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"Shareholders" and "owner" are not synonymous terms. Shareholders don't "own" the company; they hold shares in the company.

https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...

"First, shareholders do not own business corporations, nor do they own the assets of the corporate entities... Shareholders own shares."

Somewhere back in the eighties, it became popular in the business community to say that the purpose of a company is to maximise shareholder value. That opinion and others like it have now so saturated society that people take it as received truth, but it's not. Likewise the idea that shareholders are owners.

Now, as in many things, laws do change over time and if enough people continue to believe this hard enough for long enough, there will eventually be enough case law that it ultimately become true. One day, it might be true, and law. That day has not yet come.
One mistake that I saw several times is cherry picking or merging another branch into the current one, then realizing later that you didn't need those changes yet, and you revert the merge commit. Later, if you actually want to merge the other branch into the current one you will get in trouble as it's already "up to date", as the current branch is ahead. Even worse, if you instead merge the current branch into the other one, all your changes done in the other branch will be reverted. The takeaway: don't revert something if you don't actually want to revert that code. I am pretty bad with git, by I assume the correct way to reverse the initial merging would be to remove that merge commit entirely, using git reset.
In college, everyone used roommate for someone in the same bedroom and apartment-mate or suite-mate for someone in the same unit. For us, a suite lacked a kitchen and living room, but did share a bathroom.

As others have said, roommate generally just means living in the same apartment. It's a weird term though, in that I wouldn't use "room" to refer to an entire apartment.
I feel that, hard. I could eat my body weight in mashed potatoes or rice or noodles and still end up hungry an hour later.

Fat and (to a lesser extent) protein seem to have the largest effect on suppressing my appetite, and I have no idea why that is.
I tried a vertical monitor for a day once, but I found I ended up holding my head at an uncomfortably high angle too much.
Any interface that forces you to manually visualize a complex internal structure rather than show you the internal structure itself is a design smell.

Any interface that forces me to manipulate such a complex structure with obscure textual commands rather than a drag and drop interface is a design smell.

The git graph structure is not amenable to command line. When I do "git log" it lies to me. I see a linked list for what is essentially a graph.
We all – not just those who go to the movies, but everyone – also pay a hidden cost: The cost of the copyright system itself. You imply that this cost is necessary for “high-scale, ambitious entertainment”, but I say that you should then be held to pay for it, instead of society as a whole.

It may or may not be true that “high-scale, ambitious entertainment” is unsupportable without copyright. If it turns out to be not supportable, it would be like the pyramids: Large, impressive, and expensive things which the structure of our society and our economy can no longer support the constructions of. I.e. the society we live in could concievably be re-organized to again support the construction of pyramids, but we choose not to do that, in order to have a modern society and economy instead.
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Novartis rolls out its gene therapy at a price of $2.12M
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Here's the updated paper with some significant corrections
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/upcc-fix.pdf
But that's the goal of git -rebasing, merging- conflicts are pointed out to you so that you have to fix them. Fixing conflicts isn't a passive task, it can actually involve writing/modifying code, and by pointing out conflicts git makes it easier.
> "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

That's not totally true anymore when you have access to an update system as part of the platform. No Man's Sky is one example.
Technically 2017 was the latest update to the paper, but still not as groundbreaking as the submission title.
Could you explain why you like this better than a traditional multi monitor layout? And how wouldit compare to vertical monitors horizontally next to each other?
Probability dictates that there are people who find their passion with limited guesswork, and hopefully your niece is one of them. If a major part of enjoyment of a sport is how good you are relative to your peers, however, that is unlikely to last. AFAIK gymnastics has a very short timeframe for most women to be competitive as well, exacerbating that fact.
Also 0 A.D.

https://play0ad.com/
It’s interesting to see that’s there are not so much systems with ergonomic keyboards mice... Are people underestimate importance of that?
SRE: Debugging: Strategies: Triangulation
More productive Git is faster & easier with good git aliases. These help novices and experts alike.

I maintain a large free list of Git aliases, and community feedback is always welcome.

https://github.com/gitalias
Fully agreed. Currently doing web dev as a daily job, and even most of my personal projects are all fairly high-level. However, I cannot under-appreciate how useful and eye-opening building my own CPU pipeline and learning assembly was back in college. Just the fact of understanding how it ALL works under the hood (even if it is just a simplified version of it) made me feel amazing and gave me a lot of insights I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
You're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co. , which was literally a century ago.

If you scroll down to "Significance", you can read for yourself that it's by no means universally accepted ("that this interpretation has not represented the law in most states for some time").

