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No, its the diffence between a bonus and a salary. A stock buyback is like giving employees [shareholders] a bonus.

Some employees get bonuses every year based on how the company is doing. Employees are OK with getting a lower bonus next year. Employees get very, very unhappy when their salary gets decreased in a bad year.

Investors are the same way. They punish a stock when a company decreases its dividend. If you aren't sure you can make a promise in perpetuity, don't increase your dividend, instead give shareholders a bonus, aka stock buyback. Then, if next year you need the cash to invest in the company, instead of another buyback, you do that. Investors stay happy because you didn't decrease your dividend.

Some companies, like Target (which has never decreased its dividend ever) might have a hard time competing with Amazon because Amazon can make almost no profits on paper (until recent years) while funneling all their revenue back into the company. Target does not have this luxury. They DEFINITELY cannot say to investors "okay we're cutting our dividend for 2 years to compete with amazon by funneling it into growth." They'd get crushed.

tl;dr, buybacks are wiser than dividends for any company that might want to spend the money on growth in following years, instead of doling it out to shareholders, as is done with dividends.

Another reply already explained the tax implication reason.
It's interesting you use Jane Austen as an example, as I have found her books to be filled with more than enough detail to picture the scenes quite distinctly.

I find it particularly interesting that your algorithm has identified the argument between Elizabeth and Lady Catherine as the most passive page, when in fact it's one of the most tense exchanges between any two characters and is dripping with sarcasm on both sides. They use the passive voice to insulate the argument and add a veneer of social acceptability.

Have you done any analysis to see how your tools handle irony? The description makes it seem words are taken at face value, but really good prose usually operates on several levels.
I see that "eradication" has been declared in most of those trials, but I also see that formal "eradication" is often followed by renewal of the trial, recovery of the population, or "complete eradication". I'm forced to conclude that "eradication" in this context does not have its usual meaning.

That said, it does look like this is usually a pretty successful method of ongoing population suppression.
Different franchises are not the same company, they are different companies with a shared relationship to a third company.
This would really make for a great exception operator, for one-liner exception handling.

(alert(null) ‽ console.log(error));

Better than:

(x === null ? console.log(error) : alert(x));

EDIT: hey downvotes, let's play funny/not funny.
Within the last two decades.
The CSIRO has suffered enormous staff and funding cuts in recent years under the current government
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No one's tiptoeing around it - it just looks like people are more open to generalizing a whole ethnicity around anecdotes. Sounds like you're calling people politically incorrect just because they don't generalize.

(Another anecdote) I just finished my CompSci bachelor (majority white) and everyone talks about copying each others work like it's casual conversation. Only friends share work with each other when they can be sure to alter it enough. Everything you said there, being widespread, blatant, not caring, shameless, were the exact same descriptions of those in my program.

If anything, it sounds like it's more politically incorrect to generalize white people as having these traits because I've only ever heard people generalize Asian/Chinese students. Why is it when one group does it it's okay, but another it's wrong?
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If the interview questions are the only barrier to entry, then that's probably a problem with the hiring process itself.
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What is your perspective? What about that of your parents?
It's strange to me. I've only dived at a novice level and never in a cave:

An expert diver who was delivering spare oxygen (or was it air), with a buddy, in a system in which a static line had been placed, and in which presumably a dive leader was managing operations and wouldn't allow a diver to return without a suitable amount of air .. in that situation they simply ran out of air? It seems so unlikely.

I just assumed that he got trapped, or carried by a current, or died in what might be perceived as a "stupid" way and they didn't want to mention it as it might hinder the rescue or sully the man's memory.

Maybe it's denial on my part.
So did the Chinese company actually acquire the stolen data?
Apologies if this is mentioned and I missed it, but does this account for changes in word meaning or context over time? Earlier literature, such as Austen, could be considered “not-vivid” unless you’re clued in for particular hints/phrases. I’m thinking of, perhaps, the use of “Et cetera” for pudenda.
I can't seem to find the ‽ key on my keyboard.
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Spraying would be effective at destroying poppies in Afghanistan. There's nothing technical stopping poppies from being eradicated in Afghanistan, it's political more than anything. Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has been tolerated by the US and Afghan governments for a variety of reasons.

The USA discovered in the Vietnam War that destroying people's livelihood isn't a great way to win hearts and minds. Unfortunately half of Afghanistan's GDP comes from opium and heroin.

The Afghan government doesn't want to eradicate opium production because half of the government is involved in the opium trade.

The Russians actually wanted to spray the fields back in 2010, but the USA declined [1].

