skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going for a 'moonshot' is not incompatible with pursuing the interests of shareholders, as long as the potential payout is commensurate with the elevated risk. I don't see IBM being hit with class action lawsuits despite the highly speculative nature of some IBM research.

A for 'a LEGAL obligation to their shareholders to pursue profits,' this is a myth, and putting the word 'legal' in capitals doesn't enhance your argument. Officers of a company have a fiduciary duty to the corporation, and shareholders have a claim on the profits of the corporation, but no law requires that a corporation devote itself to profit above all else - and for good reason, since otherwise activist shareholders might demand that Apple cease the relatively uncertain business of making pretty computers and offer financial services instead, since finance is the single most profitable sector of the US economy.

As a shareholder, you have the right to vote in the election of directors to the board (let's skip over all the differently nuanced varieties of stock or we'll be here all day), and that's it. If you still don't like what the corporation is doing then you have a simple option: sell your shares and invest your money elsewhere.

The corporation's purpose is stated in its articles of incorporation. In Apple's case (and most companies are similar in this respect) it is as follows:

The purpose of this corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of California other than the banking business, the trust company business or the practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California Corporations Code.

Now, the idea of the obligation to maximize shareholder value is often tied to an old legal case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Company, but nowadays most courts look to Shlensky v. Wrigley in which the court held that directors are obliged only to do whatever they consider to be in the best interests of 'the corporation which they serve.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlensky_v_Wrigley

You might like to read further on the topic from Professor Lynn Stout, who is professor of corporate law at Cornell University and has written a whole book on this topic - summarized at the link below, which also includes a link to the content in pdf form.

https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-shareho...
Have US Treasuries ever paid more than inflation? Isn't that relationship basically stable -- meaning, when we had higher interest rates, we had higher inflation as well.
You have no idea how difficult it is to avoid thinking of it in historical terms - although my own views (I'm voting Yes) are all about the future, not the past.

My music teacher at secondary school (a staunch SNP supporter) spent a significant amount of time teaching us songs about a war 700 years ago (NB guess why the referendum is in 2014?).

Personally, I would forget the Declaration of Arbroath, no matter how stirring it may be, and focus on the Declaration of Calton Hill which is all about a better future:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Calton_Hill

[Ignore its origins with the SSP - entertaining bunch of lunatics though they are].
It was a summer night--right around dusk--circa 1996. I was driving on highway with one lane in each direction, the usual dotted yellow line in the middle (which allows one to pass, as long as there's no danger of hitting oncoming traffic).

No other cars were in sight, but there were two bicyclists ahead: one near the right edge of the lane and the other near the center of the road (but still in the right hand lane). I carefully signaled and moved into the left hand lane, giving the cyclists as much room as possible.

As I passed them, I saw movement out of my right eye just in time for the nearest cyclist to swerve directly into my car, shattering the front passenger window and injuring herself horribly (a spiral fracture in one of her legs, broken hip, broken ribs, at least one shattered arm).

She and her family sued my auto insurance company and lost. It was determined that she was completely at fault. It was also discovered that she was drunk at the time of the accident.

If this idiotic law had been in effect at the time, the three foot barrier would no longer have existed as she swerved into the side of my car, and I would've been at fault.

So, a hearty "fuck you" to anyone who thinks this law is a good idea.
I'm convinced that the Scottish Independence question is an outcome of the discovery of its oil reserves. That underneath it all is just greed.
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Plenty of independence. Panama, for example, does not have an independent currency, has significant 'independence', and has one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America (and beyond).
Yeah that sucks. I do think it is important that the potential employer make it easy to complete the sample work within a reasonable amount of time. As in your case, they should have taken care of the system admin and given you a Vagrant image or AWS instance or something similar since I am assuming they weren't testing you on your system admin abilities.
When they have a defined modding API, they could expose it to a scripting language like JS or Lua that's potentially even easier to sandbox, too.
Whoa, good work! Bookmarked
Something like this already happens all the time if programs steal focus. I have no idea.how often I've been happily typing only to have some dialog pop-up and accept my newline Enter as confirmation for whatever it wanted. Things are better now that I switched to Linux and enabled all the prevention but it still happens every now and then. Sometimes I end up writing my passwords in a thieving application
I think that the reasoning is that since cars are heavy and cyclists and pedestrians are squishy the one with more capability to cause harm is considered responsible.
Unless it is suicide by car or something like that.
To be fair, browsers spend a lot of effort on making sure their sandbox works as intended.
Yes, Feedly. All the other ones I tried are just ugh.
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Why? preparation for barter and like in Greece, the doctors will disappear.
cheap silver is really nice, MONEYBAGS, but not practical.

