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How do index funds typically vote on hiring/firing ineffective management, executive compensation and other controversial issues? Doesn't management basically get a free run to milk the place dry with no active shareholders in charge?
Anyone have any idea about the safety of the chemicals and adhesives they use to make these things? I'm curious if the glue will last indefinitely and more importantly if we aren't going to find out in 50 years that the stuff they treat all this wood with is killing us like seems to happen with so many things.
Ask HN: Is it necessary that a developer own an Apple laptop?
I have seen many developers from Google, Facebook and other companies and noticed that they were using Apple laptops. Why are they using only Apple laptops?

I will be using it for mainly Front End development and no, I won't use it for gaming. looking forward to hear from you guys (:
Sigh.

Your post shows the typical HN response where libertarianism comes into play. It's about as bad as discussions around age, sexism, or visa issues.

Anyone can bring a ballot measure forth, and well, in CA, people with horses are in general as full of their self importance as your blowhard post. Oh and people think horses are cute, so it passed.

Regarding meat substitution, late 70s/early 80s Jack In the Box was substituting Kangaroo for beef.

There was a large blow back.

Sometimes it is out of emotion, sometimes it is out of misrepresentation.
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I was saying that a 100 hours should be a minimum. Various friends have said they need to date for "at least 'x' number of years", before getting married. To each his own.

The goal is to try to get to know the person to such a degree that you can decide intelligently whether you truly want to spend the rest of your life with them.

I personally think dating for 3 years or more is excessive, and prefer something shorter. But I would, at the very least have an intense dating period of 6 months or more, before deciding on something as important as marriage.
A goal of professionalization was to restrict entry in the profession, to ensure job security. This happened across the board in a wide variety of fields. Mostly college educated work. Later, labor movements were successful in pushing licensing requirements for trade workers as well.

Your argument reads a little like an after the fact rationalization. Yes, we need good doctors, but that's not the reason why SelfStudy Steve can't practice wart removal or write medical marijuana prescriptions without an MD. Physicians have been very succesful in defending the status quo. One particular sleight of hands is perpetuating the myth that the financial commitment when entering medschool is akin to taking a risk. It is decidedly not because the payoff is virtually guaranteed. I'm not necessarily disagreeing, don't get me wrong, that we need skilled medical practitioners, but the profession is the text-book example of rent-seeking, yet somehow it's unseemly to say this out loud.

Anyways, I don't want to make it seem like doctors don't deserve their pay. That's a different question But I think it is perfectly OK for barbers to pursue job security, and do so through means that have a proven track record.

A small unrelated comment, and I forget where I picked this up, but it tickles my funny bone and just wanted to share.

Paradoxically, the professions that are least likely to be able to guarantee a successful outcome, are paid the most. For example, engineers can reasonably guarantee the bridge will stay upright. Once the work is completed, the client too can easily evaluate by having their donkey walk over it first. A librarian can usually say if she'll find an original primary source within a collection, and the patron can verify with a certain amount of confidence when taking delivery that he's handed the real deal.

However, a lawyer will most likely hem and haw if you ask if he can win your case. If you end up losing, it'll be because of a biased jury, or unfavourable public opinion, perhaps the judge was drunk. Grandma died from that infection? The doctor will say it was old age, or the cancer was really strong, or "god works in mysterious ways". And when you are an insurer, did your actuarian really miscalcute the fire risk in that new township, or do you take him at his word and was it really just all a minuscule coincidence that the place burned down?

The bolder the bluff, the higher the reward. Because you didn't go to law school, how would you know if the lawyer didn't miss this&that amendment to this&that ordinance? You didn't go to med school, so how would you know that the doctor did not wing it that particular night, paying more attention to his fantasy football game than meemaw? And are you confident enough in your high school maths to verify the calculations that yielded that bad actuarial table?

Anybody can recognize a bad from a good haircut though.
As far as I'm aware, there are very few manicure tools used in the cutting and braiding of hair. Consider that this type of over thinking might be a large part of the reason for these licensing requirements.
> Impossible, even.

On an aggregate level, perhaps, but on an individual level, not at all.
The report of the experimentation is available here: http://bit.ly/nlp-cs6741
Awesome! I've always wanted something like this. Thanks for sharing.
I subscribed to this and was kind of amazed at the content they showed. Under "githubs" they put AlamoFire. Really? Who hasn't heard of AlamoFire that is subscribed to a newsletter? Furthermore, they haven't linked to any blog posts from the past month, which are generally the best places to learn new things for iOS.
If you ever find yourself in northern Italy, near Lake Como, I highly suggest a trip to this little place called Alva Market. It's a food mecca; the place Italians make a trip to on a Sunday just to eat good pizzoccheri (buckwheat pasta with potatoes, greens, and cheese) or polenta taragna (buckwheat polenta with a dangerous amount of taleggio cheese). Everything there is homemade or coming from the nearby valleys; they raise their own livestock, make their own cheese, cure their own salumi. My visit is easily one of the best food experiences of my life and the highlght of everything I've done and eaten in Italy.

