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Last time this happened it was due to letters of credit abruptly being unavailable because of a worldwide bank crisis, due to a derivatives crash. Without letters of credit, nothing gets shipped. That's not what's happening today.

Low demand for commodities, also reflected in low prices, is driving the price of bulk shipping down. There's lots of slack capacity. But no problem getting a letter of credit if you are moving things.
Have a direct link to the research you could share with us?
Lincolnshire County Council hit by £1m ransomware
It's not like you're digging a hole in your backyard. It's meant to be (or should be) providing time to do something outside of management's understanding of what's important.
The sky is not falling. This is Bear hype. A group he's connected with is probably short the market. Wait for the Black Swan to trigger just like the Bear Stearns trigger of last downturn. Keep an eye on the yield curve, the most important indicator. It's not bending yet.

I see these bears come out of the woods everytime they beat the "the bull run has been too long" drums.
I do the same. For pretty much any topic there's a decent subreddit with a community of people involved in it, who did lots of research and collected relevant information in various FAQ / Wiki posts. Whenever I want to seriously learn something outside of programming, I usually search for a subreddit on it.
Please assess Polywell Fusion.

Here is a recent status update: http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/01/jaeyoung-park-confirms-publ...

It includes a link to a 2015 Physics Review paper, a published patent application, and a pitch deck.

After 20 years of funding by the US Navy, they are looking for $30 million and 3 years to resolve the remaining scientific questions. They are under US ITAR restrictions, so the work must be owned by US entities.
I think CSS is the strongest criticism of CSS.
I don't "serve" anyone.

I provide my time in exchange for compensation and I do what I think is important with a little grey area that I also join in (for example, meetings).

Ultimately though I decide what I'm working on and this usually works because I'm in touch with what's going on, I'm good at my job, and I want to keep it. However I still spend most of my time working on my own ideas of what's important and how I'm going to achieve it. This works for me and it works for the managers who are strong enough to let go of micromanagement.

If the company feels that this goes wrong, or is out of touch with what they need, or simply (as has been the case once before) agree with exactly what I'm doing but feel the need to repeatedly "take control" and put structure on what I'm doing already, then this is fine and we can part ways.

But I don't go to work to serve, follow, or otherwise be a slave to others. I would rather kill myself than live feeling like that even for 8.5 hours a day. No.
I don't buy it.

Boom & bust cycles are driven by the fundamental difficulty of quantifying value. Since there is no true value, people base their opinions on those of others (+delay), leading to "inertia," leading to oscillation. The government might exacerbate the oscillations, but the lion's share of responsibility lies with the market. Complaining that the oscillations happen because the market "just isn't free enough" represents a delusion about the qualities of free markets.

As for make-work, it's a compromise that nobody is happy with, but it is a compromise, and that's its value proposition. Some want to let the market clear without intervention by any means necessary, regardless of the social cost, based on (arguably misplaced) faith that this will ultimately make things better. Others think it's ridiculous that periodically attacking the foundation-tier Maslow needs of large swaths of the population is "a feature not a bug," and demand (arguably unsustainable) social policy to fix it. Make-work lies between the "free-market reckoning" and "re-distributional cash grant" extremes and so once the dust of democratic process has settled it's the thing that actually happens even though both sides see it as a poor alternative to their favored solution.

> The Baltic dry should be studied in conjunction with other indicators such as yield curves and indications of credit tightness.

The Baltic dry should be studied in conjunction with the reliable unreliability of the market in general. Since markets are as inherently unavoidable as physics or politics, we cannot simply wish them away. Instead, we should develop social policy to decouple the markets for well-understood core needs-providing infrastructure from the global economy in order to place bounds on the social cost of market corrections, which could then be allowed to happen (otherwise) unimpeded.
> I'd put it down to karma.

If karma were true, then the West getting Chinese tech was also deserved.
> Enable sourcemaps, click on the selector, and it literally tells you what line to edit. Then go to sublime, cmd+p -> filename:line number -> enter. in 5 seconds you went from finding a css problem and finding its exact line.

Doesn’t firefox even support in-browser viewing and editing of SASS?
China had an outsized affect on comkodity demand, at the same time capacity has been over built for many years. For oil, obviously the US resurgence has been a huge factor, and for food crops they had a couple of very very good years globally (and new land has been brought online).
> "They see corporations as evil entities that spontaneously emerged from the ground to usurp the state"

This is the problem in an HN culture where commenters don't support claims with cites. Chomsky frequently explains that corporations are creations of the state, and they share the same interests to a first approximation. You can find it in the book I referenced, or google for sources.

