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> He believes in companies that pay dividends, yet BH does not.

The reason he likes companies that pay dividends is that often he can allocate capital better than the companies. CEOs are often tempted to reinvest profits in projects (such as mergers) that generate a sub-standard return. Berkshire is different in that its principal purpose is capital allocation. As long as Buffett succeeds in achieving better than average returns, it makes sense not to pay dividends. There is nothing duplicitous about that.
This is all true but before he structured his businesses this way, he ran a pure investment partnership for several years where his results were entirely due to his security-picking abilities (the aforementioned anecdote about returning the investor his money is from those days). He clobbered the Dow in those years too.
Yes, me too. "Access journalism" has always seemed like a dead-end to me anyway, as it gives the subject a powerful veto on stories they don't like simply by threatening to limit or remove the access. Access feels like privilege, but in reality it's just a gilded cage.

(I wrote a whole thing on this subject, a couple of years back: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/01/rick-reillys-lance-armstr...)

Of course we'll see how this plays out in the coverage Reuters provides going forward. And we'll even have an interesting example to contrast it with: Axios (https://www.axios.com/), the just-launched operation from some of the big wheels behind the success of Politico, which has positioned itself explicitly as an insider, access-oriented outlet.
If you're delivering so much more than you cost, it sounds like you should negotiate for a higher salary, no?
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I don't know anything about Clojure, but in modern Android development, Instant Run patch files mean installation isn't even done each change any more. Even then, you can avoid a lot of installation time by using an emulator on a fast development machine instead of a real device. For most of Android's life the emulator has been disgustingly slow, but for installation times, it has benefits. Meanwhile restoring from a snapshot instead of booting fresh each time, x86 emulator images, and Intel's virtualization engine mean the speed isn't so bad any more.
Y Combinator (yes, the people who run this site) is hiring hackers (San Francisco, ONSITE)

Y Combinator has a very big vision, one that goes beyond just funding startups. Yesterday we announced a new partnership with the ACLU: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13531707

Here's a secret most people don't know: software is at the core of our plans for taking YC to the next level.

We're looking for a couple of great hackers to join a small team in San Francisco working on these new projects. It's not a job for everyone, but it would be a good fit for someone who loves startups. Working at YC, you won't just write code, you'll be involved in everything YC does.

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"We always put out the official western establishment party line for those places, and we'll do the same for Trump's administration".
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Every story is political because politics is everywhere.

There's a very good short video made by the UK Electoral Commission, that I think makes this point well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ame0j8jbMY4
I've sent a couple of emails but haven't gotten any reply at all. :/
LibreOFfice its playing catch up with MS Office actually. I am all for open source but Office is something that Microsoft really gets right and now with their subscription model it became very cheap for everyday users so unless you are on Linux you have very little reason not to use Microsoft's suite.
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I realize that it may be a lot more fun and topical to blame Trump, but the HN gestalt has been discussing the increasingly hollowed-out nature of American news reporting for years now. Public trust of the press has been dropping for decades.

If this manifests as "hey, we've all got to get back to real reporting", then it will be positive. (Not a mere rhetorical sop; that is genuinely my preferred, best-case outcome.) If this is a socially-acceptable way of saying "we've really got to double-down on the things that have been making HN discuss how crap most of the press' output is and has been causing our public trust to notch down another couple of percent every year for the past couple of decades", then it's just so many words on a screen. Given that people have been commenting that Reuters seems pretty good, which I tend to agree with, if this is a declaration that they're going to join the rest of the media, that's not going to be a positive.

Just because you suddenly like the political orientation of the press in the last couple weeks doesn't mean anything has changed. It is still the same shallow, click-bait-driven, hype machine it was last year, it's just that now it's hitting you in a direction that many of you are less prepared to apply skepticism about. That doesn't mean anything's gotten better in the past couple of weeks... in fact as a whole, that is a sign the situation has gotten even worse.
"Last week, New York magazine reported that Trump’s feud with CNN has roots in his relationship with CNN President Jeff Zucker, a former NBC president who brought Trump's television show “The Apprentice” to the network. Trump, the magazine reported, has told White House staffers that he feels personally betrayed by Zucker and that Zucker should tilt CNN programming more favorably toward him because of their long relationship."

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-cnn-press-234455
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Great points! We are constantly improving the UI since it's our first foray into Android.
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Screw Mars. It's getting stale and unfriendly pretty quick these days. Titan is not as rich yet but best opportunities started to pop up there.
I am I missing something or is this challenge to produce a system which determines if the headline agrees with a body of text? Many so called "fake news" sites would pass this test with flying colors as their fake headlines are supported by equally fake stories. This seems more like a test against clickbait.
Who the hell would consider Tukey a fringe statistician?
on related news, gitlab.com seems back up now.
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You can take this to further lengths to demonstrate the shortsightedness:

Why should we worry about fixing up the problem with lead in drinking water in Flint as long as there's people there living in poverty and starving? We should just let everyone drink leaded water until the poverty problem is fixed.

