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> Moleskine has enormous margins - it doesn’t cost much to make a notebook

> it’s not hard to understand why the company would want to branch out. The stationery-goods industry isn’t exactly fast-growing in this age of Facebook, Twitter, and texting.

Why does every company need to be fast-growing?

What's wrong with a company that supplies a small number of consistently high-quality products to a more or less stable subset of the population, year after year, decade after decade? Why is "enormous margins" not enough?

There are inns in Japan and breweries in Germany that have been around for centuries with relatively little change. They don't give a damn about the fad of the decade, because they know it will pass and be forgotten, just like all the fads of countless past decades. Until recently, Moleskine has been trying pretty hard to make itself look like one of them, the heir to a long line of tradition, loved by Van Gogh and whatnot. (Poor Vincent probably couldn't even afford a Moleskine if he'd lived today, but I digress.)

And then Moleskine started diluting its own brand with cheap, short-lived, bastardized versions of its own flagship product. Yes, they sell a story, and their story used to be okay. Now their story is boring and confusing. It's as if a Hollywood executive has gone through the script and tried to add every cliche that he thinks will help him sell another ticket.

Oh, who am I kidding. We should have seen this from a mile away when a private equity firm bought out the company. No longer owned by its founder and manufacturer, Moleskine has become little but a page in a some anonymous investors' portfolio. After all, the modern Moleskine has only been around for 17 years. Who know whether they'll last another 17 years or not? Better bleed it dry while you still can.
ClO2 can be used to carve out safe zones at best. It could definitely be used to control airborne transmission in hospital, or other controlled, high risk settings - but it fundamentally is not a cure. We cannot simply fumigate entire cities at 0.3ppm for weeks at a time until an outbreak dies out. Other means will always be needed.

And as a nice aside, here's a nice paper about ClO2 use to control flu form a Japanese pharmaceutical company, referencing amongst other things one of their products that acts as a stable low level ClO2 gas generator.

http://benthamopen.com/toantimj/articles/V002/SI0008TOANTIMJ...
Okay, but the passage 'conception quoted said nothing about proving anything.

I don't know what source that was quoted from or what other claims that document might make. (The quoted passage doesn't even tell us what theory its anecdote is being presented in support of.) But to claim that this passage in itself establishes that the source is "pseudoscience" or "bad science" is, frankly, ridiculous.

You know, the scientific method has no special dispensations for orthodoxies -- if anything, the very notion of an orthodoxy should be repellent to a scientist. But scientists are human, and many people are attracted to orthodoxies.

Yet if there's anything we know, it's that all theories, orthodox or not, have their limitations. Given that, isn't it a good thing that there are people willing to explore unorthodox possibilities even if most of them are wrong?

I'm not suggesting credulity. I'm suggesting humility: a keen awareness of how much we still don't know.
I think this is good case of Black Swan (it would be highly improbable the same problem hit all the companies in a diversified portfolio but could happen a la hearthbleed).
There's an extremely insightful book written on the subject (the black swan by Mr Taleb). Wich I do recommend.

Discounted cashflow = bullshit used to rationalize the sale price ( it can have some use in super long term predictable business like real estate with 10 year lease and well diversified tenants)

Hope this was helpfull
i'd wager nearly everyone lurked before making an account
My understanding is, that the attitude was "throwing numbers together and calling it a dashboard is bad, ask the users what they actually want".
It's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to government/private moral duality. As an anarcho-capitalist, I've had to peel back years of this stuff that was forced into my brain since I was small.

Most people hold a similar view as you. i.e. "Why is X wrong when people do it, but not when government/government employee does it". However, we anarcho-capitalists, who examine the basis of government in terms universal moral principles, apply this critique to everything a government does.

Your singular question is one of many. And I urge you to explore such questions further, as far as you're comfortable questioning. You'll find that much of what government does is logically inconsistent, even with its own set of defined "morals".
It's kind of interesting to put HN in context of all the other services you use at least 1 time per week. I have a (relatively) old HN account -- 2287 days -- and now that I'm thinking about it, the only accounts/service that I use regularly and are older than this account are paypal, gmail, and steam. I'm probably forgetting others, but that's some real lasting power.
Never ignore check engine lights even if everything is seemingly ok. It could be a lot of different things, some harmless but some not so much. If it's something with a sensor or other intake part, it could also be taking away your gas mileage.

