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>"Can anyone track and connect the dots from fed bond buying to increase in Facebook share price? I don’t think anyone knows."

It's only a "banal" conclusion because it's so blindingly obvious.

Fed drives interest rates down via QE. When bond yields decrease, investors migrate to equities, especially high growth tech stocks.

I've predicted since last year that we are in the midst of a QE-induced asset bubble that will probably pop in early 2017, leading to a 20% pull back. That Spiegel agrees is somewhat vindicating.
"This is tantamount to saying "yeah sometimes our airplanes crash, so from now on we'll just make sure we have less passengers ride in the newer models"."

Things break. You can not design something to be perfect. That is why there is redundancy in every critical system. You are better off having your system gracefully recover from failure, than trying to design the system perfectly. That might mean spreading the traffic across multiple instances within one data center so when one breaks (for any reason), the others pick up the slack. The next level is spreading across multiple data centers so if one place goes down, you have another pick up the slack. Arguably the next level would be going across multiple providers, but to me that seems like overkill.

Given that, if Microsoft rolls it out to 5% of servers and those crap out, that is roughly equivalent for individual customers that are properly spread over multiple instances as a spate of harddrive failures. This only breaks down when they roll the broken stuff out to 100% at once.
I've never heard GUI pronounced until moving to the Bay Area. Before I called it G-U-I (still do).
Organisms aren't computer programs. The point raised earlier about the added energy drain being a handicap to natural selection is spot-on.
Make sense? Is there something I am missing?

Well, you're way off on your math. Just the communications and scheduling of those 9 prospects (and dealing with no-shows, late-shows -- not to mention getting there and back, because it's not like you can get them all to show up in the same time window, back-to-back) involves a very significant multiplier on the 20 minutes per actual showing (1.5 hours per actual, physically appearing prospect) would be a better estimate).

And ditto with the overhead on everything else you're mentioning. Plus they have side costs, and (significant) downtime between clients, etc. I'm not saying these are wonderful people that deserve every penny they're paid. But there's no way the "average" broker is taking in around $7k a week (or $350k a year) as your math would seem to imply.

My argument is that a better model is to compensate the agent hourly vs. commission.

If that was in any way viable it would have happened along time ago. There are reasons the compensation is commission-based; it's because it's basically a sales job, and the same remuneration logic applies: you get paid for closing a sale -- not for posting ads on Craigslist, or for talking up the parquet floors and fireplace and how great the restaurants are.
The is accounted for in my plan. Showing 9 prospects means that the deal didn't work out for 8 of them. And 6% fee is fo sales, not rentals. Phone calls and travel is a fixed cost now as both are now unlimited for a monthly fee, and most likely incurred whether there is deal flow or not (most have mobile and monthly metrocards regardless). Please clarify your last point...
Indeed, I don't think the communist government would remain in power long if they ever had a free election. When I was there I was struck by people saying how hard it was and how they had to get by on about US$2 a week - this was a while back now.
Hmm, bought by the same folks who bought Tom's hardware. So does anyone else think that Purch could buy Dr Dobbs and turn themselves into the online equivalent of Byte or PC World from the 90s?
Actually, this comment is stupid and more broadly indicative of why we have today's current tech bubble: not a second of thought about profit. Revenue is the goal, no consideration to the underlying business model. God forbid one of these companies try to make money.
How could a regular user start using this (unless it is not ready at all for the "fearless ones")?
Why does this firm have to grow?

From the story, ''AnandTech has been profitable since its inception; it’s been on a great growth curve these past couple of years and we’ve always been able to do more with less, but lately there’s been an increased investment in high quality content.''

Additionally, ''...they [Purch] have a sustainable business model, are profitable and have the sort of reach AnandTech needs to really hit the next level.''

If the business is profitable and has been from its inception, it could be possible investors have had a sizeable return on investment. If this is the case and earnings are steady, it's a large risk to transfer ownership to a new stakeholder for the sake of 'growth'. For example, new ownership and more users may alienate the existing, profitable userbase.

