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That analysis is pathetically bad. I'm no fan of the TPP, but one shouldn't view every single thing that happens through that lens.

There's a number of things going on here:

1) The South China sea dispute is getting more and more dangerous. Japan wants flexibility in making alliances to counterbalance China in that area.

2) This give Japan the ability to deploy troops (or more likely aircraft) to the Middle East in support of US operations there. That likely to happen in return for more active US support in the South China Sea.

3) There is always the North Korean factor. That really defies any sensible analysis, but one can imagine circumstances where Japan would like to use military forces against NK.

It's true that the TPP is seen in the Asia-Pacific as an anti-China move, but it seems a comparatively minor part in this particular change in Japan's military stance.
Example of the inner workings of a system being very different from what you might expect, plus the weekend.
Balance?...
The single most powerful nation needs to balance what?
How about balance itself...
Learn to respect others...
The refrain that music in its entirety has done the same cut and paste thing as pop music in the last 25 years is really frustrating to me. There's tons of absolutely brilliant, innovative musicians out there. Sure it's not on the radio, but that doesn't mean for a second that it doesn't exist. Off the top of my head there are artists like Flying Lotus, Beck, Autechre, hell even artists more in the realm of accessible pop like Jamie XX who are writing and producing all their own music and it's all relentlessly interesting and innovative
A "charade" isn't a conspiracy, it's a pretense - people going through the motions as if something was true when they know it isn't.

Perfect word choice for the article, in my opinion.
This may seem trivial, but those changes correspond with real economic changes.... and [LAUGHTER] is proportional to how much damage to the economy the FOMC is doing.

We now have a time where "gold" (paper gold) trades on commodity markets for a significant percentage discount of real gold (exceeding the wholesale-to-retail markup) because the FOMC uses shorting paper gold to make the dollar appear stronger... along with many other interventions.

These are the people who manipulate the market to make things look better "create stability", which only delays the reconciliation and increases the damage when it all comes out in a "black swan" event. Like 2008, which I knew would happen in 2001, though of course not which year, but which the establishment would have you believe was unpredictable. (look on Mises.org articles form 2001-2008 and you can see constant pointing out that it would happen.)
> The compromised version of Xcode was hosted on Baidu Pan. It is unlikely that Baidu was aware of the compromised version of Xcode.

I'm sorry, but at this point I no longer think "it is unlikely" Baidu was unaware. I find it too coincidental based on the simple fact that they were also involved with the DDoS attack on GitHub earlier this year.
Ouch. Sure they screwed up, but this has to be really rough for them.

If any of you guys read this, send me a message. I'm not in a position to hire anyone, but I'm working out the details of a non-profit service that could use your expertise or advice.
its an app, it takes 2 minutes to download a different one which most people would do, especially if it was google or tesla or even honda
But rationality isn't about effectiveness in achieving the things you are evolutionarily optimised for, because those things don't necessarily line up with the things you want! There's no a priori reason to value evolutionary goals over goals you pick for yourself. That would be an appeal to nature.

If helping other people is really something you care about and value intrinsically, then rationality is about finding the most effective ways and means of helping other people.
Because authenticity is a highly valued cultural currency. Fans of pop singers are invested in the idea of an emotional or erotic connection with the object of their affections, and this fantasy depends on the idea of some kind of mutual understanding between the fan and the idol - much as the intensity of religious faith depends on the notion that prayers are heard by a deity. Considering that pop stars can attract hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, maintaining the fantasy that the performer is expressing their own feelings rather than those of someone else is probably a lucrative strategy.
Windows phone is indeed a much safer OS for the moment. Security by obscurity. It worked for OSX for quite some time in the 90s and early 2000s :)
I think it's interesting that even after two decades of very intense and traumatic disruption, the pop music business is still essentially controlled by a handful of men.
The more years I live on this planet the more I realise how smoke and mirrors a lot of things are. Its all an illusion??
But then you would be clearly breaking the law, unlike someone just driving around and around
that sort of hackathon needs to go away. a hackathon used to be an event where people got together and worked on some cool open source project or non-profit initiative, and the main goal was to collaboratively build or advance the state of a project. possibly still is, outside of silicon valley culture.
They're not raw enough, but I think about the closest you'll get right now to the concept of Zep might be the Foo Fighters. It's real rock & roll, the musicians are talented, their front man is ultra-charismatic, and they consistently put out hit after hit. If you want a slightly less rock-ish option (which isn't remotely like Led Zeppelin but meets all the criteria except for specific music genre), it's hard to go wrong with Pearl Jam ... or any of Eddie Vedder's side projects.

