skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to take pot shots, but I picked up a few quibbles along the way. Touching just the more technical early paragraphs:

Dividends, interest, and repurchases aren't the whole picture. Especially when funders are also insiders, a variety of other (sometimes "soft") benefits reward investment. Much corporate behavior studied in the vein of management conflicts of interest relates to executive compensation and other benefits that may or may not contribute to personal tax base. There is also the matter of trade in securities based on valuation, on public markets and otherwise, by investors of all stripes. Many listed companies have never paid a dividend and probably won't ever pay a dividend. S-1s for well subscribed IPOs often warn pro forma this will be the case. Companies may also adjust the amount and kind of risk they bear to align with one constituency at the expense of another (e.g. management over outsiders, well organized institutional investors over the masses).

While leveraged buyouts are by no means dead, PE is far more than LBOs. The industry predates and has long outlived the 80s LBO boom. The term is a broad umbrella over many different kinds of operators leveraging (or suffering under) various features of our tax system.

Debt and equity still enjoy different rights in liquidation, and contractual covenants and controls accompanying credit are different than rights assigned to equity holders by statute, governing documents, financing agreements, securities laws, and exchange rules. Like the time-remote possibility of dividends from a growth company, different spots in line to the coffer of a healthy operation still affect valuation. Derivatives and public markets can facilitate decoupling of control rights from equity. Instruments can be designed to blend equity and debt characteristics. But debt and equity still confer different rights to affect operations.

It is difficult to speak of stock buybacks out of context; their use is varied, from purely financial to entirely structural. They are not entirely "unregulated", either. Background state corporate law, governing documents, exchange rules, and contracts (including debt documents) impose restrictions on when and how. The board is involved. Markets, public and private, may take note.

It is also difficult to make tax arguments out of context. Even statements about the macroeconomic effects of certain policies have to turn on the prevalence and kinds of tax situations meaningful populations of companies inhabit. Tying the tax effect to rising executive compensation requires at least time-correlating tax policy changes to compensation. I'm not sure that's borne out. There are many additional confounding variables.

Thanks for sharing your opinions. You've got some good back-and-forth started.

Edit: Changed "bankruptcy-remote", which is a term of art in bankruptcy, to "healthy", which makes the point with less risk of confusion.
What was your age when you went to ukraine. How old are you now?
Angela Merkel argues against net neutrality, calls for special access fast lane
Also, I think the perceived value of the application finally fell to the deserved zero. Who will "anonymously" share secrets through an application which doesn't uses Tor, asks for phone numbers and requires a Facebook login?

That's just a stupid tool for stupid kids do stupid things. They also got a lot of problems in Brazil due to schoolchildren using it for harassment -- Google and Apple received court orders to remove the application from their stores.
They named it for something it isn't. Kind of like "Vitamin Water."
Ahhhh, I love hacks like this :) But it is super branchy; I would definitely profile before assuming it's an improvement.
No one is responding to this because it isn't worth responding to. PHP's libraries are a mess and while the documentation is pretty nice, it's not nice enough to make up for the other problems.
Emojli: Why You Should Never Build an App
You may be interested to know that a small counterculture of public companies has openly forsworn shareholder wealth maximization in public disclosures. So far as I can tell, Berkshire Hathaway lead the way in recent memory. Google followed suit in a letter to shareholders in the process of going public.
I can understand why journalists love this app, but I can't understand anyone using it. I was stunned when it asked for a Facebook login.

Back at Apple there was an internal app called "RumorMonger" which was hilarious. The developer just wanted to experiment with gossip protocols. Of course, HR thought he deliberately intended to undermine company morale. It was my first exposure to bureaucracy.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RumorMonger
"... One thing important to us is that the book should look and feel like a linear algebra text. ..."

good to read, for the linear algebra alone.

"... what has really been driving the surge are quantum algorithms, which by our expectant understanding of Nature promise to accomplish tasks beyond the feasibility of our abundant classical computers ...."

anyone got an idea of what problems (aside from passwd cracking)?
Interestingly that page doesn't include the WTFPL [0]

As that licence doesn't include a "no-warranty" statement, and copyright is automatic in most countries (from your link), there must be a fair few open source repos on Github etc that could be liable for damages arising from the use of open source code (or at least fall into a nice grey area I'd personally rather avoid).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
I have lived in West LA for a couple of years, but spent most of my time in Australian 'cities' like Canberra and Darwin, but am also familiar with Sydney and Melbourne.

Large suburban cities without freeways suck (poor/incomplete public transport is assumed). Look at a map of Sydney or Melbourne and LA at the same scale. Compare the density of freeways. I really value the convenience that LA's grid of freeways provide. To have a car based suburban city without freeways seems the worst of all choices.
> So now I spend a lot of time on very strict information diets.

