large donors often look at the number of donors as a sign of the strength of the community when deciding how much money to donate.
That is just not honest.

Finland was Soviet's, according to Ribentroff-Molotov. Soviet tried to invade. Far before Soviet was surprised by the attack from their Nazi allies, so you can't use that as motivation. Without Soviet's attack, Finland wouldn't have been in the war (read up on Wikipedia if you don't believe me).

It is just not defensible, even with your tolerance for preepmtive invasions.

I hope you troll when you argue it is correct to invade and enslave peaceful democracies, because a junta feels threatened... If you are paid to increase NATO supporters, you do a good job.

(I only read the first sentence, where you for the third time in a row ignored what I wrote re Finland and other areas not covered in your reference.)
In common parlance, 'CIA agent' means 'someone who works for the CIA', with a slight connotation of 'on secret things' or 'under cover'. It can even loosely mean someone who helps the CIA - 'agent' being a general word for someone who acts for on behalf of another. (A high-ranking foreign government official who helps the CIA in return for money or favors can and will be described as a 'CIA agent', no matter their lack of paystubs or 'Officer' titles.)

Snowden worked for the CIA in a foreign country under diplomatic cover. Most of the English-speaking world, and especially the readers of this Irish-based publication, understand that to make him a "CIA agent".
The same. I really should find time to delete all others, also I'm not really using anything right now
They could and have done this for a while. Used to see it in the blackhat marketing space, where content farms wishing to rank higher than other farms spammed their competition. Was glad to see the content farms go circa 2011 (Panda update).

Hate giving people ideas, but a majority of the fiverr SEO services are geared towards spam/link bombing competitors.

Maybe that's not the intended use of the "SEO" services, but I fail to see what else they would be good at.
If the other employees respect him so much, they probably won't follow you if you quit.
Yes, but the nice thing about iOS 7 is that it reboots much faster.
Had one a few years ago, but deleted it. So yes, I've probably still got a facebook profile.
>There is some context-awareness required, though. Verbs can almost always function as nouns, too.

Absolutely. And Writer Pro breaks down completely at such distinctions. Some words are always marked as verbs and others as nouns, context be damned.
Also, the meaning of "use it" is pretty broad. Post and tag pictures of myself vs send an occasional message to someone whose email address I don't have
I mean I stated that at the top... I've read a decent number of the successful apps. I'm not going to write an essay where I don't give my strong opinions. I can only write from my viewpoint...
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Impressive % of no's
Have a Facebook account, but only use it in a secondary browser. On my phone I use an app that wraps the mobile site: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...
I'd just call is art and ask everyone to live with it.
I felt that way at first, with the color of magic, and other early books. But when "small gods" really resonated with me and I proceeded to consume and revisit all the books. The audio books by Nigel Planer are brilliantly performed as well, particularly "Last Continent" has become a favorite.

I do feel like the texture and tone if his books has changed recently, starting with "Thud!"

The folklore of discword book also helped give insight to how his world is created - much of it is based on existing myths and stories. (I love how he combined asimovs 3 laws with gollum legends. )
Cameron’s a nice guy and a great designer. It’s a shame this passed so many sets of eyes unnoticed!
I may look like a jerk for complaining, but I'm sad that the default options for downloading FreeBSD are not secure and not technically optimal. (The email are signed with the sha256 sigs, but the archives are not accessible in https _by default), yet I understand they may have other priorities.

Other than that, I applaud FreeBSD's efforts in Libre software at large.
> I no longer have to legally disclose it

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that this is not a "luxury" that we enjoy in the U.S. Once you have a conviction, it is there forever. So much for doing your time and paying your debt to society. I really hope I am wrong about this, but I fear that I am not.
I primarily use it as a way to chat with people I know. Since most people I know use it, it is the most convenient platform to do so on.
> And it comes as no surprise to me that the Number 1 Bitcoin exchange is Japanese.

MtGox's not Japanese, really. It was founded by Jed McCaleb (American) who may have been living in NYC when he started it, and was bought out by, I think, some Europeans. It may now be located in Japan and have some Japanese employees, but in a way, it is an exception that proves the rule.
I'm really surprised this doesn't exist. Moderation-as-a-Service, with a team of well-trained subject-neutral moderators.
OpenERP is on top of my list.
Has lots of plugins too.
So you want to do all the fun work, and pass off the grindy boring shit to someone else, most of which probably results from your "core" coding? I think I would hate working with you and you're bringing this on yourself.

You might have an inflated idea of how good you are at this shit. If you are really good, you won't have much grindy boring work to do.

If you're not taking a major part in the final tasks of a project, how can you be so certain you are good at preparing it for the future?
How do you figure your first point?

Musk owns 27.1% of Tesla as of their most recent 10Q. Today's closing market cap is $19.06B, putting Musk's share at $5.16B.

GM's market cap is $56.75B. Assuming no 'synergies' between the merged entity, the combined cap should be around $75B. Musk's $5B worth of Tesla would make him a 6.67% owner of NewCo.

For comparison, the UAW owns 140M shares (10% of GM) and the Canadian Government owns 110M shares (7.5% of GM), putting their ownership of NewCo at 7.6% and 5.6% respectively. Numerous institutional investors would also have single-digit percentage ownership.

