Hacker News on 6 December 2014

• The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value [pdf]
• Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?
• A Markov chain trained on the Puppet documentation and H. P. Lovecraft
• America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane
• Nigerian Billionaire Commits $100M for African Entrepreneurs
• XSLT is a failure wrapped in pain
• California drought most severe in 1,200 years, study says
• IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone
• Clean OS reinstalls with propellor
• The World Cracks Down on the Internet