skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about expected values and your subjective preferences over those. All of this is determined under circumstances of uncertainty.

You can make a reasonable estimate of the current value of your company, and a reasonable estimate of how likely you are to be offered that value.

You can also make a reasonable estimate of the future value of your company at time X, and a reasonable estimate of how likely you are to be offered that amount at time X.

There are large margins for error in these calculations. You can determine, though, the net present value * probability of the current and future options. The goal of this exercise should be to determine not the exact values (because your error margins are too big to have large confidence in the resulting numbers), but to determine which option you like more.

It's ultimately a subjective decision, but if you are not confident that you will get enough money to definitely want to sell now, then wait.

The original article and the one I linked both put the advice in more absolute terms, but it is obvious that the decision to sell or wait is a difficult one. The goal of both articles is not to answer the question, but to help you understand first that it is not a casual decision, and provide details which may help you decide whether you want that process now.
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In my anecdotal experience, it seems like at least a few Bay Area cities have a hard time doing that properly. Public transit is terrible here. I'm excited at the prospect of a private company giving it a try as a free service to the public. Of course, it's not pure altruism, there are PR motivations. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
DD-WRT allows you to do this using its QoS service. You can specify rules by range of IPs or by MAC adresses, so this definitively is possible.

You can also set rules regarding specific groups of services (games, torrent, netflix, etc.).

If you want a more powerful way to control your bandwidth, DD-WRT has iptables installed, which can be configured by connecting to the router through SSH. The possibilities using iptables are pretty much limitless, but there is a level of complexity that is completely abstracted when using the QoS service.

For more information, see:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Iptables_command
Of course, but you are not entitled to personal facts. Islamic extremism is a 7th century phenomenon and it never went away.
Personally, I view this as symptomatic of the NIMBY-ism that pervades SV and SF. Both want all the money that comes from tech and can be relied upon to want the people to go somewhere else.

That a company has to pick up the "civic output" slack says a great deal about the failings of Mountain View and its voters.
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Streaming: it really depends on the scale of use-case: denormalized datawarehousing vs. financial tranasctions vs. MMORPG user state vs. etc. For some apps, a subscribe / notify pattern for responding to streams of messages (a-la MQTT) might be more workable.

An explanation of Postgres / Oracle similarities:

Postgres Plus AS (the commercial product) aims to be a drop-in replacement for Oracle, so it's no surprise that Postgres tends to overlap with regard to Oracle functionality. It also makes it safer to choose Postgres as a default starting point, because the migration options to Oracle / Postgres Plus / etc. are there.

http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/produ...

Disclaimer: unaffiliated pimping Postgres Plus because it likely subsidizes Postgres OSS dev. (Postgres OSS code is generally well-engineered.)
As someone who enjoys making atmospheric simulation renderings (http://www.indigorenderer.com/images/clouds-0), this is nice work!
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I haven't heard anything about this in 3+ years; don't assume that the page is super-current. But that's kind of the point of the whole project: to make you think of yourself on a longer timescale. The engineers don't want it to be ready in a couple years; the process mirrors the art that it is producing with lots of planning, careful thought about how to get it all to last, a gradual drilling process for the cavern, etc.

I do still wish that I knew how long it'll be before I can visit it, but I take some comfort in the idea that I'll need to look at the bigger picture and wait patiently.
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Some Mayan probably said exactly the same thing a few thousand years ago.
Actually a slogan I saw a lot in the Marche republicaine here in France is:

I'm Muslim,
I'm Jewish,
I'm Christian,
I'm Atheist,
I'm a Policeman,
I'm Charlie

Which I think is much better and is a much more inclusive symbol.

The thing though is that Charlie Hebdo is not a publication that only published offensive cartoons about Mohammad, they published offensive cartoons about everybody and were quite equal handed in the offensiveness... It's very far from being a racist publication, on the contrary.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems that several data engineering organizations are picking up Scala. Is there a reason for this outside of Slide 13 in the presentation that I am missing?