The story at Ford would be slightly different since they don't have the big slugs of ownership, but their market cap is very similar to GM's, easily preventing 'control' of the entity to fall entirely on Musk.
I have several Facebook identities. I use them sporadically when necessary, and only for specific needs. None of them are even closely related to my 'real' name.
That sounds like the lead in to a joke, "Every day I write some code ... if I'm feeling lucky I try to compile it."

I agree though that it is insanely amazing what happens if you do a bit each day.
But interestingly you still use your HN account
I do, but it's only to use on the random website/sweepstakes that require an account (not even my real name). I don't consider myself as having one.

Deleted my real one in 2011 and haven't looked back.
I'm OK with using Facebook in my primary browser on my laptop because I use Ghostery[0] (although I'm not entirely sure that's sufficient), but I definitely won't install the app on my phone - I use Tinfoil as well.

0: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghostery/mlomiejdf...
Without Facebook how do I know where I'm going to party/hangout this weekend or tonight?

Facebook events and photos are the best. Because people use them!
The problem with "points on a number line" as a definition for real numbers is that it's not clear how you can tell if you have all of them. You can populate a number line as densely as you care to using just rational numbers, but that's not all of them, you're missing out on numbers like the square root of two. You can toss in the non-intergral powers of rational numbers, but you still won't have all of them, you're missing out on col numbers like pi (or tau, if you prefer). Even after you toss in every solution to every differential equation you can name, and every number you can generate using well defined finite or infinite serieses, there's probably some horrible diagonaliztion proof that says you still don't have all of them.
Here are downstream/upstream power levels:

DCID	Freq	Power	SNR	Modulation	Octets	Correcteds	Uncorrectables
Downstream 1	8	561.00 MHz	-2.91 dBmV	37.36 dB	256QAM	27285151766	778	1019
Downstream 2	1	519.00 MHz	-3.37 dBmV	37.64 dB	256QAM	19274768929	1183	4486
Downstream 3	2	525.00 MHz	-3.39 dBmV	37.36 dB	256QAM	19591285152	1152	5588
Downstream 4	3	531.00 MHz	-3.60 dBmV	37.09 dB	256QAM	20693153371	1653	6611
Downstream 5	4	537.00 MHz	-3.54 dBmV	37.64 dB	256QAM	19632522571	1589	6033
Downstream 6	5	543.00 MHz	-3.45 dBmV	37.94 dB	256QAM	21582618321	1185	6468
Downstream 7	6	549.00 MHz	-3.43 dBmV	37.94 dB	256QAM	22146242524	1182	5274
Downstream 8	7	555.00 MHz	-2.93 dBmV	37.94 dB	256QAM	21833121210	1057	5449

UCID	Freq	Power	Channel Type	Symbol Rate	Modulation
Upstream 1	10	37.60 MHz	49.00 dBmV	DOCSIS1.x (TDMA)	2560 kSym/s	16QAM
Upstream 3	11	30.80 MHz	48.50 dBmV	DOCSIS2.0 (ATDMA)	5120 kSym/s	64QAM
Upstream 4	12	24.20 MHz	47.25 dBmV	DOCSIS2.0 (ATDMA)	5120 kSym/s	64QAM
I have one, but very likely I will close it soon.
I wonder if you don't get all the cross-references and cultural comments. When I spoke with another programmer who preferred HHGttG over Pratchett it rapidly became clear that he was looking for jokes, not realising that the vast majority of the humour is not in the jokes, but in the structure, language, ping-backs, and other re-interpretations of external material.

So, in short, maybe you just don't it. That's fair enough. Not everyone has the context in which to insert it.

My wife has just asked if you're reading Craig Shaw Gardner, whose covers are also done by Josh Kirby.

PS: I wish people wouldn't downvote just because someone has a different opinion, especially when it's just a personal preference.
My Facebook usage patterns have become significantly healthier since I installed News Feed Eradicator. I still use Facebook chat and other FB features extensively.

News Feed Eradicator: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
Information Architects has patented usage of NSLinguisticTagger? (Writer Pro)
EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor (classic paper)
I've never had one. Certainly no intent of starting now.
How does Git work?
I have backups, but back in Portland, so I would have to race back there, restore the backup and spend the coins before the attacker. The macbook is new as are the wallets and I hadn't had a chance to encrypt/secure everything. It was not all my coins, just purchases made in the last week that hadn't been put in cold storage yet.
Same, if FB had a standalone chat app, I'd just use that and really never go on the site.
Yes. But I only use the messaging app on my smartphone.
Number of American Homes With Only Wireless Telephones Continues to Grow
Probably selection bias.
He/she's an EPA administrator doing undercover work for the CIA.
Ask HN: What do you plan to do new or different in 2014?
Start a business? Pick up a new hobby? Learn new stuff? Get back in shape? Smile more? Travel more or less? Something else?
Have one. But I don't use it. Use it just for some app development.
I don't use it. Every 5 months I get on Facebook, scroll for a few seconds and close the tab. I literally just don't care anymore.
This!

I mean, I don't what to say other than punch that person.

I have had the first hand experience with this.
There is such a service. You just have to look for it. I'm building a wiki, so it is something that I could conceivably use.
catfishing