skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard this idea that dividends determine a stock value, but I've never believed it. I guess for some definitions of the word 'value', because the dividend, if any, has little or nothing to do with the bid or ask prices on the exchange. When dividend time comes near (for annual dividends) the stock price ramps up by the expected/announced dividend, then poof! it drops by that price after. So for most of the year the potential dividend is factored in at nearly zero$.

Also preferred shares issue dividends, right? So all the rest - what is their 'value' by this strange definition?

Folks can pretend there is some holy, true value of the stock that can be determined from the history of dividends. But good luck buying or selling your shares based on that number.
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Chiming in with a slightly relevant blog post from Peter Watts about a re-imagined "Spock's Brain":
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=4335
Are you kidding!? They got the ideas from people who work in these areas!

Reading part of the text drives me nuts because I've seen people essentially do many similar things inadvertently and had to enlighten them to the potential hazard/damage that could result.

Ever had a mechanic with filthy grit-covered hands start to grease your front wheel bearings? Ever seen someone start to clean a paintbrush with gasoline?

The book simply compiles these errors in one place and presents them as "sabotage". Most of the time when they occur in the real world they're chalked up to Hanlon and human ignorance:

"Hanlon's Razor: Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
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I guess I was expecting something more like this goshawk flying through a forest, but maybe it's too much to ask for :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-_RHRAzUHM&start=100
I still have Octane2 at work somewhere stored. I need to boot that baby up and smirk for awhile! Maybe even start a Maya session. What was the command in boot time to check the hardware installed? I forgot all of those shenanigans.
I'm picturing a Federation that stumbles ever deeper into a dystopian nightmare while still maintaining a "we're the good guys and the end justifies the means"-vibe. And finally Kirk and bearded Spock meet their counterparts from the good mirror universe.
what was simplex? just another developer that built an app to talk to plex servers?

was curious when i saw that on the app store what it actually did
I would describe that as "Drone dodges, ducks, dips, dives and... dodges".
I've seen the first "season" of black mirror it was OK is just don't like that type of Scifi I like my Scifi more bigger than life, and while i don't mind some "futuristic earth" shows Black Mirror has the same issue I have with most UK shows and that they produce too little episodes to even fill an afternoon, but Black Mirror just took it to a whole new level with having like what 2-3 episodes?

The new season on Netflix will hopefully be at least 10 episode long so I might actually take another spin at it, waiting 10 years for another 3 episodes of Luther or Sherlock is bad enough I'm not going through this again.

With US TV shows I usually wait until at least the mid season or the 9 episode pickup because lately US TV shows especially from the bigger networks have less job security than the offspring of JRR Martin novels and the Walking Dead characters.

So far we had quite a "decent" year, 12 Monkeys has been renewed, Childhoods End and Westworld are coming, the CW actually managed to make comic book shows (never was a huge comic fan, infact i never had a chance to read a single book i think) cool, we are bloody getting The Man in the High Castle show on Amazon and Marvel's Netflix production is in full gear.
> One thing that all of the designs have in common is poor performance and piss-poor fuel economy.

At what point does it become economical to just run gasoline instead of diesel then (that is, manufacturers selling gasoline models)? If we are talking about diesel still being economical instead of gasoline, but just not as economical as when it was allowed to be more polluting, I'm not sure I can muster much sympathy (but I'm fairly uneducated on the subject, so it may just a matter of not knowing enough).

> When the EPA makes rules that result in dangerous and/or non-functional product designs

Did the EPA make rules that required that, or did manufacturers mess up in their attempt to offer the same features as before? Did the EPA dictate this solution, or did the market respond with a poor solution to an EPA requirement on emissions?
It won't be your father's Star Trek of 1966 or TNG that we grew up on, or Voyager or Enterprise.

It will most likely be targeted at the youth and have a more diverse market to have more minority characters and more female ones. Remember it is not just the USA but the world they are selling the series to.

Each new Star Trek is marketed towards the young, TOS in 1966 was for my father, TNG was for me, Voyager and Enterprise was for Generation-Y, this new one is for the younger generation world wide.

