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Because there is a glut of idle money right now as the first world continues to unwind its debt positions from the financial crisis.

Investors are parking their cash in safe assets in droves (government bonds and real estate), so there's basically no safe assets left that will earn a return (perhaps other than real estate speculation) - investors then go on to hunt for riskier investments in emerging markets that will at least gain something, at risk of losing the principal if the government defaults.
> government debit can grow until it's not sustainable

Of course. That doesn't mean governments follow a simple zero-sum model. Government economics is it's own beast, with (hopefully) it's own solutions.

re: fsck the theories - you may find this[1] interesting, which is a summary of where we stand right now on many aspects of government economics by econ prof Mark Blyth that he gave at a recent q&a session. It might be one of the most succinct explanations of just how badly we're fscked.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJCcoF5K0SM#t=1160
Yup, this changes my own point of view from "Gee Apple what a blunder" to "Some developers can be really dumb".
I freely admit this is a guess, but: I suspect what was trying to be expressed is that for a mature product, the difference between profit and loss comes from the marginal buyers. If 80% of your break-even sales go to your solid buyers, and 10-30% of your break-even sales go to your marginal buyers, it's critical to court those margin buyers because they are the difference between revenue being 90% of your costs and 110% of your costs.

Again, let me say explicitly I am reading between the lines, but it is the closest sensible concept I know compared to what was said.

People in general often poorly understand the degree of capital expenditures made by companies, and I suspect those of us in the software vision may have an even more skewed vision since we see billion-dollar companies started with a laptop and ~50 square feet of office space, but when you have real capital expenditures required to make your product (even ignoring advertising, etc.), those little single-digit-percent wiggles right around the break-even point can be huge.
I'm really curious to see how this shapes up against the other gorillas in the ecosystem. The Azure requirement is usually not a problem.

Basically the dialogue is something like, "F# is great and I'd use it but for the restrictive runti... wait it's open sourced? Well .NET isn't open... oh. It is? Has been for awhile now? Well what would this get me over using Spark? Also, I don't actually KNOW F# I just heard MSR people I like saying it's good so..."

And that's a really good question to ask, as Spark has been making massive strides in the industry, as it matches a lot more closely to how many data scientists WANT to work.
yeah, but how is your peering once you get outside the country's border? people talk of super-cheap fast residential internet but usually it suffers once when you start accessing content that's remote.
Thank you for this writeup! They sound like great people who definitely would be happy to give their domain name to an assembly-language project of great promise like ours. Someone ask them!
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It's even worse in Detroit, since those Comcast prices you listed are temporary ones for new customers or bundles. You can call them to complain and they'll probably knock the price down but it's a hassle. I pay $67 for only 25mb/s!
As far as free developer tools, I again don't know what is different from before. I hear you, but haven't experienced the nirvana you describe: I've been on Windows, where development tools have very often been free to play with and require payment to use them for real work.

The way I look at it is that Apple's gatekeeper role is appropriately minimal on OS X and appropriately strict on iOS, and for my part I trust the twain will never meet because of exactly that "general purpose computer" difference, but you have added some thought-provoking perspective.
What's annoying about joins? I think practically speaking, whether you're going relational or not, joins are a reality of a data model that supports multiple views and transformations. Assuming that's the case, the only question is whether you're doing joins ad hoc in your application code or you've learned the handful of variations that work natively in your RDBMS.
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>"I don't like tyranny so I'm going to join a group of murderers and rapists who are best known for their beheading videos".

Compared to those who are now known for bombing a hospital? You can easily paint any side as the total bad guy when you look at just how much abuse does happen. It doesn't much matter who is worst when everyone is so dirty that you can get enough dirt to validate any feelings one has.

For example, consider the problem with dancing boys in Afghanistan and how the Taliban fought against it while the US protected the practice. Defining the 'bad guy' becomes a bit more difficult, no?
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and this(o) was on the front page of reddit recently..

My textbook says electricity is faster than light?
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here's the part(i)
At first glance this seems logical, but I'm pretty sure this is not how it works.
Can someone explain?

(o) https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3sm2jj/my_textb...

(i) http://i.imgur.com/cnNuLEk.jpg
There is a history of these types of crowd-sourced-product-creation companies going under. I personally think the reason is because it is relatively easy to build a product. But it is incredibly difficult to build a business around a product. It is very difficult to get traction and you have to really focus on and refine your product. So you have a startup who's concept is to crank out product after product, and then just throw them into the wind, hoping something will take off. Even businesses with one amazing product don't take off that way. A huge corporation can afford an R&D lab where 1 out of 1000 products might take off. (You might even say ycombinator is such a concept) A startup with a little bit of funding cannot afford to crank out dud after dud. They're betting that they will hit the jackpot after, say, 5 or 10 products, depending on the amount of runway they have.