For the technies on hacker news, cheap seed sprout using hydr 99 ponics
is cheap and during the alleged myth - EBOLA PLAGUE airborne
crisis -

there is no need to get to the supermarket.
PS. no need to get all the hydro 99 ponics, just know how it works
and buy a little hardware. Of course Biga Brother is watching, since
pottt is not legal in most areas.

don't tell your religious pastor / priest / fundamentalist preacher that you
are stockpiling RUBBERS for the Kosovo War - starving ladies would
trade service for food / water / other and RUBBER WAS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD.

RUBBER IS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD. Submit it to the sur blog
dot Zom site, please.

QED. The full references and open source publishing by a WOMAN graduate student is omit
What about cyclists buzzing pedestrians?

I see cyclists constantly breaking traffic rules, speeding through red lights, mounting onto the pavement, and they never get punished.

If cyclists want to be treated as a road vehicle, perhaps they should be registered like one with a license plate?
Ok, but Scotland is not withdrawing "unilaterally" anyway: the government in Westminster specifically authorized this referendum. If there was some serious secession movement in the US along the lines of Scotland's, I don't think the federal government is going to send General Sherman in this time.
The "slows to a reasonable speed" exemption is significant here. Bike lanes aren't actually enough to bicyclists from getting hit, particularly by large vehicles (buses, widened pickups, etc) that crowd the bike lane. Given a narrow road and bike lane, it's awfully nice for cyclists to have people slow down as they pass.

That said, all of this is going to depend on sensible application, and I'm glad to see there won't be a strict-enforcement campaign. It goes on already-massive list of traffic laws that most drivers break every day - it's hardly surprising to see a traffic law that's impractical and dangerous to follow in all cases. Used well, these laws are about giving cops options when people take dangerous actions. Used strictly or vindictively, they make driving an impossible task.
This.

Also, I'm curious: how do you look for remote positions?
It doesn't ask itself that, but an airborne mutation wouldn't have a meaningful advantage, since the current virus is highly effective in spreading already.
I don't think you have looked into it very well then.
You set up a server for yourself and your friends that doesn't phone home to Mojang to verify logins.
That's because the only way they're not jumping to conclusions is in word - assumption that it's the guy's kid (sure, possible) is one, but I really don't believe there's no ill will in the entire "desperate father whose evil partner took his children, and couldn't get the police to do anything about it. Also probably starving, cold, and he got stung by bees a lot. And the coffee was awful." narrative. The abuse of position (there, have a word other than privilege, are you people allergic or something?), the slurs , the suggestion they weren't actually married and the rather proud attitude all suggest that the guy wasn't exactly a nice person caught in an awful situation.

EDIT: Sure, it's possible it was just his way of dealing with stress, he might have had parental rights, police ignored the "OMG my wife went crazy" narrative for the first time in recorded history (go look hyperbole on wikipedia before you nitpick), the coffee was really awful and the bees really stung him, but it's definitely less likely, and it's hard to believe someone brings that up in this thread for any reason other than the one they ascribe to SJWs.
It should be called the fail class.
I didn't downvote you, but I'll voice a similar concern. In my case, influenced particularly by observation and commentary from Paul Krugman. Who's been pointing out the role of adoption of the Euro in what's been playing out in Europe for some years, now.

Currency seems to be a large, unanswered question -- or rather, concern -- in the Scottish initiative.
Files over 4GB are still a problem in 2014 (and it's not just Windows)
... let alone the past two decades.
Ask HN: US Digital Services
I've been following 18F and news about the US Digital Service team for a while now, and after attending Mikey Dickerson's keynote and Anna Shipman's talk at Velocity I've decided I want to learn more about working for the government.

However, I can't find any information on jobs at either organization. 18F appears to only have a informational marketing page, and USDS doesn't seem to have a website at all.

Are there any HN community members who are involved or know about these groups that can offer more insight and/or provide some kind of contact information?
I went through a round of applying for jobs on HN (based on the first-of-the-month posting), and the most common reaction from the company is no reaction at all.

I have this nagging suspicion[1] that many job postings are not done to find developers but just as a form of soft advertising to get the name out in the community.