What helped me was signing up to newsletters. Once a week I get newsletters summarising the most interesting links for HN, and also ones about Python, Big Data and Data Science.

I redirect HN/Reddit/Facebook to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file, because going to these sites is an automatic reaction in a browser, and all I need is a 404 to remind myself why I no longer visit them all day.

Lastly, I only use Facebook for chat but I get distracted by the feed. So I unfollowed everyone on my feed and now I don't have one.
Why is this story being flagged off the home page? And before you say it's because the story is unrelated to hacking, please have a look at the other top stories on the home page...

#5 "Confessions of a mortician"

#9 "The Divine Comedy"

#10 "The Return of Africa’s Strongmen"

#12 "America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane Is Going Back into Battle"

#18 "Khoisan have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human history"
"... now I spend a lot of time on very strict information diets ..."

I can see this happening in the near future. People using some technique to measure and restrict their Internet binge.
I am having trouble identifying if the article's author is trolling intentionally or not.
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Awakens for Pluto Encounter
Certainly not a problem unique to INTP, I just said that because your problem seems so familiar - personally and from others that I know.

Please note that this is not about MB, it's about getting hints about who you are and how you use the information you seek.

I was not aware of MB until a friend IRL told me that I might be a certain type. I took the test, and from there my world seemed to open as I at least had a way to learn more about myself.

I read the term "information diet," and I think that is what it comes down to. I've had to do this time to time. Having a motivating side project to help you pick between what is and is not relevant to you at a particular time is a good idea.

Anyway, good luck.
The US can't just make a deal to buy opium at a fixed price every year.

Why not? We don't seem to have any problem throwing money into a hole as things are. Why not just use it for medical morphine? Right now there are fields growing opium poppies in western countries, which is pointlessly duplicative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_morphine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2667253/Not-Afghanis...
über should contact Lyft and ask for a number that they can give callers. If Uber is unwilling to step up and service these customers/providers, then the customers/providers should be sent to someone who will. If Uber objects, über can just say, "It's not our business model to act as your free phone support."
Most of the stuff I saw on the app hardly qualified as "secret" anyways. Maybe potentially embarrassing ("I really don't want to fly to see my family this Christmas") but other than that kerfuffle about the Google acquisition, few secrets.

Or maybe I just only had lame people on my feed. Either way I deleted the app a week after I installed it.
I think crediting Fixx with the running revolution is a mistake. Instead, look to Frank Shorter winning a gold, on TV, in the '72 Olympic Marathon.
Examples like the ones you give are the best way I know to point out that risk is a component of value, too.

The governance wonk's answer is that shareholders should elect board members who will guide management to the risk profile they desire from the investment ... or sell to fund purchases of alternative securities better aligned with their needs. This poses all kinds of real-world problems, from ensuring that management doesn't adopt its own preferred risk profile (where that differs from shareholders'), to the relative costs of organizing many smaller block holders, on the one hand, and consolidated institutional investors, on the other, to the existence (or non-existence) of liquidity and alternative investments.

That line of thinking leads to lots of hard questions about how micro-level market and governance structures play out in the large, as well as the extent to which small-scale investors can organize or consolidate interests (say, via funds) and stay true to their interests as scale.
So, PHP is better because Python sucks? That is how I read their list. Also, I get lots of spam from leasweb ip blocks. Guess php is better for sending spam.
It's one possibility but another is that it was ready to crater just like so many other apps that have a flash of popularity and then just as quickly fade.

Also did anyone note that the piece seemed to be written by a 12-year-old? "It looks like Secret will be majorly overhauling its product soon."
What they should have done was charge to reveal the author of the secret. That way they acknowledge that true anonymity is just an illusion and also curbs harassment, while at the same time generating revenue.
Oh, awesome. Thank you for mentioning this. Looking on Amex, I can see recent charges coming thru as Grocery, starting in October it looks like?

AFAIK, I won't be able to see if Amex gives 6% on these until my statement cuts in Dec (it's done in arrears), so I'll watch for that later this month.

Thanks, and thanks for fixing this! Is this just a special accommodation for InstaCart? These industry-specific rewards are common across many verticals.
FB had to build an actual compiler for PHP in order to get real performance.
You posted this link a few months ago, it would be nice to know what's changed. It appears that the service isn't as popular as it should be with only 3 current listings. How long has the service been running?
>True, but our ground troops (some relatives and friends) love this thing because it can hang around for an extended period of time. The F-35 and helicopters cannot

To what extent do/will drones fill this role? My understanding was that flight time was an area they often excelled at.
Heartbeat vs. hacker: Physical passwords can help solve digital security problem
Secret basically seems like a hackathon project, no wonder users are finding no value in it after a short stint.
FlyWay DB: Database migrations made easy
? Are there no vitamins in Vitamin Water?
Good observation, I think most of us under the same situation with varying degrees of effect.
Time to do meditation more regularly, and start building more self control for Internet and some other things ;-)
Thankfully there's already a good canary for ECDSA (which is not a cipher) -- Satoshi's 1M btc only protected by a public key.
OCE is starting to.
There is the OCE Smart Start fund and it is fairly simple process to apply for the grant. There is not too much of an ecosystem of support, but the money is nice.
http://www.oce-ontario.org/programs/entrepreneurship-program...
Identifican en un basurero los restos de 1 del los 43 normalistas desaparecidos
Article and comments below show lack of domain knowledge (even for 2011).