Then again, there's a lot of businesses that were successful because they found the magic sauce that all of their predecessors were unable to find. If you think you've found it, then definitely go for it! If you think your concept is pretty much a rehash of Assembly, then I would probably start thinking seriously about how you are going to succeed where they failed.
I am curious to what extent Paul Phillips lecture [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jh94gowim0] is just a rant or in-depth Scala criticism. If he's right then seems that we should not expect bright future for Scala.

I am wondering what Scala experts would say (I don't know Scala sufficiently to trust my judgment)?
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Interestingly, humans breathe in a second way not mentioned in the article. The eye's cornea actually receives its oxygen directly, through the process of diffusion. https://www.quora.com/Do-our-eyes-breathe
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I thought that the 80/20 rule had no real scientific backing, that it was just a rough "rule of thumb" that business people throw out there because it sounds right.
Turn on the density maps and zoom out. It is awesome to see commonly used shipping lanes light up.
Well, as you said, it's just bad stewardship on Google's part. Sun/Oracle seem to have a much better track record regarding Java-"proper".
Microsoft has been pushing really hard to make Azure a contender. And they're right to do so, AWS is in a somewhat shakey position. They're moving people over to VPCs but haven't integrated their VPCs with their cloud services in a robust way, forcing the burden onto customers.

Anecdotally, friends of mine in the know tell me that it's been a good year for GCE. I wonder if Azure is seeing an uptick as well.
My first RSS reader was self-hosted. When I went away on vacation and came back to learn that my computer had shut down during that time, I switched to Google Reader.
The discussion trend around tech hiring seems to be toward careful selection of candidates for employment. This is explicit advice in the orbit of YC with the six months to make the first hire at AirBnB the case study. Not to mention Google is well known for their potentially long recruitment cycle.

It's natural to want a potential employer to be so blown away by the resume that they make an offer on the spot. In the Bay Area, that probably happens to Peter Norvig with a high probability and ordinary ninjas with a lower one.

Good luck.
So on the one hand we have this general sense that "there aren't enough talented people to hire" but on the other hand we have this idea that "it's easier to hire someone talented than to train them ourselves." Can it be both?

Any time a business is saying they are having trouble hiring someone talented... maybe they just have to look inward and improve their own training processes.
No, no we don't.

Administration spending has massively increased over the last 30 years. Spending on faculty that does teaching hasn't. Somehow we managed to run colleges 30 years ago w/ half the administration.
It just reëntered and here are some photos & video:

http://gizmodo.com/that-mysterious-object-on-a-collision-cou...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJT-q8_dl88
The article makes it sound like this is now resolved, but it isn't.

One of my Macs is stuck on Snow Leopard. On Lion & El Capitan, I sign in to the App Store again and it's resolved. But on Snow Leopard, it doesn't display the sign-in error like 10.7 - 10.11 do. It just complains and tells you to redownload the apps from the App Store.

But I can't. Apple doesn't let you download old versions from the Mac App Store. Byword 1.5.2 is the last version that works on 10.6, the current 2.x version requires 10.8. Similarly with Tweetbot, Mémoires, Space Gremlin, etc. Unless Apple magically allows old downloads, I don't think this can be fixed without Apple patching Snow Leopard. I'm not going to hold my breath.

It really seems like Apple has permanently broken my purchased apps.
Think much more like a grenade; the dirty bomb is looking to use explosives to disperse and 'poison' an area with radioactive contamination.
To be fair, the only at all comparably production-ready languages that don't have substantially "weaker type systems and bad abstractions" compared to Scala are Haskell and to a lesser extent Ocaml and F#.
Also Samsung's platform "Veles" ... although it turns out this has actually been released for a couple of months:

https://velesnet.ml/
Not if you can fix your debt to the back to the first guy that you find in the street. They drinked to much at night, why are we having a hangover in the morning?.
The problem comes up when the car info system implements phone book access:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles#Pho...

And then tries to act as the dialer (rather than just passing audio to the phone like a headset). With the voice features built into phones now, the car dialer is probably not the better thing to be using. Windows Phone/Cortana have a workaround:

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp8/cortana/use-cor...

So no need for a device, Microsoft has already solved it in software. There's no technical reason that Google and Apple can't copy the feature.

I came back to this thread because I just tried to find a way to do this with Siri and failed.
Aren't we past the tipping point? I think that at this point most old projects won't ever move to Python 3, but for new projects it's at least 50-50. If not >50 for Python 3.
> We do have traits, which I assume work similarly, it looks like.