My team has plans of moving away from Scala and towards Python primarily because of the job market. There is a feeling that it will be significantly easier to find a good data engineer who uses Python than it will be to find the same who uses Scala.
If you're saying it's flawed, you should defend that stance with an actual critique instead of a pejorative-laden dismissal.
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They are childish. A child can be very violent, it's still a child. I don't think EliRivers was talking about their english, but mostly their actions.
What the United States are doing in the Middle East is not morally okay. Not even close. At best it kind of works.

EDIT: If you have 45 minutes, here [1] is a show by German political cabaret artist Volker Pispers rushing through half a century of history with heavy focus on the USA in the Middle East. With English subtitles. It's a disturbing mix between fun and contempt for mankind.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0Ql0VfcRg
Don't you know that there's no difference between doing that and starting a global thermonuclear war! They're the same thing! Don't you watch movies?
Mises is also an Austrian which, as a school, is often at odds with mainstream economics.
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> Isn't this the city's job? I actually think it's kind of creepy that Corporations are taking the role of the City. The general idea is the City collects taxes and uses those to provide services like buses.

The article seems to indicate that city is operating them and Google is funding them (EDIT: see the chain of replies, its a bit different structure; I don't think that invalidates the following point, however); while I don't think that it should be the exclusive means, I don't see why you wouldn't want to accept that one way that new public services might be piloted is by having an interested private party who has the funds and thinks the service would be valuable simply contribute support for the service for the period of the pilot project, which is what is happening here.
Everyone seems to be missing the point. They list terrible atrocities that don't get even close to the same outcry from the world as the attacks in Paris.
>The usage of Franc CFA is actually beneficial to those using the currency as it's value is pegged to the Euro, hence helping to control inflation.

The merits of pegging local currencies in such a way are very doubtful. Across the whole eurozone, today, this issue is hotly contested by activists stating that this rigidity penalizes poorer countries, because their lower-quality wares cannot use currency devaluation as a competitive weapon anymore. Countries using the Franc CFA might be experiencing the same problem... Also, Argentina started its bankrupting spiral when its currency was artificially pegged to the US Dollar without really having the commercial and political power to sustain such link in the long run.

A monetary policy is not just about "keeping inflation low" -- in fact, inflation and currency devaluation in many cases are necessary corrections.
But only when they published antisemtic content did they have to do something: http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/152585/charlie-hebdo-fired...
> I don’t understand the transition between these two lines.

To the rational mind, there isn't one.

To the paranoid, conspiracist, conspiracy-theory-believing mind which sees plots behind every bush and believes whole groups of people can be defined the way you define individuals, it's obvious: You're against an action done by members of a group (as they define it), so you must hate that group the way you hate the people who did the action, so you must be a member of a group which conspires to hurt their group. Note how they immediately drug Israel into the discussion; to some conspiracy theorists, Israel is Pure Evil manifest on Earth, causing endless trouble for all good and righteous human beings, so everyone who is against them must have been duped by Israel and Jews in general.

This is by no means limited to Muslim nutballs, BTW. Alex Jones frequently goes on anti-Zionist tirades, where "Zionist" is his code for "Jew" in markets where blatant antisemitism doesn't sell very well. A lot of 9/11 "truthers" also believe Israel is involved as well, because anything which makes any group of Muslims look bad must have been done by the enemies of Muslims, the Jews. Yes, that's pretty much the depth of their analysis.
Because in the case where the price legitimately rose by that much it would discourage donating the work.

Say you bought the painting for $10k, then the artist becomes world famous and the price really does rise to $1m. Are you going to donate the painting if doing so would trigger a ~$150k capital gains tax bill? Nope. At least if you sold it you have the proceeds to cover the taxes.
I don't think the sloganeering is hastily thought, I don't think it is thought at all. It doesn't need to be. Freedom of expression ingrained in Western culture and you would find it very difficult to believe someone should be executed for expressing an opinion. Fined, jailed, maybe, but never executed.

To think of 'I am Charlie' as supporting the cartoons themselves would require you divorce the victims from their fate. Essentially, you'd have to make a leap of logic, and focus on the selfish part (i.e. they offended Muslims) and at this point you no longer deal with rational argument.