Most of the price of the smallest (1KB ram) micros today is in packaging, shipping, handling and both manufacturer and distributor margin. Price of silicon is almost irrelevant. Micros that go into memory cards cost 1c each and are shipped as bare dies.

> if a 1kB MCU were to cost ~$0.01 I think you would see it going into things like watches simple calculators and even flashlights

they do and they are

>I sure the heck don’t need linux or android running my washing machine.

its not about your need, its about marketing. If someone can make a fridge with embedded android tablet (~$10 bom) and differentiate this way from competition they will, even if its a shitty useless embedded system. Its not a question of why, its a question of why not :) Smart TVs are a perfect example, it doesnt cost anything to make TV "smart". Difference between bare lcd controller TSUMV29LU and one full of hardware decoders TSUMV59XU (mp3, MPEG1/2/4, DivXˈ, H.264, RV8, RV9, RV10, Xvid, jpeg, mjpeg) is ~one dollar. Its the same with ram, at this point small amounts of ram are basically FREE, differences you see in datasheets and in price listings are dictated by politics and market segmentation.

8051 was ~60K transistors (same ballpark as Cortex M4), 1KB ram is 1000 transistors, <2%. There really is no difference between selling you 128 bytes or 2KB ram chip, other than trying to create virtual segments and artificial price brackets.
Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a passenger getting instakilled?
Every story on this incident is getting killed moments after submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711222
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711196
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711178
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711146

Is this story off limits on HN (genuine question)?
Or is it some kind of pro Uber voter ring?

Given the previous discussions on HN about what an Uber executive said about a journalist etc I find it difficult to believe that HN readership doesn't care about this case, so I thought I'd ask. Fwiw this is on top of the news in every newspaper and TV Channel in India. TechCrunch reported it too (in a weaselly fashion, but still).

EDIT: I am fine with a mod judgement saying "Such stories are irrelevant to HN. Flagged".

This was a genuine question. I am not an "outrage warrior" or anything (see my comment history), I just found the instakills odd from a "something is funny here. I wonder if someone is gaming HN voting" perspective, and thought I'd ask.

Edit2: I did send email to the mods and didn't get any reply (understandable, given it is Saturday night in the USA. I just don't like nasty people gaming systems, which was a possibility here. Hence the post. Mods, feel free to remove if you think this is inappropriate)
Nostalgia. Installing MS-DOS Alongside Win 3.1 on Virtual Box + Download Links
Honestly I stopped using Secret when I realized that I could probably be outed as the person telling the secret pretty easy. You only need like 7 friends on the app for it to tell you your friend posted something, so at that point finding who posted something is trivial.
You can totally use the Arduino in production, and it's happened quite often. The core of the Arduino is just the ATMega8 micro, which is only a few dollars - Arduino is just a nice programming environment and set of libraries for it.
Actually the first modern celebrity, as defined as someone who drew large crowds and media coverage, was George Whitefield, predating both Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield
A chrome extension I use called stay focus has an option to require typing a long document exactly in order to disable it. Unfortunately it's trivial for even a mildly technical person to figure out how to get around it, so it's become useless for self control.
> Wait—are there consumers who really think Vitaminwater contains actual vitamins?

> Coca-Cola’s legal team would say no. In court briefings, attorneys representing the company claimed “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.”

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-26/drink-decept...
I completely missed that in my reading over the article, which was why I ended up searching for and linking to an aggregator that shows retail pricing.
I worry that the people who really have the answer to this probably aren't going to see this or post a comment.
Right. The real jump from small to large RAM devices is the presence or absence of DRAM.

Large SRAMs get costly and power hungry quick - the largest RAM Cortex-M4 devices have about 192KiB of SRAM, but cost $6-10. The jump to DRAM, however, is very expensive, because DRAM is fabricated on a different process and needs to be installed as a separate die or package. It is also too high latency to use as the only RAM, so a SRAM cache is still necessary.

The market currently segregates a lot of other features based on the RAM interface. Cortex-M series cores, sold as "microcontrollers", almost never have DRAM, only support Thumb-2, and have no MMU. Cortex-A series are sold as "application processors", have external DRAM interfaces, and include a MMU. A similar divide is visible with the MIPS architecture.
For HN, there's the fantastic HNDigest[1] that sends you a summary email of the day's top posts.