Let's come forwards a little; as the U.S. Supreme Court recently stated, "modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so."

Where this is basically going is that the common belief - that there is some clear, absolute law that totally says the shareholders are the owners and the company is all about giving money to them - simply isn't true.
And making it very difficult for incompetent heads of state to arbitrarily pull out of them.
I had a similar problem. I think Grafana or Chronograf still has its place, but based on what you've said I'll try replacing some of our dashboards with a Bokeh generated dashboard. The library looks very powerful. What is the best practice of updating the plots (e.g. once a minute)?
As I understand it, both the intermittent telemetry video from the first stage, and drone ships is the challenge of maintaining line of sight from the transmitter to an effective relay.

The antenna for reaching the starlink constellation will look more like the ones you see on the iridium handsets rather than the directional dish that is characteristic of geo-synchronous satellites. Regardless of orientation or vibration, the signals can be effectively transmitted (and received) from ground to orbit.

Now they still have the option of cutting off our access to the video when things aren't going in a way that is favorable to SpaceX of course :-).
I think both answers are correct, and the best thing is to understand where each approach will bite you.

I prefer to remove the commit because I am proponent of rebasing over merging. Though the issue is that removing merged can be tricky, because you have the merge commit as well as all the commits associated with the merge. It’s easier for me to manage by avoiding merges entirely, and just restructuring git history via rebases often.
That would be nice. My intuition is that this doesn't happen because the person in the hierarchy who translates "improve customer value by x%" into "internationalize feature x, launch in Y locales" is effectively taking responsibility for showing that the latter impacts the former, which is the problem I find to be intractable.
Shameless plug, but check out my tool for managing OKRs outside of spreadsheets if this is something you're looking for https://simpleokr.com
I completely and utterly disagree. In a world where everything is a zero-sum game, the top few percent in any given area will gain more and more share. Being average or even is good is no longer enough.

I would also venture to say that the people who are good and something _and_ are generalists (e.g. the scientists in the article) are better in both halves than someone who is just one of those.
Because a lot of people have a terrible workflow. Then they spend 1 hour on StackOverflow searching a magic solution to fix their mess.

And there are also those people who inflict themselves unnecessary strict rules for whatever reason. Like those who refuse to rebase and push -f on their own branches. Or those who refuse to use a GUI but keep messing up when diffing, resolving conflicts and staging specific files/lines.
You are right at least in part, strictly speaking the owner(s) of a company do(es) own its assets only in an indirect way.

But I don't get the "shareholders do not own business corporations" bit. Would a sole owner "own" a business corporation? Do real estate owners "own" real estate or do they own "bundles of intangible rights"?
I think the staging area should be a more intermediate usage pattern, at least.
I forget where it was, but I once saw a quote that essentially said that "a geologist on Mars with a hammer could learn more in one day than we've learned from every robotic mission we've sent, combined"

I think the basic truth in that statement is relatively easy to demonstrate. Each rover we send to Mars moves only a few tens of kilometers over its lifetime, and, though the science each one sends back is amazing, there's a limit to what we can learn without sending up some humans to do things in person. Robotic missions are limited to the exact configurations of their tools and where their propulsion can safely get them; humans are much more mobile and way better at improvising.
I usually ask the maid to do it.
Murray Gell-Mann, Who Peered at Particles and Saw the Universe, Dies at 89
Interesting. I'm the same way in the first regard. 27 y/o for reference. I always wished my parents had pushed a bit harder, but now I live in Irvine (SoCal) where everyone here is busy trying to push their children to prodigy-dom. I get an intense window into this because my partner is a private piano teacher and I have to say, I'm quite thankful they never pushed me like _that_. There's definitely a middle road and as a parent of two, I can empathize with this being somewhat difficult to nail.

I spent a lot of time feeling like you, wanting more but not executing. That said, I have been pretty successful in the last two years, learning those things on my own. I learned/am learning how to be a very proficient dev, play classical guitar, snowboard, dive, and surf decently, and even now fly planes. I'm not the best but enough for some serious personal enjoyment. For me it was the catalyst of flipping my world upside down, moving far away and starting over. Drop me a line if you ever want, maybe I can offer some assistance.
It's not really healthy to eat ripe bananas period. Ripe bananas have a higher glycemic load than maple syrup and plain white bread, and the idea that bananas are especially high in potassium is basically a lie.
Is that because they stopped playing video games or because they were part of a generation where it just wasn't as common? My brain never did that flip (though I don't mind work so much). I kind of expect to see video games start appearing in nursing homes around the time I have to go to one.
Ask HN: Recommendations for Banks / HELOCs
Heyo HN. There are a lot of smart folks here, so I thought I would ask. I went to open a HELOC with my mortgage holder and was denied. Curious if anyone here has recommendations for US banks for going forward. Using a throw away because I'm going to release some numbers.

