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Correct, the Fed determines short term interest rate through Federal Funds Rate (FFR).

The treasury instruments we are discussing here are mainly 5-10 year notes and bonds. Thus the yields on these instruments reflect long term interest rates. The market, not the Fed, determines long term interest rates.

Check out this graph:

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=1HPC

The long-term interest rate used to be much more closely correlated with the FFR. We see that it has decoupled significantly during the past 10 years and is now moving somewhat independently of the FFR. The Fed is stuck at the lower 0 bound and has no power over long term interest rates anymore. Janet Yellen has noted this publicly herself. [1]

What you are describing - the Fed purchase of more long-term US treasuries - is another wave of Quantitative Easing. The problem with QE is that, while it gives the financial system more liquidity, that liquidity has not passed on to the end consumers. So the Fed would be adding (potentially overpriced) liabilities to its already massive pile of debt in order to have a somewhat negligible effect on long-term interest rates, and to probably have no effect whatsoever on economic activity within the US. In short, it would be taking on more risk for relatively little reward.

I highly recommend this reading: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/08/quantitativ...

[1] http://dailysignal.com/2014/07/11/fed-vice-chair-mark/
This is more than a bit premature. Mozilla hasn't announced anything about how Servo and Firefox may or may not be integrated.
A very good movie about escaping a prison camp in Siberia, by the way (somewhat inspired by real events, but you better take it all with a grain of salt): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Back

EDIT: spoiler alert, thank you Wikipedia
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> So by linking the programming structures you are using (e.g. monads) with associated mathematical structures (also called monads[1]), all of the mathematical knowledge surrounding that structure suddenly becomes available.

Only if what the language does with monads exactly mirrors what CT does with monads. Otherwise the language subtly lies to you.

In fact, this may be the case. I seem to recall that Haskell monads only have to obey two of the three monad laws. That is, they don't have to truly be (CT) monads. That's supposed to not matter, but if nothing else, it kind of makes your argument a bit less well grounded.

> This is rather like how doing numerical calculations with matrices benefits from the wealth of knowledge about linear algebra.

In the exact same way, this is only true if the matrix package truly implements linear algebra correctly. To the degree that the matrix package doesn't do that, your reasoning based on linear algebra leads you astray.
Very few? There's plenty of apps out there written in PHP. You can do the same thing in PHP as you can in node. Writing from scratch is no greater of a use case for using node than it is for PHP.
Basically Windows 10 was released 6 months too early. I don't really understand why they were so desperate to release in July? Surely it would have made more sense to push back to October (Threshold 2 release window)

You're right in saying that it would have been a better release if they'd waited for Threshold 2, but that's different from saying it would have been better to release it then.

July 29 hit the back-to-school sales market, and Microsoft must have calculated that OEMs would sell more Windows 10 PCs than they would have sold Windows 8.1 PCs.

So Windows 10 didn't have to be technically perfect, it just had to be more marketable than Windows 8.1, which it is.

The move to continuous updating helped, of course. Microsoft wouldn't have been able to release Windows 10 in its July 29 state if that had meant committing to shipping it in the same state for several years.
Going off of how Toby's last forum project went[1], most things that aren't essential to the project are left open to implement as plugins. esoTalk does have a plugin that lets conversation authors mark one reply as an answer, so I think it's reasonable to guess that one will eventually appear for Flarum.

[1]: http://esotalk.org
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Sure. And lots of people that use Rails still use it to communicate with Java-based backend systems. That doesn't mean that Rails isn't Ruby's "killer app."
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10126327
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>No, it is defined to include perfect information

"Complete" and "perfect" information are not the same thing.

In games like poker, players have perfect information, but not complete information.
> How does the American governments NOT spending money stifle growth?

The same way any other market participant (or set of market participants) not spending the same amount of money reduces growth compared to what it would be if they did.

Activity that isn't happening in the economy is directly a reduction in the size of the economy.
Thanks, this is a fantastic, detailed, expansion on the point I was trying to make in haste.

I would also add that startups are good for "networking", which is best done by working closely with people day in and day out. Startups give you a chance to form much closer relationships with people much higher up the company food chain, and those people are likely to be successful even if the startup isn't.
Economic helium production is not viable for the future: http://www.readability.com/m?url=http://priceonomics.com/the...
And perhaps, to demonstrate the will to use it.
IntelliJ IDEA + Kotlin. Kotlin is created by JetBrains themselves and is very easy for C# devs to pick up and can be used anywhere Java would be used.
I'm a Tesla owner (a 3 month old P85D) and it really isn't the best car for everyone. We still have a gasoline car (a Chevy Volt) because every now and then you need to take a long trip.