To co-opt what someone else said, in order to find what you're looking for from the 90s, you kinda have to go look at bands from the 90s and pray they're still together.
> people going through the motions as if something was true when they know it isn't.

Which is, as we've established not what happened.

Also if they were actively deceiving, it would most definitely be a conspiracy.
> stoichiometric mixture during idle and low-throttle operation.

I don't believe I've ever seen a factory tuned vehicle run less than 16:1, most are 17 or 18 : 1
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>The opposition’s obstructionist tactics delayed Mr. Abe’s victory until after 2 a.m., but could not prevent it.

Apparently the manner in which the vote was made was "trick play" like, quickly executed without warning, and caught opposition party members by surprise. I wasn't aware that such tactics were available.
Yes, but decimal numbers would be useful in:

1. Game score display where fractional points are possible

2. Currency

3. Any amount displayed to humans (like pounds of beef sold)

because decimal number correspond to what you're going to display to the user, while binary numbers are only useful for the result they produce inside an algorithm
This reminds me of a concert experience back in the days. The venue had curtain in front of the stage where they shot a projector and somebody had forgot to full-screen the slide show and the entire audience could see napster running in the task bar.
The kid in me wants to see Concorde fly as an aircraft, but the working adult would see it as yet another toy for the very rich, undeserving of any special consideration from my ilk.

Did you ever hear the term "jet set" used to describe the glamorous social elite, well that term comes from the days when international air travel was the exclusive preserve of the super rich. Nowadays you can jump on a plane for less than the cost of a meal at the airport (+ taxes of course). Small-minded attitudes like yours would have kept us living in caves because people in mud huts were the "undeserving rich".
I wonder if this could be used as an IoT/RPi OS, maybe swaping v8 for https://github.com/cesanta/v7 to make the footprint even more lightweight.
I see what part of what I said made you confused. The "unsustainable" part of what I meant was that it caused some sort of undesired effect be it affecting performance or causing accelerated wear on components that could be costly to replace under warranty or some other condition.

Either way, I agree, VW did this intentionally and there is no question as to their motives behind it. I'm sure they'll be severely punished for it.
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Of course it's not a tautology. There's no boundless recursivity -- you stop at a point wherein you define your utility function.

What I mean by the utility function being arbitrary is there is no way to derive it from within utility theory, or within mathematics for that matter. In this sense the laws of physics are arbitrary; what you define as good principles of utility are also arbitrary, but that doesn't make them useless -- in fact the stochastic version of the theory is widely applied in decision making and artificial intelligence. It let's you scrutinize the basic principles and act consistently based on that. Not unlike other mathematical tools, it's a way to find the best course of action given a small set of assumptions, and not more than that (i.e. doesn't provide a way to find the assumptions, because it's impossible).

Ultimately we're just certain animals of a species, and things like happiness, ethics, morality, are the outcome of our traits and can't be defined in a vacuum.

As noted, there's also the equality interesting reverse utility theory -- that is, finding utility functions that approximately match our choices. It's just as useful, it shows clearly how we instinctively prioritize things like money, time, feelings; I think it's all quite valuable analysis.
I grew up in Australia in a town nicknamed "The city of roundabouts", I know a thing or two about them.

Upon moving to North America, it was shocking to encounter my first 4 way stop. To this day I still shake my head every time I encounter one.
They are non-existent in Australia.

It's been amusing watching the resistance of North Americas to roundabouts, I think, because they are never taught how to use them. Sometimes I ask people the correct way to signal in a roundabout, and I swear I've never had two people in the same room agree.

The city of Calgary installed one, and it was taken out soon after because of a public outcry.
In another city in North America I lived in, they put one in, and a lady promptly drove straight through it, crashing her car. She sued the city and one, because it wasn't fair to go and put in a roundabout like that.
> Having too many of them instead of give-way signs drive you a little batty (I’m looking at you, Warrnambool)

My parents just moved to Warrnambool from Mildura. One of their first comments was on the lack of roundabouts :)
Except for the html page you didn't specifically request anything. javascript, images, Css, cookies keeping you logged in, favicon, video, music, game assets. None of that is explicitly requested by the user.

More over, there is no technical reason why ads needs to be loaded from a third party by the browser. You could easily include them server side.
>one shouldn't view every single thing that happens through that lens.

It doesn't.

Abe went from being very cool on the TPP to coming out in favor (at least in public) almost overnight an the only thing that changed in that period in US-Japan relations was the US state department giving Japan approval to re-militarize. There were virtually no changes to the deal.