[1] I'm heavily biased to find this true, even if it isn't, so be skeptical.
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Anyone have more info on Flow?
Hated podcast troll wins $1.3M patent verdict but may soon be dead all the same
That alone should be enough to leave :).
There are also the Czech Republic and Slovakia which split up peacefully.
There's a specific legal definition of "harm" that applies. Someone with experience in litigating that kind of thing could explain it, but like most things legal, it isn't what the dictionary says.
There are 3 things you can do with money:
- Spend it
- Hoard it
- Invest it

It's better to spend inflationary money than to hoard it, you've got that right. That sentence only works with the "inflationary" word there, which you forgot to add, but I fixed it for you.
I see same problem on my 3GS with iOS6 (updated from 4 to 5 then to 6). Once every 30 calls or so.
IBM takes Watson freemium: Time for bring your own analytics?
I know what you're saying but try to imagine a fully-functioning voice AI. Like in the movie Her. In this hypothetical situation you just talk naturally to your device and it knows what you want and can realistically understand you. That's the future.
Starts at 4pm EDT time. ( 8pm GMT )

This is the announcement that will choose between Boeing, Sierra Nevada and SpaceX for launching NASA astronauts.
Historically yes, if you take into account that they are tax free their net return has been positive. Between changes in definitions of the CPI and the QE{n} programs however they have gone negative over the last 5 years. I expect that story to "hit" right around the time when the presidential race gets going in earnest, so later next year.
"We are anticipating what will happen if "yes" succeeds and what that means to Scotland"

In the long run, about as much as Ireland. This is not the first piece of land the British Empire has lost. Not uncharted territory at all.
Right now it it's probably not worth it yet unless you're already using speech dictation for a disability (including RSI e.a.)

Once we get eye tracking by default on both desktop and AR there will be nothing more natural than the look-and-speak interface though...

But yes; ideally we would quickly get sub-vocalization detection too so that we can address your noisiness concern as well.
Amazon and Google are in fact direct competitors in a number of areas. There's also all kinds of competitors. Ebay, Barnes & Noble, MS, Yahoo, etc.

It's about time companies start paying their fair share of taxes. Not only that, it's about time to start raising their tax rates since they don't care about paying employees a living wage.
Some network technologies solve problems client-server, some network technologies solve problems peer-to-peer. Different approaches, different philosophies.

Historically, Americans have been more fiercely independent and valued bottom up approaches to resolving their problems. A lot of the rest of the world is more hive-minded and looking for top-down solutions.
I think that line was me being grumpy about the referendum coverage - I've got to the point where I just want to cast my vote, get it over with and move on.

[NB Doesn't matter what a bank economist or business leader says, they aren't going to change my vote.]
The $3.2B Man: Can Google's Newest Star Outsmart Apple?
You said you were asked to return your sign on bonus. I'd like you to give me $15,000 please.
The UK Continental Shelf Act dates from 1964, the devolution push (note not independence) was in 1979; fifteen years later.

If anything it is a reaction against greed as Scotland is substantially more left wing than England and Wales.
The idea presented is exactly the sort of idea where "privilege" is appropriate, though.
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you are incorrect
Instead of defending my case I'll ask you this: why not stop taxing profits and instead start taxing consumption? Seems much easier, no? And the incentives would be in the right place.
Euhm, no, it would have access to any message you can see from the phone, old or new. Plus I don't think there's a per-message key at all. So they could have logged the messages, then install a patched iMessage on your phone to send them the key.

That is assuming Apple's claim is true at all, and they need this in the first place.
Yep why do you think Salmond and the NAT's are playing the race to the bottom with capital gains tax and is so chummy with Trup and Murdoch.
s/now/not/ (I wouldn't normally comment on a typo, but this changes the meaning to the opposite of what was intended, so I was confused for a moment)
In some sense, this seems to represent an open sourcing of YC. I bet this will become a foundational resource for aspiring entrepreneurs for years to come.
Has the commercial agreement been changed? The terms of the commercial license specifically prohibited that.
Almost anyone who uses iOS on a daily basis certainly knows how to clear notifications. The lock screen doesn't offer such an option, but the slide-down Notification Center does:
http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/notifica...
I support the Tesla case for reasons other than that they advocate for electric vehicles.

I really hate buying cars. I don't like the games that are played during the process.

I've walked away from several car deals, and felt kinda sh*tty about 3 that i didn't walk away from.

That is (as much as any other reason) why many people will support a change to the status quo.
I can feel, viscerally, the conversation going on when the hiring manager is trying to get resources for that.

HM: I need a budget to spin up AWS instances.

PHB: Ugh, are we recruiting poor people? We need self-starters!
I can't see how it would be a good idea to compromise every other public institution for a very expensive, large-scale construction project to accommodate a vanishingly small subset of travelers. Most places don't even have good public transport. I'd rather see the money go there, and cyclists who need to get around places they can't cycle can take their bikes on those while everybody else benefits as well.
You might give Scott a call -- http://www.gatteylaw.com/
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Honestly, this sounds like Monday morning quarterbacking.

When all these companies lined up and raised umpteen million dollars, I'm all but certain they were asked about their planned use of funds. Further, I'm nearly certain they said they were going to spend in order to grow their business in their chosen market. And many are doing just that. And who the hell provided them with these funds?