What they're most known for is their bresaola. The've got a number of different kinds; beef, goat, etc., but what I was most enamored of was the horse bresaola. It was a slender cut of meat, allowing the rosemary, juniper, and other spices to really come through in each slice. The horse itself was quite sweet. Deep purpleish red. Truly incredible.
This. There's a tendency especially among software developers to assume that because there is truth on the internet, everyone is aware of that truth and reviews it critically before making decisions.

This is often not the case, as stated above.
People are ignorant, that's why they can't put two and two together. They're brainwashed and set in their stubborn ways, or have not spent enough time with animals to realize that they don't deserve the bullshit we put them through. We're basically all Nazi's to be blunt.

I'm not even 100% against meat, primarily because I know some people will never be convinced, however the regulations regarding cruelty and laws against filming etc are total crap.
A cartel doesn't have to be very powerful at all to influence public policy. For something like this to happen, we need very few factors:

1)A small set of people that have much to gain from a policy change, while it'd be a small visible cost for everyone else. The moment another easily identifiable groups can lose, this weakens considerably

2)Enough political will to lobby. This can be due to single issue voting, or a setup where only the people that contribute economically to a cause will really benefit from it. This is the reason unions are very weak in "right to work" states, as the legislation makes paying dues a suboptimal outcome.

As long as you have that, it's pretty easy to get laws passed that will help you and hurt the public in hard to measure ways. It's easy to sell occupational licensing to people that aren't paying much attention, because the costs of it to the public are not easy to see, but very real to people who know get protected from other people joining their profession.

In Spain, for instance, you'll see a bunch of computer science professional organization that try to recruit people by saying that they will "protect your degree", mainly by lobbying for legislation that would separate someone with a computer science degree from "intruders" (people with decrees in engineering physics and such that can code).

And two years of training before becoming a barber is plenty of barrier: There are other professions that have similar difficulty and pay, but lack the two years of training requirement. So less people become barbers, as losing two years of pay for training is worse than getting a job right away! This leads to decreased competition, and eventually high prices. Two years is A LOT of time to end up getting paid that little.
Can you provide examples?

The Romans, IIRC, were uncommonly willing to allow subjects to participate in Roman society as long as they followed the rules. This did not mean that the Romans themselves changed their own lifestyles.
That's because Python 2 has a special case for lists[1]. This does not exist in Python 3[2] (and therefore neither does the performance difference).

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/2.7/Python/ceval.c#L1...

[2] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Python/ceval.c...
When I open the app it has some cars on the screen and tells me the time estimate for someone to get to my location. As long as the time estimate is correct, do I care where on the screen the cars are?
Finland still carries horse meat, but it's still a rarity, as nobody grows horses for making meat, and it's just adult horses that were put down for some other reason. The nice thing about it being so rare is that it's really cheap! You might get a good horse steak from the meat counter half the price of the best beef steaks, and it's much better than any beef steak I've ever eaten in any country.

Reindeer steaks on the other hand, those are among the best steaks made out of any animal I've eaten. There the price comes from the fact that reindeer herds need hundreds if not thousands of square kilometres to roam freely. The good thing is that Finland has 123 000 sqkms of wilderness (roughly the size of Greece or Mississippi) officially dedicated for herding reindeer!
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> This is not a zero-sum game, If government pays it via taxes they have to stop paying something else or increase taxes.

That is literally the definition of a zero-sum game.
Silicon is not necessarily tough in the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughness -- it really depends.

The hard problem in road surfaces is not the sitting outside for 20 years. Glass, even cheap crappy glass, handles this last just fine; see windows in houses. The hard problems are dealing with repeated time-varying mechanical stress and dealing with thermal expansion (windows can play fast and loose with this by leaving expansion space around the glass inside the frame).
>I agree the dining out situation there (and in Italy in general) was a bit hostile/weird

How do you mean? I've really found the opposite to be true. It's something I love most about Italy; you can find good food prepared by people who are passionate about their food for relatively cheap, and it's always unfussy.
Yep, this is what I meant by my (now downvoted) post.