ISAF actually specifically avoided destroying poppy fields, if you watch documentaries from the Afghan War, like Restrepo or The Battle for Marjah, you'll see American troops just walking right through poppy fields and doing nothing.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-nato-russia-afghanistan/n...
Yes, exactly - I totally agree. That's why we both need to have an introspective moment in our industry - where we think about what the things we're making are really doing - and why intent is so important when talking about this issue. I genuinely do believe that a lot of companies have - for lack of a better term - stumbled into addiction.
Generally, I agree with you - but it’s 2018, and I can’t see how hyping a SaaS by name dropping Golang is actually hyping anything.
Mapping systems. Imaging systems. Automation systems. Safety systems. Communication systems. Energy management. Suspension. Energy systems (electrical I presume).

And that doesn’t include all the manufacturing process people that Apple would throw at a problem of any scale, let alone cars.

So yeah, there could be a tons of people, but like most Apple things, very, very few would have access to anything more than a small slice of what is going on.
The goal of the tariffs IS free trade and open borders. You think they are wanted by the administration? They are a tool to get China to play nice, which they haven't been.
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Some perspective around the different ideas in IP https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
Reeeeeeee normies
This is ridiculous. Wages measure the cost of hiring you, not the value. If the economic value of employees were their wages, then there would be no profit.
Most Afghans don't support the Taliban, or the USA, or even their own government.

Most of them just want to make a living and put food on the table without being shot by one or the other or blown up in a drone strike.
FWIW twitter switched out of rails before some of the huge performance benefits made their way into ruby itself. A rails stack could handle twitter capacity these days, given ruby/rails improvements made since.
> In general, RDBMSs start shedding performance the more non-integer columns you have in your relevant tables.

The more non-integer indexes, I'd suggest.

TimescaleDB under Postrgres goes a long way to improving scaling of certain (NoSQL-type content) large databases.
I would think this sort of thing would be of interest to gun owners as well. Some of the stores that are in the malls in the article sell sporting goods, including hunting gear.
> Republicans claim to favor local control over state and federal control. But in fact they are perfectly happy to exercise state control over local government (or federal control over state government) if local control threatens business interests or empowers minorities or women.

You just disqualified yourself from being considered intellectually honest by engaging in bigoteering.

> The Founders clearly intended for the means of communication to be a public good. The government's duty to provide a postal service is written into the Constitution. But the postal service was simply the state of the art in communications technology in 1791

Again, don't take this the wrong way, but your ignorance is shocking. There was this little thing called the (optical) telegraph that was a bit more state of the art than post horses.

Furthermore, Ben Franklin quite clearly states that in order to have freedom of the press you must first have a press. The 1st amendment wasn't construed by any of the founders to imply socialized printing presses.
The mainstream media has become a terrible place for any sort of rational discussion. They're too busy criticizing Trump to analyze the impact of these moves.

I have zero love for the man, but it's clear that the US has the upper hand in this trade war and should be able to squeeze China for better deals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA - "better than you don't remember". This is an interesting watch if you've got the time.
Show me one instance in the US judicial system where children are forcibly taken from parents and shipped off to detention centers in other states when the parent has been charged with a misdemeanor.

Bottom line is that it is. Not. Done.

And it clearly is appropriate to 'think of the children' when cruelty is being purposefully inflicted on children as official government policy. There's no rational defense for that policy that is compatible with our legal system.
I could see a reasonable case being made for collecting these data, storing them for a few weeks, and then deleting them, to protect against thieves.

I know some mall companies record license plate data on a daily basis to make sure the employees are parking in the way-way-way out employee designated parking areas.

How long that data is stored and who else gets to see it is anyone's guess.

Unfortunately, it you're on the mall's property, you have no legal right to not being surveilled by the mall.
Do tapes recorded with all those features gracefully degrade to be playable on regular tape-decks, or do you need a decoder module for them?

If you do need a decoder, why not just use the tape as a digital backup tape, and write a high-bitrate FLAC file to it? A decoder is a decoder.
>Not spelling AUR right

Honestly AUR has covered everything I've needed.
Out of curiosity, was it replacing an existing language or developing new functionality?
Please somebody with a VR rig try simulating this.

Previously there were reports that an "artificial nose" in VR setups reduced motion sickness [sources needed...], perhaps having an artificial horizon-ish-thing (Han Solo's lucky dice?) bobbing around in periphery would have the same effect?

