skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shares are just tokens that can appreciate and depreciate in value (not unlike bitcoin). Price of shares usually has nothing to do with condition or more importantly future of the company. It depends solely on whim of people who have too much money and time and noting better to do with those.

Idea that the company should be managed in a way that would raise the price of shares is silly. Trading shares is a game and what company does after making shares available for purchase serves only as random seed for share price.

There are two parts to stock market. One is providing capital to companies. Selling shares is a way to do that. But not many people would buy shares because growing companies is risky and slow business. It would be only as attractive as buying shares just for the dividend. Thus we need a twist to make things more interesting so that people will act against their own interest. Proven thing that makes people part with their money is a lottery so we change shares into sort of token that players can trade between themselves. Heard behaviors provides the necessary randomness and the thrill. And that's how and why of stock market.

Attempts to further sync the game with the reality are stupid, harmful and unnecessary.
I bought a lot of used books from Amazon when shipping used to cost $1.99 or $2.99, but now that it's $3.99, there's less of a differential between the cost of a new book (or Kindle book) and the cost of a used book (that may have problems like missing pages, which happened to me twice -- very frustrating to be hours into a book and find out that several pages were torn out for some reason). So now I rarely buy used.

Though I guess enough people are buying them to make it worthwhile to sell them.
> The fact that you don't hear about it is largely because employees tend to be better at whining to the media when they don't get their way than shareholders.

The fact that you don't hear about it is, rather, because shareholders have voting rights to control important decisions, including board selection, and the board supervises management, as well as corporations having legally-enforceable fiduciary duties to shareholders.

So, if a company is not adequately representing shareholder interests, they have more efficient mechanisms available to correct that than "whining to the media", as a result of which, management is generally responsive to demands that come from a substantial fraction of the shareholders in ways which they may not be to employee demands.
What about range and recharging speed though? I would imagine hydrogen would have an advantage there...
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Yes they are made of bamboo. The Chinese letter for chopsticks is a combination of 'fast' and 'bamboo'.

I also highly doubt america produces more than a fraction of those made in asia. Is bamboo even growing in north america?
Unbelievable that they actually handed over $6000 to those criminals. No wonder they didn't stop the attack, they probably thought they could get more!
YASS: An Educational Simulator for Computer Education
I'm actually sitting in the building across the street looking at 1196 Borregas as I type this....
> Regarding Claim 1, you are advocating that company will sacrifice its growth in order to live off of SRED.

SRED zombies are a real thing. Companies that should otherwise fold keep living on. It's not that they are sacrificing growth, they are tying up productive resources.

https://twitter.com/tobi/status/369180245972090880
If the distribution of A and B is the same, any significant inequality of outcomes must be caused by bias.

With mine, you need to replace the min estimator by some sort of low quantile estimator (which is far less sensitive to noisE). Quantile estimators are, of course, invulnerable to variation on the right. I haven't worked out the details yet, but this is the pretty obvious next step.

I really don't get why you say this is "cargo cult application of mathematics". What sort of mathematics would you NOT consider "cargo cult"?
It's not intended to, but it seems to me like a worst case interpretation could cast some doubt about the scenario where a government agency (perhaps a university) contributes to GPL software. Now when another TPP member wants to distribute that software, the government of the first country is exactly "requiring" transfer / access to the source code as a condition of distribution by the second TPP member.

The big problem is the use of "require", because it's a very loose general term. It doesn't matter what basis the "requirement" comes, so even just ordinary old copyright law seems to come into scope there.

I don't think it's a real problem but I do think it is close enough to one that it's a horrible thing to have in the agreement.

EDIT: further to those thoughts, the result would not be that the GPL is unenforceable, rather, the result would be that people would lose the right to distribute GPL software in the country. A working GPL is the only thing that gives them the right to do that in the first place. I doubt there is any nation left on earth that can actually now operate without access to GPL software, this is unlikely to play out even if there is a way to interpret it that seems to violate the GPL.
I think this is a great idea.

Having access to the data set itself could unlock a lot of new, creative ideas and applications beyond the expected ones. That's one great thing I've learned from the open source community.

It could not only be used for search, but some data analysis, and what not. I think it would be fairly beneficial for github to do it, actually. Easy to work with, up to date dataset -> interesting projects -> github brand value++.
Cemu Wii U emulator 1.0.2 released and Cemu gets its own website
Japanese people actually practice integrity. If they find a wallet on the street, they will make every effort to return it to its owner - with the cash still inside. If you let small groups of employees "do their own thing" it might actually result in increased productivity and improved moral rather than disintegration and widespread corruption. Japanese culturally enforce and reward conformity to this modality.