The foundation exists, what is/has been promised does not yet exist. If this group actually had an AGI, we'd be having an entirely different conversation (about the societal ramifications, mostly likely).
I guess I'm just wrong. My assumption mostly came from the apparent extreme resistance Isis is facing in actually creating Sharia governance from the local power vacuums. Im also having trouble finding useful information about civilian opinions of existing Sharia regemes.
Mr. Jabiry is one of those reasons why people start thinking that real refugees are like this. Going to a foreign country without education or possibility to get a job is naive if you want to say it nicely. They take a place from someone who really needs help and ruin their reputation
Potentially relevant if, like me, you're curious about studies into the effectiveness of random inspections:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/336/6083/907
>He was on the wrong side of history

Does the last 6 months count as history? I don't think enough time has elapsed to fully ascertain the merits of same-sex marriage. Changes in sexual culture take a few dozen years to propagate and get a good read on the real effects.
Australia.
Yeah, okay. So what you're trying to tell the world right now is...

"Fear the inevitable nightmare known as solar power, because a half measure avails no one."

Is that the alarm bell you're ringing here?

You're right, we should fear for the preservation of vegetables that already are, rather than prevent the brain damage that would not have otherwise been.

Thanks for the help here, guy.
i don't use bitbucket so can't comment if they provide this. but github has a nice hack allowing you to svn checkout a portion of a tree

on a slow connection, this allows you to work on or inspect repos that are too large to git clone (one of the few major complaints i have with git itself)
>I don't think a secular government is a new concept for Syrians or Iraqis. Saudis, Afghans? Sure. But Syria and Iraq have been under secular governments pretty much since the fifties.

This is a common misconception while the governments were secular they've enforced very strict "cultural" laws.
In Iraq and in Syria it is perfectly legal to kill your sister for extra-mertial sex, homosexuals are also specifically targeted by either laws that outright make homosexuality illegal (Syria) or by laws that target extra-marital sex (Iraq).

So while you can have perfectly "well adjusted" individuals that might even be highly educated there is an almost insurmountable cultural gap that is almost impossible for anyone who isn't either from the region or had extensive contact with people from the middle east to understand.

You can literally be sitting over tea and talking with a young Iraqi, Syria, Iranian or w/e engineer about everything from mechanical engineering to democracy and constitutional law thinking to yourself wow these guys aren't that different after all until they mention in the same nonchalant casual manner as you would "hey did you see the game last night?" that they had to kill their sister or that they've reported their room-mate for being gay to the state.

Religion and culture aren't separate entities like it or not even by being say not even an atheist but an active anti-theist if you grew up in the west the 2000 years or so of shared cultural heritage which at some point or another was (and still collectively is) affected by judeo-christian beliefs, values, or what ever you want to call it (and vise versa) has been imprinted on you from the day you were born the same way it was imprinted on everyone else.

The true cultural shock isn't when the drinking, chain smoking, club going mid-20's Syrian law student comes to Sweden the cultural shock happens when the Swedes figure out that no matter what they tell him they still can't stop him from thinking it's OK to kill his sister for dating some one he doesn't like.
Yeah, I was kind of taken aback by raw horse meat sushi in a conveyor belt sushi place in Kyoto. Couldn't work up the courage to try it.
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However, majority of these people sought / are seeking asylum is, not claiming that they want to migrate for better quality of life. The people who would be granted asylum theoretically should be persons who would be in a grave danger in the country they came from (ranging from wrongful imprisonment for e.g. political opinion we would find perfectly justifiable, to torture and death for gender identity or sexual orientation). Some people were just "regular people" in Syria (not especially persecuted bloggers or minorities), but still rather want to escape rather than be maimed or killed in a brutal war where "good sides" are hard to find.

Now, the main point in the whole migrant / refugee crisis seems to be that many people who would be economic migrants are using the asylum system to try to enter certain EU countries, but there also this thing that the-would-be-legitimate asylum seekers are also are prone to have much better economic future if they are granted in asylum in country like Finland: differentiating between those is very difficult. This is why it's difficult mess.

edit. is, not isn't.
In the polyamorous community, we refer to the initial drug-like rush you get in the first 3-12 months of a relationship as "NRE", for "new relationship energy". It is definitely much different from the kind of love you experience when a relationship gets up there in years.
Thank you for this. I suppose I should have included the caveot that my rant applies mostly to early stage shops which are aren't ready to build out and ship a shiny new dev machine for every employee. Another problem for smaller startups is that if you're not careful almost everybody ends up being "blessed". And simply being a senior sysadmin type doesn't mean that you're automatically immune from all forms of social engineering attacks. I suppose your point is that even very early companies should opt for standardized hardware, I think you're right.

