skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1952,[28] Buffett married Susan Thompson at Dundee Presbyterian Church and the next year they had their first child, Susan Alice Buffett. In 1954, Buffett accepted a job at Benjamin Graham's partnership. His starting salary was $12,000 a year (approximately $105,000 inflation adjusted for the 2012 USD[23]). There he worked closely with Walter Schloss. Graham was a tough man to work for. He was adamant that stocks provide a wide margin of safety after weighting the trade-off between their price and their intrinsic value. The argument made sense to Buffett but he questioned whether the criteria were too stringent and caused the company to miss out on big winners that had more qualitative values.[citation needed] That same year the Buffetts had their second child, Howard Graham Buffett. In 1956, Benjamin Graham retired and closed his partnership. At this time Buffett's personal savings were over $174,000 ($1.47 million inflation adjusted to 2012 USD[23]) and he started Buffett Partnership Ltd., an investment partnership in Omaha.

Buffett's home in Omaha
In 1957, Buffett had three partnerships operating the entire year. He purchased a five-bedroom stucco house in Omaha, where he still lives, for $31,500. In 1958 the Buffetts' third child, Peter Andrew Buffett, was born. Buffett operated five partnerships the entire year. In 1959, the company grew to six partnerships operating the entire year and Buffett was introduced to Charlie Munger. By 1960, Buffett had seven partnerships operating: Buffett Associates, Buffett Fund, Dacee, Emdee, Glenoff, Mo-Buff and Underwood. He asked one of his partners, a doctor, to find ten other doctors willing to invest $10,000 each in his partnership. Eventually eleven agreed, and Buffett pooled their money with a mere $100 original investment of his own. In 1961, Buffett revealed that Sanborn Map Company accounted for 35% of the partnership's assets. He explained that in 1958 Sanborn stock sold at only $45 per share when the value of the Sanborn investment portfolio was $65 per share. This meant that buyers valued Sanborn stock at "minus $20" per share and were unwilling to pay more than 70 cents on the dollar for an investment portfolio with a map business thrown in for nothing. This earned him a spot on the board of Sanborn.

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The case against acqui-hires
I also completed the badge challenge (Though a few hours after this team), and as far as I know, there was no hint as to which line of the cryptex was the OTP. We just knew, from the 'YQESMJDOJOTM' comment on the one page, that the cryptex was involved, so we tried every line as a key until we got something.

1o57 tends to design most of his puzzles around similar ideas, so you just start to get a feel for how he works after a while.
“AverageExplorer” Combines Thousands of Online Images Into One
Astronomical reasons for a six day week
Call me crazy, but I use the upvote button for upvoting and I use my browser's bookmark to bookmark.
Japan's Decision for War in 1941: Some Enduring Lessons (2009)
The way I see it, if a rock falls off the edge of a cliff and hits your head that's just bad luck and you have to live with it. If the government pays somebody to throw a rock at your head, you have every reason to bear a grudge and to seek redress.

This is a situation where the government (in the form of the Metropolitan Police) trained and paid officers to infiltrate political groups using sex and long term intimate relationships. It's a quite different situation from a man telling a woman he's an airline pilot in order to sleep with her (although that is also shitty behaviour).

> Are there any good examples of things any citizen may do that an officer may not, that are not as cloudy and twisted as romantic relationships?

Assuming "may do" means "may do without it being a crime", I don't think anybody's really suggested the officers involved committed any actual crime. People are taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police, but not against the officers themselves afaik.
yes, for different reasons.
> You are refusing double-blind studies as evidence.

You are lying -- there are no double-blind scientific studies of ADHD, one, because they would be unethical as you pointed out earlier, and two, without knowing the cause of ADHD, no such studies are even possible.

> You are misrepresenting NIMH's stance on DSM

YOU ARE LYING. I quoted the NIMH directly and linked to their decision. The DSM will no longer be accepted as the basis for scientific research, because it only lists symptoms, not causes -- required for science. Read it again:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

> You are quoting minority opinions ...