> And in which countries?

Well I'm not sure there are many countries that can compare to Japan's homogeneous cultural ethic, it really is unique in many ways.
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Couldn't agree more. Hunting around for a new language to do large scale concurrency in, I had shortlisted Clojure and even Golang, but the Phoenix presentations (and BEAM) tipped it for me. I also appreciate the fact that the Phoenix guys constantly address the need not only to target the browser, but other types of endpoints "beyond the browser" with transport adapters, CoAP etc. Certainly has gotten me to buy a bunch of Elixir books recently to get into the ecosystem.
Sorry. I didn't keep detailed records of the comments I've been reading about let's encrypt over the last half year or so. :)

But I've noticed that most people were happy about free and no restrictions while the automatic part mainly just got how is that going to work and will it screw up my server comments.
I'm probably being thick, but I can't put together why the patch has anything to do with the war in Iraq.
How does Nim hold up if you put "auto" everywhere you possibly can in a non-trivial program? (Tone note: Straight question. I have no idea and am honestly interested.)

Context: Type inference is hard. Hindley-Milner is famous for making it possible, but the farther you stray from it, the harder it gets to do with no human-added annotations. I hope the authors of "Big Bang" are intimately familiar with the issues involved or they're going to be in trouble. If they aren't they ought to correct that.

I'd also suggest that the Haskell community would be happy to share their experiences on that front if they are asked, and unless the authors are already experts, they really really should ask. Only good things can come from asking.
That "Reconsider" post was at the top of HN yesterday(1) but it was quickly removed from the front page(2). What a coincidence.

DHH's "Reconsider": "Our definition of winning didn’t even include establishing that hallowed sanctity of the natural monopoly!"

Sam's "Playbook": "We also ask how the company will one day be a monopoly."

(1)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506422

(2)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508269
There could be many reasons for this.

1. Pixar is a private for-profit company, while Mozilla is at least in part a political nonprofit. For obvious reasons, people are more concerned about the political positions in such a case.

2. I suspect that many people would find the act of donating to a religious body, which holds a wide-ranging diversity of opinions on many subject (not all of which an individual may agree with) as distinct from the explicit act of making a donation for one specific political aim.
the more i work in an open-space office, the more i want to work remotely.
I think there's plenty to criticize about Amazon Books, but this review misses the mark. Three stars.

1. The shopping mall is named University Village due to its proximity to the University of Washington.

2. This is how emails from recruiters on LinkedIn always work. There's nothing new here.

Cady received LinkedIn messages and an email.
It was very personal in tone, but ended with
a simple choice: a button to indicate whether
or not she was interested in the offer. “I
clicked not interested.”

3. It seems absolutely bizarre to me that this article fails to mention, even once, Seattle's best independent book store: Elliot Bay Book Company (http://www.elliottbaybook.com)
> I do not agree with the premise that taxation is necessary.

I can see very few alternatives. Either you believe that no government is necessary, or you believe that government can operate without money, or you believe that government can create the money it needs to operate (with minimal negative effects), or you believe that government can raise sufficient money from something other than taxes. (But if they raise money from anything other than voluntary contributions, it's pretty much a tax. I would consider tariffs to be taxes, for example - they're just a tax on foreign trade rather than income or property.)

From what I recall of your posts, I think you take the first position - that no government is necessary. I strongly disagree, but here I will limit myself to saying that there is no evidence of this being possible. (Yes, there are plenty of examples of people cooperating without government being involved. Cooperating to the point that no government at all was needed anywhere in society? Not so much.)
> I'm not sure the author of the article is even saying
that

The author, at least, certainly is:

> But while Linux is fast, flexible and free, a growing
chorus of critics warn that it has security weaknesses
that could be fixed but haven’t been.
Monopoly can be a localized thing.

Most of them have a high friction associated with them. Ditching your benefit provider is a major pain in the ass if you're Zenefits. If you're a paying customer, ditching Dropbox is tough too.
For me personally I tend to ignore most of what DHH writes.

He has an unfortunate tendency to see the way that he was successful as the only way to be successful, and seems to lack the ability to benefits in other ways of doing things. We used to see this in PG's writings too: back before he started YC he appeared to be utterly convinced that it was Lisp that made his company successful. After he started YC and he saw a lot more his writing became a lot stronger IMO.

Regarding DHH, I'll just point at [1], with the comment that Facebook made $891 profit last quarter. It's also currently valued at ~$300B.

[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...
> For OS X, link directly to the dmg.

