skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypothesis: Few investors (even the ones that see some long term opportunity) want to hold stock for a very long term. This is for a variety of reasons, including liquidity, individual opportunity costs, risks, individual lifetime (if you're old you may be uninterested in a 20 year bet), obsolescence, etc. In the end that horizon dictates of the actions of a shareholder controlled company.

So if the majority of the capital [holders] on the stock market are looking for near/medium term gains, you'll see boards that "maximize shareholder value" populated by those individuals. Their actions will maximize near/medium term value without much regard to long term. That the company could tank doesn't bother them; few investors in the market will be willing to go on a very long term bet against this stock, per the hypothesis, so the stock will do just fine in the near/medium term as a self-fulfilling prophecy; eventually those decisions may catch up and tank the stock, at which point most will jump ship with comfortable profit.

It's well known that having a long term interest yields much better results on the stock market (viz Buffet, other large investors that control companies). Not every investor has this luxury.

So I agree that it may be a good idea to change corporate structure if

1) the hypothesis is good

2) we want to see companies succeed more on long time frames (one might not necessarily want this, maybe with Darwinist ideals, or favoring rapid technological/structural change)

In fact I've seen some companies recently do just that: deliberately neglect shareholder micromanagement in favor of the long term. Companies that retain founders or have CEOs with a strong vision are the ones more able to do this.
On the one hand I feel Arch is trying to redefine some kind of OS X-inspired "chic 1337" and is throwing UNIX history out the window to do so, and on the other hand the feedback cycle with Gentoo is slow enough I fear I'll constantly vacillate between "gah, just let it rebuild overnight" and "GAH THIS TIME MY FINGERS DON'T LEAVE ^C".

What else is there that's sanely up-to-date out-of-the-box, doesn't have bizarre redistribution issues (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613518), and would appeal to someone who uses Slackware but wouldn't mind dependency resolution?

I was already recommended FreeBSD and that's on the todo list.
Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood
No matter how small of a Linux (or other kernel) you compile, as long as it's runnable on a modern system, it's vastly more complicated that almost any other human machine. A minimal kernel is still more complicated than your car, a jumbo jet, etc. Usually well beyond the ability to be certain it has no security flaws.

Elements of your userland might be easy to understand but combine them and you have yet another highly complex machine.

Programmers 30 years ago would be totally amazed at the size of your "small" software.

As for wasteful, I have vastly more computing power than I need -- data is huge but most software, even Windows, is comparatively small. You can run versions Windows on machines that cost just a few dollars. I can virtualize and run multiple operating systems at once on a single machine without breaking a sweat. I also have 2 high resolution 24" monitors which I'm not going to waste on VGA text mode.
I think you are right as I know, it is an open-source library not a service, but the point that I want to know why are starting from scratch as I know this library have a huge payment gateways integration ready and tested
Creating wireframes?
I have been trying to use Sketch to design an app for an enterprise application I'm building. Any recommendations for simpler programs to help me create quick mockups and workflow. I have been told popapp.in and omnigraffle are good. Thoughts?
I only remember using that feature when zipping something up myself and it would have you keep inserting floppies as needed. I'm sure you could then post images of the floppies for distribution but I never really saw that done. It was always .r00, .r01, etc on usenet.
>Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.

-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Norvell (11 June 1807).
Do they even run normal linux then? Even the 32bit atoms supported SSE2.
That stuff is delicious. I don't drink fruit juice, but I put Martinelli's in a different category.
I just hope that anyone doing that only does it with private networks. I still remember that painful time I had to debut the fact that someone was blocking the heartbeat TLS extension by simply dropping traffic and I had a product that most of the time sent that extension by default ("everything else can connect, so it's clearly your fault that you cannot"). I also hope that said network actually patched Heartbleed, but I sincerely wonder about that.
I often feel like I can make an excellent case that the various culture wars we see going on are really just a war on immaturity.
Bi-directional, real-time HipChat-Slack integration
I think you are right as I know, it is an open-source library not a service, but the point that I want to know why are starting from scratch as I know this library have a huge payment gateways integration ready and tested
https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant
7z can't do the exe bit I don't think, but it can make split archives of arbitrary size (in bytes).
Raspberry Pi Zero: Get a Computer for Only $5
Animation shows dramatic change in Scotland's landscape
It doesn't associate on setup. You have to open 7zip, go to options and you see this http://i.imgur.com/12dpE7G.png

I usually click "Select all" then unselect ISO. Done.

