skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my favorite bit so far:

> He added that “they broke every single best practice that Oracle themselves have defined. It is one of the worst assessments I have performed * * .” The same developer wrote to Oracle, “You are Oracle people, working on an Oracle hardware platform, with Oracle technology products, on an Oracle solution. * * Oracle should be delivering these environments and products as a solution, like they actually understood the products and owned the solution which has not been the case by a long shot.”
I took this unit last semester (at Macquarie University, with David Christian as my lecturer and tutor) and am happy to answer any questions you might have on teaching style or such. Personally I really enjoyed it and found it very thought provoking and interesting (history usually doesn't capture my attention as I like to see a broader view).
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The departures meant that executives with intimate knowledge of JPMorgan’s systems... were gone"

Yeah, um, worked there. At least in my line of business and those others I was exposed to, losing the executives may have been beneficial in terms of knowledge because it's possible that the newcomers would try to learn the stuff that the departees never bothered to know in the first place.
One thing of interest when we compare driving in NYC to elsewhere: in NYC you are not allowed to turn right on a red light. Same goes for Montreal. This definitely changes the car-pedestrian dynamic, but I have no idea how it might factor into safety issues etc.

I suspect it's only a small part of the big picture why driving in NYC is categorically different than suburbs.
Don't ask to "be a distributor". Ask for a volume discount; and then be prepared to pay for this up front at first. I suspect you might be getting turned down because "being a distributor" often involves them sending you a bunch of product on faith or extended credit terms. They are small operations and may be operating one bad deal away from bankruptcy and be unable to take such a risk.
Criticism is bad for journalists unless it is done against recognized enemies.
You're conflating cash with assets. None of the companies you mentioned are trading at a discount to their cash balance.

Institutional investors don't value tech companies based on tangible book - they use P/E or EV / EBITDA multiples (or FCF multiples for software companies). The only companies that trade on net asset value (NAV) are financial companies such as banks. For those companies, the balance sheet structure is the opposite of traditional companies - assets such as cash represent liabilities (they're funds individuals have deposited in their account). As a result, the NAV framework is inappropriate to apply to tech companies.

Two specific points on the above examples:

(1) Cable companies are valued using a different investment framework. They are highly capital intensive businesses, where cash today does not reflect cyclical future capital expenditures. Furthermore, these businesses have a tremendous amount of leverage, and thus you have to look at net cash balances, not gross cash.

(2) Your Apple example is absolutely correct. This actually happened when Microsoft announced a special one-time dividend in 2004. This goes back to my 3rd point above - when companies hoard a significant cash balance without any plans for capital returns, investors start to discount the cash. This was Icahn's thesis when he went activist on Apple. However, I would caution against extrapolating this to companies that don't have significant cash balances.

I know it sounds tempting to say that cash doesn't generate great returns and is thus logically undervalued. There are two reasons why that's not the case.

(1) Investors usually use EV / EBITDA multiples to arrive at an enterprise value. EBITDA is prior to the recognition of interest expense / income - the earnings generation of cash does not matter here at all. After arriving at the EV, they then add cash and subtract debt (at a 1:1 value) to arrive at the equity value, and then divide by shares outstanding to arrive at the target price.

(2) Investors that use P/E multiples need to normalize for variations in cash balances by using ex-cash P/E multiples. For most companies, cash is a small percentage of the market cap such that P/E multiples are a close enough approximation to ex-cash P/E multiples. For companies with large cash balances, that's not the case, and the valuation method needs to be adjusted appropriately.

If your argument is that some investors fail to do this, you're absolutely right. However, they are doing so based on an error of judgement - not because they really believe cash shouldn't be valued on a 1:1 basis.
CenturyLink Wants to Block Municipal Broadband
Very interesting, much obliged.
GoGo Inflight hacks for frequent travellers
"Aside from Dutch, all other languages lean toward the bleak."

This is rather interesting. I wonder if this contributes to their low rate of aggressive dreams and positivity. Furthermore, it would be interesting to study if this might somehow be connected with their very "liberal" policies towards sex and drugs, sources of pleasure.
Epic Forum Thread on Concorde (2010)
Bought an (almost) new Sonata a few months back and it's been great. But the A-pillars are pretty thick and sloped in the perfect was to block my visibility. I have to often lean up a foot or so and turn my head if I want to see to my left clearly. It can actually be rather scary at times to not have that line of sight, recommend checking that out on any cars you buy. It's not a complete deal-breaker, but if I did a lot more urban driving it might be.
Wow, really? Sounds like an incredibly dishonest way to twist a simple statistic into suiting your agenda.
The blurb incorrectly cites a real fact. It is the impact speed, not the speed limit, which makes a difference.
The state is not just suing for breach of contract to recover some money here -- the Attorney General is seeking a permanent ban on Oracle selling anything to the state.