NIMH Director Insel is a "minority opinion"? Which planet are you visiting from? Insel and his predecessor Steven Hyman at the NIMH, and Allen Frances, editor of DSM-IV, and many others, all agree that psychiatry and psychology are in deep trouble with respect to the issue of science and evidence, and all agree that the DSM needs to be abandoned.

> while the author is pretty clear that it is a valid neurobiological disorder,

You just quoted an article that says the opposite. You are lying about the words in front of your face. Also, since the cause is unknown, anyone claiming that it's a valid disorder is contributing to folk tales instead of science.

Again, for the record, this is not to say there's no ADHD, only that there's no science for or against.

> Are you a scientist? I sure hope not...

The sure sign of someone who doesn't know how to participate in a debate about issues.
Do you know where I can find a diff?

I'd like to see whats new with 14.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B14#New_language_features
It's because inventive language use is dying.

Imagine if Dr. Seuss tried to write something today. The big book publishers wouldn't even take a second look at his stuff.
I had this idea a while back and I'm glad that Nextdoor is dominating it. Growing up on a double cul-de-sac, I'd say I was fortunate enough to have a close neighborhood just by virtue of the shape of the street, but for people that didn't have that this seems like a really awesome service.
Have you considered using Pixi.js instead of pure canvas? Pixi.js uses WebGL with a canvas fallback and performance is much better:
http://www.pixijs.com/
I use sublime text and it works fine, combined with a robust code search tool.

The problem here is poorly written code. I shouldn't need an IDE to tell me what is going on, the code should do it.
>if I assign to a variable x of type A an object of type B

You're correct that this is unsafe, but this isn't what auto does. You'd be assigning a variable x of type A an object of type A. Then what that code theoretically changes, you're now assigning variable x of type B an object of type B. auto just handles all the boilerplate. It will be type safe, it's just logically incorrect.

For example

public int foo()
{
return 1;
}

auto x = foo();
//is the same as
int x = foo();

And then you change it to this:

public float foo()
{
return 1.0f;
}

auto x = foo();
//is the same as
float x = foo();

In either case you can go on to do stuff like 'float y = x / 10;' Because they're both valid operators. But there can be logical inconsistencies, like the integer division problem that will occur if x is an int. Then again, you probably shouldn't use auto for something as simple as int or float. But 'auto foobar = new vector<int>;' is a very clear statement, and if you replace vector with something else, odds are the compiler will throw a fit with any later methods you attempt to call.

I haven't written C++ in a while, so I hope I didn't butcher the examples too much. I simply typed them into the comment box.

The definition of type-safe could be extended to mean what you say, it's not really a term that is set in stone. But I've always used type safety to mean preventing type-based syntax errors, not semantic errors. If it's more common to do otherwise, I'd be happy to be corrected.
Pardon the user for using the term "marriage" instead of "long-term relationship involving cohabitation, shared expenses, and raising children together". How clumsy of him to use a word that means "all of the above, plus formalized by the state."
What is the status of child support in England, in a case like this?
TrustPoint (where I work) is doing Crypto and PKI system research for it, and contributing to the V2V security specs. There's some really interesting technology being developed for both security and anonymity in M2M communication field.
More info: http://www.trustpointinnovation.com/vehicle-to-vehicle/, http://www.trustpointinnovation.com/device-security/
I read it as 'the Red "Big Barn"'.
The various sides of the immigration debate are talking past each other. This article describes a German program that takes high skill people like the architect profiled in the article, while those opposed to immigration are mainly concerned about the large numbers of low-skill people who are not interested in assimilating. The anti-immigrant folks in Britain and France aren't worried about Mr. Pinol. They're worried about the people who want to self-govern according to Sharia law inside a western country.