Edit: other person replied it must be opened in Administrator mode. That explains why I didn't have it associated.
> 1. Versatile (in the last year, how many different file types did this person touch or work on.

These kind of metrics never provide accurate information. You might as well just pick your "good" devs from a hat.

For example, I'm the main code reviewer for our front end solution but I haven't written a single line of code for it. Am I less versatile than a dev who does basic work across the entire project?
Fragmentation sucks.

There are lots of chat tools, none talk to one another [1]

Best thing is to connect Slack to existing IRC networks/channels, if desired. [2]

[1] http://cdn.sameroom.io/chat-timeline.pdf

[2] https://sameroom.io/blog/connecting-a-channel-in-slack-to-a-...
> any company pay to add massive amounts of chemicals to something to give it a taste that it has naturally?

Unless they plan on selling the juice just during harvest time, they need to store it. Try and store some juice you squeezed from oranges even in the refrigerator and see how long it will last and how it will taste. It will last some but not for 6 months.

Consistency. Tropicana tastes one way, others taste different. I don't know why you need any proof, products will change flavor after they are stored for a while.

> add massive amounts of chemicals to something to give it

I'll have to throw the "sauce, please" back at you here ;-) I don't see where in the article it says these flavor packs are massive. Flavor compounds if done right will not be massive. Have you ever added spices or vanilla to anything you cook or bake. How much of the total volume is it? It usually isn't much.

> No proof is provided of this assertion.

I think it is rather common sense that it would lose flavor, at best it would have a different / strange flavor.

> hardly something to feel alarm about.

Really, you don't have any idea why someone might be a slightly worried about this class of additives put into a popular food that gets to skirt by regulations based on "technical" language.
What formats are you referring to? o.o
For me, "social media" implies that I can use the platform to wish you a happy birthday. It should also allow me to show the world what I care about (people I know, topics I like, etc) just by visiting my profile.

HN allows neither, so I wouldn't count it as so. I'd probably classify it as "news site with comments", but not "social media".
Keeping track of Django project dependencies
> need to measure performance for each member of my team and indeed no easy solution here.

Why do you need a hard number? If you work on a <10 person team then you should already have a good idea of how everyone is performing.

I worked at one place where our bonuses were based on tickets closed and it lead to so many problems. We would get support/qa to create multiple bugs for a single issue and we then would do different fixes for each one of them even though they all really stemmed from the same core issue. A lot of bugs came in over night so a couple of us would log into the bug tracker from home and assign ourselves all the easy bugs. Devs, when they got half way through a bug and realised it was going to be more difficult than they thought would just put it back, or leave it half finished. Etc. Be very careful what you wish for :)
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Matt Mireles++
Buy Nothing Day
Love! It's love, isn't it?
The Galactic Empire Language on Google Translate
> but it actually makes me proud that science allows for orange juice year round.

I am not proud of regulatory environment that allows them to not have to list those ingridients on package and instead do what they do and still claim "Fresh", "Natural", "Not from Concentrate" (i.e. pasteurized) etc.
Not only are "obesity, cancer and heart disease" harder problems, they are diseases of wealth: if many in your country die of infectious disease, they are not alive long enough to get cancer or heart disease. The author is essentially suggesting that the gates should spend more money on rich people's health rather than that of the poor. Quite astonishing.
My phone doesn't ever play 12GB blu-ray rips; and the rpi hardware is older than current phones (which use armv7 and armv8). Given the speed of the cpu, it's surprising it can decode a full H264 stream.

But It's good to know. The down-vote seems unnecessary.
Yes, but how will you interface that virtual computing power to an led, a switch, a relay or a ntc?
> Does your Ansible setup provide that? I suspect not.

My Chef and Packer one does. The deltas between a Vagrant image and an AWS image are exactly the ones I know to be there and are there because the environments are different. Those minimal differences exist because these environments are fundamentally different and I need to be mindful of them when operating at scale--something that Docker will occlude but never, by its nature, solve any better.
It tastes good.
The thing is, the general public will never see sharing of media as a criminal act. The only difference to a normal person between lending a book and letting someone copy a movie is that you both can watch it at the same time.

To most copyright is just some made-up bullshit for the purpose of squeezing money from honest people.
Some context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10620142

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10619956

http://www.filfre.net/2014/04/down-from-the-top/

http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU

http://www.filfre.net/tag/infocom/
Mmmm.

I had a conversation the other day about side projects. People would ask me what I did for side projects, since I have experience in software, electrical engineering, control systems, mechanical assemblies, etc.

My answer was generally that at my day job I got to write software to control electromechanical systems with a budget in the millions. What am I going to do on the side to compete with that?