More detail. We bought the house last year. $500k house, but $100k down. A few months ago, recasted by paying down another $300k. The house has also gained a bit of value, and is likely worth over $600k now with $100k owed. We are looking for a HELOC because we want a bit extra in the form of a line of credit in case repairs/remodels go over what we plan. I submitted my salary and investment stuff to them (about $200k/yr plus about $500k available in stocks, plus about $150k cash in the bank). My credit score is over 750. Like, I feel I'm an ideal candidate for extending a $125k line of credit. There are not a lot of people more qualified than me. I was denied because my upgrades I am doing are greater than 2% of the value of the home. WTF? I'm just opening a line of credit that I might use towards the improvements, but mostly just want open in case of emergency.

Any recommendations on a better lender to go through for a line of credit? Should I refinance to a different lender? Should I just pay off the mortgage and be done with such a crazy company? Thanks for any advice. I'm just flummoxed.
> That requires orbital construction.

Do you know how many times two objects were successfully docked in space? And how many times they did that automatically?

> Also that imposes very severe constraints on size and shape of those pieces.

Objection to "very severe". You can have your standard fairing size full, with diameter about 5 meters and length of 15 meters or so. That's quite comparable to 6.6 meters diameter of Saturn-V payloads, is more than LEM without legs. What shape constraints you have in mind?

> This is not technology that we have demonstrated in a meaningful way.

We didn't demonstrate orbital docking technology?

> nearly twice the maximum payload of the Falcon Heavy.

But it was launched with one rocket altogether. Nobody prevents us from launching the booster stage separately and dock it with spacecraft on LEO. More, nobody prevents us from sending analog of Apollo spacecraft and LEM to the moon separately - with their own booster each. Those variants were considered in 1960-s and rejected purely on the basis of time to develop the technology - something which we have today well developed.

> Do you really want to trust this step to a rocket that has to be assembled and fueled in space?

Let me remind you that Gemini and Atlas-Agena stage docked and changed orbits in mid-1960-s, confirming that it at least can be done with then-current technology. Today ISS has a history of pushes by Shuttle, of refuels with Progress and ATV ships and I'm not sure what prevents using similar - though not identical - approach with translunar injections.
Sure, you could look at that, but just because you carry a $6,500 balance isn't too terrible as long as you are paying it off. If you're just paying the minimum payments and not charging anything new, it could take many years to pay off that debt. The number might also look very similar for many years, even though you are paying it off. I think that's why people who can't even pay the minimum or aren't paying is a truer sign of economic distress. If you aren't paying off your credit card, it's likely you aren't paying off other debts as well, things like rent or mortgage - or will be soon if things don't improve.
> And you are also less likely to lose track of what windows you have open. I find lots of peoples android phones have like 30 windows open - this is a fault of its interface.

There is no need to keep track of them or close them, since the app lifecycle is managed automatically by the system – having a window (called activity on Android) open doesn't mean that the app is running.

Non-foreground activities are automatically suspended by the system and resumed when you return to them. Processes with suspended activites are automacially killed when resources run low.
IMO the big example is WarCraft III mods. While they often did have an inner circle of maintainers for each one, the nature of making mods made it easy for any player to open up the mod, take pieces, make edits, post their own versions, etc, and that it's not a coincidence that this lead to a Cambrian explosion in game design, including popularizing genres like MOBAs and tower defense games.
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I've been programming for a long time, but I find it comforting to see someone who I admire/respect/has more experience in a given area/ struggle with things too.
Is this fact? Because my intuition is making me believe you're wrong.

If you're successfully paying off your CC, then what are you paying off if it's not debt?

IMO, to be in someone's debt means you have to pay them back, which is regardless of what cash you have.

Are you trying to say that if I borrow money from someone and I actually have the cash to pay them back, then I'm not actually in their debt?
I once worked somewhere that had in-house customer service, and they gave developers the opportunity to spend a couple of days every few months working with a representative to respond to tickets and other first-line support stuff.

It was very valuable. It turns out that listening to people is a good way to figure out what they are frustrated with and what they want to see. Who'da guessed?
"heavier than air"

air is a mixture of gases - which gas of the mixture are you referring to ?
those are totally separate companies w/ their own ceo and own pay structure to worry about and outside of scope/beyond control.