Ironically the deal might still fail (which Abe probably wouldn't mind since the TPP is not good for Japan), meaning that this negotiating chip was given away by Obama for free.

>it seems a comparatively minor part in this particular change in Japan's military stance.

You are confusing the reasons why Abe wanted to remilitarize (another topic entirely) with the reasons why Obama had the US state department give him the green light.
Saying that people who listen to pop music listen to it for it's authenticity is like saying that people who eat at McDonald's do it for health reasons.
It was actually a rhetorical question. :)

col -bx strips nonprintable characters. I have been using this for many years. Especially since the spread of Unicode.
As for _viewing_ nonprintable characters, I am a heavy sed user and honestly I rarely use the l command except occassionally to view newlines, tabs and carriage returns. I prefer od or xxd.
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The source is also hosted on GitHub, so GitHub must be involved in this? Funny logic, I bet you have never used Baidu Pan, and has no idea how it is used by millions of Chinese people everyday.
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Difficult unless the compile tools are free and open source, and the manufacturer documents the exact version of what compiler they're using, and what feature flags are enabled, etc. Otherwise the exact same source code can produce many different binaries, each of which hash differently.

I don't know the solution, but the black box approach we have right now I do not like. As a pilot this is a bit weird for me to say because those systems are also completely proprietary as well, full on black box - and not the d/v recording type. And I'm even wondering if that's overdue for a change as well.
Your thesis is hindered by the fact that poor people don't generally work, and so have plenty of time to share their stories.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/cps/a-profile-of-the-working...

The problem is more likely the fact that their stories rarely fit your narrative, and so no one wants to hear them.

I'm not sure why you believe that a story of people living in a mansion, driving fancy cars and having money problems is unrealistic. I know a number of (upper) middle class folks with exactly that problem - solid income, spendthrift wife, and constant money problems. Consider this iconic story, originally pushed by the NYT as a story of poor middle class victims of evil banks: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/05/the-road...
manufactured pop was a thing long before 1990

Here's a short snippet from Wikipedia that illustrates it[1]:

Bubblegum pop is a genre of pop music with
an upbeat sound contrived and marketed to
appeal to pre-teens and teenagers, that may
be produced in an assembly-line process,
driven by producers and often using unknown
singers. Bubblegum's classic period ran from
1967 to 1972. A second wave of bubblegum
started two years later and ran until 1977

Hmmm... Seem familiar?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum_pop
They could still fly the aircraft within the UK on a restrictive Permit to Fly, rather than on a type certificate.

That does not require manufacturer support, it's similar to US Experimental classification. But it would not permit carriage of passengers.
Yeah, tough choice between BoC, Hecker and OPN. If you haven't experienced OPN yet, try him out (Daniel Lopatin). I'd probably start with his older stuff and progress through it as his newer stuff is more avant garde, but familiar if you progress from earlier stuff to newest.

His latest record is due out in November and from what I've heard so far it's even crazier than anything past, but still has the OPN sound even though the medium appears to be completely different.

EDIT: I actually find it hard to program to Hecker. There are certain parts of Ravedeath, Virgins, and Radio Amor, (among others!) where I am completely distracted by soundscapes!
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Maybe try Wolfmother?

Edit: Obviously nowhere near the stature and influence of Led Zeppelin, but the sound might satisfy you in some ways.
Makes me wonder if any other tool chains / compilers have already been co-opted in the wild.
Bill Gates has not been running the company for many years. Whether it is open sourced or not has nothing to do with him. I expect it will depend on how much value they see open sourcing will be to the community will be an overriding factor.
> nan is equal to itself.

Why?
"Baidu Yun" is an online file locker (like Dropbox) with a generous free quota. You can create a shareable link for a file with a single click. Why would you think someone at Baidu would have knowledge of a particular file a user shared on that service?

Separately, you bring up Baidu's "involvement" in the DDoS attack on GitHub. I remember reading that this was achieved using a man-in-the-middle attack on customers of Baidu's analytics product, which would not need Baidu's cooperation: http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%...
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We need better ads, e.g. a comeback of the traditional banner ads where ads where just a single picture with a link.

If you really need a video ad, create a small size mp4 movie and add a link, e.g. 70KB for 30s video.

But nowadays ads are too overblown with huge JS code, invasive behaviors, and still a lot of flash animations and videos. Basically the current situation is the fault of many advertisement networks that produce bad ads and pay little to the website owner. And many website owners that put too many ads on their sites and have choosen the wrong ad networks.