Maybe Fred (and Bill Gurley) should be directing their criticism at those stewards of investors' monies and consider their own part in this cycle.
So in other words, you believe that "sharing" means bikers own the road. I think you need to understand what sharing means, and it doesn't mean that you get to be an unnecessary annoyance to others.

This is the type of attitude that does not help driver/biker relations.
0: How do we know it isn't doing so already 8-O

1. Seriously, yes.

2: Smart dust, for slow but wholly distributed computing. So that one day you will be able to say 'it's in the cloud' and mean it literally. That said, holography might be their best fit right now.

I was very surprised to see that the firm only spends 3% of revenue on R&D, and further surprised to discover that this is an increase from a previous long-standing sum of 2%.
The specifics of my project are as follows, in case the specifics help. It's a forum/discussion platform.

The "Good":

- Free and open source (AGPL)

- Will have complete unit test coverage of its base install

- Verifies GPG signatures of third-party dependencies (e.g. PHPUnit) before running them

- Designed to encourage and promote plugin development

- The entire framework uses parameterized queries to prevent SQLi

- Uses HTMLPurifier for preventing XSS

- Has a simple interface for inserting/validating CSRF prevention tokens on POST requests

- Uses Markdown instead of BBCode

- Passwords are derived with bcrypt by default and scrypt if it's available.

- Will ship with Mod_Security rules and NAXSI whitelists (as well as scripts to update them when plugins are added)

The "Bad":

- Branded with/marketed towards the Furry Fandom
When do we hear if our application to attend Startup School coming up is accepted/rejected?
I disagree. I frequently hear people complaining about cyclists breaking rules, but when Toronto did a major study of accidents between cars and bikes, it was found that cyclists are at fault in less than 10% of accidents.

Compelling drivers to be more careful would be an effective way to reduce accidents.

http://www.sharetheroad.ca/what-are-the-dangers-in-terms-of-...
> If you think that the statement in that post was actually meant to refer to something other than the common trope, I'd be curious why

Nope, we're in agreement there.

> the point of the quote marks in that parenthetical was to denote common tropes that appear in his comment, not to use his exact language.

Exact language can be important, especially when quotes are being directly sequenced. In this case, sequencing two quotes with different subjects, while modifying the second quote to be more subject agnostic, is problematic.

> I'm sorry that their usage was confusing.

No worries, sounds like you didn't intentionally modify the quote to redefine the meaning at all.
Agree with #1 completely. As for everything else, I'm not sure you have much to be worried about until something actually happens.
According to this law, the driver is responsible for maintaining a barrier of at least three feet when passing a cyclist. Motion is continuous. Therefore, by the Intermediate Value Theorem, if a cyclist crashes into a car, there will no longer be a three foot barrier. QED.

Or, as the kids like to say it, nowadays: NO, U.
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Tim,

Thank you for replying. I suppose "yes" and "yes" is the best answer to your questions.
You know most of the "Scottish" legends are made up out of whole cloth and make the most unrealistic cowboy films look like saving private Rayan in terms of realism.
When a blue collar worker can make $30/hr again maybe I'll agree with you. It isn't taxes that's lowering our paychecks (taxes are lower than in the Cleveland's day).
If they did call people and tell them you quit without notice, they are likely opening themselves up to damages. If your story is accurate, then they lied if they said you quit without notice, as they asked you to resign that day. If they are telling lies about you ; and you are damaged, they are likely liable for that. Talk to an employment attorney.
There's a certain amount of chicken and egg at work here. Yes, there are cyclists who run red lights and behave badly just because they can. On the other hand, there are traffic laws that I regularly break while biking to stay alive (crossing onto sidewalks, stopping in the road, even ignoring stop signs to get away from large vehicles). Having been hit by a bus while on the sidwalk, I'm acutely aware of how frail and unlike a car I really am.

In short, my choices aren't made based on traffic laws. They're based on trying not to get hit on a minute-to-minute basis. In places without decent bike infrastructure, strict enforcement just presents a choice between tickets and death.
Maybe so, but there are some nations/organizations looking to absorb more territory like China, Russia, ISIS, and maybe Turkey.
Isn't that what net neutrality is for?
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https://weworkremotely.com

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote

http://nomadjobs.io/
Now try to do real time 3D graphics with those operations.

Plan9 window manager is not an example of performance.
ASP.NET vNext should be compared to Node.js. In the end of the day Node.js is simply an implementation of the Reactor Pattern leveraging a third-party JIT and HTTP infrastructure + some package management. There is nothing magic about it.
> Okay, so why didn't aren't they transitioning to Rails 4?

If I had to guess, I'd say it's easier to hit Rails 3 as an intermediate milestone before moving onto Rails 4.