I also tied it to % increase/decrease of employees. So if you increase by 1% your employees, you would be allowed a 10% increase bonus, so if you earn 10 mill, you now earned 11 mill if you hire 1% more staff this year over last year. However if you lay off 1% you lose 1 million because it's also a penalty. So laying off half your staff obviously does NOT help in this situation.
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They support almost 15 languages. I seriously doubt they are "targeting" all of those markets, it's more likely some fans of the game contributed translations.
But I don't get the "shareholders do not own business corporations" bit.

Well, why would they? At risk of horrifically simplifying things, I have a company, I decide I want some more money. I sell you the right to vote in some things that concern the company, and I sell you a share of any dividends that get paid out in the future. That's what you get. Do you now own the company? Do you own the company assets? I didn't sell that to you. I sold you the right to vote in some company meetings and decision making processes, and I sold you a piece of any future dividends that get paid out to you and others like you. Doesn't sound like "owning" something to me.
You can also try to counter your bias by always remembering the adage:

"Specialists will tend to underestimate how well a Generalist can specialize, when they choose to specialize. Generalists will tend to underestimate how deep any given specialty goes."
Completely agree, but the clip-art approach doesn't help - it's often easier to understand casual relationships in terms of colored dots for partitions or very basic parameterization like node size in a graph, than to with clip art of tiny livers or brains.

Many of the more successful abstractions seem like they would make for extremely fun games. I've seen a few Fantastic Voyage! bio-themed videogames but they are usually either stupid memory games designed to teach technical terms, recycled space invader games with bacteria clip art, or simulations like FoldIt that are fun puzzles but don't really capture the dynamism and system behaviors that make biology so interesting.

If you'll forgive me venting my spleen, I really really want a game that lets me run the immune system. I don't need it to look like the inside of a bio textbook, I need it to model the information-production-distribution-processes and their strong resemblance to dynamic wargaming.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe it's because I've used SVM and Mercurial before but I learned Git very easily. I find the commands and options fairly intuitive once you know you're manipulating a graph of patches.

But I guess this is very subjective. After all, I've never been able to master gnupg despite how long I've been using it for.
Is the algo practical, implemented by say major generic graph libraries?
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Not to come off as offering parenting advice, but how old are your kids? Not everyone can become Bill Gates or Usain Bolt, but for healthy individuals above a certain level of intelligence, passion and grit determine success more so than inherent characteristics. I wanted to be a lot of things growing up, and only through pursuing those dreams did I understand that I wasn't cut out for them, or didn't find them super interesting.
Data Science from Scratch: Second Edition
Update from May 17, 2019: "Still working on Miegakure?" "Yes"

https://twitter.com/marctenbosch/status/1129523036015681536

Not much to go on since this article came out.
I would be very frustrated if I explicity had less fun money than my spouse.
If "punishable behaviour" is appropiately limited to things like assault and evidence planting, then this is irrelevant, and superior officers should even be required to preform such searches.

If "punishable behaviour" includes things like slacking off to stop by dunkin donuts, the problem is with what qualifies as punishable behaviour, not the ability to search for it.
Ergo: need a better system
As an anecdata, I played games heavily as a kid, until my early 20s. I didn't stop completely, and I wouldn't say I enjoy working more, but I prefer many other things before I reach for a controller/mouse+kb. I don't know if the brain flip is accurate as it makes it sound sudden, but for me I just developed more interests all of which fight for ever-shrinking time.
Negotiation is only a thing if they say no. So, first ask for the 100% raise. If they say no, then you need to worry about negotiating :-)
Maybe the Purism Librem 5? https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

The UI is still very much a work in progress, though. But it's fully open source. Based on GNOME.
Yes. Only 3% of people use it when 70% of people qualify. I hope that changes after all the news this year about them attempting to hide it from Google.

So the US got a half-hearted program where 3% of Americans could file for free in exchange for promising not to have a program they weren't going to do anyway.

I really wish paying taxes in the US was done with Open Source software, like I understand Brazil has. I wish the IRS mailed you a post-card if you took the standard deduction like the UK, and many other countries do. But making noise over extending this program doesn't get any closer to things like that. I just think all the energy over this specific issue is misguided and overblown.

California does have a state run website for filing basic taxes. For as many dark patterns "the big guys" use in their free product, it's still way better than California's site.
> I find the commands and options fairly intuitive once you know you're manipulating a graph of patches.

On the contrary, I find the "graph of patchs/Merkel tree/whatever" model pretty easy to understand, and have difficulty in using the commands to make the tree look like how I want it to.