This comment seems to paint him as a liberal who favors the state (blaming everything on corporations), when of course he's an anarchist who sees both state & its corporate creations as illegitimate top-down power structures.
You, too, can have a generic logo that doesn't actually reflect your individual company, message, or values! Simply pair it with a font of your choosing (font and logo need not match), and you have yourself a brand.

These kinds of things devalue the actual work that goes into real branding, like crowdsourcing your logo or Marissa Mayer popping out something that she thinks "looks nice" over a weekend. It also has the effect that any graphic designer who can whip something up in Illustrator thinks they are a brand expert.
I'm a web and mobile developer. Parse it is a good solution for a quick app backend setup but I never realized build big things over there. To me the most important to me is no vendor lock-in I see as very important to have full control over what I'm developing. I started to use a great platform http://parse.back4apps.com and Im happy with the results. I recommend it as a migration option. At any moment you can have your code totally portable.
If not satire, it neatly summarizes why some people hate silicon valley so much.
Shouldn't this be covered by App Transport Security? Outbound HTTP connections should be dropped, right?
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As in the world operating system as in bugs, what are they actually if the London metal exchange was finally displaced with transparent socially just disruptive competitor if dynoptica cloud firewall nvd was sold to the 9 or 8 Ltd companies occupying the open outcry pit at 56 Lombard st London.
News article about the process:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/real-est...
Personally I think life is like Backgammon: there are no absolute certainties, just probabilities, and due to this an expectiminimax-like approach with good heuristics is more effective than trying to peer far into the future.
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> rationalwiki

Please don't!
I use Tcl for AI in Life Sciences and Hedge Funds.
Well, this I suppose this is a "Silicon Valley style solution," in that it's handwaving bullshit written by someone with absolutely no knowledge of what they're talking about.
Proof based trusted computing.

seL4 and similar applications of coq proof assistant. Existing academia is funding some development of tools like coq, and also some core applications like seL4, and more accessible applications will happen as open source. But we need to make these techniques more accessible for larger applications that will affect the real world.

Example: A webserver proved to respond only to correctly authenticated clients (covering the end to end: kernel, server, protocols, for every client).

Also fund making this research more accessible: try, compare, file usability bugs on, and then highlight the different technologies for achieving trust. For example Haskell Liquid types as a lighter weight complement to proving stuff in coq. Maybe fund research meshing these techniques with languages that provide different type-system guarantees, such as Rust.
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I use Delphi. The RAD Studio IDE is super featured and it's really easy to create interfaces. A nice feature is that the programs produced contain all dependencies so nothing else needs to be installed when distributing.
Which is all the more reason to treat technology not as an externality as it's being done now but as an integral part of GDP.
That's a terrible attitude.
If one mistrusts future developers enough, one sets up linting to enforce one's own standards:

https://github.com/CSSLint/csslint
Is it me or is this solution extremely misguided?

First both are as far as I know unproven technologies with possibly devastating side effects.

Second this essentially doesn't seem to fix correctional aspect, because people that socialize using OR aren't really taught to socialize. They are taught to socialize using OR.
Actually could put upward pressure if they start to store excess capacity in tankers and have the ships run slower.
qaq's assertion that shipping costs have zero correlation with oil prices is not accurate. It's not difficult to demonstrate that some correlation exists, and one can also do an overlay of shipping cost indexes to oil prices.

Shipping is already highly efficient in general, so it might be the opposite that fuel prices are a significant percentage of operating expenses. Low estimates I've seen state that fuel costs are around 40% of operating expenses. Source: https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch7en/conc7en/bdi.ht...

I'm not arguing they're the only cost, but there has been a lot of hysteria about the Baltic Dry Index this month. So much that Snopes and Marine Traffic responded to it: http://www.snopes.com/cargo-ships-atlantic-map/
Self-builds don't have to be primitive or science-fictiony:

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

http://www.ianwhite.info/walter_segal_buildings.html

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxrtid_gd-s12-e12_news?sta... (Grand Designs)

http://www.ianwhite.info/THE_SEGAL_METHOD.pdf (Architects Journal article with detail explanation)
I wanted to say that I still occasionally use TCL, too! :)
Right? Complete lack of empathy in this 'article'.
Good Lord, he sounds completely serious!
Most of my web programming these days is in PHP. It gets the job done, it's easy to use and deploy, and I don't need anything more for the scale and complexity of what I'm doing. It's been around for a long time and doesn't seem to have a risk of going away anytime soon.

SQL databases. All of the above applies. Stored procedures when the database supports them. I do not use an ORM.

