skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really true, though. Motorola Mobility had ~$3B in cash at the acquisition point, and Google immediately sold off the cable box unit to Arris for $2.35B. Add in the ~$3B from this sale, and we are now at a cost of ~$4B. And I believe there were several tax advantages for Google, so it wouldn't surprise me if this whole acquisition only cost around $1B or so (and they keep the patents).
Smart TVs aren't a failure yet - I hope Google keeps their plans going. It'll be pretty much like Microsoft's Xbox...
Did you put this comment in the wrong thread? There is no one named Terry here (the author of the submitted article is Steven Novella). It doesn't look like you read the article that was submitted to open this thread before you typed your comment here.
Cdist 3.0.4 released with Debian and FreeBSD updates
Because Blue Bottle Coffee is going to try to get acquired by a Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks that wants to operate these higher margin stores in affluent areas. They aren't trying to scale up to "the majority of the country". The VCs will make their money back when the acquisition happens.
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Increasing the price of a phone that "hasn't been selling well"? Doesn't seem like a good tactic to me (if they currently sell them at a loss, it would be an improvement, but it would be more cutting your losses than being a success)

Luckily, by the time the acquisition completes, those phones will be obsoleted by newer models ('completes' will take months, if not years)
also a victim of op.. I'm up to 15, though I do plan on using all of them.
I messed up epically on an interview. It was a 3 part interview for a JS/RoR coder.

1. I passed the resume and chat portion

2. I passed the telephone questionnaire and got along great with the interviewer

3. (Fail) I scheduled my interview on a Friday at 4:30pm and there is a 30 min travel time. I left 1hr early...still it was Memorial Day weekend, so I thought the streets would be quicker than the freeway since it was at a stand still. I was so stressed that I literally had an anxiety attack and couldn't even find the address. Never happened to me before, so I'll never forget it.
If and only if the jobs in demand have more or less equal participation between males and females. And.... that's absolutely not the case.
For pure computation a Spectrum can match a C=64, but as soon as any of the Commodore's hardware assist kicks in, game over for the Speccy.
Lenovo has been looking to enter the U.S. Smartphone for some time[0]. Acquiring a newly revitalized brand seems like a fairly good plan to do so.

0: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732333610...
May be they need money for the Nest deal (just kidding). Very strange to think of the recent Nest acquisition and this sale! Someone opens my eyes please!
Furniture? Are you talking about http://www.producthunt.co/ or some other site? Anyway, thanks for the feedback!
Welp, you've already made me buy one of them.

Any chance you could do filtering based on some of them? For example, some of them you need to have a local presence to register.

Great site.
While many seem to predict doom and gloom here, perhaps Google decided it rather gets an extra ally (Lenovo) that could produce Android phones and recoup some money they spent on the acquisition in the process? It also clears Google of any hints of favouritism towards Moto and frees up a lot of resources. I don't think Google knew what to do with a mass-producing phone manufacturer (plus its IP) under its direct control, just like a cat staring at a ball of yarn, swatting at it for some time, before running off to do something else. Verticalisation used to be the bees-knees and has a lot of lock-in potential, but I don't think that's where Google's ambition lies, I feel like it was weighing them down.

Google seems to have found a new niche to explore, though. It seems to have circled the 'Internet Of Things' on their todo list quite clearly and seem to be taking no risk of arriving late to the party. In a sense, what Apple did earlier to secure its iPhone launch, is what Google is doing now wrt the IOT. That and the smartphone market seems to be slowing down to a point of maximum saturation. Then there's not much to do for Google with a mid-tier phone manufacturer under its belt with ever decreasing margins. On the other hand, who would be a good ally to have when you were interested in the Internet Of Things? Maybe some manufacturer which produces everything from smartphones, washing machines, TVs to tanks and ships, and which coincidentally also happens to be the biggest Android manufacturer? A slightly cynical me perhaps even sees the Motorola sell-off as some sort of token sacrifice to ease all worries on both sides of the 10 year patent deal (I could imagine Samsung not releasing Tizen as a smartphone OS to compete with Android, but perhaps use it as a basis for IOT-related appliances, whatever those might be, and complement Android rather than fight it).

But that's all speculation from my side, but to be honest, I was yearning for some new technology developments, most of the land has been claimed in the space of smartphone technology and most of the battles taking place nowadays seem to be patent trolls and patent bullies doing what they do best: stink it up for everyone involved.
Wrong title. It should say:

The world's rich get richer while the poor struggle to avoid getting poorer.

Money makes money.
My worst would have been catastrophic if I had waited one minute to make my mistake.

I was commissioning a new control system at a power plant's water treatment facility. I was fairly new to the industry and had mostly looked over the guy who did the bulk of the work's shoulder as on the job training.

This particular day the guy was out sick and we had to finalize a couple of things before we ran through the final tests.