I <3 Duo Security.
Funny stuff. I LOL'd (for real) when I read "Why don't they just host GitHub wherever the status site is hosted?"
I see. That certainly makes it more interesting. In that case, all of the criticism should be directed at him, and not at Fidelis or their appliances.
I was thinking of the successor project, Icarus. It's not the mass of the probe, it's the mass of the gas giant's atmosphere you need to process to extract the Helium-3.
Is that up to date? They used to introduce each employee on their blog but they hadn't done one for months last time I checked.
> That would not have been available decades ago, but today we have the Internet

Which conveys misinformation as easily as accurate information -- and this is particularly the case when there is any significant interest, including economic/financial interest, motivating the misinformation.
Wooden houses in Japan can last for a very long time when they want to:
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=734

On the other hand there's Ise shrine, which is indeed not built to last, and only 3 years old at the moment. It's been torn down and rebuilt the same way every 20 years since the 600s to keep it looking new.
I'd love to work on a project such as this. It seems like the ideal solution with the ongoing influx of rural citizens to major metros.
Do you have any suggestions for what you think distributed issue trackers should look like?

My favorite was simple defects with the prophet database backend, but it was very "outside" of git and this gave people heartache.

Are there any that you have liked? Ikiwiki changed what I thought version control could be, but I never really used it for a project because I struggled with spam. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the more targeted issue tracker approaches.
> Additionally, those tools are easy transmission vectors for diseases (both from potential cuts, and from bugs like lice).

And, note, this creates a public health issue, not just one affecting their direct customers (even though the direct effect is on customers.)
Kids who played shoot-em-up games in the ‘90s were probably (mostly) OK
Why do we need more powerful processors?
If all the programs like Java, .net keeps updating and getting better, then shouldn't it work on older systems?
Does not say they show the latest, it's not just another trash rss reader like others. its a hand picked selection voted for by the community and readers. If you want the latest - use Google and the Time search feature.
Of course you're welcome to do that. https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/I_am_archiveteam/ ;)
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Still no parallel download support ?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20056
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If you go back to Japan, I highly recommend trying it. It is one of my favourite foods. Horse meat has a nicer flavour than beef, and especially eaten raw it is amazing. Unfortunately horse meat is quite rare where I live (Shizuoka prefecture), so I only usually get to eat it when I'm travelling.

I often wonder where the meat comes from though. Do they use young horses, or old, for instance? Also, the basashi I've had seems like it might be the tenderloin (it is very tender), so I wonder what happens to the rest of the animal. I'd very happily use it in stews if I could get it.
Also to add. I do not work for SwiftMonthly. Looks like I got defensive there. Just stating facts :s
> Speaking as a person born in a former colony, what I find sick is the pro-imperialist mindset that assumes being a western/american puppet state is better than getting communist benefactors in the fight for self-determination. Liberty or Death.

So, you would prefer to live in a North Korea to the South?
@jacquesm, try these shots, circa 1900s, "Sequoia" ~ http://mashable.com/2015/12/14/lumberjacks/?utm_cid=lf-toc
That was part of a massive, global housing bubble popping. A better point of reference is the dot.com crash (the worst of which was a local event) and the worst you saw, at least in decent areas, were valuations that stopped climbing.
Is anyone familiar with horse meat in the US? I'd like to try some for a reasonable price, I've never heard of it being sold here though.
Horse meat is very common in Belgium. As steak, as sandwich topping, or as part of many foods containing mince.
Have you ever driven through a US national park? If not, I highly recommend it to understand where the comment you replied to is coming from.
Calling attention the differences is not particularly insightful (Who in their right mind would compare startups to dictatorships to imply that they are one and the same).

But Seiji's calling attention to the similarities provides good insights.

Also the difference you list is not actually that much of a difference. Sure, politics is about control of coercive power, but so are businesses (especially the most succesful ones). Politics is also about negotiations, deals, showmanship, exchanges for mutual benefit(unless you are naive about how politics really works) - aka sales. Furthermore both radical movements and startups need to fund-raise and rally volunteers during their early days, and both do so on little more than the promise of dreams.

They are both equally unlikely to succeed. But when they do, their impact is profound (often one is profoundly good and the other is profoundly bad). I could think of more going down the tangent created by the parent.
Why is that? I don't know anything about wood in construction.
I can believe that was a motivation, but it's quite possible to have a licensing system for doctors and at the same time keep costs in check. For example European countries typically have much lower healthcare costs than the U.S. (even after taking into account tax money spent on the sector), despite still stringent licensing requirements for doctors. The U.S.'s system is a particularly bad case of letting the inmates run the asylum, so to speak, both on the occupational licensing side, and on the drug side (the other half of the cost equation, where e.g. Medicare is statutorily prohibited from negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies).
Why isn't a XferCommand that by itself downloads chunks concurrently good enough for you?
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