It will sort of be like that Battlestar Galactica reboot Syfy did. Original fans won't like it but new fans will.
Any parallel init system will have non-deterministic boot order. This is very different from race conditions. Non-deterministic boot order makes bugs in your dependency system very hard to track down.

Some parallel build tools have options to do a non-parallel build, but randomize the order of dependencies. This can help track down failures due to improper dependencies regardless of parallelism available.

Race conditions are themselves bugs.
There are at least going to be long term changes to how the testing is done.
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Fancy camera work, but the obstacle avoidance is not convincing. The drone basically passes by one tree, and that's mostly it. Compare that to any bird that lives its life in the brush. Human built flying machines are fast and can carry huge loads but compared to animals we still lag far behind in control and finesse.
is this named after Harvey Specter?
He calls out Renderdoc for picking out rendering internals in the third part of the series: http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphic...

You can poke around D3D11 and OGL games, though I haven't tried out the OGL functionality. Next-gen api support is coming as well.

If you've poked around other engines, either via debuggers or actual engine development, you actually run into a lot of the same concepts as far as piecing a frame together. The interesting parts come in the details of those sub-passes, which is what gets analyzed by the article author.
While I share your concerns there is cause for hope in the article. First, the third Abrams-verse Star Trek movie is "not related" to the new series---hopefully all JJ Abrams movies are unrelated to the new series. Second, the show "will focus on 'new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations'", so it won't be Kirk and Spock. If their goal were to put some Star Trek IP wallpaper over action shlock, then it would probably be Kirk & Spock.

So I'm cautiously optimistic.
They do and have. They won't certify any 2016 VW Diesels. That's the whole reason this blew up now instead of last year when researchers first discovered it.
Multiplication is commutative, you are completely wrong.
So back when Blekko was a consumer search engine we could 100% figure out who owned content on sites we crawled often. And even when we didn't we could often guess correctly more often than not based on the domain registration dates. (not to mention registry owners). That is because few people who rip off content rip off just one web site, they will rip off dozens of web sites and they will all share the same AdSense ids and the same domain registrar. This is easy stuff to spot when you crawl the web regularly.

I suspect that Google simply doesn't care. They get Ad revenue regardless and in their laissez-faire editorial position it doesn't matter. What are you going to do, use another search engine?
Slack itself probably doesn't care. What about the company that aquires them? What about the companies that will buy that data from them?

And obviously one doesn't actually "read" the conversations, we're not in the 80s anymore, we have software to identify the juicy bits.
Keep. First time I've been able to read the front page in portrait. Personally I'd like larger font for comments and maybe the comment width nipped in a bit as I end up zooming and scrolling which is bad for flow, but that's a trade off and I'm an a11y edge case.
I have had a site that had UGC spam promoting dodgy TV streams - get hit with a penalty.
You're so right!

It's the worse kind of dilemma: the kind that people outside the situation will claim was easy.

Personally, I think the Zero-effect case should not be cast aside lightly. Pragmatism is a legitimate ethical model.
You mean hardware supported codecs? According to the specs page [0] it's pretty much the same as an iPhone. Standard H.264 <= 60fps 1080p, regular MPEG-4, HE-AAC. The usual MP4 containers. Most of Apple's audio codecs. The most interesting thing is the HEVC support [1] but I'm not sure how useful that will be given the patent situation. There are also rumours [2] that the A8 can deal with 4K.

If you mean software decoding, I'm not sure what you have in mind. The more interesting codecs (VP9, Thor, Daala) are too complex to decode in software on such a low power embedded chip.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/tv/specs/
[1]: http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/News/Online-Video-New...
[2]: http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-66-plus-a8-chip-capable-of-4...
I don't know for certain. I'm speculating based off previous apple products.
Was your data mutable or immutable? The former requires you to write shouldComponentUpdate logic that isn't just old == new. If you didn't write any of that logic and didn't use immutable data rendering everything again from the top down due to a single change is of course going to be terrible performance.