There was an instruction to open a valve to fill a tank and it had the wrong variable linked to it. The problem was to maintain the naming standards I had to do a download to the processor to make the change. When I had been doing work in the office this was not a big deal, download the program to the processor, it stops running for a moment while it loads the new logic into memory and starts back up.

Not thinking through the implications of the processor shutting down while the process was up and running I made the code changes, hit download and about 30 seconds later an operator came running over looking like he had seen a ghost and he was pissed.

While I was making my code changes the operator was hooking up a hose to drain a rail car of some chemicals. The way the valves were configured before I made my changes was correct and would have had no consequence it I didn't touch anything. The way the valves were configured when the processor restarted would have routed the rail car's contents to the wrong tank resulting in a reaction which would have created a huge plume of highly toxic gas. The way the wind was blowing this plume would have blown directly to the largest town in the area and could have killed a ton of people.

The operator heard the valves in question changing position before he opened the valve on his hose to empty the rail car and figured something was up. When he saw the whole process had shut down he got really angry because I had ignored the protocol in place to avoid such a disaster.

I got chewed out and kicked off the site. My boss attributed my mistake to inexperience and I had to give a safety presentation on what I did wrong.

Lessons learned:
Be sure you are aware of any implications your actions have. If you are unsure or guessing about something stop what you are doing and go ask someone first.

Don't give people mission critical work on their first project and have them work unsupervised. Training is important.

Always be aware of safety requirements, especially when you are working with machinery, automated processes, chemicals or anything else that can hurt, maim or kill you.
The funny thing is by default Flickr sets all your photos to 'copyright'... and upon realizing this I set out to make all my photos completely copyright free (not even attribution)... but then it turns out you can't even do that. At a minimum you have to have attribution. I'm just happy when people use my photos; I feel bad they have to deal with all this license stuff.
Try talking to your practice manager - mine is very helpful and (s)he'll hopefully be much more clued up about this than the reception staff.
It is exceptionally difficult, if not impossible, to properly anonymize this kind of data, and this particular dataset is absolutely not anonymized.
> if you show up at the E.R. of most American hospitals with a life-threatening condition, you're going to get treated regardless of how much you can pay.

Yes, and taxpayers are going to foot the bill. If taxpayers are going to foot the bill anyway, they might as well do it in a way that is efficient (preventative care) rather than one that is extremely inefficient (emergency care).
Dear god the buns. Sympathize greatly with you there.
"one thing I've noticed is that some cafes in London have differential pricing for take-out versus stay in"

I think the VAT levels are different - cold take away foods are zero rated.
perhaps.

the data is not anonymized.
Do games teach the right entrepreneurship skills? [2500 days of HN, first post]
Regardless of the Google specifics, we should really have some sympathy for the Motorola employees. I doubt Lenovo will stomach quarterly losses the way Google did while they restructured. My guess is, we're going to see big layoffs.
there isn't even an attempt at anonymizing the data.
There are two types of tax losses. There are those related to previous losses that Google captured on acquisition. The $700MM a year estimate relates to the anticipated future losses of Motorola. While Google is losing that benefit, it is by definition less than the amount lost! So it's not actually a benefit.
You may not have said Samsung was defeating anyone in your earlier comment, but you implied it, and now you have said it.

Samsung has defeated all old brands that attempted to survive by adopt android, but is now itself being defeated by cheaper new Chinese brands that can steal its low end share while Apple consumes the high end.

What is the point of mentioning Samsung's temporary high profits from other sources when we are discussing phone strategy?
Ok, not as bad as I originally calculated. If that money went to lobbying though, it'd be fair to argue that they'd be closer to solving the fundamental issues there are in patent laws vs. acquiring a portfolio of patents that are only a temp. fix.
Whoever gets their hands on this data should build a "20 Questions" game, to identify a person's NHS number. Knowing something of my neighbour's recent medical history, I'm pretty sure it'd take 10 questions or less.

Are there any restrictions on publishing the data? I can't find licensing terms.
I guess I just don't understand this mindset. I prefer food that tastes good, and don't really care whether 10 or 1,000,000 other people are able to enjoy it as well. Doesn't hurt me if they can reproduce it on a mass scale.
If You Love This Beer Then You’ll Love This Wine
I am torn. On the one hand I firmly believe that medicine should be evidence based. Treatments should be based on the best possible scientific evidence. Inevitably, such evidence will rely on large, randomized controlled clinical trials...

On the other hand, I take it as my own personal responsibility to take care of my own health. This means that I have to rely on a sample size of one. If I try something, and I feel better then I try more of it. My prescription for myself may not work for anyone else, it could be specific to me.