It also has a wonky UI. The touch screen isn't perfect and a few dedicated knobs and buttons on the dash service would go a long way.

And it's way too expensive to be the "perfect" car. It's an interesting gadget for geeks (like me!) with enough income to buy one without thinking about it. The fit and finish of other $100,000 cars exceeds that of the Tesla.

(We also have solar on the house so we're not burning coal in some poor person's neighborhood to run it.)
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Yes, we, the geeks and privacy advocates have moved past. We care about ubiquitous encryption for non-sensitive content.

The public at large doesn't care or understand unless they're banking or porning, and I'm not sure about the banking.

Telecoms, shareholders, advertisers, governments, and criminals are actively opposed.

We have a ways to go.
Right, Intel's an ass about product segmentation. But most hypervisors don't offer the option of doing any sort of PCI passthrough without a functional IOMMU, so they're not accidentally exposing anyone.
This is exactly what ETW was designed to help you measure.

Running WPRUI with first level triage will measure CPU along with a bunch of other stuff. Enabling ReferenceSet under memory Resource Analysis will measure memory usage.

Chrome has an ETW provider, I poked around a bit and couldn't find any for FF (it looks like they register one for the JS engine?)

I'm not familiar with how to solve the "page loaded enough but not done" problem, but IMO if you measure end-to-end times it's probably a close-enough proxy. Maybe measure several times and report on those statistics.

(Edit: Taking a trace with/without the adblocker enabled should allow you to exactly count # of sampled cycles spent in the adblocker - easy to compare in WPA, as long as there are events emitted indicating page load start/stop).

(Edit2: Using UIforETW along with Chrome 46+ will let you see ETW events:

https://github.com/google/UIforETW)
"doesn't have a huge iPad in the dashboard"

Why is this a bad thing?
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well, most node apps rely on many node lib, which is not very different than relying on a framework like symfony.
Ignoring that it seems like the "fix" in this blog post is a really bad idea

This is a new restriction and setting on an OS that won't be released widely for months. When fully functioning this setting doesn't downgrade the security of an app, but simply breakingly blocks behaviors that aren't compliant.

Google advises you to start all new apps as HTTPS only, but to add this exclusion to have existing behavior of legacy applications, at least in the short term while they continue migrating the entire ad network to HTTPS.

There is an enormous amount of overreaction and, dare I say, hysteria throughout this thread, and you would think that Google just disabled SSL on the device or something, versus offered an approach for apps to continue doing what they're doing, presumably with the developer understanding the consequences.
It's like saying PHP as a great community, we will catching up JAVA soon.. non sense, as the topic said, I want to use node if there are some killer app that I want to use, like the one I know in other languages. Do you know any like drupal for example (multilingual, workflow, content management system, and more) ?
Bike helmet necessity is a signal that the local government has failed to make the streets safe.

Helmet use is near non-existent in countries such as The Netherlands and Denmark, and yet cyclists in those countries are dramatically safer than cyclists than the USA.

Essentially the safety gain achieved by using a helmet is utterly dwarfed by the safety gains that result from separated bike lanes and high quality cycling infrastructure.
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Don't forget that they now offer a plain 70 in rear wheel drive configuration, which knocks off another $5,000.

Teslas aren't cheap by any means, but there are a lot of people who could afford something in the 70-85D range but not a P85D.

On the other hand, the only real difference between a P85D and an 85D is acceleration, so I don't think there's much need to do a separate review just for the lower-end cars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito

"U.S. General Douglas MacArthur insisted that Emperor Hirohito retain the throne. MacArthur saw the Emperor as a symbol of the continuity and cohesion of the Japanese people. "

That was a tactical US decision to help reconstruction. It had nothing to do with the Japanese govt wanting it.
Even if the averages are the same, differences in deviations could still result in differences in outcomes.

Say that men and women were, on average, completely identical at programming computers (average of 50). But say that men had greater deviation. So you had more men with a 10 and more men with a 90. But there were more women with a 40 and a 60. 75 and 25 are the break even points.