If you wanted to be more adventurous you should look at alternative virtual dom implementations http://vdom-benchmark.github.io/vdom-benchmark/. What you'll find is that React is actually the slowest one out there based on performance. For instance, on dbmonster InfernoJS sees 50-100% more fps and on my machine ~20x better benchmark performance. If you want the next popular implementations look at virtual-dom, which is leveraged in a variety of frameworks like https://github.com/ashaffer/vdux, or Google's Incremental DOM, https://github.com/google/incremental-dom.
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:( I was afraid of that.

React docs oversell this point a bit: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/multiple-components.ht...

"You may be thinking that it's expensive to change data if there are a large number of nodes under an owner. The good news is that JavaScript is fast and render() methods tend to be quite simple, so in most applications this is extremely fast. Additionally, the bottleneck is almost always the DOM mutation and not JS execution. React will optimize this for you by using batching and change detection. [...] Don't underestimate how fast JavaScript is relative to the DOM."
I have a Chromebook and I am really happy with it
The Waterfox Project has been building a 64-bit Firefox for Windows for quite a while:

https://www.waterfoxproject.org
Don't worry they'll make the cast all females to pander to the feminist craze and all will be well.... /s
So does the brain and AI. What, I'm off topic?
It's one thing I'm not sure about, given that youtube loves to use it as part of webm.
They do, but it's removed in post processing :) I like how movie-like GTA V feels and things like that help to achieve this effect.
That's about the only good thing about the salt (aside from not dying on an ice patch :) ). My wife's 2005 Pontiac G6 with 120k on it is already starting to rust. I dumped my last car at ~9 years old with ~130k because it was starting to rust.

OTOH, I have a '96 Camaro that I only drive during the summer that doesn't have a speck of rust on it (driving an RWD car in a northern state during the winter is a good way to end up in an accident). It's amazing how big a difference the salt makes ... and dirt roads -- I think they kill cars even faster than salt. We are lucky enough to live on a paved road, so I don't have to worry about that particular problem.
It is in principle possible for a sub-popualtion like Ashkenazi Jews to have a higher mean intelligence and hence many more individual with extremely high intelligence without there being alleles with large affects on intelligence. It would just mean that they have a higher frequency of the small positive effect alleles. More importantly, people have looked for such alleles in the Ashkenazi population and have failed to find them.

As far as I am aware there in no genetic disorder that only Ashkenazi’s suffer from that is not also present in the rest of the human population, the only difference is frequency.
I've ridden two tech bubbles up, down, then up again. I wish I was able to time the market, but alas, I am not and so settle for patient long term investing.
This is Laughlin's thesis in his book [1]. The idea is that the mathematics of renormalization as used by the particle physicists, is the same mathematics used to describe quasiparticles. It seems physicists in general have not had much to say in response to this idea.

[1] http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/writers/laughlin.cfm
The movie doesn't examine anything. There are some themes are shared, but they are in no way addressed in the same depth as in the episode. A plot device about racism in an action movie does not equal developing that theme an hour long well written court drama. And the punctuation just makes it even more clear, the episode is ended by a moral speech while the movie ends with an action scene.
scrypt isn't actually too difficult to implement from scratch, although somewhat ironically it requires PBKDF2.
... then you'll start to wonder why graphics programmers came up with such complicated words to describe such simple concepts...

In general, the reason is that these were not the first concepts that they came up with. Often they started out with even simpler concepts that didn't even need names -- but it eventually turned out that these were too simple to offer good performance, or did not map adequately onto evolving hardware.

The original way to draw a triangle in OpenGL didn't involve vertex buffers at all. Basically you just said "OpenGL, draw me some triangles":

glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES);
glVertex3f(0, 0, 1);
glVertex3f(1, 1, 1);
glVertex3f(0, 1, 1);
glEnd();

That was all -- no need to create buffers or bind them. The same simplicity extended everywhere: instead of writing and binding shaders, you just declared what kind of lights and materials you wanted before rendering your triangle.