It seems like this would have a transferrable benefit to a similar problem.
My personal experience when we had a contract with (a very large consulting firm) to provide Chinese contractors that didn't speak English, so we had to go through a translator, we started to get near verbatim exact answers from every candidate we "interviewed" after say candidate number 3. We obviously caught on to this and point blank told our director that we didn't trust the interviews or the capability of the candidates. Other teams found the same. We ended up eating a multimillion dollar contract that was already signed because after the fact, no one trusted the competence of the contractors.
lol. it's $799, no idea what I was thinking about when i posted 350.
I think the market knows how healthy the US economy is. 4% growth in Q2, low 3.7% unemployment rate, labor market near full employment, rising interest rate and lower corporate tax has encouraged money to flow from emerging markets back to US. Emerging market is experiencing capital outflow very similar to the events preceding the asian financial crisis in 1998.

As for China, In 2016, a stunning 68.0 percent of China’s overall merchandise trade surplus related to sales to the U.S. In 2017, that figure increased to 88.8 percent. Trade-surplus countries, as history shows, generally suffer more in trade wars.

Looks like Chinese stock market knows this too. Shanghai and Hang Seng down 1.5% on this news. China is the world's worst performer in first half of 2018, down 25% from january peak.
It's an unequal relationship. Free trade would mean that Google and Amazon and Ford get a level playing field in China as well. But that's not the case.
And every once in a while they will just decide to remove a piece of the car and force drivers to adopt new habits - "The iCar 2 will no longer have a steering wheel and all drivers will now steer with their tongues."
Today's stock market performance shows investor views of the future. The author of that articles seems to think its the reverse which isnt true.
I love the low overhead.
>So not to be racial but from an American standpoint I liken it to hiring an American who happens to be Chinese versus an engineer from China.

Well the issue is because of this stereotype, companies may not differentiate between the two, or may even pass up an amazing engineer from China because of their racial (well nationality) bias.

I remember reading about a couple incidences of American engineers(?) being falsely accused of stealing secrets which led to them being fired and shamed.
Yeah, I agree that the harassment issue could definitely be annoying to deal with. However, we introduced the monthly subscription to weed out these kind of people before they join and it's working quite well so far. We haven't had any complaints of spamming and people are liking the person-to-person connection a lot - in fact, we just found out yesterday that two of our users started texting regularly after meeting each other on 9:22.
> The goal of the tariffs IS free trade and open borders. You think they are wanted by the administration?

LOL this administration definitely does not want free trade and open borders.
How do we reconcile problems raised in this comment with the idea that copyright and IP laws are too strong?
I'm sure you'll go far.
It doesn't necessarily follow that preventing death would cause an increase in population. A high mortality rate is corelated with a high fertility rate so that population grows nevertheless. In fact, it is when the mortality rate is the lowest that the spread between mortality and fertility rate is the lowest, resulting in the smallest population growth.
when I worked in fast food, many employees already worked two jobs at two separate restaurants.
I think you aren't seeing the GP's point. The family bought their teenager the decent car, because the family can afford that kind of expense, which is the signal that there is no real financial necessity.
Well, obviously, the compiler could also interpret the consecutive use of each of the two distinct characters question mark (?) and exclamation point (!). But it would have to tolerate both options to remain convenient (?! and !? have the same effect).

Meanwhile the interrobang (‽) would really be an Easter egg.
Aren't shareholders and investors the same thing?
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holy crap. what kind of info are the DMVs selling? who are the buyers?
> Should shared libraries be in different repos, or should you put everything in a single repo? How do you deal with versioning? What happens if one app wants version 1 of the library and another app wants version 2? How do you deal with backwards compatibility of the API? Do you make a whole new library when you decide the old API is incompatible with the new vision?

Could you share methods that worked well for you?
Asking because those question come up a lot and there never seems to be any conclusion.
> Can China not innovate at all?

> Their other homegrown products such as WeChat and Xiaomi seem pretty competitive and very catered to the local market.

Well obviously they can based on the second sentence you wrote.
Call redhat and ask how much it would cost to do a "lift and move" strategy (i.e. just pack your legacy software in a vm and run it of the 'cloud')

They will do some crazy calculation and say, "well, aws will place the VM into a zillion machines, so that times our license per machine, plus our license per users per machine, you own us infinite dollars" ...it is that silly. If you don't trust me on this call them.
Or you know...he could just ask them to cooperate, as they have been our allies for a very long time. No reason to use coercion.
It does sound odd that the agency (1) doesn't have enough money to do meaningful research, but (2) can contribute more money than Alphabet can afford.
I've been using this for the last few months and couldn't be happier. I use the browser extensions in Firefox, Chrome and Edge, as well as the desktop, Android and web apps.
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Yeah, that description is a little misleading (we just redid our landing page yesterday and completely forgot to update this showHN). And about the service, we're glad you think so! However, could you clarify what you mean by locale? Do you mean the countries we currently support?
Seriously HN, every time these posts come up, it becomes a fest for racists to pin their one off experience with Chinese people onto the entire race of people, the definition of racism. I do want to hear an ex-Apple employee doing corporate espionage may be, but I don't want to hear about your Chinese grad students. That has nothing do do with the story other than the race of the individuals.