Rust traits are more like typeclasses. Scala traits more more like Java interfaces w/default definitions and some other things.
That quote from Justice Story is precisely why such proceedings are not a "penalty for a crime [the Government] assert[s] [someone] committed." The purpose of such proceedings is to confiscate property used for illegal purposes (so it cannot continue to be used for illegal purposes), not to punish the owners of the property. Hence why in that case they confiscated the ship "whether [the owner] be innocent or guilty."
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The calculations for it are a little weird and involve a rather strange unit called the SWU (separative work unit) and which is actually independent of the separation process, but it works out to be more like ~75% of the effort to go from natural -> 20% enriched as it is to go from 20% -> 95%.

You still need the raw mass though. To get enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb (~15kg) from 20% enriched feed stock and discharging 2% enriched depleted uranium waste you need about 65kg of 20% enriched.

So 10kg (assuming it's 20%) is definitely concerning, but it's not enough to make a bomb.
The Robert Krulwich does your illustrations? Very cool.
You have to realize that "start warning the user two days before the expiration date" and "start warning the user on the expiration date, but give them a grace period of two days" is just an implementation detail, no?
I want to discuss the second to last paragraph or what the end game is going to be: Inflation or deflation?

Here is the paragraph:

"...More quantitative easing in Europe while America tightens monetary policy is a recipe for a stronger dollar. If the greenback rises far enough, that will hurt export earnings in America, which will eventually feed through to weaker investment and softer GDP growth. The Fed may thus find that even a gradual increase in interest rates will have to be cut short. ..."

AFAIK, The FED is so far removed from the consumer that banks, credit card companies, and PayDay Loan store-fronts determine interest rates rather than the FED. With that in mind what are the consequences if the FED does one or the other? What is next, asset inflation or asset deflation?

Thank you.
Curious. I had the opposite experience. Went away on vacation and came back to learn Google Reader had shut down.
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Interesting to see F# pushed so hard in this. I've dabbled in the language in the past and was just recently thinking about giving it another go, this might be a good impetus to push that up the priority list.

Out of curiosity what are people who've learned f# recently's recommended set of tutorials? The fsharp.org stuff, a book, or somewhere else?
How on Earth is this possible? If you read https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/forfeiture closely, you'll find an explanation.

Although the conviction requires the government to prove guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt," the forfeiture is subject to a lower burden--preponderance of the evidence.

This case demonstrates the real-life consequence of this difference in standards. In this case the government could not establish "beyond a reasonable doubt" but the accused could not demonstrate "preponderance of the evidence" for innocence either. So the accused don't go to jail but still lose their house.

And here we get to the real problem with how civil forfeiture is actually used today. How do you establish a "preponderance of the evidence" when no specific crime was ever alleged? It is effectively impossible! The TSA can always allege "a smell of marijuana" and claim probable cause for the seizure. They have a direct financial incentive to do so, and you have no way afterwards to prove that they were lying.
I had to google[1] to find this information: it burned up in the atmosphere today above Sri Lanka, as predicted.

1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=WT1190F&ia=news
Thanks for sharing those links. Interestingly, I discovered this in Aaron's 2008 reading list:

"DFW’s (David Foster Wallace) suicide hit me very hard. I ended up coping by reading every piece of nonfiction he’d ever published. He was a brilliant, tortured man and I see so much of myself in him. His nonfiction was fantastic and I will consider my life a success if I can do half of what he did."
You seem to persist in believing the problem is on the input side. It's not; it's on the output side. My entire point is that the resulting SQL generation code is what ends up quite hairy, because the way we have found to separate concerns in 2015 and SQL are very, very different.

Let me put it this way... it is precisely because a fluent, Haskell-native SQL querying interface little resembles SQL in either syntax or usage that there is the problem. It is precisely that there have to be these library at all that is the problem. If it were easy, these library wouldn't even exist, or would be little more than drivers, but they're not just drivers... they do a lot of real work.

If SQL didn't stink by the standards of modern separation of concerns, we wouldn't need "ground breaking" work!

Or, to put it another another way:

$ git clone git@github.com:slick/slick.git
$ cd slick
$ cloc .
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Language files blank comment code
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Scala 261 3589 3844 23129

Cut down to just the Scala. 23kilolines of Scala is a lot of Scala! This is not an "easy" task. "Easy" would be something that just wrapped up the existing syntax in a slightly more native form and would clock in somewhere in the several hundred range.
It's not very radioactive, I've held weapons grade uranium in my hand before (well, it was in a metal container). It is chemically very toxic since it's a heavy metal, very similar to something like arsenic.
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I'm not sure how implementation is "completely irrelevant"; if that were the case then the entire conversation is essentially irrelevant as we could potentially implement any compiled language as an interpreted language.