"On page 119:
(c) A permanent injunction prohibiting Oracle from marketing to or entering into a contract with any public
corporation of or agency of the State of Oregon from the date of judgment forward. "
Most of the time we do care about (not!) exposing information to third parties. This even applies to generally lower-importance scenarios such as watching YouTube and Netflix videos.

ISPs are of special importance, because the exposures can be concentrated. We make use of end-to-end encryption with specific servers in order to reduce the information that ISPs (and others) acquire. How will we hide interest data from ISPs in an NPN world?
wow, that look awesome, thanks for sharing. Especially like that it is a ansible playbook!
I have data that compares other VC firms to the S&P 500. Give me a few minutes and I'll find it. Foreshadowing: it's pretty bad, you'd do much better putting your money in an index of the S&P 500.
Some business are simply motivated by profit rather than making headlines with mercurial statements on TechCrunch.
It seems really odd to have such an powerful part of the Silicon Valley establishment accused of disrupting anything. Unless there's some aspect to their business model that differes from venture capital in the most traditional sense, and that I am missing.
your CA should offer you free re-issuing any time you want to regenerate it
Right, but the real question is: what are their returns? (And: how do they compare to VC as a whole?, how do they compare to long-term US treasury bonds?, how do they compare to the S&P 500?
Love the idea, I do wish it was based on Debian and not Ubuntu though. Ubuntu's package testing team leaves a lot to be desired and I've found Debian in general a lot more stable and secure over the years.
Man, I'm wondering how Oregon didn't take advantage of it's excellent software culture and have them build this thing.

Oh, I know why. Oregon actually had a bill presented in the early '00's to accomplish that kind of thing. I was part of it, and it was all about making sure the State could evaluate Open Source type solutions right alongside proprietary ones.

It failed to see a vote, despite broad bi-partisan support, due to some expensive suits lobbying the speaker Minnis.

One case in point used then was the Portland Water billing system. That one cost a ton of money, and was released as a failure, costing more money, and in the end, is likely still costing money.

For this kind of change, Oregon could very easily have setup a foundation, or working group of some sort, and had this thing built out of many, if not all OSS components. Oregon would own it, and have more control over it, and would be able to exercise a lot more options managing it too.

Once that group saw success, they keep the jobs, Oregon saves cash, and they then start knocking out municipal solutions of all kinds, exporting that as needed for funding and or just cash for the public interest.

Oracle really screwed the pooch on this one. It's going to be painful for all involved, but I sure wouldn't want that document out there floating around. Enterprise sales will get just a notch tougher real quick.
thanks for kind suggestions.
regularjs and reactjs pursue a shared objective: a solution to creating view in modern front-end development, beside it, they have nothing in common.
Unlike react's virtual-dom, Regularjs is based on living template(string-based parser combine with dom-based compiler make it living) to describe component's structure. it is really flexible and inituate, you can have full control on template logic, and meanwhile the view is living like angularjs.

but they all based on dirty-check: react operate on generated virtual-dom , regularjs operate on data-view binding .

Aurajs is very awesome, but it is more like a architecture than a library. Probably it is not very suitable to have contrast between them.
Running Kubernetes/CoreOS on Digital Ocean
This isn't a new phenomenon.

There seems to exist a difference between someone who codes for the sake of coding (perhaps it relaxes the mind?) and someone who codes to make other things.

As the other guys have mentioned, there's a lot of valuable nuggets of info you should look into.

I especially liked the part about seeing coding as a means. Code to get somewhere, and if you find a tool that is better and more convenient than writing code, use that instead.

There is actually a school of thought (hopefully I'm not alone in this) that sometimes sees writing code as a matter of no progress. For the last 60 odd years (or more) people have been "writing code" and it makes you wonder why this is still so necessary for the "basic" stuff we try to do.

For example: Why do we need to write and re-write code to build the internal CRUD business applications?

You should also consider taking up another hobby to relax your mind from coding (especially if you don't enjoy it), otherwise the worry about it will just fatigue you physically and mentally.
Ask HN: What new developer tools have you added to your workflow lately?
Found it: http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20repo...

The title is "We Have Met The Enemy...And He Is Us": Lessons from 20 years of the Kauffman Foundation’s Investments in Venture Capital Funds.
There are packages that attempt to bring the Tk design experience to the web. For example, AEjaks (http://aejaks.sourceforge.net/Aejaks_Home/index.html)
It was an interesting Editorial Decision to not use the preferred A16Z, but instead go with the (exactly same length) A.H. everywhere.
I wasn't aware of all the great stuff AH is doing. It looks impressive.