Sound familiar? I'm guessing that a lot of your "I don't know what to do with it" is because even a cheap laptop, desktop, or tablet is so much easier to work with and has pretty much greater capability than the RPi that the latter just sits and gathers dust.

Oh, and if it helps, in addition to my RPi gathering dust, I also have a BeagleBone and about a dozen flavors of Arduino :-) At least I do some consulting work with Arduino code, so they get used a bit.
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Article seems interesting but damn all the javascript tracking shit make it a pain to read on a oldish iphone (5s)
Probably. But at $50 each you're not really making a profit.
As somebody who's never worn a suit in my adult lifetime, even that $1300 figure feels like staring into some absurdist alternate universe.
The cherry on top would have been if he were to make the sign for "speech under duress" or however it was called in the video.
Visible memory - useful indeed. As a newly minted mainframe engineer at IBM I worked with a guy who could read from punched paper tape by eye. It was most impressive watching him pulling it through his hands at a pretty good pace, reading it out as he went.
If it's $5 at Adafruit, then how come it doesn't show it? Most of the time a store will list something even if it's out of stock, but will just put a sticker on the entry that says "Out of stock".
HA! ha... oh I made myself sad.
I was there very recently. It's a nice place. It's a bit like you imagine Durham UK to be if it'd been occupied by the soviets - a university town with some incredible old buildings, but with a real feel of poverty about the place. Still, it was pleasent and felt safe. Everyone from the taxi drivers to waiting staff know that it's stuffed to the gills with programmers. Seems there's also a pretty impressive gender split - the tech events I went to tended to be 50% women.

> he lists the geographic proximity to Western Europe

Getting to Cluj is a completely ball-ache. There are some infrequent flights from Vienna (on a terrifying TAROM turboprop), and a Whizz Air flight from Luton once a day, and presumably at least one flight from Bucharest. Train from Budapest or Bucharest takes for-e-v-a.
IME Arduino is so popular because it's so cheap. I can buy Arduino ProMicros on Alibaba cheaper than I can buy the Mega168 MCU itself. And that's not counting the PCB, additional chips or board.
I hope you dont mean pure h2o because that's dangerous.
There is an art installation that uses cathode ray tubes: http://www.alpha60.de/art/love_letters/

I guess that they probably don't use the tubes as the actual memory. But it looks extremely cool.
Can you ask your wife what the stuff that appears to be floating in my Martinelli apple juice is?

It's a cloud looking like substance in my juice. Does that mean it's been sitting too long? Fermented apple by chance? Smells almost like alcohol when opening it.
The architecture may exist, by Servo as a day-to-day usable browser does not yet. Don't get me wrong; I absolutely look forward to the day that it does.

Neat that they have a sandbox up and running, though. I wasn't aware of that. Is there a paper somewhere I can read about their sandbox architecture?
I live in the UK and I like the film rating system.

I've heard from people in the anime industry that the cost of rating is one of the reasons it's often cheaper to import DVDs from America than to get non-import DVDs.

Getting a certificate for a 650-minute DVD box set costs £4833 - and if you sell 1000 copies you've got middle-of-the-pack sales figures. So £4.83 of the sale price goes on getting it rated. Needless to say, you ain't going to be selling those box sets for the £15 a game of thrones season 1 box set costs!
Everything is great, simple, and easy to understand, and then I get to that Snake example and the code is nearly unreadable.
So reddit wouldn't qualify.
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It's almost as if one had been pasteurised, more likely.
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Yes it is hard to find them, but looking for companies with a high short ratio [1] is a good place to start. Looking at the top 50 short ratio US companies, MannKind jumps out at me as a stock I would not want to hold [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_interest_ratio

2. http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3062-nasdaqshort-hig...
Again, wouldn't we hear about it if this happened often? I regularly hear about contamination on the other side of the country (e.g. Chipotle recently) and it seems rather unlikely that this could be anywhere near as common as you're claiming without making the news.
There is no paper per se, but you can look at the code (including readme) for the sandbox here: https://github.com/pcwalton/gaol
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I've been living in Germany for 6 months now and I'm so impressed by the availability of natural products.

There is at least one Biomarkt ("natural supermarket") in walking distance pretty much everywhere in Berlin.

There's also startups like Bonativo which deliver fresh and locally produced products and produce regularly (it is a bit expensive though).

I love that there are at least these options should you want them.
Just as a counterpoint, I have found many, many uses for Pis in my life. One is hosting my home automation software, I have built several information radiators with it, one is acting as a network-controlled media player, I even made one that acts as a faux remote control for the AC with IR diodes attached to the GPIO ports.