Essentially the devil's advocate argument is 'a mature and reasonable person should practice caution before saying anything that may be taken out of context by any party that is sufficiently upset', which is nigh impossible.
My general impression is not that cities have a hard time doing public transit properly. It's that the politics of it make good public transit damn near impossible. Exclusive bedroom communities don't want to be accessible to carless commuters and Muni is impossible to improve because everything is a racist plot against minorities.
network effects? UX? Come on, how can you even ask that question?
I'm French, and I see it everywhere. You won't notice it if your friends are fluent in English, only beginners do that.
It wasn't that the founder was a bad negotiator, he was just outsmarted. The agreed share price was tied to a metric that the acquirer understood much better than the founder.
How could that possibly work? I presume by "backward compatible" you mean that the data outside the journal remains consistent, and the journal layer is capable of detecting modifications made by non-journaled mounts.

That's... fine, I guess. It prevents the obvious corruption cases. But the only plausible recovery mechanism after such a mount is to throw out the journal! That's not likely to be acceptable to most users ("I booted to linux and back, and now a bunch of new files disappeared!").

That's stretching the meaning of "compatible" too far.
A lot of people seem to feel that way. I don't get it though. Given the circumstances, you'd think everybody understands that the "je suis charlie" thing is just a gesture. And even if people intent insult when they use the phrase (to make a point, I guess) I still think that would be okay (given the circumstances).

// Funny how both you and the notepad++ people felt the need to add a disclaimer btw.
Also, let's face it, "the people" in this case are most probably employees of other tech companies in the area. It's not like this is going to improve the life of the average, non-SV-employed, citizen.
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I hope they deface http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ next, possibly improving the current design and pissing of the STALLMAN, drawing the first blood. I'll tell ya folks, when #JeSuisGnu is trending, full wrath of Stallman will be unleashed, then and only then the world will know real religious fanaticism. ISIS aint got shit on alt.religion.emacs
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7th century? This is pretty immediately after the inception of Islam. What happened during that time frame?
The Interval (http://theinterval.org/) is a bar/cafe/museum in SF by Long Now that has details on this project as well as a pretty cool cocktail bar. Worth a visit.
Value is subjective, which is why we can have concepts such as "mutually beneficial exchange". The entire concept of barter and trade, which has been the foundation of our economies since time immemorial, is built on that fact. The world is not zero-sum in regards to value; price is simply what we call an agreement where both parties are willing to give up something that they perceive to be less valuable than the thing they are receiving in exchange.
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> Rant: the older I get, the more I think that "value" (our social evaluation of worth) should be based on nothing more than hours of labor.

If you just mean that you value things based on that criterion, I don't think anyone will have much of a problem with that. But of course, price implies an agreement between multiple parties on the value of some good.
Usually, it's the nutballs who are Just Asking Questions. /s

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
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True freedom of expression is not ingrained in Western culture, that's a myth. In Europe and in America as well, you either get your platform taken away or possibly face prison time when you say antisemtic stuff, when you say anti-black things, when you say hateful things, etc.

Where and who is arbitrarily drawing the lines for what constitutes permitted freedom of speech?

And, of course no-one (except fringe extremists lunatics) is saying execution of the cartoonists was an appropriate reaction to insulting cartoons.
Either way, it's a weird thing for the acquiring CEO to boast about at an all-hands.
Looks like I'm not the only one who followed this up after reading about Danny Hillis and Applied Invention today.
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At the risk of my servers being breached / destroyed... I've embedded an easter egg for you guys.. If you unlocked it, it will add an extra final slide that should be useful for first dates ;)

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And that's why I love their product. I haven't seen any streaming service do it that well.
This year, in lieu of a gift, my parents gave me a giftcard to an online retailer. The system used by that company to create/distribute/sell/accept giftcards likely took many man-years to implement.

I doubt anybody would claim that this gift has more value that a hand-made sweater that might have taken a few dozen hours to knit.

The value of such hand-made gifts is not coming from the time spend preparing them.
Good public transit is not impossible. It's done in other cities. There's just something about the political process of San Francisco, for example, that makes it difficult to improve MUNI.
Look at the top right, it says "French presences".
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Quoting Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:

> Among these purposes is bringing France back into Washington’s orbit. The French president had recently said that the sanctions against Russia should be terminated.

> Hollande was allying himself with French economic interests instead of with Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy.

> Another purpose is to stifle the growing European sympathy for the Palestinians and to realign Europe with Israel.