A subscription model won't work for many sites. (there will always be another site like yours that will offer the content for free sponsored by ads, and you will loose most of your traffic) Also it would mean a come back of the dark ages before the WorldWideWeb when Bill Gates had his failed idea about "The Microsoft Network" (1995 MSN version 1) and when there were still teletext services like BTX in Germany where you had to pay premium price to view each single (text) page. The idea of paying $3/month for 100 websites won't fly, such ideas come from individuals that think Facebook is the internet and only visit Facebook and maybe two other websites.

None of the subscription and pay per view model were too successful, obviously the free WorldWideWeb with the ad model won. And if there is a need for an ad blocker, then only one that blacklists & blocks the very bad ad network players. Ads that crash the mobile browser, flash ads, video ads with enabled audio, popup ads, invasive tracking.
It looks like the biggest critique is that checking for equality is slow, but checking floats for equality is almost always a bug anyway.
> If you are an iOS developer, however, a lot can be done to secure your development system:... Separate your development system with your everyday system. Development systems should be used solely for development and not for browsing random sites. If physical separation presents too much of a problem for developers, at the very least, a dedicated user account for development should be used.

I'm not an application developer, but I haven't seen this recommended before and it sounds a bit extreme. Is it a standard, recommended best practice for development environments that must sign code?
That's less a "rationale" and more a "cause," though. If adding quoted integers always treats them as strings, never integers, then allowing coders to subtract quoted integers as integers can only possibly lead to confusion. One or the other should be removed entirely (probably the second, but what do I know).
I think they're ok with the clicks it brings from naive/confused smartphone users, which is exactly how wicked it is.
Looks like you know what you are talking about.
where is the 2015 equivalent of Led Zeppelin?

You could actually understand what Robert Plant was singing. The biggest problem with many of today's bands is that the words are usually unintelligible (often because music is being played loudly over them).

In contrast, I think part of the appeal of rap is that you can actually understand the words. You might not like them, but you can understand them. E.g. In Da Club by 50 Cent. Great beat, easily understood words.
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I'll probably get downvoted for this

An interesting dynamic here on HN. You are being downvoted. In contrast, in yesterday's slashdot, the quickest way to get modded +5 insightful was to start off by saying "I know I'll get downvoted for this ...".
> So when I was getting paid in dollars, and converted it to my local currency right away, I was proving that USD is a commodity?

Yes. It is a commodity. People trade in it every day.

> I could not get anything with USD, so it is not a currency?

For your use at that location, apparently not.

> What people miss is that commodity and currency are not exclusive.

Yes, and I said as much in a separate reply.

> And the difference between them does not really matter all that much.

Except for when they are classified as one and not the other and taxed differently.
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> Given the FBI's broad goals for face recognition data, the time is right for laws that limit face recognition data collection.

Limit data collection? But..

> Only criminal mug shot photos are used to populate the national repository.

So we should limit the criminal mug shot datasets? Or should we limit the query images?

> Query photos and photos obtained from social networking sites, surveillance cameras, and similar sources are not used to populate the national repository.

Oh yea. So what kind of limits again?

> Facial recognition takes the risks inherent in other biometrics to a new level...[it] allows for covert, remote, and mass capture and identification of images, and the photos that may end up in a database include not just a person’s face but also what she is wearing, what she might be carrying, and who she is associated with.

So like your facebook profile?
Has any economic calculation or accounting ever actually had 16 significant digits? If you're talking about $360 trillion, you can only pretend to have a quantity that's correct to the last cent; even if you used sufficient precision for the calculations, your number cannot be connected to the real world with that much precision.
Kudos to Apple for drawing the line like they did with Flash. Advertisers were degrading their product and irritating their users by going too far, so Apple did the right thing.
> What's the coordinate system? What are the units?

That information can be encoded into the class type, in which case you get compile time checking. I wrote a blog post about this some time ago:

http://www.randomprogramming.com/2014/06/quote-of-the-week-t...

The summary is that we had two different coordinate systems in play and had many bugs caused by passing values in the wrong coordinate system around. By making the different coordinate systems different classes everything became explicit and checked by the compiler. We completely eliminated a whole class of bugs from our program.

The great thing about using an int is that it can be anything (integer). It can be an x coordinate, or the number of eggs or a selection between multiple options.

The bad thing about using an int is that it can be anything, and sooner or later you will pass the number of eggs into a function that really wants an x coordinate.
What I am interested in is the authenticity of this source. Could it be a "modified" source with the personal-info-tracking code removed? Any confirmation on this?
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That's OK, I probably use more clean air than I need anyway.
Interesting that for land speed records you generally need to do two passes of a course one in each direction and your speed is an average of the two passes in order to prevent these types of shenanigans ;-)

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