I try to use command-line utilites whenever I need to manipulate data. sed, awk, grep, etc. I rarely need to drop into a scripting language for these tasks.
I like how the author makes a casual reference to The Matrix without calling out that his plan is a literal implementation of it.
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+1 for Meta research. The way we do research needs to be completely overhauled. An outside body could help kickstart this in a way that insiders couldn't. You could also set the bar high and challenge the industry to meet it, whereas something put together by insiders would have a lot of compromise built into it before it ever saw the light of day.

I'd like to see somebody pull out tech at the roots and start over with a new processor or SoC design. There are a ton of problems in the community that all have their roots in the way CPUs process data. There are also a ton of new technologies that become more and more powerful the closer to the metal they're implemented. Even running the whole project as a whiteboard-only, blue-sky effort could produce some conceptual ideas that others would want to follow-up on. I think if this is not done, all the separate techs continue to develop on their own, and we miss out on a huge chance of making a significant leap forward.
I've used a few and like Material Design Lite the most. There may be others that are easier to work with, but MDL feels the most true to the Material Design specs and it follows the BEM method, which makes sense to me. Their example pages are useful as well.
How we fixed stability by removing CC and stopped unit testing
While the author links approvingly to this article[1] which shows that treating prisoners like humans is pretty effective at rehabilitating them, he nevertheless proposes treating them like doped-up battery chickens.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-pri...
Absolutely. I'm an administrator but I do a lot of programming to automate parts of my work.

Some people fail to understand what a creative engagement that is. I'm not saying my code is fantastic or anything but it is an extremely emotionally driven art.

Some people only understand clocking in, working 8.5 hours, then going home. To me, I might be working 16 hours 4 days in a row to fix one function in some code I use that is driving me crazy; and if I can't then I'm just not going to be able to do my job anymore.

On the other hand once it's fixed it's one of the best tools the company has (in that it's doing something that few others in the industry are doing, even if... nobody except me is using or knows about it... because it's managing an aspect of my work and it's not important to them HOW I do it).
What about sex? The author totally forgot about sex as a basic need. You can throw all the white paste and Occular headsets you want at the incarcerated population, but without the sex this plan will never fly.
MOOCs.

I see Andrew Ng's class is being offered again for the first time in a few years (https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning), but other great classes aren't, like LAFF http://www.ulaff.net/ , Thiel's startup class etc.

Seems like a travesty that these incredible classes are created by our best minds, but then aren't continuously offered. (the materials are available for self-study, but not the graded homework, support forums, TAs, certificates of accomplishment etc.)

Coursera, the prof, the university, have no incentive to keep it going. Philanthropists should really fund continuing development of the best-of-the-best MOOCs so students can keep learning, best practices can keep improving.

There is no good central discovery and reputation for MOOCs. There needs to be a place I can go and see that e.g. LAFF is the most popular / highest rated for intro to linear algebra, and here's how much work it represents.

There are universities who start online programs, but what we really need is an online 'degree' grantor who can say, OK, you've taken these online MOOCs from various institutions, I can tell from the fact that you logged in with your finger, your device's camera, metrics like typing style, word frequency for essays, etc. that you actually did the work, these courses are worth X number of points, here's a 'degree' or a few numbers describing the quantity and quality of your work in various disciplines at various places.

And then the best of the best should be able to tap funds to be continuously offered.

It seems more like an object for a non-profit startup (should be self-sustaining but doesn't seem like the sort of thing that should be in IPO candidate or revenue-maximizing, will turn into University of Phoenix)
Meanwhile, in Woodland, North Carolina, solar farm is rejected because it would "suck up all the sun’s energy": http://thehigherlearning.com/2015/12/14/fact-check-small-tow...

Although there is solar farm, not the road..
Fascinating! Also, I couldn't help but think of that scene from The Graduate when I first read your post.
The evolution selects for death idea is a hypothesis, but I don't' think it's very strong.

Evolution works at the level of genes. Genes that cause more copies of themselves to spread will spread. Even to the detriment of the group or the species.

An organism that lives longer will have time to have more offspring, and those offspring will carry it's longer living genes. An organism that lives shorter will have fewer offspring, and so fewer organisms will carry it's genes. Very rapidly these genes would be selected for or against.

A simple alternative explanation is just that evolution doesn't care. 90% of organisms will die of other causes long before they reach old age. Evolution will end up devoting almost all of it's resources on improving survival rates there, and none on fighting aging.

>This still sucks and if we could figure out how the brain actually worked to prevent it that would be cool, but we'd start getting into identity issues (what makes you you? how does consciousness actually work?).

Identity Isn't In Specific Atoms: http://lesswrong.com/lw/pm/identity_isnt_in_specific_atoms/
If there is one thing I fear more than prison it would be forced to "eat" nothing but Soylent 24/7/365. I really mean that.
Repost from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10997074
>Death is good because it leaves room for new people with new ideas.