The piece I quoted indicates to me that the parent possibly does not understand this about JavaScript since they stated the compilation cost of JavaScript "is zero" that implies that JavaScript is not compiled. If there is a compilation step then some cost is incurred no matter how low.

It was further supported that the parent may not understand JavaScript is typically compiled when they followed on with "cost being completely amortized with everything happening directly at runtime". That would indicate that all of the cost is incurred/paid at runtime rather than in the compile step which is simply false.
I am really curious if that's normal in other industries as well. I never did code tests in any place I've worked for as a computer engineer.

A conversation was always enough.
Most stuff does indeed get around the US by truck:

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...

I've also heard our freight rail infrastructure described as excellent through, so maybe if you compared it to other countries in cost per ton/mile it would come out well.
Note: on HN, taking Brenden's side in the Eich/SJW catastrophizing will cost you karma.
Maybe. But Scala lives on the JVM so it needs to deal with them.
I'll just go compile my own PhotoShop, hang on.
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Someone posted a Glassdoor review (http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-VASCO-Data-Security-International-RVW8499500.htm) that based on title could have only come from me (I am the only TAM that has ever worked in SF for VASCO). It caused concern about my attitude with my team. I flagged it, but Glassdoor said it met their guidelines, any advice?
YC has always been a supporter of technology. I don't know the history of the black bar, but I have been around for quite some time in HN and Ive only seen it twice now. So it makes me think it started when Reddit founder Aaron Swartz killed himself. This black bar is a way of morning such tech pioneers.
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This particular bit of verification has nothing whatsoever to do with security. It's an error in purchase verification. If the practice is to let the program run with an invalid purchase receipt for two days, then you're just giving pirates a free two-day trial. Some people might see that as a problem, but I personally value the experience of paying users over inconveniencing pirates.
Here is another port where oil tankers often wait when oil prices are low: http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57/centery:...

I had the opportunity to go on board one of these ships in 2012 and here is a picture I took during that visit: http://imgur.com/hmM60h4
"People don't want to engage with brands"

I've said this for years, ever since I started seeing twitter and facebook logos on things like ketchup and cereal. Here's one I just saw: who wants to "engage" with C&H SUGAR of all things? https://instagram.com/p/9JVo-gpvQw/

The only companies that make money from plastering twitter and facebook logos on stuff are ... twitter and facebook.
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I'm not sure why you're taking about browser exploit kits when we're talking specifically about using curl or wget to pipe an HTTP payload into a shell.
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This is great. Best line is, "Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®."
I don't see how there would be a price increase. Regardless, we can subsidize it to keep cost down. Problem solved.
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I didn't know the exact number that's why I put "less than $1/pound".

You are correct though. If you look at some of the products like fruit that we get from Asian, the cost per pound would have to be pennies or else they couldn't charge $2/pound for the produce in the US.
I don't think they'll "stop trying to pay money to get their message to customers", but the nature of what they pay for will change.

I've seeing big brands burning a lot of cash to get ridiculous any way you count it, be it eyeballs or what. But they'd still do it, just because it's part of their "budget". Even if it doesn't work, no one is really that accountable. They're doing what they're told and in reality no one knows what'll stick so it's hard to point fingers.

That will continue for a while, but some people ARE seeing the writing on the wall, and even advertising agencies that are profiting from the current situation can see it. That's what I felt, and I could see the work I did getting less and less relevant.

The move I'm seeing is not just towards brands realizing they're running a lot of fuel to move at a slow speed, but also towards agencies becoming more "studios" than "agencies" (an irony in itself considering it's the opposite of what started happening 8 or so years ago), and building things FOR and WITH clients rather than some on-off forgettable new shitty online campaign or "viral" crap no one cares about.

A great site or application for, say, booking online flights does wonders towards a customer's perception of a flight carrier. It makes sense for Delta or Jetblue or anyone to create the best damn flight checkin/booking/etc app so people want to use it. So instead of spending millions in yet another online campaign, they can spend a portion of that creating a damn good app that will be with them for a while. Same applies to so many other businesses.

That's the kind of move I'm seeing, at least in the kind of work I do. Advertising won't die, banners won't die, but they'll be the loan sharks of the web.

Of course this move also creates a problem, like newspapers that insist on creating their own useless apps. But that's just to prove not everything fits into this model, and each business or brand will have to find its own way to actually serving their customer better.