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I think to get a more accurate value per pizza size we need to factor in the associated medical costs of always opting for the larger pizza.

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To all the HN members who lost a lot of money in this closing, remember the community is here for you. Don't do anything too rash and if you need someone to talk to, myself and most other people would be happy to lend an ear.

Maybe allow for two options:

Option A: Blind trust with some capital gains incentives?

Option B: Ability to manage your own portfolio, but can't act on SEC+company news until x hours after publicly disclosed?

I fail to understand your point. Why would eliminating conflicts of interest be a zero sum game? If somebody's job is to police the players, how could they do it effectively if they have a bias towards certain players? Allowing a conflict of interest destroys the purpose of their job in the first place!

I wish I could upvote this more than once. Aligning government employees interests with the nation's should be #1 priority. Talk about an incentive to do your job well.

Could you expand on this point? I'm under the assumption that employees wouldn't know the portfolio of the blind trust, hence the blind.

This is absurd. Why would we ever let regulators of the market be active participants in it. Certain jobs in the government require for one's assets to be in a blind trust for there to be no conflicts of interest. If anyone in the government is doing it, it should be the SEC.

Unfortunately, I think this is the one big issue barring Node from wide adoption. I love Node.js and the surrounding ecosystem, but all these companies fighting one another can't possibly be good for the community.

I noticed the share funcionality uses a Vagrant URL (vagrantshare.com). Sure enough, when I scrolled to the bottom there was mention of a web service. I imagine this web service will be monitized as it just makes a lot of sense, but hoping that single devs can still demo their projects to friends without having to pay a fee.

If my above assumption is true, would a Vagrant Share Enteprise be in the works/future, similar to Github Enterprise?

Thanks for the awesome tools HashiCorp!

Racket is my first functional language and its been fun, but is it more of an educational language or is it used in production?

Wow that's eerie. It's as if they're trying to pretend it all never happened.

Is this the same messengering app that had the whole encryption debacle a month or two ago?

Wow that's a pretty cool idea. The only issue I see going forward is whether or not the target market can afford the machine. The biggest pro of customizing a PC is the price for performance. I'm able to save quite a bit of $$$ by building my own machine. If the people who don't know how to customize their own machine are price insensitive they might as well go for something that requires no effort from them (e.g. Apple products, high end Dell/HP). If they are in fact price sensitive, I imagine a modular machine such as this would probably be out of their price point given that every part is specifically for this one type of PC.

From the sounds of this article it seems like the success of the mission was merely luck.

> The average age of India’s 2,500-person Mars team is 27

> instead of building many models (a qualification model, a flight model and a flight spare), as is the norm ..., scientists built the final flight model right from the start. Expensive ground tests were also limited.

So not only do you have an incredibly young team, you're also skipping the step-by-step approach that includes testing. “India’s ‘late beginner’ advantage was that it could learn from earlier mission failures" So are you trying to tell me that NASA doesn't have access to previous mission failure insights? I could imagine that there is some bureaucracy that can be cut out from NASA (as with any large organization), but I also think the reason for the extremely cheap mission is the ISRO cut a lot of corners.

Wait, is this a postmortem as in Persona is being discontinued?

I'm a little confused, is the product just the software or the 'things'/system + software?

The B-2 Bomber is child's play compared to the F-35's 1 Trillion USD program [1], but the comparison to the LHC's pricetag really puts things in prespective.

1: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-lockheed-fighte...

> led NIF's critics to label the facility an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars

> government shifted NIF away from its fusion goals to focus on its other mission: simulating the conditions inside nuclear weapons

I think right there lies the problem with our world. People take up more issue with a multi-billion dollar research facility for science than one for military applications. If we spent a small fraction of the world's military spending on these big, as Google likes to put it, moonshot projects we could probably solve some really fundamental world problems (i.e. energy, climate change) in the near future vs. waiting many, many decades (if not centuries).

Could I ask why you didn't turn it into an API and pivot into an API as a service?

I'm a huge fan of Node.js, but I'm getting an uneasy feeling about all the different changes and things happening. I still haven't made up my mind if it's a justified feeling or not.

Seems to not be working for me, is the server down?

I agree with everything you said except for the third option:

> tell your current employer about the offer you've been made ... and see if they counter offer.

That seems like it would come off as worse than taking the new job. If I was OP's current company I'd see that as 'not only did you shop around first couple weeks here, but you're now rubbing it in our faces and expecting us to reward you.'

This has been an ongoing cycle for all of Android. First people complain about Android lagging behind iOS so Google starts moving their services to GSM so they can avoid having to send updates through manufacturers. Then people complain Google isn't open enough so they start baking it into ASOP which takes forever to rollout. On the cycle goes..

This isn't the first time the German government is doing something like this. Previously, they've established laws that dictate the way in which buttons must be presented on ecommerce websites[1].

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxBaDs0sGPw&t=38m18s - Shopify CEO discussing international expansion.

Undoubtedly, people will soon scream 'Bubble!', but I believe this is part of the inevitable shift of technology becoming the driver of the world's economy.

I knew corruption surrounding the games was bad, but I didn't know it was this bad. What happens if they're not prepared? Do they just go "Sorry, no xyz sport because the venue isn't ready"?

How early did Google start doing "warehouse scale computing"? I was always under the impression they started doing that as a byproduct of their large size.

I meant the question more in the sense of starting off with AWS and moving to their own servers like it is popular for most startups to do nowadays. Though you make a good point about gaining the skills for a robust infrastructure early on being important.

By small margins, do you mean at the time or currently?