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> There was a price at the current supply and demand. Buybacks increase the demand which increases the price.

The company has a value. If the P/E ratio gets worse because the share price went up with the same earnings, more investors will find it profitable to cash out and invest in something with a better ROI. That doesn't happen instantly, but it happens quickly, because cash-flush investment banks realize they can front-run the correction for a profit, which makes it happen.

But the buyback itself often actually improves the ROI of the company and legitimately makes it worth more, because the company itself was getting high returns on its productive capital and low returns on its cash, and now less of its share value is represented by the low productivity cash.

> That is what people who have problems with buybacks but not dividends, would like to see happen

Except that then the perverse incentive for managers becomes to boost the stock price by not issuing dividends, since dividends reduce the stock price. The only real way to fix it is to fix their incentives, and once you do that you're back to preferring buybacks due to the tax treatment.
> What seems to be the holdup?

Primary issue is my lack of self-discipline to be able to override desires for short-term pleasures.
> I have a company

What does that mean? You don’t “own” the company, do you?
Why do you want them to be urban in particular?
Call me crazy, but as a society, what do we lose if our best athletes are less good than the ones we have now? This argument maybe makes sense in STEM fields but to me at least it falls flat on its face if the loss is some number of seconds off the fastest mile ran, or cm's off the highest vertical leap.
There is, based on what I have seen, a decoupling between tech screens and the ability to perform in a job. I'm a big fan of a takehome assessment if you're really worried about someone's skill, but these days when I am screening teammates for my own team I focus my questions on problem solving, troubleshooting, and analysis. Between assessing those skills and a candidates basic interpersonal communication I have had incredible results and have a wonderful team as a result.
The full title of Darwin's work is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life".

So, as the other commentator says, evolution implies some races are "more favored" than others, i.e. superior. Outside the modern negative connotations of "racism" Darwin's title is racism in a nutshell: the claim that some races are superior to others. In turn, this doesn't mean that the "superior" races need to exploit the "inferior" races, that's an added assumption. The "superiors" could instead use their power to benefit everyone else.

This is in contrast to the common religious view point that even though some people may have more talents than others, this does not make anyone inherently superior to another in that they are more valuable and more worthy of preservation.

So, Nazis can endorse their brand of human driven evolution quite consistently with Darwin's view. However, Nazis have to twist religious doctrine to support their view.
No ones downvoting you.

Stay. We definitely like at least 2/3rds of all your comments :-)
Nah, Zoom is an enterprise product, and they have this feature. (Slack is referring people who want remote control functionality to use Zoom.)
The notion that you can't be an entrepreneur in a "9-5 day job" is one of the most pernicious myths in the tech industry. My current team in a company of nearly 100,000 is very much operating like a couple of the startups I've been involved with in years past. True, there's a lot of politics in the greater organization, but our manager is brilliantly insulating the team against that and is effectively implementing lean thinking, customer-first design and decision making, rapid failures and pivots, product autonomy, and a strong sense of team identity and camaraderie.

If we succeed, we may not get bought out with the first 4 or 5 people who started the company walking away with millions while the rest of us are largely left out. Instead, we all make a steady income with medical benefits and are filling up our 401(k)s. And if things don't work out, we'll all still have jobs.
Making decisions based off an any metric is very dangerous and the downfall of many products.

You MUST have a deep understanding of exactly what that metric is measuring and all of the things it doesn't take into a account.

For a concrete simple example. An A/B test may sure that forcing users to create an account before seeing shipping charges increases order completion by 10%. But then it turns out you've reduced return visits to the site by 30% and decreased overall conversion rates due to damaging that funnel.

Reality is very complex. Trying to boil everything down to a few numbers to make decisions based on seems like it simplifies things but often times you are just ignoring the complexities and flying blind by chasing metrics.
The command line shows you part of the graph: you choose which part it shows you based on what options you pass it.
First time I hear that interpretation, but a quick skimming of the documents suggests that you might be right. Worth investigating.
As I said, look at them as a compass - a map will be a better analogy maybe - this is what I want to achieve at the point in time I'm making my plans, and here's how I'm going to achieve it. As long as that doesn't change, it's useful to break down a vague goal into milestones and evaluate on occasion (my team does it every 2 weeks) how you're progressing.

But it's okay for that to change, and then you just write new OKRs.
Has much of your experiences as a child transferred to your life as an adult? 10 is super young to be a prodigy, how much such awareness and actualization did you have then of your skill/talent? Did you willingly or knowingly apply your chess skills to life from that point forward?