They're not the only VC firm innovating, though. First Round Capital, for example, also has a terrific recruiting division (I know this is common at other firms as well). FRC also created the Dorm Room Fund[0], which invests small amounts in student-run companies and gives them access to FRC resources. FRC has an internal "platform team", developing technology to enable knowledge sharing between portfolio firms. In short, they work hard and do new things to help entrepreneurs succeed.

I'm speaking about First Round because I have direct experience with them, but I'm sure the same is true of some of the other VC's as well.

[0] dormroomfund.com - disclaimer, my former startup received funding from them.
Maybe it's Yahoo's recent track record of acquisitions. If people think Mayer is going to burn through most of the money buying companies of dubious value to Yahoo, it makes sense to discount it.
chill fundamental change: Women's right to vote, African American right to vote, 16 constitutional amendments, legalization of drugs in many states, marriage for gay people in many states, abolition, abolishing abolition, end of Vietnam war, etc, etc.

Just because you view of fundamental change is different, doesn't mean we haven't made fundamental changes. Making changes this broad should take a long time.

So, yes we do have actual fundamental freedom.
We are good at processing negative information. That doesn't mean we are a race of 'depressive realists' or that significant positive emotional events are not the defining building blocks of our character.
(4) is a terrible idea. At the very least you'll need to do it without letting them know what you do, without letting them know that you do something, and without even letting them think that you might do something.

Associating with other criminals is a great way to get ratted out. It is also a great way to put yourself on the radar of law enforcement in the first place, so even if you don't hint to your new 'friends' that you are up to something it is still risky.

Here is a better idea: keep it as white collar as possible (no hitmen) and pray for minimum security.
If somethings got to go, the obvious choice is cars. Indeed, that's what cities like London have aimed to do with initiatives like congestion pricing, which attach a prohibitively heavy cost to driving during the most congested times of day.

Rather, they attach an accurate price, forcing drivers to pay some of the costs that they generally impose on the public. I mean, the amount of space required per driver is wildly disproportionate with the demand on a public resource that every other form of transportation requires. Then there are the environmental costs, which include both noise and pollution. Again, these are way out of proportion in terms of the number of drivers vs. non drivers. They also do damage to commerce, in that pedestrian friendly zones are far more amenable to shopping, dining, etc. than streets that give preference to the needs of drivers. And of course, cars are basically lethal, whereas pedestrians, bikes, and even busses (especially when they have their own lanes) generally aren't.

Basically, cars are a bad deal for cities, and the 21st Century is going to see a sharp and concerted effort to push them out. Letting them in was a mistake. It's time to undo that error.
Amen to that. What these guys do best, or seem to focus most of their energies on is PR.

If they're so great, please show us some returns vis a your competitors and other asset classed with similar risk profiles.
Osama bin Laden memorabilia doesn't belong in 9/11 museum
> Are there any actual generic language parsing projects out there?

Chalmers University has impressive results on this - http://www.grammaticalframework.org/
At a certain point of complexity and scale the in-house, custom distribution layer is almost always going to outperform a general purpose distribution system built into the database.

General purpose distributed database clusters are progressing, and if Riak, or one of the other in memory cluster focused system had been stable and production ready when Twitter was developing their cache layer it might have been a strong contender.

However, Riak is still much, much slower than Redis, especially when it comes to accepting writes. Overall, when you have the money that Twitter does and the team that it has you can come up with something better in house that it is more efficient for your use case. And that's what they've done here by building on top of Redis.
GrindrMap results
Increasingly I think cars are the core problem. We need to decrease car use much like we have with smoking. It's just not healthy for our society. They're too dangerous.

There's many very valid uses for cars, but most people shouldn't need to use them every day and we should be building cities and towns designed such that you rarely if ever need to use a car.
I'm quite sure more drug deals have been and are arranged through AT&T's network than the Silk Road.
Is the name "Policy" a pun on "Paul SC" (Paul's Scala Compiler)? Or is there another meaning?
To add to my above comment: a big high-five to those offering their free time or pro bono advice to the New York Public Library! You guys really rock!
In the requirements, OR seems pretty adamant that they want a COTS solution with no or very little custom code.

I'm sure they could do this project with OSS products and custom code integrating everything, but those don't come with support contracts. If there's no support contract that means OR has to support it itself, which means hiring people with deep knowledge of the system to quite possibly do nothing for long periods of time until a bug is found for their particular use case, because no one else is using the product.

That's not cost effective compared to an off the shelf solution from a vendor that can use 1 support staff to help multiple customers, especially when you realize this means requiring at least a security expert, a db expert, and a frontend UI/UX.