But, software development companies don't want average programmers, they want good programmers. So they only hire those who are a 80 or better. End result: more men hired as programmers even though men and women are equal on average.
The driving dynamics of both cars are "sufficient", so those factors won't come into play at all for many buyers; the interior fit and finish (i.e. the factors that actually effect your life every day) of the Tesla leave a lot to be desired compared to the 7 series. Is it so unbelievable that other people may value different factors from you?
Hi there, this is Edward (I spoke at the HN London event a few weeks ago on CRISPR - https://vimeo.com/137001197).

I'd encourage you to get in touch with us at Desktop Genetics. We are always on the lookout for talented developers with an interest in biology!
Ask HN: How do we solve the Bitcoin schism?
How do we solve the Bitcoin schism? What solutions are you getting behind? What do you personally propose as the way forward?

Here's some background information for those not in the know:

spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/the-bitcoin-for-is-a-coup

https://medium.com/faith-and-future/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1?1

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/inside-the-fight-over-bitcoins-future

http://www.coindesk.com/btcchina-support-gives-bip-100-bitcoin-hashrate-majority/

http://cointelegraph.com/news/115178/8-leading-bitcoin-companies-pledge-support-for-bip101-bitcoin-exchange-rate-falls-below-200
That is interesting. When I was a machinist and worked on sub components the material had to be able to be traced back to the mine that it came from. You would think something like a microprocessor would have the same level of checks.
Brad doesn't throw personal attacks and insults around like Linus anyway. Plain spoken criticism of actions and ideas is not a personal attack.

Quoted below: Plainly spoken criticism of action and ideas

The real question the news articles should be asking is why the embedded
industry as a whole is scum and why everyone has problems w/ them

https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/636873270285967361
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Not really fair question as you haven't said what you like? Culture, Nature, Fun?

This guy has done it twice and raved about East Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rogers

From my perspective I would hit the countries with the most people - China and India and then spend a week or so relaxing somewhere (Southern Europe(Greece Spain) or Israel)
Your use of commas has changed the meaning of your sentence. They look like parenthetical commas [0] to me, so the sentence reads as "Managers who think (there is a silver bullet) always scare me!".

[0] http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tuto...
I think the name "Pixar in a Box" sounds like a neat play on words on the term "Particle in a Box" from quantum mechanics. Sometimes, it's called an "infinite potential well".

So the title appears to come from the suggestion that there'a a well of infinite potential in terms of creative usages of math in computer animation. Or at least that's what I read into it.
Ghost is open source.

http://github.com/tryghost/ghost
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There is no P70D. Just a 70D
Good post.
No, it is not only for developers using their mobile ads SDK. It is for any application that uses their ads SDK. The result of this is that this application will allow arbitrary insecure http loads by default. They take away a very useful safety net.

Why can'g google be more specific about the domains on which to allow insecure http traffic? Because their SDK loads content from arbitrary ad delivery platforms.
Us old Assembly Language Programmers know all these tricks! (Programming 101 when I went to college in the 70s was taught in IBM 370 Assembly Language.)
Isn't Reyes essentially a speed hack [1]? As so, is it particularly relevant to learn about today in introductory material?

[1] by which i mean, inferior estimation of BSDF on/in model, but much much faster.
> I'd say that experience you refer to doesn't include the one described in:

> https://xkcd.com/927/

In any case, this is a most innovation-unfriendly reference that is all too common.
Given that my comment was called out here, I should probably clarify. The vast majority of the bugs I've been fixing in Servo have been related to standards compliance, not inserting hacks to make existing Web sites work.

There will unavoidably be some of the latter, but the fact is that the Web standards are pretty decent nowadays.
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Python was supposed to kill PHP. Ruby on Rails was supposed to kill PHP. Now Javascript is supposed to kill PHP? Not a chance, at least in the near future.
I agree from my experience with Ghost but attribute it to being a young platform.
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I think people who haven't actually driven one (or haven't driven one beyond a test drive, anyway) think that it's too distracting, too hard to control things while driving, or something along those lines.

I had the same concerns initially, but they disappeared after trying it out. It's really well done and not a problem in practice.
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I wrote this article so please don't too harsh ;) Crazy to see something I wrote for our company blog on the frontpage of HN this afternoon!
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> Complete" and "perfect" information are not the same thing.

Perfect information, in the rational choice theory sense, is both complete in the sense that it covers all economic consequences that impact the experienced utilities of the decision maker positively or negatively out to an infinite time horizon, and free of errors over that entire scope, which is why I used "accurate and complete" as a less-formal equivalent of "perfect" upthread.