I personally believe that Western medicine is awesome because it is evidence based. At the same time, Western medicine has removed from the individual a sense of personal responsibility, and this must change.
The ability to move or share code between the client and server is a real benefit, as is the reduction in mental "context switching".
DAA = Domain Addicts Anonymous.

There should be a support group.
"Google will retain the vast majority of Motorola’s patents, which we will continue to use to defend the entire Android ecosystem."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/lenovo-to-acquire-mot...
I simply meant that if it were my company with remote staff - I would individually call them and not have an HR rep tell them on a conference call.
I agree, but what I took from it is that it continues to be defined by that series even after that point (just in a less recognizable way). It could have just been a remarkable coincidence that it follows that series for so long.
Nexus phones/products have always been made by external partners (HTC, Samsung, LG, etc...), none of which have ever been Motorola. Why does the Moto sale affect the Nexus line?
I don't know too much about raw coffee quality, but what I do know is that roasted coffee goes stale very quickly. If you freeze it you can preserve some flavor for a time, but generally the best thing is to grind directly before brewing and finish the beans within a week or two of roasting.

The reason starbucks is bad is because they let their coffee sit around for months in the supply chain, and they over-roast in order to compensate for the lost flavor as well as the tremendous amount of cream and sugar they put in every drink.

Again, I don't know how much good quality beans there are out there or even how you grade raw beans, but I suspect that average quality beans if roasted locally and brewed quickly (which was sort of the hallmark of Blue Bottle if I recall) will be an order of magnitude better than Starbucks right off the bat. If they organize their logistics around that I think they can scale a much better quality coffee than Starbucks.
An single espresso costs $3. Most other items play around the $3.50 - $6 range. And don't forget the $28 bag of hipster coffee beans.

It's a good product, but it will get destroyed due to scale, ultimately get acquired by Dunkin or Starbucks and everyone wins (founders, VCs) except for the customer. They always lose.
GSM is over by 2017/2018 for carriers stateside. Where will the patents for these topologies and compression schemes be then? That is proverbially around the corner corporately.
Valve's VR technology seen at Steam Dev Days
> At $12.5B, Motorola is Google’s largest acquisition to date. Google paid $40 / share in cash, but received ~$11 / share in cash and $8 / share in deferred tax assets. Thus the value ascribed to operations + patents was about $21 / share, or $6.3B, reflecting a multiple of ~0.5x sales and 12x EBITDA. Now adjusting this further for the $2.35B total consideration Google is expected to receive for the Motorola Home business, we get a purchase price of just under $4B for Motorola's handset business and patent portfolio (17K patents and 7.5K patent applications).

http://www.zdnet.com/googles-motorola-purchase-was-it-worth-...
benched is replying to TempleOSV2, who is hellbanned.
Simple one really and probably most common. Realise a data integrity issue on DB, try to load from backups and notice that the backups have the same integrity issue. Find a backup from about 2 weeks previous where data is intact and piece together the good pages from the daily backups and the 2 weeks old one.

All in, took 4 days and a new server where the hard drive had stored bad pages on the DB. We lost 2 days of orders (they were processed through to the internal systems though so not really lost)

Lesson learned, validate backups and check page integrity when backing up
Burning the gas as waste contributes CO2 to the atmosphere, but burning the gas for productive reasons still produces that same CO2.

If it were burned for productive reasons, some of the thermal energy released would be stored in chemical bonds formed by the manufacturing of any number of things, but most of it would ultimately still be released into the atmosphere as waste heat during some stage of its use.

There is the angle that if more natural gas were used to generate electricity, then less coal burning would be required. That certainly is an argument for getting and burning more natural gas in power plants, but barring that possibility in the present due to poor logistics, we will still be burning that coal whether the natural gas is burned off as waste, or whether it is never pumped up in the first place.

We could also spend money taking the gas and shoving it back where it came from, but that really is not practical.

The bigoted attitude towards the mid-west is uncalled for, even if you don't like what is going on in North Dakota.
Did you look at the price list ?

Standard extract – no personal confidential data
£9,565

Alternatively for just under £1,000 more :

Standard extract – containing personal confidential data
£10,453

They're specifically enticing people to purchase the confidental data version since it is only 10% extra to get all the juicy information.

Trouble connecting people to their parents, siblings, children, (ex)partners ? Simple, they'll even do that for you - look at Patient Tracking, Cohort Event Notification (!) etc.

The value of this data to marketers (e.g. health insurance, private hospitals - which do exist in the UK, etc. makes the price list charges trivial and insignificant to just slurp up everything they can and start targeting people). Want someone to try and sell you cancer insurance 2 weeks after your mother dies of breast cancer ? Cohort event notification report makes this simple.