It's exactly the same reason why tech companies don't write everything themselves from OSS projects. Sure, they do that for certain things that they deem critical, but not for things like salesforce or the direct deposit and accounting software and sometimes not even for stuff as important and tech-ey as a vcs, like perforce.

I'll totally agree that OR should keep IT in house for this stuff, but I don't think it's a great idea for a state or business to suddenly get NIH syndrome and want to write custom software themselves for anything their agencies might need. Can you imagine if this had happened because OR did this project in house and had the same results? Or if the whitehouse had said they weren't outsourcing healthcare.gov and released the same PoS that was actually released? It'd be even worse than the current fallout because they aren't subject matter experts.

At least OR appeared to try and be competent by having an in-depth sales cycle and outside consultants to vet the proposals.
Ask HN: Is server-side HTML rendering dying?
I am putting considerable energy into building a framework that renders on the client and the server. However, I am unable to think about strong reasons why server-side rendering will be a must-have in future.

1. Processors are going to be fast enough to offset the rendering disadvantage that exists on the client now

2. Getting JSON data is just another request (or you could bootstrap on the page itself). In any case, you'd need to bring other files like CSS before the user can interact.

3. All crawlers will soon do AJAX, some are already doing this.
Interesting article that buried the lede.

The part about the criticism of the positivity ratio was particularly interesting because a co-author wrote the brilliant parody of post-modernism published in one of its seminal journals, Social Text (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair).

A critique by Sokal is prima facie intriguing.

I need to go read the original article but the Wikipedia summary is fascinating (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_positivity_ratio) in specific, Fredrickson and Losada appear to have chosen functional parameters that yield good results, not ones based on evidence.
Don't have the most recent numbers but http://fortune.com/2012/07/24/nice-ira-andreessen-horowitz-r... It would seem they've done quite well.
They've existed for 7 years(barely). Most of their investments would be way too early to tell the results of.
The list of supported cyphersuites is sent before the encryption is set up.

Though some browsers lie in that list and list things they don't actually support, of course...
Negativity was interpreted negatively in this article. It shouldn't be. Negativity can be positive.

Cultivating dissatisfaction is key to doing good work. If you can't bring yourself to say "Man, this sucks, I could do better than that" how will you try to do better?

In fact, research shows people who are motivated more by the fear of loss rather than the hope of gain, in other words, defensive pessimists, are better prepared to handle the obstacles that get thrown in their path. Being negative is the strongest motivation for these people.

The irony of it is humans being wired for negativity sounds like bad news for the optimists. But there's a way to model optimists in terms of negativity too. Optimists have what Keats referred to as high negative capability: they are capable of "being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".

As a practical matter, I think it helps to honor both the negative and the positive. Be negative when you are figuring out what you want to fix that's broken, and be positive about bringing yourself to actually do it.
And, just to clarify. I've done extensive testing for large organizations using most test tools under the sun testing a lot of 10-100Gb platforms. Ixia BreakingPoint, Spirent, etc. I can also say that I've tested the EdgeRouter Lite and know that, in terms of pure packet processing, it will beat an APU1C in packets per dollar every day of the week.

I also understand your perspective now - coming from Netgate. I'm sure I'd be kicking myself as well, but - then again Ubiquiti probably wouldn't be what they are today.
Gruber: steadfast supporter of naming rights. Remember when he objected strongly when Apple took the name Swift from the Swift programming language?

http://swift-lang.org/main/
This is a much better comment because it refers to your actual experience. It would be even better if you shared some of what you've learned about the farm domain and that kind of software, or some of what specifically you find wanting in FarmLogs' approach, or what specifically a better approach would require.

The more concrete discussions like this can be, the more grounded and informative they are. It's the comments that dismiss others' work for generic reasons, after apparently shallow consideration, that are jarring.
Curious why they didn't include this description in the original indictment. I don't read a lot of indictment documents but pretty much all that I have laid out the steps law enforcement took to ascertain that a crime had taken place and that the person they were indicting was the person they believe committed that crime. I could them requesting that the description remain under seal to foil other poor server maintainers from protecting their identity but that isn't what happened here.
Starting a company is not rocket science, do you want to hear interesting non-obvious anecdotes, that may be highly specific to the individual situation, or do you want to tell your friend what works?

Focus on the factors under your control. When you start out, the easiest factor to control is your expenses. Stay lean and you'll make profitability much easier to achieve. Starting is great but until profits are fueling your growth don't overthink what you're doing, keep your energies focused on that.
When deciding how much credence to grant one journalistic outlet over another, it is useful to benchmark with an event where you have first-hand experience of the reported event.

Those who can compare their first-hand observations with the reported news are often surprised. If you've not had this personal experience, an alternative would be to read classic books by Edward Bernays (father of PR) or Ryan Holiday (2012), http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-church/ryan-holiday-tru...