Hope these questions make sense?
I got more involved in the sales aspect recently and I find the part about trust especially true. Company size and references has a disproportionate effect compared to the reality of their reliability. A lot of big service companies fail to deliver, yet it doesn't seem to have an impact on future buyers. We all heard the phrase "nobody ever go fired for buying <market leader>" but only recently it started to resonate for me, and experiencing first-hand that when you are buying software in a bureaucratic environment you are not incentived to buy the best solution, but to minimize your responsibility in case of failure.
It was your better safe than sorry statement I reacted too. Sorry if that was unclear.
I mean, everything is propeitary then. Even SiFive has issues publishing their preboot code. https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5127

And a ARM CortexM0 is about 12k gates, it's hard to get much simpler than that.
even small graphs can be made to look very different just by moving their nodes around

I'm curious: for the graph isomorphism problem, how are the graphs defined then? It seems there must be a geometric component in there because if they were defined just in terms of abstract sets of vertices and edges between them, it would be rather trivial to show if two graphs are the same, wouldn't it?
Some of this is tied up in wishful thinking I’m sure, but focus on the macro and not the micro. I don’t think any of us can be the best version of ourselves without learning from the worst versions of ourselves. I’m sure that mailman had bad encounters; if not player 1 alert.
Your posting and your article contain a lot of words but neither has a point.
The pricing of this gene therapy has been much anticipated as it’s expected to set a precedent for future products.

SMA is a terrible disease where babies born with Type 1 are never able to sit independently and typically die before age 2. From my understanding, most of the babies in trial are still alive (after age 2) and most of them can sit independently. Really amazing outcomes.

To get a sense of the the SMA market is like, Biogen’s drug, Spinraza is priced at $750k for the first year and $375k for every year thereafter, for life.

So if this drug works for more than 5 years with a single dose, this $2M product will actually save the healthcare system money.
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You don't need apps for Google search, Wikipedia or Amazon, and I don't think this ban is going to extend to blocking websites for western consumers using Huawei devices.

The others I don't use, so it would be OK for me.
If you take away the right for anti-vaxxers (or climate change deniers in the OP's case) to talk about things on a public platform where they're actively ridiculed, they're going to go underground and create their own communities under the radar.

Say someone goes to that community to try and convince them otherwise and says "hang on, vaccines don't cause autism, here's some research articles", they'll get banned and their post removed, and everyone in the separate community is none the wiser and nobody who uses that community will ever have the chance to be convinced otherwise.

So if you really wanted to stamp out the anti-vaxxers, I guess you'd have to have some kind of monitoring to make sure they don't post anything anywhere about anti-vaxx views. That would need to be done by someone or something powerful, say... Facebook or the government? I don't trust Facebook as their ulterior motive is selling your data for sweet sweet ad money, and I don't trust the government as many governments have shown in the past many times they can't be trusted to regulate speech of citizens (not that I would EVER want to regular speech)

So - why not just let them speak on large public platforms and have them get laughed at?
I wonder passion and grit aren't also inherent characteristics. Or, at the least, wondering if a ceiling on these traits is inherent.
"That would be the most interesting possibility, Trevisan said, since it would make graph isomorphism the first natural problem to have a quasi-polynomial algorithm but no polynomial algorithm. "

"Proving it would amount to solving the P versus NP problem, since it would mean that graph isomorphism separates the problems in P from the NP-complete problems."

(exp((log n)^O(1)))

Interesting that there could be a much more varied landscape than was previously thought.
I think there's a dual problem here.

First, a developer putting themselves in the place of a user still may not be able to see all of the issues with their product because they are (not sure how to put this better) "too close to the work". It relates to something we talk about here on HN every now and then, namely that "technical people" often miss things that are hard for others because they just can't fathom that x thing that's easy for me could be hard for someone.

Second, I think that, in a lot of places, management makes it super hard for developers to get any data on problems other than general, abstract numbers with zero specifics included. I seems quite unreasonable to expect a developer who is being stonewalled on data or access to users by another business area to work with "our overall churn rate is x%, fix it" and actually figure out what's wrong and what needs improving.
Same here, we just deployed a test instance running the upgraded code. No issues in our existing dashboards so far, and our initial testers are liking the speed improvements a lot.
Only to those who think of themselves as servants.
I suspect rising income inequality and increasing housing costs are the primary drivers of CC debt.

You generally can't pay rent with a CC and if rent goes up but income doesn't, then I could see people using CC to make ends meet.