However some web businesses may require 'user growth' as a minimum industry requirement to stay alive.
What is the legality of Business Insider publishing what amounts to stolen trade secrets?
It's pedestrian today. It wasn't pedestrian back then. Context matters. It's like saying the GUI work of PARC is pedestrian because today everything is a GUI.
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I don't speak Russian, but I know good RE work when I see it.

The big parts have been black-boxed already - my own console had an Xplorer cartridge running Caetla at the time the PS1 was big! - but it'd be nice to see what actually really goes on inside, say, the SPU, or the GPU's actual handling of a few corner cases. PS1 emulators are already very good (indeed, they can even run the specially copy-protected images without any patches now, as I tried a couple of months ago with a couple of rare games), but those last few percent are the hardest.

I saw MAME mentioned, and that makes sense, given the attention to detail.
Hi there Adam.

Firstly well done on having the guts to show this to people. Doing that scares the hell out of me.

I think you've picked a problem worth solving, at least for some people - me included. I'm crap at choosing gifts, and always have been. Nowadays I choose my wife's presents by asking her what she'd like ;-). If someone could actually build a system that would consistently recommend appropriate gifts I think I'd pay to use it.

In my unqualified opinion, this is a hard problem, and I think you have a lot of work in front of you. But you have to start somewhere. I won't comment on the ui because that's irrelevant at this point. But you might find it useful if I go through my answers and your suggestions. I was answering about my wife who is in her 40s.

The most relevant answers to your questions were a) Kasabian (favourite band), b) One hundred years of solitude (favourite book) and c) spirits (re the choice of wine/beer/spirits).

The suggestions I got were below, with my comments:

1) This is all yours, an Alt J album - [Good suggestion, she already has it]

2) Velociraptor - a Kasabian album - [Again she already has this, but then they're her favourite band]

3) A summary of Love in the time of cholera [Not sure why the summary as opposed to the book. In any case she's already read it, but if she hadn't it would have been a good choice.]

4) Diary of a wimpy kid - the long haul [an odd suggestion given her age, unless I'm missing something. My son says it's a kids' book]

5) The complete book of spirits [ presumably based on the wine/beer/spirits question. I asked her about this and she wasn't keen]

6) A book about Kasabian - [ good suggestion ]

7) KATGI Heart Shape Pendant Necklace [ interesting - I asked my daughter, who thought her mum would like it. I then asked my wife, who frowned and said no ;-) ]

Anyway, not sure if that's helpful. Feel free to ask me anything.

BTW, an idea for you. Some of my friends are extremely good at choosing gifts. Maybe talking to people with that talent would help you work out what makes them good at it.

Good luck.
Article is about the opinions of a guy whose job is to "link CEOs and investors", whatever that job is called.

from a newspaper Meyer stole the most well know tech editor.

from a writter that found a lame excuse to write 'jobs' on the headline, knowing the gang here would eat up anything with that on the title.
Just to be clear. I do think the accelerometer/hardware part would be very difficult. I also think the software side of that would be super hard which is why I'm guessing it would take over a year once you have the hardware. In fact because it is so hard I think the first way I would approach a solution would be with an ensemble machine learning solution leaning on random forests because they are quite fast and Random Forests is the ML algo I have had the most success with in the past, and then try and post process that. If that worked I would probably have users individually generate their forests during a calibration when the game starts.

I have 2 more ideas if that doesn't work well. Though I would probably end up combining all the ideas in another weighted ensemble on top.

The game part of this however is not really that complex and could be done on a regular schedule.
Most non-C languages also come with GC/managed runtime whether you want it or not. So for someone who don't want that Rust could be a fitting choice.
You arrr ell
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The processes involved are orders of magnitude below the scale needed to produce usable light. And in the plants it's been tested in, it's also fatal after a short time. These aren't trivial problems, and they're not going to be solved by a designer photoshopping a concept.
...and it's an exact duplicate of a link posted here 2 years ago.
How we got featured in the Chrome App Store frontpage
Fuzz about Google supporting ODF
Michael Moore needs to read this book.
An open letter to Russell Brand
I believe the point that is being made is that the US was designed from the outset with the idea that diverse factions compete against factions, and that was the only way such a large and varied democracy could work. See Federalist 10.