Congratulations: you've managed to point out one of the very, very few nice things about having your body slowly but unstoppably degrade for six decades starting in your mid-20s.
Perl and C here mostly. C89, that is. Both are widely used languages, just not in the startup space. a lot of our stuff is built on those languages so it wouldn't make sense to rewrite a lot of the stuff at this point unless there was a business case for it.
There's a huge difference between languages that are no longer fashionable, call them old-fashioned, and languages that never had wide following, if any, call them niche languages. Most of the languages you mention were never mainstream production languages, for good reasons.
while claiming to reduce solitary confinement but actually making it universal as a growth strategy for overpriced nutrient solution is pretty absurd; the question is: is it less absurd than the current strategy?
>e.g. Tesla

And how much more would we have gotten from Tesla if he hadn't been in financial ruins? He's probably proof positive that without the financial incentive/backing, the world loses out on countless inventions.
C and Tcl. You have to resort to things like COBOL to have chances to compete.
If you're serious about your brand, they seem to offer a custom solution. This is however great for having a quick placeholder to get you going. Don't think it devalues design at all. In fact, it clearly states these are designs that were unused and instead of just having them sitting idle, they are opening it up for those that need quick placeholders.
If you're going to inspire students you're going to need a lot of teachers who are experts in CS. Unfortunately, our current education system doesn't allow experts to teach so now someone who knows CS is going to have to go get an education degree as well, just to take a massive pay cut.
There's lots of job openings out there for COBOL coders. Nobody wants to learn it, and those who know it are dying off.
What’s stupid this month: Xerox patents sharing documents online
What you're describing might explain fluctuations, but it's inadequate and incomplete for the business cycle.

Virtually no one, not even Keynesian or other left-economists support make-work. It's mostly an idea favorable to laymen, or often done for more nationalistic rather than economic reasons. FDR was inspired by William Trufant Foster's and Waddill Catchings' policy advice for instance, who had Keynesian-esque underconsumptionist views but did not derive these from any economic theory per se.

Even ardent Keynesians will advocate a more sophisticated proposal of what amounts to government-owned employment agencies that combine private contract procurement with state investment projects, with the intention of having the unemployed serve as buffer stocks of labor to meet some form of output target. But not quite brute make-work.

(Actually the "quantifying value" problem makes no sense. It's not as if there is some objective essence called "value" that people seek. Value is largely denominated in units of currency. I suppose what you're getting at is the importance of monetary policy?)
Such a waste of money!
> But the job term is capped like a contract job.

I work at 18F, but am speaking for myself here. Pay rates and length of service are both tied to existing rules for federal employment. The advantage of being part of the government (and thereby following these rules) is in the possible impact of our work, like working with the FEC to build a new website with intermediate releases: https://beta.fec.gov/
As much as I love what Aaron Schwartz stood for and did (hell, the more I read about him the more amazing he seems), he does seem to be a victim of his own hubris. For example, he concludes it would be easy to take over Australia. Possibly, but unlikely - given he was almost running a guerilla campaign against things like SOPA, surely he would see things aren't that easy? Or that the smaller party often punches above their weight, given he was indeed the smaller party?

Strangely, none of this detracts from this extraordinary individual. Oh, but I wish he hadn't committed suicide! It's not like I don't understand it, I am a person at risk of this myself. I just wish he didn't leave his devastated loved ones behind like that.
check materialize.css .

http://materializecss.com/
First of all, it looks great, so well done for that! It's fantastic to actually make it to the release stage.

That said, I'm a big fan of adopting the best design paradigm for the platform. If I was building an Android app, material design would be the go to. Why? Well, Android users have already used it. The cognitive burden to how things feel and work has been removed, letting your users feel familiar with the app from the get go.

Similarly, with iOS, closely following their human interface guidelines will produce the best results for allowing iOS users to immediately feel at home in your app. This sentiment is mimicked in the WWDC2014 video Designing Intuitive User Experiences.

For this reason, I'd personally tend to shy away from trying to port design principles to other platforms. It sure looks nice, but is it worth it?
Nope, but his twitter handle is : Take a look at Omar Wagih (@omarwagih): https://twitter.com/omarwagih?s=09
There's no reason to care about "potential trillions of descendants" who don't exist, nor is there any reason to maximize the amount of humans in the universe, etc.

The "existential risk" talk tends to assume, to start with, that some wonderful, incredibly happy and nice "intergalactic civilization" of future transhumans or posthumans will exist, unless existential risks "destroy" it "in embryo" in our near-term future. Given the incredible prior improbability of intergalactic utopias, there's basically no reason to take the thought-experiment at its word or to value a particularly improbable imagined far-future over the actually-existing present and very likely near-futures.