> Another purpose is to counter the rising opposition in Europe to more Middle Eastern wars. The American neoconservatives have not completed their agenda. Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and Saudi Arabia are still standing.

> And there can be other purposes not apparent to me.

> My recommendation is that you not believe the print and TV media, but think. The failure of Americans to think is why they are 13 years into war and live in a police state.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/11/suspicions-growin...
Seems like the best way to root out terrorists is to post Mohammad everywhere and go after the people who have a problem with it. It's an easy way to root out extremists.

These people don't even understand why Mohammad didn't want his picture public..it is so people wouldn't 'WORSHIP' him.. making fun of him as "just a man" is not worshiping him.. It is in bounds.. The nut balls should attack people who make comic illustrations WORSHIPING and RESPECTING Mohammad.. Because that is what he (Mohammad) didn't want people to do.

Its just whack a doodle stuff.. Actually I think these nut balls (Violent Muslims) are disenfranchised people and really are just using the "Mohammad" thing as an excuse to go nuts.
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Well... I'll make sure to elaborate a little more next time. Edit: Thanks for the explanation.
I'm not sure I agree with your interpretation. To my reading, the article implies the buses are operated by Google.
There's Sinus[1], but it's been in beta forever.

[1] http://www.raffael.me/sinus/
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> Perhaps you believe The Magic Market Fairy somehow assembles products without human help?

The value doesn't come from the assembly; the value comes from the utility that someone gets.

Let's say you're a chef. How much would you pay for a bunch of shovels to stock up the kitchen of your restaurant? You wouldn't buy shovels? Why not, it's raw materials plus labor, same as a knife. In fact, it's just steel and wood -- it's even the same raw materials. Clearly it has value you should pay for; the value is the same, after all...

Oh, you have no USE for it. I see.
HFS+ is probably the worst filesystem in common use right now; even
FAT has the benefit of simplicity. Most of its issues, however, are
with its horrific implementation; the Unicode naming is kind of bad
but Linus manages to be wrong about several things.

Regarding case sensitivity: it is generally accepted among the user
interface crowd that (Western) users don't really understand that 'C'
and 'c' are different things; they're "both" 'c'. Case-preserving is
thus the accepted practice. However case manipulation is not an
operation that can be done absent a locale; my go to example here is
that 'i' upcases to 'I' unless you're a Turk in which case it upcases
to 'İ'. Similar although not quite as bad is the fact that 'ß'
upcases to 'ẞ' U+1E9E in some exotic circumstances; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ẞ for details. Similar
limitations apply to sorting, which users also expect.

Regarding Unicode: NFD is a normalization format; it converts 'é'
U+00E9 and 'é' U+0065 U+0301--which are semantically identical--into
the same coding. As it happens NFD picks U+0065 U+0301 for that
string; NFC picks U+00E9. Any time there is ambiguity, NF[CD] will
retain the original ordering. Calling it "destroying user data" is
meaningless histrionics. Most of the time we tend to use NFC. I am
told that NFD has certain advantages for sorting, where one might want
to match the French word 'être' with the search string 'etre'; in NFC
this requires large equivalence tables but in NFD the root character
is the same in both cases. Linus's claim 'Even the people who think
normalization is a good thing admit that NFD is a bad format, and
certainly not for data exchange.' has a big [citation needed] tag
attached.

As it happens, my personal belief is the following: Given that users
expect case sensitivity and locale specific ordering, which complicate
filesystem design tremendously. Given that users mostly interact with
the system through GUI dialogs, which already hide system files (files
with the hidden bit in HFS+, or files starting with '.'). Therefore,
extract the case sensitivity to a layer, used by the GUI, which can
understand the user's locale and so fold case properly. This layer
should be available to command line applications so that they can use
the same rules if they so choose. The underlying filesystem will then
be case insensitive, but is still used to encode Unicode data; the
right thing to do here is to normalize. Either NFC or NFD is fine,
really.

For pedants: the related NFKC/NFKD forms add a canonicalization step
and are absolutely not semantically safe in any way, for all that
they're useful for sorting.
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That's funny. I've actually heard that within the clock is the very mechanism that will end the world. And that the only possible way to stop it would be to trekonerate it.
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