Why are we wasting money on developing more efficient farming techniques as long as there's people starving?
That money should be spend on feeding people instead.

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This is basically what the article is arguing: that we shouldn't develop new technologies as long as there's people living in poverty. Never mind that the new technologies developed improve the economy greatly and help life more people out of poverty.
Label 2016, please...
I can't believe that we have reached this point
I thought it was a good point to bring up. Comparing raw income doesn't mean anything -- you need to at least take cost of living into account. 75k is barely livable in SF, but quite comfortable in the Midwest, etc.

If Germans are making less but are worth more... There's interesting things going on that probably need to be taken into consideration in such a conversation.
A acquaintance once worked for two different companies for several years as watchman. He was fired on the spot when they found out. How did they notice?

One company bought the other.
If something sounds too-good-to-be-true, it probably is.

I don't love Cassandra, but it's not because it's written on the JVM (full disclosure, we roll our own JVM key-value datastore https://github.com/liveramp/hank).

If your random-access keystore is limited by anything except network and disk latency, you have bigger problems.
Giving money to a politician's pet charity for the opportunity to have lunch with (and presumably lobby) that politician is not bribery. It's not even dishonest.

If it seems like it is, remember that giving money directly to the politician's campaign for the opportunity to have lunch with them is both legal and commonplace.
I disagree. It's not about whether CNN and other outlets are "objective". It's about scapegoating an enemy. Beating on the "liberal media" has been a cartoon villain from the GOP ever since the rise of FOX News and right-wing talk radio two decades ago, but this is a new level. They can discourage even believing in facts, and focus supporters on "alt" media that isn't impeded by inconveniences like having to report the actual truth.

CNN may be kinda dumb, but at least they have a bedrock of journalistic integrity. Heck, I've started crediting FOX as a "legitimate" news source, if only to counter arguments that the "liberal media" isn't covering whatever crazy fantasy is floating through the "alt-right" at the time. If even FOX isn't covering it, it's fake news, people! (And honestly, FOX has gotten a lot better over the past year or so.)

This isn't about objectivity. It's about turning any journalistic outfit with a shred of integrity into an Enemy of the People. This sort of nonsense is exactly what makes Trump/Bannon different, and dangerous.
It's not clear to me which is more of a problem. With obviously fake news you can at least use well-researched facts to argue against it. When CNN keeps pushing the narrative (i.e. relentlessly talking about Hillary "winning" the debates when in hindsight she obviously didn't) it's a much more subversive, subtle kind of fake.
I suspect people will keep coming back because people are pretty used to internet services being flaky in general? The internet is not a shining pedestal of uptime.
Alas we are not supposed to use that term anymore:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-r...

Also somehow CNN shows in the front page of result for "fake news" image search on Google. It wouldn't be totally wrong, depending on how the term is defined.
Are there any lithium asteroids we can mine to make batteries?
99% of the time when I see "fascist" being thrown around its name calling. Now days I just read it as "something a left winger doesn't like". Antifa movements make a lot more sense in that context too.
Note this article is over a year old.
It think it's pretty obvious that Hillary's foundation is basically her back pocket. Can you point to any charity work that was done by it? Any charity work of the magnitude of the millions it's received? With far less money many more organization have done much more charitable work. One such example is the NAACP. They've received ~16mill which is a stark contrast between the Clinton Foundation who has received in the ballpark of 500mill from 09 to 12.

Not only is the NAACP a charity that received funding that had a huge impact but also many many more. To name one I'd pick the National Parks fund.

There is also the Red Cross who has received writing 600mill but again has done so much more right it to the point where its name is ubiquitous in the field of aid.
>All they need is a logistically easier way to transport it than traditional power lines

what flaws of traditional power lines are holding Tesla back right now? It's not a subject i've ever really thought about, but i was under the impression that high-voltage cabling was a pretty efficient way to transport power.
Interesting that all the comparisons were with server frameworks. As if anybody ever cared about a few hundred megabytes of overhead on a server. Hell, even a bloated JVM implementation fits in most server L3 caches.

On the desktop, laptop, phone, or embedded environment, the JVM is heavy. It starts up slow, jars carry around ridiculous amounts of dead dependencies, garbage collectors require immense amounts of tuning, etc. And we shouldn't really expect otherwise. If you can't even keep your VM in cache, how are you supposed to have fast application code?