As for the U.S., the key difference with Germany is that our fertility rate is 1.89 (over 2.1 during the boom). Theirs is 1.36 (under 1.4 since 1990).
Maybe I'm in the minority here but this doesn't sound very appealing. I've said it before but do you really want to be a software engineer solving real problems or a glorified glue-stick gluing pieces of framework code together? All this seems to do is make it easier to glue framework code together.
I still wouldn't try to use too many functional idioms in C++ even now. It's just not a good language for that kind of programming style. For example, from the "New language features" section of the C++14 Wikipedia page[1], the first example is generic lambdas, which means we can now write:

auto lambda = [](auto x, auto y) {return x + y;};

That's progress of a sort, but in Haskell, a language designed to support this style of programming, it looks like this:

lambda = (+)

Obviously C++ is slowly being left behind by modern programming language design and the collective experience of the programming industry over several decades since C++ was invented. Eventually it will be superseded by other languages that do support more expressive language features and better designed standard libraries (which is easy to do with the wisdom of hindsight, of course -- this is not a criticism of the people who built C++ without the benefit of that hindsight).

But since we don't yet have any such alternatives that don't also have significant drawbacks and/or unacceptable run-time performance characteristics, for the near future C++ is still going to be the first choice for a lot of projects in the real world. In that respect, closing the loopholes and fixing the pain points is useful for a lot of people, and very wisely that seems to be what the standards committee are concentrating on doing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B14#New_language_features
Show HN: Js-chaosgame, a chaos game implementation with HTML5 and JavaScript
Comprehend Systems raises $21M for clinical-trials data platform
Uh, no, "virtual" should absolutely NOT be the default. I don't know where you got that idea from (Java?) but it's absolutely horrible.
I don't have much information about Germany apart from a couple one-week holidays, so I can't really comment on those.

On the other hand, I've moved to Britain 2 years ago (with a secured job that I'm just leaving for a new one this week) and in my experience this isn't far away from "The Land of Opportunity". The Greater London area and, to some extent, the M4 corridor is just the paradise for skilled IT workers. Heck, even some towns have almost nil unemployment in general (Reading, I'm looking at you).

Seriously, IT companies struggle to find skilled and experienced people and often hire from the rest of the EU just because it is a bigger pool and many >35 y.o. people already speak decent English so, why not?
hey - so, I checked out the meeting. Didn't really hear anything new - did I miss something?
If you have any questions please post them!
What does how other countries deal with protests have anything to do with the US Army's guide to dealing with protests?
The sorts of crypto I've dealt with in more traditional contexts (Attacking a web application, etc), are very different from the skillset required for 1o57's badge challenge.

They're both a ton of fun, and an aptitude for one probably hints at an aptitude for the other, but I wouldn't discount yourself entirely, just because one writeup scared you off :)
It was possible to move money but difficult. Doing so once in a lump sum meant you wouldn't have to worry about the reliability of regular bank transfers across borders or fear your accounts being frozen once you were successful a single time. Seizing a house is much more difficult than freezing a bank account.
I've been trying to get added to Craft Coffee and MistoBox, but I almost feel like it's a beauty contest and I'm the "plain Jane with the great personality" that's the real catch!

www.darrinscoffee.com
Node.js Vs. Clojure – First Impressions Of Node
Egyptian artifacts that came from space
> It is addressed by better design.

This! A lot of the horrible Java you see around is nothing but an artifact of mindlessly applying patterns to constructs that don't need them.

> a lot of java was created when we still hadn't figured out how to properly do Object Oriented Programming.

Which is quite unforgivable, considering Smalltalk has been around since the early 80's.
I don't know about that, his books are still being constantly re-published.
> All those things were true when they were said.

Yes, that's true. But I'll bet the people who said them regretted saying them later. :)
Rent prices have definitely exploded and there are no signs that the upwards trend will stop anytime soon. Nevertheless they are still low compared to cities like London or Paris.