Pro tip: As the others stated, they make good obd-2 readers for cheap and you can also go to many auto parts stores and they'll use theirs to give you the code print out for free.
First of all, I waited until two other people in the thread had mentioned Min before mentioning it. Second of all, I think this is an extremely relevant place to mention Min. Finally, I've edited my post more to show how I think Picnic is really interesting and has a cool approach.

Good now?
As far as I know patrick hasn't released sales numbers, but I'm confident that he's got to at least be glad he didn't take 100k for it.
> They split it up by discretionary and mandatory.

Which has always been a bit of a lie for political expediency. Most of the "mandatory" expenditures aren't actually fixed amounts. For example, changing the retirement age or what benefits government health plans provide will directly impact "mandatory" spending.
let me get back to you in a bit -- at 999 days exactly.
> Containing an outbreak of >5000 is out of the reach of most of the states affected by the disease and quite honestly very expensive for any nation

Many African nations have a history of dealing with problem regions, such as regions that have the wrong politics, tribal affiliation, or religion, by going in with their military and killing everyone in sight.

What are the chances some of these countries might decide to deal with the problem of Ebola infected regions that way? Especially regions where superstition or ignorance lead the people there to avoid treatment? If the rest of the world waits too long to come up with a solution for the problem, I fear we may see a lot more deaths from this than just those who are killed by the Ebola virus directly.
Well in the 3D printer area (an area I have some interest in) it seems that people who are rejected by Kickstarter ended up on Indiegogo. I've looked for but haven't found any way yet to figure out how many projects are in that space, but for 3d printers the number of "this is going to fail, clearly" type projects has gotten relatively large.
My first impression of min is that it looks nice. Really, for it's goals, it's pretty tight.

As a branding thing, I'd change that URL. I get that it's short but minfwk.com doesn't really look like "Min Framework" to me. It just looks like a bunch of letters. A domain like mincss.com, getmin.com, minframework.com or something more legible would be better.
I loved this book, and can highly recommend it. Take a look at the bottom right picture on his Wikipedia page [1], where he is talking about math to a 10 year old Terence Tao, who is now one of the great minds of his generation. I think that is Erdos in short. He had an influence on so many people across the world.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
I had a discussion with a friend, and he pointed out that Malaria infects something like 200 million people a year in Africa, and kills around half a million. It's brutal.

So this new paper is projecting that Ebola deaths in Africa will be about as common as Malaria deaths.

I guess I'm trying to draw any conclusions or imply anything here other than life in Africa is pretty freakin' tough.
Try swiping it, works out on my phone
14 days = 2 weeks

3 months = a quarter

12 months = a year
All of which is irrelevant in places where there isn't reliable electricity, roads, supplies of precursors or a population who won't believe you're actually affecting chemical warfare on them.

Taking a short dip into the chemtrails-nuts in the west should convince you how well this would go over. Ebola is fundamentally a result of a myriad of causes, where "poverty" would be a headlining one (followed shortly by corruption and ineffective governance).
Chlorine Dioxide falls into the category of ways to kill a virus that will also kill us. Your second source argues that it is effective at levels "below the long-term permissible exposure level to humans, namely 0.1 p.p.m.", but I would imagine there are still health concerns to using this method. Additionally, that figure is the needed concentration to control the influenza virus (in mice), it is not clear how well this number generalizes to other viruses.

While it is nice to have a worst case scenario plan, I suspect the reason the CDC isn't testing it is because they do not believe we will be in a situation where using it is better then the alternative. If we were in a situation where Chlorine Dioxide was a good idea, I suspect even the pharmaceutical companies would be supportive.
With the right implementation debugging generics wont be hard. It doesn't have to be C++'s version of generics.

And I'm not buying the poor programmer understanding argument. Generics aren't that complex, they're just parameterized types. The fact that basic language libraries such as maps and slices cannot be implemented without them speak volumes about how fundamental they are when building abstractions.

My point is that most of the backpressure against generics seems to stem from perceived added complexity to the compiler and type system, and thats all. But I'm not convinced thats a valid argument. Truth be told, I'm not a language implementer. But I know that fast compilers and runtimes that implement generics exist, so I don't find the whole discussion believable.
I'm pointing out that this tool is essentially useless from security perspective. Most of the payloads will have different hash results due to extensive use of packers.