Citizens of the US have wildly varied views about what it means to be a good American, and we often have greater cohesion to groups such as race or state, etc. Just about the only thing we do agree upon is when there is an existential threat to the country, hence military growth over time.

Cuba or Norway have much less divided societies to govern, and Cuba's leadership is so small that it can focus on specific issues in a way US politics cannot.
On a property sale, the owner is choosing to pay a broker to list, show, market, etc. A licensed broker is required to gain access to distribution via MLS. If the owner wants to show it themselves to save the commission, the are free to do so. In the rental scenario, the customer has to face the 'extortion' of the broker to gain access to the unit. They are not hiring the broker to save them time as with the sale.
that is what worked for jobs, like to admit it or not.

he failed most products. he got a few right. he had lots of cash to burn until he got it right. He cursed anyone who wanted a tablet when he wanted the iphone.

meyer is doing the same. just didn't have the luck jobs had yet.
If you just got a $200 haircut would you tip $0.60?

Throwing $0.0001 at someone for their commit on a project is insulting. I'd rather have a unicode thumb or a +1.
All major movie chains have moved to stay away from “The Interview”
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Thank you nitrogen. I wasn't criticizing HN or it's readers.

Tl;Dr: Simply put, I just felt powerless over the suspicion driven hunt for people who might imply that they belong to a party, a side an ideology, a religion, or whatever is the 'currently trending enemy' of the day. Thus I wanted to reflect my feelings on that, because it's something that's not said often enough.

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For those who still can't put me into drawer: I don't belong to a religion, don't choose a political party or take any active position in current or past political movements.

I think it was a depressive moment, one where I realized that the war is not only out there and far from where I live, but here and now. That it affects all of us. And is most frustratingly causing a split in once finely cooperating individuals and an ersatz valve for undirected agony on the other side. I've read comments from people in different forums who attack each other for tangential comments. (I mostly lurk around and only enjoy reading interesting or insightful comments)

The increasingly restricting laws that take the freedom we took for granted is a side-effect of our wars in foreign countries, but it's also causing a heat up of anti-surveillance protesters who'd like to reduce the symptoms of the war that targets them.

I couldn't voice otherwise it may not be one of my most insightful comments. Maybe it was an neede. I'm sorry that it doesn't mean nothing for viraptor or byEngineer. That's all.
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Almost certainly apocryphal. There are multiple versions of the quote floating around. Also: Who was Watson talking to? How did this story get from him to us?
Drinks with Scotch Whisky – Toddy
And thousands become better than Van Gogh, but the surrounding culture has changed and their work matters far less.
Exactly, I once did the calculation, they use the protein luciferase, which requires 1 molecule of Lucferin and 1 molecule of ATP per photon produced! That means if you were to produce say 200 lm (about the output of a 40W incandescent light bulb) you'd need kilo's of ATP and Luciferin a week. Don't expect useful light.
And I can tell you that quality of care poor get is the same as rich ones get.

That's because you're an anesthesiologist, and you see the acute cases which have already been admitted to the hospital. Poor people don't receive comparable long-term care. They don't receive comparable followup care after procedures. They can't afford lifesaving medication, they can't afford physical therapy, and they can't afford psychiatric care. They're denied for transplants, and many surgeons won't accept them as patients because their recovery stats are so much lower due to the aforementioned lack of followup.

All of this, without even mentioning the increasing number of specialty surgeons that operate on a cash-only basis, or the poor who don't go to the doctor simply because they cannot afford to. There's no comparison between the care that the rich and poor receive in this country, except possibly once they're unconscious in the OR.
I agree quite a bit with him on point 1. Yield starved investors gobbling up more risk to get higher returns in a zero-interest rate policy environment. Also, low risk free rates mean lower costs of capital across the board and I feel that many companies that shouldn't be able to are able to raise more money since investors are yield starved. Also if you're running a DCF analysis on a company, lower risk free rates mean lower discount rates, meaning higher valuations on lower cash flows. Across the markets multiples have been expanding.