Heh, as soon as we can find someone who can create one...
Not being a bourbon fan either I once, randomly, picked up a bottle of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanton%27s as a gift (mostly due to the little horse guy on top). Was rather pleasantly surprised when I got to taste it later. Maybe you'll find it to Your liking too.
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> I guess you missed the "it just doesn't enjoy widespread adoption outside the digital world yet" part

Nah, I didn't miss it, I just don't think it matters. It's like saying "my solar powered car is as real as it gets, just yesterday I drove it down the block, it just doesn't enjoy more than a 10 mile range". Well ok... then it's not as real as it gets, it's a toy and not very practical since it can't be used to get to work, school, hospital etc.

> That has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but with the user habits and possibly his operating system choice.

In practice it has everything to do with bitcoin since permanent loss of funds is only a risk with bitcoin. Those behaviors you describe are not analogous to the problems of bitcoin. Just storing money as bitcoin puts it at risk of permanent loss. If you take out 100 credit cards and never check your balance you are still covered for every conceivable fraud scenario (and in many situations the bank will tell you that you've been a victim before you even realize it). With bitcoin you are never covered regardless of your vigilance or best practices. You can be an expert user and simply make a typo and send your money to the wrong address and then you're screwed. The general public doesn't have the time, patience, or technical skills to decide which OS is the most secure for storing money, especially when bitcoin itself doesn't actually provide any novel benefits for most people.

> It's a trade off, sure, but when it comes to my money I rather trust myself to keep sane habits than trust the payment processing website, the bank AND the gov. not to screw me.

That's your right and I'm glad bitcoin exists for you, but it's simply wrong to suggest that bitcoin is safer, it's not. If you trust yourself to keep your bitcoin secure, more power to you, but statistically speaking your money is still less safe as bitcoin than as a bank balance. It's like saying that driving your motorcycle cross country is safer than flying because you trust yourself not to crash. I'm happy that you can be your own bank and I think that it's cool as hell that this is possible because of an emergent econony based on open source software, but bitcoin is not practical, useful, and least of all safe for most people.
I usually just refer to my business by what it was (an office design magazine/website) as opposed to defining it by a category of technical jargon because the majority of people I interact with don't want to know.

Some people ask how it makes money (advertising) or if I have raised any money (no) or if I have employees (not yet), but I've never once needed to use the term "lifestyle business" or "small business".
SunFarmer (YC S15) is hiring a COO to build solar businesses in Asia
I do try to mentally record my conversations. I've found that very few other people seem to. Try asking someone what they just said some time, or asking them what you just said. I doubt they will give you a verbatim recording. Don't lie; ask questions whose answers contradict established theory.
If you are trying to decide between two things, a good trick is to flip a coin. Assign one choice to heads and the other to tails. You'll find yourself subtly "hoping" for one choice over the other. Decision made. Keep things simple!

In the book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness”, Prof. Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler talk about the science of choices and defaults:

The human brain is amazing, but it evolved for specific purposes, such as avoiding predators and finding food. Those purposes do not include choosing good credit card plans, reducing harmful pollution, avoiding fatty foods, and planning for a decade or so from now. Fortunately, a few nudges can help a lot.
Blantons is worth trying if you've never had it: https://www.blantonsbourbon.com/original_single_barrel

Also, it's not Bourbon or single malt, but Templeton Rye is one of my favorite whiskeys (and reasonably priced): http://www.templetonrye.com/
I manage a crew of about 15 people, and we have an internal company directory. I was asked to list off my job responsibilities for my page, and the first thing I wrote was, "Ensure that my employees are happy."

There is a stark contrast in the morale, work ethic and quality of work that my crew has compared to most other areas in my company. Treating my employees like people, being empathetic, supportive, open-minded and pushing them to grow and learn has done wonders. They love their jobs, they feel appreciated, and I have a lot less stress and worry than most other managers at my facility. It really doesn't even require that much effort on my part, other than being willing to listen when they need me to, and to make sure I'm guiding them down the right path. The rewards are so worth it.
Weird. Never had a problem my side. One crash a month, tops (heavy usage).

I moved to Firefox a while back in futile protest at the big G ... but I've come to truly appreciate it.

It's the much better browser. Not sure where Chrome is nowadays but I remember it looked clean, and was like lightning at the beginning. Crapware now (or when I left it).

Appreciate these moves. Long live the fox.
The contrarian view is there is no such thing as a "secure device", and physical security is the only answer.
The first little programmer looks more like the BSD mascot (Beastie) [0] than (presumably their intention) a gnu. Otherwise, a nice site indeed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
They aren't mutually exclusive
Several important vulnerabilities in OpenOffice and LibreOffice now fixed
It's still imperfect; expect some breakage, depending on your addons. I myself faced problems in HighlightAll (fixed in recently-released 1.8), and VimFx (still broken, which leads me to disable e10s for now).