If you are going to get hit with variant #11929 before the online databases obtains a hash of it, this tool is not going to pick it up but it will tell you that you are secure.
Unlike the other commenter, every hospitalization was for mania, not depression. When I'm depressed I'm essentially bed-ridden.

I guess I took dangerous risks, depending on who you talk to. :) I was never suicidal or homicidal, but I definitely did things that were out of character and scary to people outside. One of the most interesting things is that I remember everything and it all seemed 'rational' at the time. Not rational per the normal definition of rational, but following my line of reasoning everything made sense. I don't want to go into too much details online as it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who I am. As it is you can google stalk me and eventually figure out my story. Regardless it isn't that interesting.

The threat part is that 1/5 people with bipolar die of suicide w/ 25% to 50% attempting. That is so, so scary. I was deeply affected by the passing of Robin Williams for that reason. That's almost always on the depression side.

For me, my mania was just ... extra happy ... going right up into the mystical amazement with life, the universe and everything that people typically associate with psychedelics, etc. 14 days into a hospital stay (my longest was 17 I think) that happy go lucky feeling sleeping ~1-3 hours max on heavy sedation becomes... much more agitated and frustrated.

Not attempting to edit this post for clarity, but yeah, that's a rough sketch of my situation. It's been 6 years since I was last hospitalized (I had my friends take me in), but I'd say the feeling coming on is like an electric charge of infinite energy reverberating from the base of my skull. Sounds awesome in theory, but it doesn't convert to tangible output when the smoke clears. I could write on and on about these experiences, but so can many others... /r/bipolarreddit and /r/bipolar are some spaces where people let loose on their experiences.
> So this new paper is projecting that Ebola deaths in Africa will be about as common as Malaria deaths.

Unless the diseases start "competing" with each other. You can't really die of both. I don't know if the demographics of the two diseases overlap enough that this might happen.
I'd say people tie themselves in inheritance and interface knots more often than generics knots. Especially invariant generics are rather hard to get wrong - they place such constraints on the types that most operations are unavailable.
The elimination of the deficit from 1996 to 2001 makes the data suspect. The political story about deficit elimination was pushed by Clinton and ultimately a matter of the OMB playing with numbers as a political tool. I'm really surprised by how long misinformation lives.
Those studies are from from Taiko Pharmaceutical.

Are you actually really arguing that pharmaceutical companies are not interested in studying the subject of the studies that you present from a pharmaceutical company?
A word of caution about iPhone 5S chargers
An original iPhone 5S charger blew up in our co-workers's hand.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125661418@N06/15242534155/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125661418@N06/15055971937/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125661418@N06/15219529876/

Fake chargers have been known to be high risk, and there have been deaths reported recently. But honestly, I expected higher quality from an original Apple product.

Just to add to the cringe factor, this happened on the toilet power outlet. Gladly, no one was harmed, despite the proximity the fingers to the actual short circuit as you can see on one of the photos. Also note that the mains pins are not damaged: the actual burst was on the USB side: who knows what transient went through that USB cable and into the user's hand.

If you've played with electronic circuits, you know carbon is a great conductor of electricity. Once a surface is carbonized, it spreads the short circuit around. The USB jack on this charger is now carbonized and should be considered electrically in contact with the mains pins.

Be very careful with any device charger. Never use your phone while it charges and never use another device while they're both charging as it may form a circuit. Just because it is 5 Volts USB it does not make it safe. There is a power line just 3 milimeters away from the USB jack inside this enclosure.

These switch-mode chargers are getting smaller and smaller and the physical shielding between 220VAC mains and the trusted USB output is literally just millimeters away. Distance means safety in electricity, and as great as these little charges look, I think safety's being compromised for aesthetics here.

Be extra careful with any charger, including original brand name chargers.
I remember reading about one method where they served up their own versions of Facebook when requested from a target from compromised hosts that are near that target as a way to collect credentials.

I forget the name of that method, but according to the documents it was used to target sysadmins. Though if you use a password manage with unique passwords for every service that should help protect you.

For more details:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/03/20/hunt-...
> But if you wish, we also measure GDP which is an absolute number.

Of course, using GDP rather than inflation is also a political choice because GDP has on average increased more than inflation.

Also, comparing the government budget with GDP will never show more than a modest increase because a "large" increase (e.g. quadrupling the government budget as a percentage of GDP) would require the government to be consuming in excess of 100% of GDP.