Of course for some, overconsumption is the culprit, but I doubt it is for most people.
People who rely on the government to tell them what is healthy and what is not healthy are idiots. A drink made in an Atlanta Lab is obviously not healthy.
I found one article, only one, that did more than anything to help me understand git. Can't find it anymore. :-( But it had to do with reflog and how any command could be undone since nothing was truly destructive, and how reflog actually had the edges in the graph and you just needed to know how to repoint them to the right nodes. Or something. This is probably one of my least helpful HN comments.

edit: It might have been this one: https://hackernoon.com/https-medium-com-zspajich-understandi...
I still respectfully disagree. If GitHub really wanted to deceitfully name this feature to foster the cathedral model they would have gone with "branch" instead. In fact, I recall them getting quite a bit of push back for naming it "fork" because it has historically been a pejorative term. Even further, I believe the actual operation is implemented as a branch on their backend for efficiency's sake. So why go so far as to call it a fork?

Well, because you can treat it as a fully maintained source tree itself (and participating like a member in a bazaar). It's easy to turn on issues locally, add collaborators, accept pull requests, and trade commits back and forth between the forks. Now, yes, GitHub does by default "link" it to the upstream repository and it even keeps tabs on how its history differs, but I'd call these features that reflect real use-cases.

Also amusing is how the repositories on kernel.org describe themselves; 149 use the word "fork". Sure, it's probably partly due to how GitHub uses this terminology, but I'd say it's a good thing that forking is no longer pejorative by default — now it's a "hard fork" that's a bad thing.
>First, you're ignoring the basic difference between expenditure and investment. When the government spends a dollar on healthcare, that may be an "investment" in an abstract sense, but the government is not directly getting that money back. In budgetary terms, it's expenditure

What does healthcare do for people of working age? It allows us to work more and more effectively, to make more money and either consume fewer subsides or to pay more taxes.

Good healthcare means more and more effective workers.
There are several strategies for live-updating bokeh plots; tbh I'm not sure which ones are best. The officially supported one is Bokeh Server: https://demo.bokeh.org/surface3d

In any case, for me it's "the robot had a problem sometime in this 30 minute window, please dig through 3GB of logs to figure out what went wrong", and doing a bunch of pandas crunching upfront and dumping out a bunch of time series plots makes that kind of task really straightforward.
"Lack of self discipline" is very often code for one of two things:

1. Unidentified problems, such as minor health issues.

2. A signifier of being Twice Exceptional, which I highly recommend you read up on because average performance that the individual finds frustrating while longing to do greater things is a standard hallmark of being 2e.

Some resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional

https://www.hoagiesgifted.org/twice_exceptional.htm

I raised and homeschooled two Twice Exceptional sons. One was a B student. The other made straight As. The B student has both a higher IQ and a lot more handicaps/other issues.

I briefly did pro bono work for The TAG Project: http://www.tagfam.org/
I'm the same age, and I agree, I am NOT saying that I wanted to be a child prodigy, but I wish there was a bit more push than the Laissez-Faire I got.

I've thought about

> flipping my world upside down, moving far away and starting over

but I have too many good people in my life where I am to do this, even if it means sacrificing ambitions. Note that these are good people who inspire me to do better, but that inspiration fades when push actually comes to shove.
I'm the same way; from ages ~5-21 or so, I played video games almost-daily, but now I tend to keep myself entertained by programming something...not necessarily for my employer, but also not necessarily not for my employer.

I can't quite tell if it's because I like programming more, or if it's because as I get older, I have trouble justifying stuff that I know won't help with monetary or intellectual fulfillment.
> I consider that an acceptable sacrifice in the name of liberty

It is remarkable how often zealots are eager to sacrifice the lives and well-being of others to achieve their 'liberty'.

Liberty isn't enhanced by enhancing the ability those who wish to harm us to do so. We have laws and law enforcement for a reason. Untraceable communication is a tremendous force multiplier for crime, terrorism, and foreign political de-stabilization operations. That you want to increase the effectiveness of those things is very scary.
Lebron played football as well.
Most olympic athletes likely played other sports before picking up the sport they're competing in. No one grows up specializing in javelin, discus, shotput, rowing, decathlon etc, etc.
There's also all the multi-sport athletes that were phenomenal - Jordan, Gretzky, Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, Jackie Robinson all come to mind.
While you wait, you can play with https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/learn-the-ways-of-the... from the same guy.
Graphs are given as abstract sets of vertices and sets of edges (as adjacency lists or matrices). The problem is that corresponding vertices in the two graphs may not have the same label, so to solve graph isomorphism naively, one would need to try all n! possible bijections between the vertex sets (where n is the number of vertices).
With Warcraft 3 mods, you're building on top of highly polished and already-fun game features, more akin to taking one complete game and recombining it into other games. With a highly polished scenario editor.

