skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China has their currency, the renminbi (RMB), pegged to the US dollar. Since the Chinese economy has been weakening and their stock market has been plunging, people have been pulling money out of the renminbi, this has put downward pressure on the renminbi.

Now China has acquired vest foreign exchange reserves, mainly in the form of treasury bills, over the years. This was a result of pegging the renminbi to a rate that was artificially to low. Now that people are pulling money out of China, the renminbi might actually be too high.

China has had to user its reserves to prop up both the price of its currency and their stock market, to do this they have had to use their foreign exchange reserves. In one estimate, China has already spent $400 billion propping up the stock market and their currency. (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/521f9f12-4a56-11e5-b558-8a972...) To do this China needs to sell some of it treasury bills.

This will have the effect of a minor increasing in the interest rate the federal government has to pay to borrow. While the Federal Reserve has been keeping rates low, it has been signaling for a while that it wants to increase interest rates. So this actually would be in line the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy.

In this end the selling of these treasures will have very little effect on the Unites States or the world wide economy. The big worry is that China might be slipping into recession. As the second largest economy, and the generator of most of the world growth, a Chinese recession would be a huge drag on the world wide economy.
I see it as a story of success of an old idea through tech-evolution. The idea is so obvious. It is horrible that I have to lock my bike. I would much prefer not to! And I would be happy to share my bike with others. I could even tolerate some low loss rate. I love to bike, and I love when other people bike. But because people, you cannot simply buy 1.000 bikes and spread them all over the city. People will abuse every system, if it is too easy to abuse. So you need some kind of control. And this control came with GPS, mobile internet, mobile cellphones and magnetic cards. I don't even know if the bikes in our Hamburg sharing system are GPS-monitored. But it's possible. And sure, I could find a way to register with fake data - but there would be some chance to get caught. This feeling of everything-is-connected, everything-is-monitorable is a strong force to make antisocial behavior less likely. I realize that sounds somehow dystopian, but on the other hand, we now have bike sharing.
Female lives have always been more valuable. The survival odds (fitness) of a clan are directly related to the number of females. Because, of course that limits the size of the next generation i.e. growth.
Asynchronous information/ability to do is the basis of capitalism.
I agree. My grandfather and many of my family in that generation signed up the next day (I'm American too).

I should of been more clear in that after the Red Cross photos, I doubt Americans could have thought less of the Japanese. I mean that in the context of when the Japanese started publishing head chopping contests of Chinese civilians between officers in the Imperial Army, no one in the US could be any more outraged.
I love Go and I like Swift. This site shows that they are not that different for simple coding. IMHO many Apple/NextStep APIs could use some more simplicity. Right now all these Next Step APIs are pretty verbose and I'm often wondering why simple things need so much API knowledge.
This is amazing. I can't wait to show this to my little sister.
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> What the heck?!? It weighs almost 3x as much but gets better gas mileage?

More modern engine and better transmission probably?
well then I would recommend to educate yourself what lead to and happened during WWII...
I don't know about that. Lots of people make emotional decisions when it comes to money and will sell at the first sign of trouble. I think personal finance is one area where many are not rational.
I actually tried to install this, but stopped when it prompted me for permissions. It literally asked for every permission I can imagine (read and write my files, all contacts, all calls & texts, all sensors, etc etc etc).
I think there's a lot, white belt two stripes here... Transitioning from Judo to Bjj
> Who is selling the CNY for USD?

i m guessing currency traders, who sees a good deal selling their CNY for USD for more than they purchased the CNY prior.
That is not the technical definition of "rational" from economics though, which is what the models of markets are based on.
So by this man's logic it would be OK to nuke Iraq?
D does some attempt at 2.
There's a diesel-electric transmission option[0], but I'm not sure there's much capacity for battery-only operation so calling it a hybrid is a stretch. It allows the ATV to double as a hefty generator (120kW AC) for field ops which is pretty cool.

[0] http://oshkoshdefense.com/components/propulse/
Scott Adams: The Day You Became a Better Writer (2nd Look)
PoC||GTFO
> The difference is not being willing to accept "oh it's just different preferences" as a reason for observed disparities without evidence.

Not accepting such an explanation is fine, but making unwarranted assumptions about the cause until they're disproved is not.