On the other hand, if compared with inflation there is an exponential increase in the federal budget over time. For example, the 1962 budget of $107B would be $884B in 2014 dollars (using CPI) but the 2014 budget is $3650B, which exceeds the real 1962 GDP.
The article references having burial specialists. This would require certain people having the right to take deceased corpses and burying without regard for the family/tribal/religious requests/requirements etc. This would at the very least be seen as impinging on the rights of the family, it would likely need armed support. If these burial specialists were say American, they would NOT be deployed without American armed support. Having American armed support (most likely the army) on the ground supporting people who are likely to be impinging on perceived rights will be viewed as trampling sovereignty.

Australia and the Netherlands had a similar issue with the downing of the Malaysian Airliner in Ukraine. In this case, the Ukrainian government had to pass legislation to allow armed Australian and Dutch military to support inspectors. They were just 'inspecting', not creating forced closures of specific areas, forcing burials, witholding care, etc all under significant armed guards.

The present situation on the ground (and the lack of 3rd party government level interaction) is largely a result of weak leadership by the UN. The better question is why the UN hasn't taken ownership of the outbreak?
You would probably also want to filter for active within the past N days. Depending on how HN is set up, this might be difficult to implement.
Machine learning = machines that can communicate in images
Um, I've written Go. Nontrivial amounts, as it happens. In doing so, I recognized that I was regularly forced to write worse code in the pursuit of doing things idiomatically because I lacked the semantic richness of C++, let alone Scala. And this worse-is-better attitude of the Go community gives me a dim view of its future--and between its junk GC and its completely pedestrian semantic and syntactic propositions I already had a dim view of its present.

If you write reusable, future-facing code, generic types without the erasure of interface upcasting is required. There are no two ways around it.
"The Prize" makes this point as well. Throw in that the Japanese were cut off from American-produced oil in reaction to the Rape of Nanking.

I can't recall the source, but there are those who posit that the international spot markets mean war never need be fought over oil supply again.
The problem is that the code that needs generics is reusable abstractions in libraries. Thats probably 1-3% of code but it is also critically important and there is no convincing workaround.
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Because Ebola has already been shown to be transmissible via the air, but only in other species.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498927/

> Piglets [with Ebola] were transferred to the room housing macaques in an open inaccessible cage system. All macaques became infected.
You can get more information from: https://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/months

I'm not sure if it's up to date because it uses the hn-search-api from octopart, and it was changed to algolia.

I think it shows (almost) all the users, but another interesting statistic is the current active users.
I found out about HN around the time that "Joel On Software" community was dying out. I'm guessing a lot of people migrated from there?
Thanks for your response! This makes several things I've been trying to understand on my own much clearer.
I'm terribly condescending online. I'm glad that you have found a good mix for you and sorry I was an asshole there. I just didn't want people to get the picture that psych med X destroys everyone it touches. They all hit people differently. Possibly because the exact causes of these diseases aren't tacked down.

Be well. I can only hope our life experiences both rock regardless of whatever bumps in the road we hit. I didn't put the low-lights of my life on meds into my post, but they are legion. Leeeeeeegion.
Here is the thing I would like and maybe I could fork your and just try it and see how it looks. I really like attribute based properties for grid, I think this is great idea. Check it here. I think this could make your framework different from me-too frameworks. I think you could improve on it quite a bit, add optional modules for modal for example, maybe some other elements.

http://glenmaddern.com/articles/introducing-am-css
Much better. Changed. Thanks!

(Previous title was "The battery-powered rocket that could transform Formula 1 racing".)
Keep in mind that he didn't start amphetamine use until his late 50's.
Every Democrat in US Senate Votes to Repeal First Amendment
I suspect most people linger and never bother creating an account. My own account is 103 days old, but I've been RSS subscribing to HN for about... 3 years? Maybe slightly longer.

I read a lot of what's being discussed on HN, but I barely participate.

Partly this is down to me fully accepting most of you know more about nearly everything than I do, and sometimes people can be a little unforgiving in reminding others of that. Partly because a lot of the time, I find I can get the information I want from a discussion by just through what others have discussed.
Similar to the sections editor in our product https://www.singlepage.guru
Just idea of it, I like it. I am big fan of JS and think it has great future on both sides, but just on initial description of this, I really like it. I will try to give it a spin in next few days to have a more realistic experience. Thanks for making it.