Furthermore software developers in Berlin are in very high demand. If you speak English fluently and are a good software developer, getting a job in Berlin should be no problem.
I'm confused, as I've never delved much into the nature of journals short of what we had to in college. No, I never published a paper. Hopefully someone can explain/answer my question.

Do the publishers (somehow) force the authors to give them exclusive publishing rights or something? If not, why are these authors simply not putting their papers on multiple journal/platforms?
Would love to setup a server to play with my daughters too. Could you point me to some resources on how to do it?
My North Europe services are down too. Strangely it seems to be their load balancers that aren't working as i can ssh in fine...
Police Officers Discussing the Ferguson Case
Thanks for the reply. That is the approach I take. Users have one or more identities which seems to be the logical way of handling this regardless of the physical structure used to store the association.

While you gloss over it a bit, the 'migrate the existing data' part is a challenge of its own because it means that suddenly the auth component needs to either know every place where a user<->content association is made or you need some sort of queue set up to publish user merges to all parts of the app in a reliable and durable way so that they can process the migration themselves.

I would say that this is also a UI concern and therefore something that a service like this would need to handle because it should _not happen automatically_. When a user conflict is detected, the user should be able to make a decision via appropriate UI. We would not want two accounts being merged simply because of some degenerate case where someone logged into their account on a borrowed computer.
Wise Brown Margaret?
Maybe, if you're doing it all at once. I often use my text editor as a regex platform, using the Find/Replace menu to dice off chunks of text in a series of quick and easy operations, using UNDO if I get one wrong. It's really very quick if you don't force yourself to do it in one step.
Does anyone know if project jigsaw will improve the startup time for JVM languages?
Some rec centers and high end gyms will have an RMR machine (BodyGem).
What are examples?
What is the chance of moving to Germany from the US without a college degree, but rather with five years industry experience and a handful of certifications, plus a good grasp of the German language? Would companies generally go for that, or would German authorities allow that?
Why would it be bad? You could always add non-virtual (inline maybe? it's already useless keyword) if you need the performance, and most of the code doesn't. And it's a source of errors.
Microsoft's Azure virtual machine, cloud services down for many
Serious question: is this something that would be popular in the US? I could never see anyone in my neighbourhood using a private/local social network. Interested to hear from people who think this would be popular in their country.
I think it's storage - the article doesn't say so, but I've heard Google make similar statements before that were in terms of $/MB of disk. It's the price of the raw hardware though; it doesn't take into account any software optimizations like deduplication or compression.

Also, Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are priced on an auction system, so you can get a rough idea of the market-clearing price from the spot price. (With some distortion because Amazon controls the allocation of machines to spot vs. on-demand services.) Currently it's about an order of magnitude lower than on-demand prices, giving you some idea of how much farther prices could fall and what Amazon's profit margins might be.
This is a nice submarine ad.

This would be great if people were more active on NextDoor. I haven't seen too many neighborhoods in the Bay Area where it works beyond 4-5 active people.
I tried implementing a token-based authentication system, and it worked fine for a while. Then we added a subdomain (login.mysite.com) for registering, and it all went to shit. They don't share the same localStorage, so keeping the tokens in sync can be tough.
You're completely correct; however, the occasional partaking you describe is equally applicable to other addictive activities, be they substances like alcohol or marijuana, or purely behavioral addictions like gambling or MMOs. Some people can do it once in a blue moon, some people can sustain doing it every weekend, and for some people it becomes an unhealthy dependency.

In all cases, I don't think there's anybody who wouldn't benefit from additional mindfulness. If such behavior becomes problematic, it's a case-by-case determination as to whether moderation or elimination is the better strategy. (I personally find it easier to eat zero junk food than to eat it occasionally, but I certainly don't begrudge anyone who can moderate successfully.)
The Peace Dividend: Dystopia Now
Don't forget that it's in a realtor's best interests to stir up the pot about all this foreign money. "Bid higher or the Chinese will outbid you!!".