Specialty closed source JVM vendors have done wonders in terms of improving this problem...but it's still an uphill battle. AOT native compilation down to machine code is becoming more popular because of the proliferation of resource-constrained environments, and it will take time for new languages/compilers to take over, but take over they will.
The right believes Obama is from Kenya, the left believes Trump just signed an order that banned Muslims. Both claims upon inspection fall apart immediately. The fact that both of these are so widely believed shows you how little critical thinking and research the average person does. They really just want "their team" to win, it's really a instinctual reaction more than a intellectual one.
I agree with many points in this article. That being said, there are dimensions of heaviness not captured in the article as far as I can see:

1. The startup times, not so much of the JVM itself, that just takes 1,5 secs, but the startup time of your application gets higher if you have a lot of classes on the classpath. I guess it's the classpath scanning that takes a lot of time (?).

2. Memory usage of Java objects is quite heavy. See this article: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-codetoheap/index...

3. The heavyness of the ecosystem in terms of the magnitude of concepts and tools being used and the enterprisy-ness of libraries.
That's definitely something that needs to be said. I've seen way too many instances where people immediately label someone a fascist for giving even an inkling of support for something Trump did. I wish people could calm down just long enough to have something resembling useful discourse.
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It's worth noting that in practice, the management of GM and EM coordinate so closely that they might as well be a single entity.
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It's not homomorphic encryption: it's garbled circuits and oblivious transfer (order of magnitudes faster than homomorphic encryption, a cryptographic technique with lots of publicity but it'll take some years before it's practical) supporting floating-point operations (there are no opensourced libraries with floating-point support).
It makes me sad to see yet another tech team go down the road of "machines will help us filter the truth"

They will not, and the reason has to do with language. Ludwig Wittgenstein tackled this 100 years ago. The best that machines will do for you is to label something as true or not as if you had consumed the article and decided on your own

That is a completely different thing from identifying fake news or truth

There's some value here. There are also some hard stops. You'll find them :) Best of luck, guys!
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If you investigate what they actually do to achieve those numbers, it's much less simple than just rewriting Cassandra in C++. For example, they use their own TCP stack and make use of vector intrinsics.
The day we stop calling the side we don't agree with fascists just because we don't agree with them is the day we might start winning.
A quote from the Venture for America website mentioned in the article:
"Is VFA the right move for me if I’m trying to change careers?

When it comes down to it, our fellowship is designed for recent grads (meaning graduating seniors, those a year or two into their careers, or grad students with a year or two of advanced schooling). Our training, mentorship, and job opportunities are targeted to those fresh out of college, so if you have three or more years of professional experience or advanced schooling, this might not be the best fit."

The latest trend in the news seems to indicate AI (not cheap immigrant labor) is taking over jobs. The solution is for young graduates to join these "fellowships", bootcamps, and other attempts to pool cheap young labor. Old people need not apply.
Don't fully airtight structures need a lot of redundant safety systems to protect against just leaving a candle on killing everyone from carbon dioxide poisoning?
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This one is all about "interesting new phenomenon". Reuters didn't feel a need to talk up their journalism-under-duress skills and compare the Obama/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Reagan administration's hostility to Iran and Zimbabwe.
>Additionally, going with the idea that you're right for the moment, you think gun owners are happy about hunting land being taken away?

Yes. They vote this way, and they've always voted this way. They continually vote for people who push the whole "privatization!!!" religion. So they're getting what they voted for.
I don't think they're going about this the right way.

The first step to identifying 'fake news' (even in NYT or WSJ!) is to be able to pull out attributions from the source text.

This would give you some idea of where the information in an article actually came from. "Fake news" will tend to be either unattributed or misrepresent the thing it's quoting.

But a good first step toward better media literacy would just be giving people a representation of who actually said the the things in an article, and that seems much easier.
Or you know... give them something else to do?

If you're paying them anyway you might as well have internal "startup" labs trying to do original research or try new business ideas.
It has nothing to do with that and more to do with that last time I tried it the start-up times for an app was multiple seconds on top of base start times.

Given how often Android evicts apps that's something I'm not comfortable with shipping. Would love to use Clojure but it was definitely a show-stopper for us.
Somebody want to pretty that up and put out some print-resolution (and/or good web designed) version? I've always used http://www.asciitable.com/ ; Not because it's well presented but because it's easy to remember. A 'better' ASCII table would be good for making this cool again, teaching the current generation some of the things they've missed.
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I don't think there's one "stock" answer to this, although @rpeden's response is pretty good.

My take is that you should be doing values elicitation throughout the interview (that is, asking questions to find out what they are looking for) and then you just use that question as a chance to pitch yourself as the ideal candidate based on their criteria.