Remember the toothpaste does not go back into the tube - once the data is sold, it's basically wild and free for all sorts of use and abuse. You have absolutely no guarantee it will only be used by benign 'good actors'.

edit:spelling
It's common in Australia also, and GST applies to any prepared food or drink. Another common approach is takeaway only specials.
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Repeat after me: the patent system cannot be reformed -- the only real way to fix this is to abolish patents completely. Patents no longer serve any other purpose than wasting our time.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Then I started thinking about how to make a dating service using this data--find all eligible males with your blood type in a given area!
You could more or less have your cake and eat it too, if you align the site names and their descriptions in two floated columns, so it's still - fairly - possible to scan whichever column you prefer.
Didn't know about this! Thanks.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/binary-log.html

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/point-in-time-recove...
I don't agree with that. Bluebottles, while hardly cute, aren't reviled in the UK at all, and they are the only commonly-seen fly that one might regard as even slightly attractive.

For many they are simply a memory of childhood, watching insects buzzing against a window on a hot summer's day.
To some extent. Google has to whitelist the apps that use the API. Right now that means you have access to Google's media offerings (including Youtube and G+) of course, but also Netflix and Hulu. Not Amazon yet or (obviously) iTunes.

It will play your local music content, but only recently whitelisted a few apps capable of playing your own video files (even then the codecs and containers supported by Chromecast are a short list, so be prepared to do a bunch of transcoding).

It's not open for sure. But it's not bad either; at $35 I'm willing to forgive the lack of hackability (I have a linux box on the same TV for that, this thing is just a convenience).

And the UI is basically perfect: pull the phone out of your pocket, play the video using exactly the same apps you're used to, and just click the chromecast button to send it to the TV. No more hunting for remotes; on my TV it will even turn it on and switch to the right input source automatically.
Yeah I really thought that the Moto X and Moto G brought Moto back.

A pretty nice pure Android handset with a $179 full price is insane!
It still needs power though so it needs to be plugged into something - whether USB or wall socket. What are the open viewing options? It seems to only provide youtube and google movies in countries that don't have netflix. Does it support streaming a local video from a phone or PC?
>Lenovo intends to keep Motorola’s distinct brand identity--just as they did when they acquired ThinkPad from IBM in 2005.

Are you fucking kidding me, Google? I don't know if you guys noticed but Lenovo completely ruined the ThinkPad brand into some average consumerist brand for their own good. They even went full-house when their Edge series lifted on the successful ThinkPad brand but was nothing more than that, a laptop with a name it couldn't live up to.

I fear the same to happen with Motorola Mobility. With the Moto G the entire smartphone market was completely disrupted because Google showed pathetic Android consumerist brands how good a low-budget phone can be; sometimes it performed even better than the more expensive "high-end" varieties. If the rumors are true and Google will also abandon the hand-tailored Nexus line-up in favor of bidding-wars for Google Play edition phones of the same consumerist brands, it's finally over.

When the Moto G was announced I had the same buzzy, warm, tingling feeling when Google started shipping the Nexus One. Now, I am realizing these will soon be vague memories to an era where smartphone users got value for their money.
It's hard not to draw connections between the various events of the last week or so: 1) Google/Samsung patent deal, 2) Google purchases Nest, 3) Google sells Motorola, 4) Samsung suddenly cools on Tizen.

Theory: Google gets offered the opportunity to buy Nest. Either Larry or Sergey gets serious interested. They bought Motorola because they wanted a serious stake in the hardware market. They toss up which is better - Motorola or Nest? They decide Nest is the winner. They realize the valuations are such that they could pretty much just swap Motorola for Nest. But there's a problem: Motorola was also their insurance for making sure they would always have an OEM to make Android handsets. If Samsung ever turned - they would never find themselves unable to secure a Nexus partner. So they go to Samsung, and offer a deal: patents, guarantees of support, probably other stuff: as long as you agree to make Android your flagship each year AND GPE phone version of it. This seems good enough. Motorola not needed any more and they can get a new toy to play with - Nest is the winner.
Well it's more appetizing than ratscabies on either side of the pond, gotta give 'em that.
I think your link and the actual SEC charges [1] are saying slightly different things. The portfolio backing the synthetic CDO was constructed by a Goldman client (Paulson and Co, a hedge fund) specifically so they (Paulson) could short it. That's fine. But the marketing material [2] for the CDO they used to sell the long end to clients makes no mention of Paulson and it specifically says that the portfolio was selected by another company (ACA Management) and that ACA had "commitment to long-term bondholder and counterparty security". If you flip through the slide deck (it's actually pretty readable) you find many slides dedicated to talking about ACA and its bona fides.

That was the fraud. It told its clients the portfolio had been created by someone who was trying to put together a reasonable-ish CDO when in fact it had been put together with the exact opposite in mind. I will also point out that there are no claims by the SEC that Goldman itself was short the CDO.

1. http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-123.htm

2. http://www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/avellane/ABACUS.pdf