Nit: you mean (js-based) addons/extensions, not (binary) plugins.
Is your open office very loud?

To me, the real problem is noise, not the lack of an office. I work very well in libraries, which are generally very quiet. I don't work at all well in open offices where people are constantly having phone conversations[1]. The "quiet room" that was provided at Sun Micro that I described in a post below also worked very well for me. Interestingly, I also work well in coffee shops, provided that there are no audible cell phone conversations (again, person to person conversations just aren't that distracting to me).

Overall, while I agree with you that it's not a one-size-fits-all situation, I think it's fair to say that loud noisy offices where developers are put next to a manager or marketing worker who is on the phone all day are generally harmful to a developer's productivity.

[1] These seem to be a worse distraction than person-to-person conversations. I've read that this is a common reaction, probably because people try to "fill in" the unspoken words, causing a greater cognitive impairment.
If food is all interchangeable to you then why not just drink Soylent. People (apparently) are buying these because the results beat things like readymade meals. I say apparently because I don't know much about them firsthand.
Hmmm I just assumed that the bookstore was a book-store wrapper around Amazon Lockers. The proximity to U-village denizens would make it a good place to put some.
The implication is that the government wasn't going to war until they'd updated their computers, which is extraordinary when you think about it.
Seq24 may be what you're looking for. It's a sequencer, and doesn't try to be anything else.
I don't know of any banks that process CC contracts by email.

My guess is that he filled out the application forms, set the terms of the contract how he desired them, left a note on top of it all to the effect of, "BTW, I changed the terms, lol. You should probably read them.", stuffed it in an envelope and mailed it to the bank. A bank clerk probably received the envelope, looked to make sure the application form was filled out and the contract signed, then marked in the bank's database that the requisite documents had been received.
Lots of videos of Emirates aircraft on the web lately. I smell viral marketing.
A comment I just sent to the list:

"I'm not going to second this request until we get someone slightly more informed to make a comment.

I'm pretty sure that this section does not mean what many people on this list will immediately jump to - I'm inclined to believe that this is about protecting proprietary software vendors from mandatory source code disclosure by states (with the exception of critical infrastructure and regulatory requirements, as it specifies), and will not in any way impact private copyright arrangements such as the GPL.

Any legally minded folk care to comment?"
The title is flamebait. The clause in question is:

> 1. No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in its territory.

The worst interpretation of that I can come up with is that it would be against the treaty to require open sourcing software as a condition of import, which is very far from banning it.
Because electricity comes from a wall socket and so renders a whole petrochemical industry irrelevant. Do you think they're going to take that lying down?
It also doesn't solve this problem.
I've read that communication may be diminished as well, though, as some people don't want to make noise or cause distractions, or may be uncomfortable having personal conversations near coworkers. In short, the people most distracted by this sort of noise may be most reluctant to engage in it.

I don't have a cite here, and there's a lot of contradictory evidence anyway, but I can easily see how some kids of important inter-team communication might diminish, even if the overall amount of chatter greatly increases.

This is why I tend to agree with people that open offices are more about the appearance of productivity than actual productivity (appearance of communication rather than real communication, illusion of cost savings rather than real cost savings).
I started my business 8 years ago and might be able to hire an employee soon and have been considering writing a post called "How I Hired My First Employee In Only 8 Years".

The goal would be to balance out some of the other posts here about getting 10000 users in a week or "bringing in $500k of revenue in 3 months.
link bait, right?
> Price of shares usually has nothing to do with condition or more importantly future of the company.

A plummeting share price makes it easy to accumulate the stock and use the voting power to orchestrate a takeover of the management. Keeping your company's market cap high enough to avoid a takeover is a real thing. Beyond that, you're right, small moves in price mean nothing for the company short term.
Kyocera is not very big in the Western world, but well known in Japan.
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It seems like Aileen Lee was one of the first people to popularize unicorns. in his article around 2013[0] he defines them as

> We found 39 companies belong to what we call the “Unicorn Club” (by our definition, U.S.-based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors). That’s about .07 percent of venture-backed consumer and enterprise software startups.

That being said, the term is now almost a pejorative moniker for overpriced vaporware or at least "proof of the bubble".
or something. Still though, a fusion company would be the rare breakthrough on a big idea that would warrant such a moniker. Unicorns missed the ark during the great flood, so at IPO time we'll see if tgey go extinct or evolve into narwhals.

0 http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/02/welcome-to-the-unicorn-club...