The goal isn't statistical equality of outcomes. It's minimized injustice. When a woman is passed over for a job or offered less money than a less qualified man, that's an injustice. Those who seek to equalize outcomes by adding injustice "the other way" are missing the point.
Strategic bombing was already ongoing by all belligerents which had the capability. The difference is one of scale not of quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

9-10 March "Operation Meetinghouse", six months prior to the nukes: "Approximately 15.8 square miles (4,090 ha) of the city was destroyed and some 100,000 people are estimated to have died." This was more deadly than either of the atomic bombs, it just required far more planes and pilots.
They are not trying to maintain their currency peg. They are slowly devaluing to eventually decouple (see IMF year delay comments). The treasury sales, which no one other than China really knows why, are continuing at an extremely rapid pace and the best guess is they are using it to inject liquidity into their market in order to prop up their stock market bubble.
All I had to do was extract the font files into ~/.fonts/.
The CNY are coming from the open market, people who have yuan and want to have dollars. Since it's the open market, they can do whatever they want with those dollars after the trade. Thus, this is putting more dollars into circulation.
BitFury Backs BIP 100 Blocksize Proposal
Great idea, but unfortunately I did not get results for some companies I’ve searched.
The C code there fails if the unicode string includes characters whose width is greater than one octet.
localhost will RST the connection just fine, provided you don't have a webserver listening there.
Wow. Yay NSA because, bike sharing.

Anyway, I doubt the utility of bike sharing because there can never be enough bikes. Lots of traffic is modal at times of the day (heading to work; going shopping; heading home) so bikes end up clumped. You can't depend upon there being a bike available, so you have to be prepared to walk. That's workable in dense cities only.
Of course, the C version could be just

printf("(%.12s)\n", argv[1]);
Yeah, Katmouse, after using OSX, is one of the things I MUST have. Now I need to find a Popclip (osx) for Windows.
China's currency and it's exchange rate is managed by The People's Central Bank of China. It is not allowed to freely float in value in response to supply and demand for it. However, it is allowed more up or down each day within a set amount, before the People's Central Bank of China will intervene, and in actuality many times the PBOC just does whatever it wants to do it.

Which brings us to a few weeks ago, when overnight the PBOC decided Yuans would be worth about 2% less than the day before. The PBOC also expanded that daily trading band to 4% a day. They did this in an apparent attempt to increase exports, as Chinese goods, on paper, became Cheaper overnight, at least in terms of USD.

In response to this, there has been downward pressure on the Yuan and now the PBOC, wary about capital flight among other things, needs to defend the Yuan by selling US Treasuries, for which they get US Dollars, with which they buy Yuan on the open market, decreasing the supply of Yuan available, which puts upward pressure on its value.

The biggest ramification, I would say, has to do with interest rates on US Treasuries, which influence all types of other debt instruments such as home loans, and of which China has been a huge buyer over the past decade and a half. The interest rate on a 10 Year Note is dictated by how much demand there is for the note. If a lot of people want the note, you can get away with offering a lower interest rate, but if few people want to buy it, you need to increase the rate to attract more buyers.
Downside to security standards: when vulnerable is better than uncertified
The easy Python way:

import sys
import regex
print(regex.match("\X{,12}", sys.argv[1]).group())

with the regex[1] package that should be in the stdlib Any Day Now™.

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
IPython feels like an important new way to do computing, particularly for exploring and teaching. I love the idea of bringing more powerful HTML tools into it.
>There will not flow more money towards the USD. What happens now is the opposite;
I guess it is an event in the chain.
jpollock asks the question in point 6 "That USD->Renminbi sale might result in a drop in USD because there will be more USD around?"
Yes, annd the USArmy invested in 2010 on multi-million dollar fuel efficiency testing center. Starting around 2008 there was a big internal push to make military vehicles more fuel efficient.

I highly doubt the new engine. Most USArmy engines are very old (typically 60's era Diesel) due to the object simplicity (and fuel diversity) [1]. Anyone Joe-Blow can be trained to fix these, and fixes are faster under fire.

Most the fuel savings from from transmissions/cooling systems. Which are modular so they can be upgraded, and simply replaced on failure.

Source: Contracted to TARDEC research 2010-2013

[1] I'm wrong here. L-ATV uses a Duramax V8 circa 99-01 GM engine. Which is ~30 years newer then other engines used.
Not only has he the access to the code but he can even run it successfully over the encrypted data he "cracks" which means even without any "cracking," just by starting the program, he regularly produces the "uncracked" data.

Which means he doesn't even need to know how the "decryption" is performed, he just has to intercept the program results at the moment the data are in the decrypted form.

That means that it is effectively irrelevant which algorithm the developer used.
China is selling US Debt, so more dollars are on the market.