On that note, a lot of his commentary seems to be smartly focused on being able to defend valuation outside of the VC universe on a solid EV/sales or EV/cash flow multiple basis. Choosing to go for a lower valuation in the near term makes it easier to argue about revenue growth in the future leading to valuation multiple expansion, possibly making investors more prone to accept price growth.
> smoking a Cuban Cigar can be considered an act of treason currently.

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court."

Like most of the Constitution, I'm sure that there's way more to understanding this section than reading the written words. Nonetheless I'm skeptical of the claim that smoking a cigar could be considered treason.
The key word was "spontaneously". You have to make sure the money gets there.
For those interested in making games:

http://ludumdare.com/compo runs quarterly challenges as well as periodic mini-jams.

http://itch.io/jams Shows all currently running game jams in a nice UI.
previous submission, current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8762493
Today yes. Not so 20 years ago.

Modula-2, Ada, Object Pascal were some of the alternatives without GC.

These are the ones I meant by "faded away".
One of the annoying sticking points with Angular for me has been that it really doesn't play nicely with jQuery or jQuery-derived components (like a lot of the awesome stuff in the jQuery-UI package).

Like, sure, I get it, I get it, you're a framework for doing all this high-brow enterprise single-page app stuff, you own the DOM, you have DI patterns for testability, yadda yadda yadda...why the hell is it so hard to use, say, flotr2 to draw charts with you?

Why does your documentation not show the (common!) example of wrapping working and existing jQuery (or AJAX, or whatever) libraries into directives/services in The One True Angular Way?

Sure, polymer and web components and all that happy horseshit will make things better--years from now. Some of us are trying to deliver functionality today. It's like the devs/community don't even acknowledge that this is a problem.
I check/test my backup setup on World Backup day aka March 31st.

http://worldbackupday.com
It should be obvious that technological change allows content optimization in a way that was never possible in old media. With a group of different headlines, you can apply A/B testing / multi-armed bandit in real time, and watch the results. With a TV show, you had to make the show first, and then you saw the results from Nielsen after it had already aired. The web allows analytical depth on content that was never possible with newspaper / TV / movies, and the proof is in the pudding - Buzzfeed's rapidly growing revenues, the proliferation of content optimized viral sites, etc.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. Getting cases thrown out frequently is an embarrassment to the police force as a whole. Whereas getting fined for the wrongful doings of a police officer is usually just a slap on the wrist for the police department, and it's paid out of taxpayer money.

Sure, having criminal action against the officer personally would be nice, but it seems as though it practice that's much easier to erode than the fruit of the poisoned tree doctrine. After all who polices the police? At least with a doctrine like that you have a different branch of government handling it. In any case prosecuting police for violating the law is not mutually exclusive with the fruit of the poisoned tree doctrine, both are nice things to have.

I really don't see any downside to the fruit of the poisoned tree doctrine. If police are doing their job as they should it'll never even come up, but if they aren't they're committing a grave offense against society as a whole, and shouldn't be allowed to limp away with whatever illicit evidence they've gathered while performing illegal acts.
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Though this seems obvious in retrospect, this is an interesting insight:

VC dollars are being spent on user acquisition despite unknown LTV of users ...

I think some of the tech "bubble" is being driven by speculation in what customer lifetime value could be. There would need to be some pretty devastating event for investors to no longer believe that having millions of users doesn't have potential for a lot of value. It would have to be a fairly counter intuitive epiphany.
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Ah, sorry missed that aspect. Thanks!
I believe Cuba is just collateral damage in the bigger things going on, but if the US can snatch away one of Putin's toys at an opportune time and turn the screws a little harder, why not?

Cuba will happy accept economic aid from the US (in the form of lifted sanctions) in the light that the Russian oil industry faces the possibility of collapse. Everyone expects a sudden humanitarian/tourist opening, but I don't believe that's going to be as quick.
From what I remember of cell biology, expression is so key that some biologists argue DNA & DNA expression are of equal consequence and perhaps even meaningless without the other. Is a gene in your DNA that is never expressed really part of your genotype?
There's still no way to pick and choose on Android is there?