1. http://www.hndigest.com/
I also recommend Professor Stout's book, and especially to fellow specialists and governance wonks. Not because I agree with her main thrust, her characterization of the orthodox view, or her conclusions about it, but because resisting the book in good conscience requires summoning foundational primary sources that practitioners don't have to handle very often. If you lead right, it's good to fight a southpaw from time to time.

When recommending it to those who aren't corporate attorneys or otherwise involved in the subject matter, I include a caveat: If this is the only book you read on corporate governance, be aware that it's a controversial and contrarian book packaged for non-lawyers. If its subject were political, I could find and recommend a book arguing the opposite view it in a similar style. I'm not aware of any legal rebuttal that isn't presented in more traditionally legal, less approachable form. It's been reviewed in legal journals, but even most lawyers consider those long-winded and dense.
Can submissions be killed by votes? I always thought that was only by moderator action or automated filtering (eg. hellbanned users).
I'm going to guess that it is a keyword filter issue.

Every story you link to includes "r a p e" but your submission is missing the e.
'flagkilled' means that user flags killed those stories.
I want to know how this story got 42 up votes in under 10 minutes?
Apple Maps and Google Maps, a Side-by-side Analysis
I'm assuming 'flagkilled' means enough users flagged these articles.
If the moderators actively killed all these articles (some are to newspapers with millions of readers, and not link farms or whatever) that would be .. interesting, but ok.

I think HN mods are nice people and are probably unaware. I did send them emails, but I didn't get a reply (which is understandable given this is Saturday night in the USA). I suspect either a pro uber voting ring or a software bug.
Oh, I see. I didn't have showdead on before, so I didn't see that tag. Thanks.
Ah, I didn't see the "flagkilled" tag when I looked, before I turned showdead on.
That tends to happen with meta posts, especially those implying potential wrongdoing on the site. People just upvote them quickly.
News link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Delhi-cabbie-r...

Negligence: Quote"The woman had boarded the cab after booking it with Uber. We have found gross negligence on their part as they did not have even a GPS in the cab and the driver had not been verified."
I think the parent was talking about Arduino as a software platform, instead of the Arduino hardware. The software itself will run on pretty much any of the 8 bit avrs, even things like the ATTiny45.
could be domains that are being linked. some domains get auto-killed.
Thanks for the great advice. I have just been struggling to decide between different projects. Do you think a consumer mobile app would have enough degree of difficulty to impress companies?
Antivirus software powerless against Sony hackers
>No, they definitely can't! But they are much better at avoiding taking fire in the first place.

From what I've read, that really depends on the terrain. The Apache, from what sources I've seen, was really designed to take on Soviet ground forces in Germany. It's a tank hunter, designed to hide around and behind rolling hills, make quick attack passes on advancing armor columns, and then get the hell out of Dodge before AA can shoot back. Unlike its Soviet counterpart, the Mi-24 "Hind", the Apache isn't very well armored. This makes it not very well suited to the sort of mission where it has to loiter in an area and provide fire support for friendly forces.
Biggest hackathon happening in Bangladesh with 1700 participants
As far as I'm concerned, that's a perfect example of a story unsuitable for HN. There's nothing there to satisfy anyone's intellectual curiosity. It's just a volatile mixture of rubbernecking, outrage, gender issues, schadenfreude over a controversial company, and having it be about a tech startup to give it just a tiny bit of supposed HN relevance.

(I flagged the one copy of this I saw on the front page, and it's certainly not because of liking Uber).
I'm aware of many of those issues, but they're a bit much to explore in detail on Hacker Digest.
There are vitamins in vitaminwater.

The problem is, that doesn't make it a health drink. Stuff's loaded with sugar.
I hope you are consistent in flagging every 'gender issue' (women in tech, say) and 'controversial company'(say Apple or Google) story on HN. Yes, sarcasm.

EDIT: gender issues and 'controversial company' discussions on HN happen all the time. Maybe they shouldn't, and maybe that is a good focus to have. As long as such a policy is consistently enforced.
Before this post gets flagged into oblivion, let me bring this back to a subject that may hold a little more for many of the tech types that read this site: Aaron Swartz.

I'm reminded of a comment a made a couple of years ago [0] when there was a push to pass "Aaron's Law" and I argued that the change needed to be more broad-based than that. Looking at what happened to Aaron (aggressive, arguably unnecessary prosecution) and with the recent police shootings (aggressive, arguably unnecessary use of force) points to a failure of the criminal justice as a whole. The system needs to change, to protect Harvard fellows and 12-year-old black kids alike.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138176
Ooh, social experiment as business model. I like it.

Although I'm pretty sure LinkedIn already stole that one.