Since we've been keeping interest rates at zero for some time for political purposes, we lack a lot of controls (ie. interest rates adjustments) to smooth out whatever fallout takes place.

The risk is that rates might go up. That isn't the end of the world, but will have a negative impact on stocks. As a citizen, the impact varies based on your position. If you refinanced your house with a 30-year fixed, you're good. If you're on a interest-only ARM, not good.
Which is noted right in the post:

> This treats things as byte-array instead of unicode, thus for unicode test it will end up printing just 車賈滑豈.
Which is fair, but I give some credit to the MMA training I did for having a "just deal with what's going on, keep moving forward" attitude in my jiu jitsu. In work and life, even.

(I never had an MMA fight, but many of the guys I trained with did, and I helped them prepare.)
yes...this. there is an argument that we are balanced on a knifes edge right now. if the fed goes by their previous metrics, today's growth numbers would indicate that a September hike is back on the table. if they are worried about treasury sales from china increasing we may have another round of quantitative easing. this is why the market is so sketchy right now. nobody knows what is going to happen because they are almost exact opposite directions to take.
Hi Peter, thx for giving our hack a spin. I’m glad it worked for you :) Feedback encourages us to continue and maybe working on an API, stay tuned!
> I think they actually behave rationally, but all according to different fact-bases. People usually don't say "this is really dumb but I'll do it anyhow" most of the time, most of the time they really believe that they're doing something pretty rational.

> But a lot of times they have incomplete, ignorant, or just plain crazy fact bases from which they operate.

Believing an action is a good idea or in your best interests when it actually isn't, or basing decisions on a warped perception of reality, is pretty much a textbook case of acting irrationally. Rational versus irrational is not about perception, it is about how well perception matches reality.
I assume China is making these trades in the foreign exchange market. (Which is like a stock market for trading currencies.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market

If so, anyone could be on the other side of the trade, including other governments, banks, speculators, investors, and businesses. The USD are transferred to the other party, out of China if appropriate.
Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance
It has a ton of meanings in Japanese and Hebrew, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei
Ghost in go already exists: https://kabukky.github.io/journey/

and is my preferred blog platform.
Have you seen the video of TrackingPoint sniper rifles? Knowing exactly when to fire the weapon means it hits the target every time. i.e. there are some very important tasks for which eventual precision is incredibly powerful.
Downvotes not warranted. madaxe's comment is historically accurate.

The end of WWII ushered in the heyday of "internationalism", or "globalism", characterized by the formation of the UN on land in NYC donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr, certainly apropos to this article.

Clearly, the Rockefeller-style "world federalism" has won out over other modern -ism movements. Most world leaders in most sectors are aligned with this movement and it is pretty apparent that at the moment the trend is towards more globalism, not less. David Rockefeller himself self identified with this agenda in his memoirs:

"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
Into Tomorrow’s Dave Graveline Digs into the Mobile Earthquake
It partially breaks 100% of sites that require the user to blindly execute scripts from unknown second or third parties before presenting a usable response, and 0% of sites that do not. At the risk of not finding a true Scotsman, I would argue that sites that do not give a meaningful response to an HTTP request as is, without client-side processing, are not making themselves part of the web.

When I click a link and see a blank page, I often click the back button or close the tab rather than allow it to run scripts. You do not need a script to display text. That functionality has been present since Sir Tim wrote version 0.1 .

Would it be so hard to provide alternate text for no-script browsers that says "Some content on this site is only viewable to users that allow scripts hosted by www.example.com and js.example.com to run on their browser clients."? No. It's not. There is no excuse for serving a blank page full of invisible scripts.
Installing and enabling fonts is pretty much just dropping them into a directory fontconfig knows about.

Now as far as disabling certain (installed) fonts or switching rendering methods, specifying particular rendering methods for particular fonts, or specifying replacements for fonts you don't have installed or don't want to use -- those things do require editing XML dotfiles. But as far as I know, they can't be done at all on Windows (at the user or system-wide level; I think applications can do them for themselves).
Hey, developer here. I was tired of click-bait and noisy modern media, and really wanted a way to browse more significant works in a fun way.

I just enabled user submissions, so you can submit your own selections of books, art, music, video clips, poetry, or whatever you want!

I'm open to comments of all colors, shapes, and sizes.
The wiki directly states that the "hybrid" engine accounts for a 35% increase in efficiency.