By contrast, I have several Arduino boards sitting here, and never found a good use for them. For me the appeal of the Pi lies in the combination of low energy usage, low price, networking, and comparatively high computing power. Once you get over the "woah, wasting an entire computer just for [insert menial task]" barrier, it's simply incredible what this single component enables you to cook up on a whim. The Pi allows me to make things that are not yet (or will never be) available commercially.

However, I would not say this thing is necessarily useful for all hackers or nerds. It's only useful if you have ideas for small, self-built devices that require programmable intelligence. Take note that this is also fundamentally different from the stated purpose of the Pi, as stated by its manufacturer.
Once again, nothing there implies that they were chosen solely because they were friends. Could have been highly qualified people who just happen to also be his friends.
I hear ya. One of my Raspberry Pi's sat around for a year or two. Then I got this idea to connect my sheet-fed scanner to it and scan pages directly to Dropbox. That worked nicely. My 2nd RPi I got 2 Canon Selphy Printers and setup a gmail account where I could send pictures to. The RPi picks up the images and send them to the printers in a round-robbin fashion. ... I guess what I'm saying is the sky is the limit... So how do you follow-through? The idea needs to have some practical purpose. In my case, I use both those setups regularly.
The only controversial aspect of "honesty in labeling" is that it would enable and empower FUD campaigns from the "scaring you with science" crowd. Saying that these issues are separate is like a coal salesperson saying "my product is about energy, not polluting the environment." Maybe you wish that were the case, but that does not make it so.

I don't want genetic engineering and industrial preservation techniques to go the way of nuclear energy -- discarded for an alternative that comparatively damages our health, damages our wallets, and damages the environment simply because the otherwise superior option has a higher coefficient of sensationality.
there are literally dozens of us. dozens!
Agreed! A code base I recently inherited (and exorcised) contained unit tests with roughly 90% coverage... And not a single assert. They didn't understand the idea of testing behavior, they just copied the implementation as tests.

I reduced 20,000 lines of tests to 5,000, and caught a dozen bugs.
Personal interpretation here, but I believe it's because when you structure data too early into the program's process you wind up constricting yourself too tightly.

An easy example would be when you have sections of your program hardcoded. Alternatively, when your code is too generic - you can simply lock it down when needed.
This is probably one of the most condescending things I have ever read.

> a lot of people (employees) don't know how to properly use juicers and they don't know that they need a proper cleaning after each user in order to prevent pathogens spreading.

If only there was some kind of method of knowledge transfer to these lowly peon workers who are clearly to stupid to know to clean things after use!

Ah yes, training.
But chapulín means exactly the same thing as grasshopper. Anything that an English speaker would call grasshopper a Mexican would call a chapulín.

I guess I understand why people do this. It's obviously not wrong, because nobody can speak incorrectly. It just strikes me as a bit of a cultural misunderstanding, but that's how things are.
Those little minerals are important. Purified water will pull minerals out of your system through osmotic pressure. http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap...
I am very curious about your comment. how is pure h20 dangerous?
Every time I upgrade either iOS or Mac OS X to a new major release, I am treated to push notifications or desktop popup notifications advertising both Apple Maps and the Safari browser. I think it's pretty irritating. These notifications make me think less of Apple.
This quote is so misleading.

Since when functional programming is "radical"? It's the essence of computing.

What we're seeing are other languages going back to the basics, after a detour in the "imperative is easy to learn" and "OO is reusable" lands.
I had never heard about gene drive before.

It refers to making sure all children (and grandchildren etc) inherit a trait, even though the trait isn't necessarily evolutionary beneficial for the organism. The way this is implemented in this case by having a gene that codes for proteins that insert the gene in chromosomes that do not already have it.

This means that by just releasing a few specimen with the gene drive, the entire population can be gene modified in not-that-many generations. A year may be sufficient for insects, since their generations are so short.
Not true. Twitter allows you to makes a brief introduction to a linked article. I use twitter almost exclusively to follow individuals I respect, so I can be aware of new things they have written (or that they recommend).
The Ducky Programming Language
If that is what you meant, than you are getting in the realm of hypothesis testing. The best equivalent of a p-value is then an anabashedly named "Bayes factor" [1], which is a ratio of posterior probabilities for competing hypotheses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_factor
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Something like this would probaly work well, you would probaly be able to hack it and put tbe pi inside.

http://www.dx.com/p/combo-usb-2-0-lan-ethernet-adapter-3-por...