> In games like poker, players have perfect information, but not complete information.

In poker, players do not have perfect information in the rational choice theory sense (or the game theory sense, which is generally stated differently, but I think is actually equivalent.) Poker is, in fact, one of the canonical examples of a game featuring imperfect information.
The Model S is meant to be compared to the BMW 7-series, which is around the same price.
> Measuring peak CPU is very, very stupid

I think it's pretty obvious that the expression "peak CPU usage" implies "peak average CPU usage over a period of time", for the simple fact that literal "peak CPU usage" makes absolutely no sense -- CPU usage is always over a period of time.
> This means that the software will only be usable from interactive sessions on "standard" mainstream browsers

a.k.a 99.99% of the target audience. I'm sure syndication tools could be easily built into it to provide static views to scrapers etc.
This is offtopic but the video of peoples reaction using the 'insane' button in the Model S P85D was some really great marketing for Tesla:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpaLgF1uLB8

The feature is a novelty but it makes for great social media bait. I never share links about cars with family/friends but I felt compelled to this time. It's entertaining because the car is completely silent while it pins them back in the seat - and people are having very honest reactions to the experience.
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There is many reasons, but major for me is that you need to look at the screen when switching AC, performing simple tasks. With regular buttons you can memorize where is what and not look at them when switching options which increases the safety.
Also large screen is distracting, BMW 7 focuses on driving and comfort removing from in front of your eyes anything that could tire your eyes.
I'm also not a big fan of the giant touchscreen in a dashboard. I like tactile controls (even better if there's haptic feedback) since once I remember a motion, it can become second nature without constantly looking at a touchscreen to see if I touched something correctly. Call me old fashioned, but there's something very satisfying about turning a well made physical dial with a certain amount of resistance and weight.
> boil everything down to categories like "individualism" or "collectivism" that only make sense within your own ideology - as if your ideology was built into reality rather than something you impose upon your perceptions

My classifications (e.g. individualism and collectivism) are derived from reality, not imposed on top of them, and are quite reasonable.

edit: I've removed the rest of my original comment that was here, because I can't say anything nice, and so I don't want to say anything at all. In short, I think your last comment is totally unreasonable and off base.
In the UK we have a government that is actively starving the terminally ill to death, by classifying them as "fit for work" and stopping subsistence benefit payouts for them.

This is true even if they're bedridden.

The government is right-wing.
> To deal with these fuck ups gracefully, you can enable NSAllowsArbitraryLoads while we get our partners sorted out.

And how many apps will forever more have NSAllowsArbitraryLoads enabled because a) Google can't get all their ad partners to switch and b) because devs don't remember to go switch it back off?
I always wished I could take my extra credit out of one class and apply it to another. I didn't know the term in the modern gamer sense at the time, but I would have minmaxed the heck out of my school years.
It's a lazy recommendation. The first 2/3ds of the post are fluff to try and compensate for the fact that their recommendation in the end is "turn off this security feature". ATS is configurable to disable or enable for particular domains. The fact that we've known about ATS for over two months now and this is the best solution Google can come up with means they don't care. They don't care enough to read Apple's documentation and offer a helpful solution.
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The actual smart-ass haskell response is simply "take 12". The spec didn't specify this needed to be a impure shell command, so a pure function is obviously better.
I'm trying out different videos and I can't find ANY instructional content in them - I mean in terms of technical information, something applied that you can learn and use. It feels like watching a TED talk and not a Khan academy lecture!
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Sorry i wasn't clear. I don't deny these front tools are node's killer app (they obviously are). I deny it is enough to make node replace php.
Expecting that selling bonds would affect the bond yields is such a quaint, pre-2008 notion. :)
It is ok. My guess is that by the time iOS 10 is released, this execption is not temporary anymore.

Then if you flip NSAllowsArbitraryLoads to true you will have to justify in the app review process why your app is needing that.

And something tells me that 'making arbitrary insecure connections to ad delivery platforms' is not going to be a valid reason. You may be rejected for that. Or there may at least be a big fat warning on the app store page that says 'beware this app talks to random insecure servers'.

It is a big win for users and the fight against lawless surveillance. Go Apple!
This short story comes to mind http://www.crimeflare.com/doctorow.html (re: looking at ads displayed to you to know what you are looking at)
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It was especially clever of them to register this account years ago, before Ghost was even invented, and pad the account with years' worth of comments to hide their obviousness.