Apparently there was a scam in Vancouver, BC where a local realtor group was busted doing this exact thing.[1] They took a couple of their Chinese employees and had them wander around expensive homes with a story about buying up a ton of real estate.

Very smarmy. And they weren't the only ones doing it.

[1]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/former-mac-ma...
Existing month to month, July 2014
> So because other people may or may not forget it, I shouldn’t use it in my scripts/day-to-day usage?

He specifically mentions that that is not his point, but rather that he is arguing against exactly the sort of "just use '--'" response that one can find in this post:

> Do feel free to use “--” between options and pathnames, when you can do it, as an additional protective measure. But using “--” as your primary (or only) mechanism for dash-prefixed filenames is bad idea.
Russia introduced legislation around taxis in 2011 because customers were routinely being ripped off. snitko's post is based on bad info.
Well if they force him, I expect he will go. That's the definition of forcing somebody to do something. So what was your problem again?
This reminds me of my friend, she's an activist of sort related to the anarchist movement here in my country. She was told my some of her friends her partner was a cop (she met him in a protest) she's now pregnant with his baby, he ran away and she found some emails of him reporting to his supervisors.
Here's a great article on what's required to get a freelance visa in Germany (i.e. you don't actually even need a German company to employ you before you move): https://medium.com/@imcatnoone/how-to-get-your-german-freela...

My impression from visiting and friends that live there is that Berlin is undergoing a true technology renaissance at the moment. Personally, if I weren't already living in a perfect location, I'd be looking to move to Berlin.
On #4, I don't see any evidence they attempted to follow the laws. The Swedish taxi market is deregulated and not a cartel. You can enter it, as long as you follow some fairly simple consumer-protection regulations! Uber is just not interested. I suspect that part of the reason is that it would be damaging to their image to be "just another taxi company". But it could also be that they legitimately find it difficult to adapt their business to the rules.

Now you could argue even the relatively few regulations Sweden has left should be scrapped. But that's what the democratic system is for. I don't support just ignoring them when you think they should be different. I mean, maybe in extreme cases, where people are actually being oppressed, direct action and civil-disobedience are justified. But Uber's dispute with Stockholm over how to give fair notice of prices, and what constitutes a "meter", seem like a pretty small hook to hang a civil-rights crusade on.
There's no strong evidence.
Albert Brooks' novel 2030 is set in LA after a major earthquake, where China offers to rebuild LA in exchange for a half-ownership stake, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/books/albert-brookss-2030-...
> As Rob Evans and Paul Lewis write in “Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police,” Lambert “was well versed in political theory.” A former acquaintance told them, of Bob, “He was not a cardboard activist, he had real depth to him.” (Evans and Lewis exposed many of the events in this story in a series of articles in the Guardian, for which they won a 2014 British Press Award, and in “Undercover,” which is the definitive account of the excesses of undercover policing in Britain.)

I don't tend to recommend books as books take a while to read and 2-3 days of someone's time is precious. However, this book is one of those exceptions, a must read that will change your ideas on how things really work in this world. Enlightening and extremely well researched, quite an adventure story too, covering many decades of goings on.
Ask HN: Why is it more fun to read the comments?
I think it's safe to say that many people read the HN comment thread before the linked article, if they even read the article at all. Often, it's clear even those commenting haven't read the original article.

It's as though the comments are junk food and the original post vegetables.

So what is it that makes the comment threads so irresistible and the original article such a chore (for many, at least)?

Is it just that a conversation is more interestion than a monologue? The extra effort of leaving the site? The frequently excessive verbiage and/or formality of the articles? Or something else?
It should be noted that Germany is only a land of opportunity, if you intend to study there, have a university-level education or are wealthy enough that your education becomes irrelevant.

Furthermore unless you are doing software development, research or something similarly internationally focused you will have a bad time, if you don't speak German.