But when we got programmable GPU hardware that could execute whole programs separately from the CPU, these old simple ways became a tremendous performance bottleneck and an obstacle to implementing more advanced rendering algorithms. On the desktop, all the old OpenGL APIs still work, but they were removed entirely from the mobile edition.
Day 1? You mean Friday 10/30? I think that was the official "launch" date. I ordered my ATV4 in the middle of last week (and was surprised to see they weren't out yet), and it arrives tomorrow.

I'm gonna call Plex close enough to "day 1".
Good job finding the actual specs, I didn't bother to look, but it looks like I wasn't far off except in thinking that VP8 and MPEG2 MIGHT be supported. I'm surprised about the lack of H265/HEVC, even if it's not used much now it means that as things progress the ATV2 will end up being unable to support things in the future.
I wouldn't be surprised either way, but why would the Porche engineers, getting the engine control software from the common engine control group, spot check the emissions on the test track rather than in the globally approved testing setup?

If you presume they are doing their job and not cheating, why would you cross check that your emissions were valid in both the dyno test and on the track? It requires that you assume your fellow workers are cheating, which is hard to do at most places.
Pretty unethical to claim this reward, IMO (if it actually happened and this isn't just a publicity stunt). The people who claimed it had to know it was going to be sold to government agencies (including potentially oppressive countries that may use this to target activists). If they didn't care about ethics, I wonder why they didn't just sell it themselves and cut out the middle man?
Ugh, the "cloud" comes to the desktop. Companies like to have all kinds of telemetry and forced non-security updates, both of which are easy to have with a hosted application. "You'll take whatever we throw up on the server, and we'll watch you like it."

Some of us poor software users don't always like one or both of these things, and client-side software is great at avoiding them: you choose when to install newer versions, and whether the software talks to the developer. Sadly, companies are figuring out how to "cloud up" client-side software with forced updates [1] and always-on telemetry, and Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon in a big way. Maybe reverse firewalls will catch on like browser ad blockers have; probably not, but there's always a chance.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/07/17/windows-1...
Ascribing sides to people like "pro-Apple and anti-Microsoft" is exactly the same thing as complaining about the liberal media. It's both irrelevant and damages your credibility.
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Since when is history not allowed?

The point of that article is to show that Porsche are a company with total disregard for emissions, pollution and noise. It is in their DNA, it is what they do. Hence it is great that they finally get their comeuppance.
The movie doesn't examine anything.

Well, I can tell you're open minded and not too critical. I'm sure continuing this conversation will be incredibly productive and enlightening...
I think it is a PR stunt, as I have not been able to find (other than the tweet) anything on this.
...except irssi and WeeChat offer substantially better UX*

* personal opinion, yes, but it seems quite obviously true.
I was referring to software, as I figured the Apple embedded chips have gotten fairly beefy over the past few years and might be up to the task of software decoding. Thanks for the detailed response.
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For many organizations, Windows is actually monetarily cheaper than Linux, particularly organizations that need to deploy non-web GUI applications for users who are never going to be comfortable on a terminal.
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Notice the different 3.0 litre engine affected.
Does Slack even have e2e encryption?
It is in principle possible for a sub-popualtion like Ashkenazi Jews to have a higher mean intelligence ...

As far as I am aware there in no genetic disorder that only Ashkenazi’s suffer from that is not also present in the rest of the human population, the only difference is frequency.

Do you honestly see no possible connection between these two things?

That's a serious question, not intended as argumentative per se.
P/E ratios are just one factor that professional investors use to analyze companies. P/E ratios may be really high while not being alarming when it is in the company's best interest to invest in growth.

When the company can invest excess profits (contribution margin) in growth, the company can make zero money in earnings while still rapidly growing revenue. That is a really great situation and if you do not buy that stock because of the high p/e ratio, you will have missed a major opportunity.

Dividends go a step further. If a company believes that paying dividends is the best use of the company's capital, that means the company has theoretically run out of growth opportunities to invest in.

Understanding finance is a lot more complicated than reading and understanding a single book written in 1934. If you want to learn a lot more about how unimportant P/E ratios are, you can read about factor based stock analysis or financial econometrics.
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I'll acknowledge your point if and only if HN's sorting algorithm actually works how you describe.