I don't see how that has much in common with a "bazaar" approach to a game that is still in early development.
Despite using git for nearly a decade, I never became "good" at it until I started using Magit. Emacs is worth learning for Magit and org-mode alone.
Parents don't push kids. Kids push themselves. I was an EE/CS professor at a top 20 school. The only push was the example my parents set, as far back as 2nd grade. They never asked me to do my homework, work harder in school, or get better grades.
DNF was fine, it just wasn't the amazing masterpiece people expected. Miyamoto's quote can be true, but it can also be true that while delays can get you to 'good', that doesn't mean they can get you to 'great', and 'great' might sometimes only be achievable through aggressive cutting to the core experience. Not necessarily rushed, but not without deadlines and hard choices either.

For games pushing a new gimmick this seems even more true, and especially the idea of iterating on things that maybe aren't even quite "good" in order to learn more and eventually understand how to make something great even if a lot of the time greatness seems accidental. Two examples come to mind... Doom was made in a year, but was a culmination of even shorter projects successively refining what FPS meant. Portal was done in a little over 2 years, but was also built on the experience of Digipen students' project game that introduced the gimmick mechanic along with others at Valve with experience making FPSes (along with some writers who knew what they were doing).
I played a lot of games as a kid, more than my peers. I still enjoy games, but I don't get much time to play them anymore. I have kids now, that takes a lot of time. As I've got older I've found other fun things that take my limited time too. It all adds up to my Xbox360 (remember those? It was last system I bought years ago) is sitting in a box in hopes that someday I can finish the games I started but never mastered.

There are already video game systems in nursing homes. They don't have much 3d shooters, but wii bowling is popular (or it was 2 years ago, since my grandma died I haven't had reason to visit).

I do enjoy my job, but I'd get burnt out doing it much more than I do.
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It may or may not be a dumb idea, but it is certainly lacking in imagination. I am all for doing more science, but going to the moon? again? and what did we learn the first time? (apart from how awesome we are at doing stuff.)
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I have a son who developed intrinsic interest in a Rubik’s Cube I purchased as a gift for him at the age of 9.

He voluntarily attacked it with an incredible investment in time and focus.

I wouldnit call him an intellectual prodigy, but he consistently expressed outlier intrinsic motivation.

We supported him in his cubing competition pursuits.

He competed to a high standard making it to recognised national level competition twice, reaching the semi-finals the 1st year and clearing semi-finals the 2nd(but immediately knocked out in finals).

We openly discussed the commitment required to achieve national success, repeatedly covering the concept of diminishing returns.

We discussed that whatever he decided his family would support him.

He committed, he succeeded(to an extent), he recognised the need to redouble his commitment to achieve the final step up to the apex, and he decided he wanted to continue cubing for joy, rather than singular pursuit of competitive excellence.

We try to parent with a roughly 50/50 mix of “tiger parenting” and “hippies in joyful pursuit”.

Be disciplined in what we NEED to learn/do.

Be joyful in what we WANT to learn/do.

We think he’s a happy and well rounded kid

We think we did the right thing by him.

Too soon to tell?
Next test: Does urine taste the same as water? Can we get somebody to try that experiment?
I can't speak for this other app, but one thing that differs us from other Personal CRMs is our emphasis on data privacy. The team here is pretty obsessed with security and data privacy, and we created an app focused on those values.
Certainly not in the same way that I can own a pen or a nice wristwatch. Now we're getting somewhere! So what does it mean to "own" a company?

If the company is just me and a bag of tools, fixing people's cars on their driveway, do I own that company? What does it even mean for me to "own" it?
I just want to point out that "Companies are inefficient, but they get away with it because the market is even more inefficient." is not at all what GP wrote.
In Vietnam, they say you're blessed if your child is more capable than you. Everyone says it but it takes a long time to sink in. My dad told me that. I used to think it's kinda silly. Why have low expectation? Now I understand how hard it is.
You can just revert the revert commit.
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> I think that GitHub actively encourages the cathedral model

Characterizing a site where literally the entire development process can be done in the open as the cathedral model is a serious misreading of the The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
The improvements section/conclusion in Aaron Schwartz article is actually very possible today.

>I wish all my hard drives were consolidated onto one big drive. I wish I had SoundSticks. I wish my G1 was much, much faster. I wish that Terminal would have built-in support for screen so that different screens would appear as tabs and it would auto-reconnect. I wish that there was decent todo management software that deeply integrated with my email. I wish that everyone had perfectionist levels of attention to detail.

Phones are much, much faster, NAS’s (synology for example) allow you to merge a whole bunch of drives on a network. And Iterm is integrated with tmux, which makes it feel supremely native.

Not sure about the todo or attention to detail though.
> Being average or even is good is no longer enough.

Enough for what, exactly? What are you trying to optimize? Your contribution to society? Status? Happiness? Fulfillment? I think for some of these, average may give you a better outcome than others depending on what you want. And I also think people tend to change their goal over their lifetime
(2017). This is old news, I thought for a moment he had a new paper. Please add the year.