I'm almost at the point where I want to just flag articles like this because they have in recent months become a sordid data point pulling down the signal to noise ratio that is usually commendable on this site.
Actually it's done to US citizens routinely. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/family-separation-amer.... And before you quibble, recall that jail is for misdemeanors.

Again, your reasoning faculty has been overwhelmed by effective rhetoric. Take a deep breath, step back, and start using your left hemisphere.
This is the third post in the Windows Command-Line series.
And yet exams can be (are?) a poor way to test knowledge.

I’m ideologically against exams. For many they are stressful, and they don’t represent any real life scenario as you will always have access to reference material on the job.
As a former Splunk employee, I would be really sad to see Splunk's search language enshrined as a standard. It wasn't designed, it grew organically from a set of shell scripts. It has no grammar, and using it effectively is largely knowing a grab bag of special commands that someone hacked on to fix a specific weakness of the language.

Interestingly, you don't need a special language. The relational calculus is isomorphic to the regularity calculus, which, in practical terms, means that SQL is a perfectly good language for Splunk's use case.
Given the tariffs only started being applied _last friday_, and the targeted amount is/was tiny, how exactly would it have a "decimating effect on the economy" so fast?
Markets are lagging indicators - they'll react to whatever months or quarters from now...
> This increase in lifespan is relatively recent in evolutionary history too so it can't involve too many genes

It could if it was just an epigenetic switch that was flipped to turn back on an old and complex adaptation. (Which presumably saw regular-enough use through the aeons to avoid genetic drift "rusting" it.)
Hi dhumph! Thank you for the interest. Unfortunately, it is still not released. If you don't mind us asking, though, what kind of use use cases do you have in mind? We are exactly trying to refine some use cases on our end, and input would be greatly appreciated.
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No need to wait until 2020. Your car is already being tacked by sensors that detect the unique ID's of the transponders in your tires (used to tell your car the tires' air pressure).

And since most people don't change their tires very often, with enough sensors deployed in various locations (parking lots, drive-throughs, gas stations, etc...) it is very easy to develop patterns of movement and build a profile of an individual person.

It gets even worse when you realize that the tire sensor data can be date/timestamp correlated with your phone's bluetooth radio. So a pattern can be developed for inside movement, as well.

Big retail chains are already doing this (the bluetooth part). No need to have the Radio Shack electric eye bing-bong on the front door to count customers anymore. Now you can just tally the bluetooth IDs and not only tell how many customers you're getting, but how many UNIQUE customers you're getting, which areas of the store they visit most frequently, how long they linger at various displays.

And yes, they know if you're just there to use the bathroom, thanks to the phone you take with you in there.

I wonder if some day this behavior profiling will allow stores to refuse you entry because you've been there 20 times in the last six months and never bought anything, but used the bathroom every time.
After thinking a little deeper, we realized it definitely was a hard sell. So we redid the landing page and we're now offering a 7-day free trial (credit card required) before we start charging. About the number issue, I've put in my cofounder's number as a failsafe in case we have an odd number of users.
Those are very expensive.
According to apnic[1], there are 15,000 update / day in 2016.
For small size ISP, the number is much lower and may be managible. But event driven can't be a general solution for larger isp.

[1] https://blog.apnic.net/2017/01/27/bgp-in-2016/
More precisely, how do they synchronize their clocks between A and B when the maximum speed of light/information is no longer a known quantity?
A history of shutting down site-identity related products, no less. [1] The fact that it's not on Android as of day one looks pretty bad too; the sort of developers who think iOS obviously comes first are (in my experience) likely to be chasing hype and their apps are dead in a year (or at least still not on Android). I don't know if that's the case here, but I have no interest in using this until it's been adopted by Mozilla as more than an experiment and has several years of strong support.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/Per...

(I admit I'm biased here but I'm still bitter about them nixing Persona.)
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I imagine it'd be far easier to just extract existing stem cells from the body, freeze them, and then every once in a while wake them up, culture some, and re-seed the body with them.
Production stats: 7,000/week at the end of Q2.

Am I just not making myself clear on where the 350,000/year figure came from, or are you ignoring it to make some sort of point?