Does it need to be able to run in all electric to be considered a hybrid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_L-ATV
People seem to think this is a problem for the US (and I suppose it sort of is) but may not realize that it's not rosey for China either. The article ends by implying that they want to be doing this to get rid of much of their reserves, but I'm not sure it's that clear. The title here about China 'warning Washington' could be read either as a head's up or as a threat.

The problem for China is that by selling treasuries for USD and then using that USD to buy yuan, they are effectively taking that money out of circulation. This keeps the yuan from dropping and maintains the currency peg but it also removes all of the liquidity in the market. This is not really a great situation. It also makes US manufacturing more competitive.

In the past few days, they have been talking about playing with the reserve-requirement ratio of banks to encourage them to dump money into the market to maintain liquidity. If you tell banks that they can 'officially' lend out more by lowering the required amount of money they must have on hand, they will and then real money has been created.

I feel like they're really just trying to keep the whole thing on the road.
Apple moved a lot more watches than Wall Street thought
Completely off topic, so if you are looking for discussion about the article skip this.

The low contrast ratio and bright colors on this blog are a bit hard to read. I normally switch to readability mode in safari when I encounter this, but the sites layout prevents this from working.
My experience is that the learning curve is steep but the payoff is large. The Apple Cocoa/AppKit/CF libs are hefty things to get started with, but man do they make some hard things easy once you get the hang of it. They also tend to push apps to behave more consistently, because people aren’t always reinventing the wheel for more complex UX.
I suggest you edit your comment to make clear that you are being sarcastic.
I think that was a clumsy way of saying "unpredictably".
Thanks for trying it out, sorry if we did not find the companies you’ve searched for. What companies did you search? I’d like to investigate, where the problem comes from...
> Does it need to be able to run in all electric to be considered a hybrid?

Well I'd say so, using multiple power sources is what makes a hybrid vehicle hybrid. If it must always use the ICE, it just has an electric transmission rather than a mechanical one.
Could Airships Make a Comeback?
I use Ghost. I'm very happy with it. I hope they can grow it into a larger success.
If previous developer left the team, code not commented (or/and documented) and not known why abstraction was created, revert may by preferred solution to move forward.
The drop in the US stock market this week was because of massive drops in the Chinese stock market (and secondary drops in the EU stock market).

Compare the 1 month view of the Chinese market (http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SHCOMP:IND) to Nasdaq (http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CCMP:IND), and then recall that the Chinese market closes 7 hours before the US market opens.
Summary & Speculation:

China sells US treasuries in order to appreciate Yuan relative to USD.

Supply of US treasuries on the market increases.

Demand for US treasuries decreases due to concerns over a large enough Chinese sell-off. Demand for US treasuries increases due to uncertainty over the stock market. Net effect on demand is uncertain.

Assuming worst-case scenario (for the US) in which supply of US treasuries increases and demand decreases: Yields on US treasuries increase as investors with less demand must be compensated for taking on a riskier and more plentiful asset.

Yields rise, and the US government must now service a higher level of debt, pushing the deficit higher. US is forced to re balance spending, stifling growth and economic activity in order to keep debt in line.

Bottom line: This probably won't have an effect on US economy as investors need somewhere to park their money that is not the stock market. Also, the scale at which China is selling off treasuries is assumed to be pretty small ($40bn/mo compared to $3.65tn total holdings).

Now if China initiated a mass sell-off of all of its US treasuries, there would be huge ramifications. But in its current form, this seems to just be one more way for China to slowly unravel its position in US treasuries while playing with the value of the RMB.
Amazon is apparently almost desperate to establish their own apps marketplace.
absolutely no. with ren pegged to usd and usd climbing this is terrible for continued 7% Chinese GDP growth (their state published ave. who knows what actual GDP is). they want their currency devalued vs. usd and are actively moving it lower. products that are cheaper vs. other currency = greater sales/growth. this is why other EMs are starting to devalue. world is scare another 97-98 asian currency war is coming.
I feel like I'm going in circles here, but, this information shouldn't be used to justify nuclear mass murder, rather, it should be used to start questioning the conventional mass murder. It's not that 'we already were mass murdering people anyway'; it's 'on top of that, we were also mass murdering people with conventional attacks'.
Interesting, I had no idea the `re` module was getting revamped. Scheduled for 3.5 or later?
Using requestIdleCallback
Yes I do remember that. Didn't they use a battery charger for it, though? I seem to remember doing this as well after watching this show, but either they used a battery charger or I was bright enough to realize that using a wall outlet directly is fucking insane :-)

e: Okay I looked it up and they did use a wall outlet directly. Damn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScwbimMBklA