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QE works well. It's just limited in how much impact it can have because it's monetary policy. Fiscal policy is the other half of the equation and one that is much more politically charged. Bernanke did what he could with the tools at his disposal at a time when government was seized with deep partisanship. That's now coming home to roost as liquidity is removed from the system. Luckily, or appropriately, it's happening as unemployment is low and there is finally some upward wage pressure. You only have to look at many countries in Europe to understand what the US would have looked like had we not had the monetary firehose, with all of its imperfections, opened.
I'm pretty skeptical of the tournament referenced at the end of the article - specifically that tit-for-tat did so poorly.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/7f2/prisoners_dilemma_tournament_res...
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At least in the case I'm describing, the company already has an expensive MS SQL Server 2014 license (Core licensing) which allows for an unlimited (ok, something like 50) amount of VMs, and they already have the expensive bare metal servers, so that's not a concern, since it's a sunk cost.

All clients are already on Office 2013, so that's not a concern either.

The Sharepoint cluster probably is a concern, but that's about the only thing, I'm pretty sure it'll be cheaper than Tableau.

I wish they'd invite the CTO to a Windows 10 events and give us some giveaways :) . No local state laws, this is for an insurance company in South America btw :)

Edit: the opinions are strictly my own, I'm not involved in any decision making sadly (no Windows 10 giveaways for me :P ), etc.
Your analogy is way off.

This is more like your Tesla car's keyfob misfunctioning and you get it repaired by a non-Tesla dealer. The dealer could've put in a backdoor to get into the vehicle.

Tesla releases a big new update for their car software and now your Tesla is completely bricked and Tesla refuses to repair it, saying you have to buy a new car.

Is that acceptable?
I know that happens but it sucks. We pay everyone based on merit. The quietest, nerdiest person is paid the same as the most attractive, outgoing person with the same skills.
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#1 - Whether or not there is a formal risk measure that is less "ad-hoc/in-practice" than the others is still up in the air, no?
Yeah, a financial transaction tax is exactly what Canada did. It did reduce "risky" [1] high speed trading, and in the process hurt retail while helping (a little) big traders. This is pretty much exactly what microstructure theory predicts. Figuring out the effects is a solved problem.

The "open problem" I guess will be improving the existing tax avoidance software for traders?

[1] High speed trading is extremely non-risky. Look at graphs of the most extreme HFT incidents: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/flash_crash_flash_in...
I had the same crisis two years ago. I was on vacation and couldn't stand the thought going back to work doing the same odd and boring CMS PHP stuff i used to code day in and day out. My girlfriend left me at the same time, so i decided to make a move. I quit the job, i thougt i was good at, and went to a company which programmed mostly in C# and F#.
It was challenging, but at the same time so satisfying to be excited again. I learned about functional programming, looked beyond the horizon of my save little PHP and JS world.
I never looked bad to my old me and my old job.
Stay curious and if the moment comes you feel stuck, move on to something similar but yet unknown and challenging.
Yeah i find myself reminded of an anecdote about a young lady that wanted to treat herself after landing her first job out of college.

So she went to market somewhere in Asia, fund a stall selling handbags, and started to haggling by pointing out the various ways the bags where fake.

Eventually she settled on a bag. She knew it was fake, she knew it would not last as long as the real thing, but she hoped it would at least hold until she climbed the corporate ladder enough that she could replace it with the real thing.
Based on the proposed platform it looks like Watson is already running. It took over the body on uncle Bernie.
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This needs to be more visible in this thread.
So basically you do not own your hardware.
You say no one can afford it, but all the apartments are rented out.
Recently mentioned on HN: https://www.tiingo.com/welcome

And of course https://www.quandl.com/
The specifics of the charge and whether it counts as rape, were played out in the Supreme Court, which ruled that it would count.
Sidenote: That narrator got a job at Lowe's. And it makes it hard for me to take him seriously.

http://www.lowes.com/projects/other-areas/pressure-wash-your...
Could this be a protection against selling stolen iPhones? As I remember a "broken TouchID" rates pretty high as a shady phone. Does anyone know how does this work? Can you reset a stolen phone or do they just sell those as parts nowdays?
That's a very disingenuous definition of "the right to repair." In fact, requiring that all repairs be done by the OEM is exactly the opposite of the right to repair.
Well while I'm not going to be running Battlefront in 3D 4k with the insane textures mod, that's not what I meant by immersion - what I meant is not being able to discern the edges of the screen, which is an unfortunate consequence of this headset since it puts the phone just a tad bit further from the lenses than a traditional Google Cardboard.
>IMO bricking on touch ID issues is extreme, but maximises the security of the device.

We are all smart people here and there are several ways to have security without bricking expensive hardware.

First, the update can wipe the device instead of bricking it.

Second, Apple can provide an option to replace the fingerprint chip and charge, $150-$200 or whatever it costs for it.

There would be several better solutions that the most profitable company in the world could figure out if they wanted to. It's funny how their particular solution happens to make them even more money through shutting down third party repairs and making people buy new phones.

This is like your home alarm software(made by the home builder) remotely burning down your house and telling you to build a new one because someone may have tampered with home access and could possibly enter your home.
I do know. In fact, I do it for clients.

Just because you can, doesn't mean everyone will rush to do it. This is a self-service platform. Putting the data in the hands of decision makers. There is hierarchy in how people use such software:

The user: He uses only the apparent features in the GUI. Like the grid and aggregation formulas in Excel. He learns how to use the software from other people showing him how to do stuff.

The Power User: He has deeper needs, but can only be bothered to use features 1 or 2 levels deep in the GUI. Like pivot tables, vlookups and index/match, logical operator formulas in Excel. He learns how to use the software from tutorials.

The Advanced User: He has a task and does not mind getting his hands dirty in order to fix it. Uses DAX and Cube formulas. Perhaps even Macros. He learns by googling his problem and reading documentation.

The Developer: Solves the problems at the programmatic level.

Tableau occupies a very specific spot. It is brilliant for the User who only consumes dashboards via clicking on them. No explanation needed and it is super polished. It is also powerful enough for the Advanced User who can perform relatively sophisticated analyses from the interface. Generally speaking, it is not a good fit for the Power User who doesn't have the need to justify using it. It is also not a terribly good choice for the developer because it is too restrictive and the programmatic features are not well thought out.
This rather reminds me of the "Coral Castle" in Florida. Basically one guy went nuts after getting dumped by his girlfriend, so he built a fortress-sized structure out of blocks of limestone (not actually coral). It's quite a goofy little tourist attraction now.

If only all people who lost their minds could devote all their time to a harmless quest that doesn't hurt anybody.
Remittance is still one the biggest unsolved problem according to me.

I could consider cryptocurrency as the ultimate solution but online if everywhere its being used in equal importance and liquidity. For more traditional money, banks are squeezing fees & spreads out of regular people. Companies like TransferWise are trying to resolve some of these problems but still they rely on the existing banking system to move the funds around.

So there you go - open problem!
Any sources of that metric that aren't plagued by political bias, be it progressives or neocons?
Around the time that Australia was founded as a penal colony, English property-defense laws were pretty insane, to the point that it became known as the Bloody Code[1]. Grand Larceny, a capital offense, was defined as theft of anything valued at twelve pence or higher. In modern terms, that's somewhere between five and two hundred fifty pounds. There are some interesting lists[2], but mostly they are low-level theft, poaching, livestock-rustling, smuggling and desertion. Also, transported prisoners had a pretty high chance of being Irish.

There are elements of class warfare and repression of minorities that are not unlike current narcotics law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Code

[2] http://www.convictrecords.com.au/crimes
> It is hard to comprehend why the CRUD world is so reluctant to do such an easy thing.

It is odd, isn't it? I'm tempted to say if you think it's so easy, go forth and do it: automating away the production of CRUD would earn you billions. SAP is probably the nearest existing product. But every attempt so far just creates a different group of developers (e.g. SAP).
This is why WordPress recommends a few things that annoy a lot of programmers, like using the longer if/while/foreach syntax and mixing PHP with HTML code. It's not elegant, but it's a lot more readable for people who haven't actually programmed much before. So that people whose knowledge of web coding is mostly HTML and CSS related can figure out what to edit without programming expertise or even syntax highlighting.

It's also one of the reasons WordPress (and quite a few other CMS systems that are sometimes looked down upon in the development world) caught on... because they were easy to modify and mess around with for people withot prior programming experience.
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What the fuck are you talking about? The 90 deaths mentioned by the parent are Australia-wide, not merely bound to King's Cross. It's entirely appropriate to compare them to other Australia-wide measures. Unless Victoria and Queensland, mentioned in the parent's article, are now located in King's Cross, I guess. Or hey, I can reframe it your way if you like: There were zero deaths from alcohol-fueled king hits whilst getting out of bed.

Also, talking about misusing data, you're claiming that 20 deaths per 100k "attributable to alcohol" is due to violent assault. What a load of shit - the Australian homicide rate (from all sources) is only 1.1/100k. "Attributable to alcohol" basically means diseases - there aren't 4400 (22M/your rate) deaths across the country every year from violent assault, alcohol-related or otherwise. There's not even a tenth that number. Alcohol-deaths-by-violence are a rounding error compared to alcohol-deaths-by-disease.

Look at your own linked graphs sorted by age - do you honestly believe that 65-year-olds are dying from king hits at a rate five times greater than 20-year-olds? That 85-year-olds dying from such violence at nearly twice the rate as those 65-year-olds? Those are some pretty feisty nursing homes.
One of the problems with the Canadian tax law, was that Canada has to remain competitive to the same-language speaking country south of its borders that has a bigger and more advanced stock exchange. It is explained in the last section of your second link.

The same problems will not be necessarily manifested if the law is applied in the US, especially if Canada has similar laws. However, the points of the first link seem to hold.
For me, the real question is where have all the hackers gone? Years ago, there were high quality contributors here. They all had to go somewhere. When slashdot was dying, it was clear where everyone went (HN and Digg). This time around, it's not clear at all.
It's a shame they don't have laws against murder or assault that could address these issues.
That's not a really good comparison. You can always make your own fork of bitcoin, and if there's enough like minded people, your fork will "win".
For webdev, the biggest inadequate tool is the browser itself: ancient versions, vendor quirks, mandatory single language. This is mostly due to it being the place where various competing interests have fought one another to a standstill.
Too bad the compiler doesn't raise a fatal error for comments like that.
You may not like it, but this is how non-techy users use computers and phones.
In my university finance classes we were forced to use calculators that were invented in 1976[1] to run calculations on formulas we had to memorize that could easily have been automated in Excel. Since then I've been prejudiced that "the invisible hand" ;) was deliberately keeping electric technology out of finance in order to maintain a legacy business model. Like that of the MPAA towards VCRs and DVDs etc.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_Business_A...
> If the Touch ID sensor is bad, and you propose falling back to a PIN, who's to say the digitizer isn't compromised too and is recording touches?

So why not brick the phone out of the box? Even if the finger scanner is original, somebody may have compromised the digitizer anyway.
Date: 1999
Debt collectors are actually more regulated than telemarketers, so once they are convinced you aren't the debtor, they will stop. I think the not wasting time on pointless calls is even more important to them than marketers. Even in the case that they are contacting the debtor, there are pretty strict rules they must follow.

I guess this discusses some aspects of it: http://blog.credit.com/2011/04/getting-collection-calls-for-...
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

I wrote that up mostly as an explanation for a lot of local people who'd asked me for the whole story over the years.
Almost, except the Tesla store just says you have to buy a new (authentic) key fob rather than a new car.

Apple or other authorized repair shops can still fix phones that have been disabled due to security chain errors.
So having literally 40% of your product held hostage isn't worth a suit? I'd think that's something you can bring to a criminal court. Disclaimer, not a lawyer.
Totally understandable point of view. I enjoy writing as a hobby so that's the main reason I'm willing to invest the time. This one in particular was because I read the other piece and it bothered me enough that I couldn't sleep.

Occasionally I do some paid blogging for Codeship too.
Well to be fair the median salary in Egypt is about 8000$ per year, when you don't have to pay 150-200K per head to onboard engineers 300K can get you a long way (if you think about it their entire team might cost less than what a single engineer in a SV startup will be earning, sucks I know but it's the reality in that region).

Asia, some parts of Africa and some parts of the Middle east are now some what ripe for investment as far as tech startups go, the barrier of entry for learning development has been lowered sufficiently and education in some places is actually quite available and well established these days.

These aren't regions in which you need to have multiple series of funding and raise millions to be able to pull even a power point presentation of the ground.
Places like Cairo which have quite good higher education can be considerably cheaper than the baltic states and eastern europe were 5-8 years ago and if you develop a non-regional product you can have a huge return on investment, and it also allows companies to become cash flow positive very quickly as their yearly burn rate is probably lower than the price of some investor relation event/party in SV.
I hope I can use this OS to keep away all of the See Eye Aye Nuggets who are trying to mess with me.
If you have problems with "violent language" then that shouldn't lead to valuable content being hidden from others who don't have mental issues triggered by words they fifth like.
> If that's the level of offence you want to create then sure, go ahead.

WTF? Did you make that all up just to be able to put me down? Really, what a disgusting comment. I used a word that has a dual definition according to my goddamn dictionary and asked politely for an alternative and reason and edited my comment long before you posted this and yet you feel that you should use this to pretend that I like to create a certain level of offense when I clearly went out of my way not to.
Then MS could improve the product by teaching them the correct ways or to make specific SQL Server optimizations. More reasons for acquisition.
It's the same with governments and political parties. One group wants it done one way, another group wants it done a different way, and so two parties, styles of governing, blockchains emerge.

My main point though is that we tend to place too much emphasis on how much new tech can help solve age-old, human nature driven problems.
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I'm not sure I understand what exactly happened here. Was it previously possible for non-apple engineers to replace the home button or was it not? The guardian's article seems to suggest it was: "Indeed, the phone may have been working perfectly for weeks or months since a repair or being damaged."

If that is the case and it was possible to replace these sensors before, apple's narrative that the "error 53" code was introduced for security reasons doesn't seem to make a lot of sense: If the hardware sensor wasn't designed with secure authorization (e.g. via asymmetric cryptography) in the first place, all they could do now in a software update would be to add some kind of cosmetic device ID check.

However, any such newly introduced check in software could not actually prevent "malicious sensor" attacks but would only add a (possibly trivial) additional step to the attack where you have to spoof the correct device id.

Or maybe my reading of the guardian article is imprecise and replacing the home button has always meant loosing access to at least some security-relevant features?
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I almost missed your reply, I might end up taking a similar road so thank you for your advise.
There is only one valid reason to authenticate the fingerprint scanner before using it, and that is to prevent the use of aftermarket replacements.

No matter what the motives behind this mechanism were, it was put in place exactly to prevent 3rd party scanners from working.

And if they implemented authentication and didn't even test what happens if it fails, then well... how do they know it works at all?
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That works, if and only if you already know the user's pin to unlock the phone.

This attack you suppose Apple is defending against is not possible.

The only attack Apple is really defending against is the attack of non-Apple phone repair companies.
The part about 1% salary is.

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-li...
I can't shake the feeling that modern humanity is ignoring all but its ability to see.
I still think doing the right thing is important.
It burns you out, causes health issues, and doesn't mean it will pay off, but it's important in general.
It hasn't been positive for me yet, and has created a long strand of negative issues, as mentioned above. Maybe I'll change my mind in the future, but I am not willing to part with that part just yet.

These daus I don't even want it to pay off financially, I just want to make something to be proud over and stability. I remember seeing an article on how Marissa Mayer was displeased with being demoted to Maps. I thought how amazing one has to be, to be demoted to Maps.
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Actually, the assholes are winning because they're willing to cheat.

There's a thought experiment called the "Prisoner's Dilemma": two people are caught robbing a bank, and are taken to separate interrogation rooms; they can either rat their "friend" out or stay silent. If they both keep their mouths shut, they both take a short sentence; if one talks and the other doesn't, the rat goes free and the other guy gets a big sentence; if they both talk they both get a mid-range sentence.

The people who play this game can be neatly divided into the ones who play for the minimum jail time, and the ones who play to build trust with their friend.

Now imagine that, instead of reducing your jail time, screwing your neighbor nets you a few thousand dollars.
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IMHO financial data is scattered for two primary reasons:

1) "Finance" is extremely fluid because of the speed with with transactions are conducted...(e.g., the stock market)...during the course of a day's trading market reports are given minute by minute, but the most useful "summary" of "performance" is often available only at the end of the day when the market closes...

2) Entities derive a capitalistic advantage by protecting their own data, until, and unless, they're given sufficient incentive to share it...

To me this implies that a system sufficiently complicated enough to provide "meaningful" data captures might have to be nearly as complicated as the field of finance itself...the best we seem to be able to do just now is provide snapshots--AKA, the "leading indicators", etc...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y

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AirPlay; much better multi-display support; tags in Finder; Spotlight enhancements. More than anything, the iCloud/iOS continuity features were also big if you had an iPhone or iPad, everything is just much easier to keep in sync.

I'm a Safari user (better battery usage for the # of tabs I have open) and it too has improved with El Capitan though that's irrelevant for Chrome/FF users.
weren't you trying to do the same? I wouldn't take it so personally. Hoxton park doesn't even qualify as westie.
Is it actively enforced ?
Former analyst inside large intel agency here. Analysts definitely span the range of technical aptitude. However, most understand what is happening, why what they're doing is specifically legal, and most buy into the narrative that what they're doing is right. I imagine the people responsible for technical surveillance of whistleblowers are a separate, possibly specially selected group. But I'd be willing to be they're selected for being intelligent and true believers in what they do.
Like eBay? or Letgo?
Almost very proposed alternative means somethig exactly equivalent to "retarded", a medical word for a disability. It's a euphemism treadmill.

Dumb = mute

Idiot, moron = low IQ

Lame = non-functioning limb

The problem is not choice of words, the problem is insulting someone by calling them "low intelligence" instead of short-sighted (oops! That's a visual disability) or careless or selfish or unimaginative or impatient.