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> I know I'm just a lowly programmer and engineer who shouldn't opine about economics very much, but I observe simply this: The "stimulus" didn't work.

That's not an observation, that's a conclusion that requires a prior conclusion on a hypothetical that requires substantial economic analysis to have any credibility on: to wit, what the economy would have done without the stimulus.

My read is that the monetary stimulus by the Fed did exactly the prevention of imminent disaster that it was supposed to do. It didn't do the kind of improvements that take fiscal policy to do -- because it wasn't fiscal policy -- which isn't a difference of degree of magnitude, but kind.

> I find arguments about how it wasn't big enough to be null, because it isn't clear that we could have afforded much more

The only arguments I've seen about insufficient quantity of stimulus have been about the government (not Fed) fiscal stimulus of 2009 (ARRA and related bills). Given the low price of government borrowing, its quite obvious that we could have spent a lot more in (and since) 2009 on fiscal stimulus; the reason we didn't is political, not available-resources driven.

But that's a whole different thing than the Feds monetary stimulus.

> It's been 8 years now we've been on this policy.

What policy, exactly? Most of the Feds particularly intense monetary stimulus finished several years ago and has been in winding-down/settlement for the last few years, ditto with fiscal stimulus under ARRA. And 8 years ago (early 2008) was before the crisis and stimulus responses; if you are talking about the stimulus -- both monetary and fiscal -- adopted in response to the 2008/9 crisis, it started less than 8 years ago, and the intense policy ended several years ago, so in no sense have we been on a common stimulus policy for eight years.

> Nobody 8 years ago would have predicted what happened.

Both Austrians and Keynesians (among others) predicted that the actual stimulus that was engaged in by the Fed and government would fail to achieve what people wanted from stimulus (for, naturally, radically different reasons). To say that no one predicted the failure of the stimulus that was adopted is, simply, incorrect.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021114
Copyright controls only the right to make copies. The owner of the physical tape should be able to sell it to anyone he wants, since he's not making a copy.
For what it's worth, GitHub Flavored Markdown changes this to be more TeXy: any newline in text renders as a <br>, and you add an extra blank line to denote a paragraph break.
He should just sell the tapes as "used recording media."
As much as I'm a fan of education, I'd think we'd want to do more infrastructure funding. Spending money that we are GOING TO HAVE TO SPEND makes sense when it is "cheap" money, no?

But, as another commenter said, that'd require Congressional action, which doesn't seem to be happening anytime soon.
Which shows the same amount of concern that animals give each other when they kill/eat/toy with them.

Maybe humans should do better because we can, but if I am going to go about stopping other humans from committing horrible treatment, why should I then 'make peace' with how other animals behave? But to make this problem worse, look at how some animals mate. If you were to only allow peaceful instances, the species would be extinct in three generations. But maybe that is the good thing to do, because the duty is to the individual and not the species. Perhaps the humane thing to do with the spider is to not kill it, but to stop reproduction so there are no more spiders killing butterflies.

Morality sure is weird.
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> (obscured by the upper receiver of the assault weapon)

You mean the stock of the semi-automatic rifle which happens to be scary and black?
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Second +WinSCP.

The moment FileZilla prostituted itself - it's wiped out of my list of any useful tools immediately and forever.
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Wow, thanks! I'm glad my posts are appreciated.
unless the connector were cut, or some other catastrophic failure. I tend to think ruining a devices USB controller should be near impossible short of something like the USB killer (http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/usb-killer-flash-dri...)
And Norway is one of the few countries that has a king instead of a president, taking an active role in government.

A skillful king is better than a democracy: but the downside of a monarchy is much much worse than a democracy, which is why we prefer democracy.
They do (lack moral agency), but you and I don't (at least we think we don't, but that is a different issue to save for elsewhere). So, while the spider may not be morally wrong for torturing its prey, I am morally wrong for allowing the spider to torture its prey when I am in a position to stop the spider.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11020324

and the "European Commission may be issuing a round-trip to Luxembourg": http://europe-v-facebook.org/PS_update.pdf by @maxschrems
Previous discussion/more comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11019232 (techcrunch article)
Yes, and that is indeed the journal of immunology, which is speaking of mice in a primarily immunological context. One might easily guess that mice are less useful model organisms in neurology.
I don't wear it anymore. It's useless. Thank god I don't have to charge it every night anymore. Such a pain in the ass.
I used the insurance twice. I had to wait three hours both times, in Denver. Both times I had to call back to remind them I was waiting. On one call, the original company just never sent anyone, and the "service" had to start over again.

The operator actually chastised me for calling back too son.

My impression was it was a call center somewhere in the country, and they did the equivalent of looking up a tow for you in the yellow pages/internet.

AAA has always been within the window they said, always professional, always effective. I've had them out for tows, jump starts, locked out, even had a battery replaced once by the guy who came out.

The subscription is per person, so if you're riding with someone else and they don't have AAA, no problem.
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Not really, it still needs to be ratified by the member states of the EU (and even after that citizens in some of the states can start a referendum about it) and after that it can still be shot down by the European Court. The pact is so vague about the protection of European citizens that there's a good chance that the European Court of Justice won't accept it, as they haven't fixed all of the problems that were in the previous "safe haven" pact.
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Neither ReSharper nor Visual Studio communicate anything about their environment. That's call setting expectations. There is no expectation of what environment it's to be used with (although ReSharper sounds like c# a lot to me).

The issue with 'The Programmer's Notebook' is that the expectation is set at something like 'This is a notebook that will be generally useful for many types of programmers'. It's like the Physician's Desktop Reference. The name implies that it will be of general usefulness to anyone in that particular field.

So when I see the title 'The Programmer's Notebook', the expectation is that it will be something useful for all types of programming (embedded, linux, bsd, web, native desktop, rtos, etc).

Then the expectation is crushed because it's only usable if you have an apple device. That means a large swath of 'programmers' (whom this notebook is apparently supposed to be for) are not going to have access to it. Thus the whole thesis of the title is invalid. It's not the programmer's notebook, because many/most programmers are not going to be able to use it.
Max Schrems Notes on “EU US Privacy Shield” (Safe Harbor 1.1) [pdf]
Wonderful write-up. Posts like these give just the right amount of detail and high-level insight.

I especially appreciated the linear flow of the approaches section. The successes and roadblocks presented provide useful context into why certain decisions were made, which is too often missing from many academic papers.
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Nice people don't reply negatively.

Besides, your messaging clearly sucks.

Here's a thought provoking Godin blog-post on prospects.

Your prospects are hiding > http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/01/hiding.html
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That supposes the academic venue would hand over a copy willingly I guess. That's where the Fair Use aspect comes in, in that the venue's possession of the physical copy / tapes doesn't constitute actual theft of property. The ex-NFL lawyer makes it sound like a slam-dunk on the 'NFL owns the property on the tapes' subject, but I'm not sure the NFL could compel the venue to hand over the property itself when no crime has been committed (and won't be due to the Fair Use exemption).

I'm a big fan of copyright reform in several different aspects, which is why these are interesting cases. Rarely do they go to court though. So basically we all get to, ahem, 'armchair quarterback' the facts, laws, and interpretations in front of us!
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There should be a crowbar diode between the rails. If the design is too cheap for an input fuse, the source will limit/disable the short current.
Indeed, if this software beat me soundly (and it would since I don't play Go), could I still claim that the AI hasn't mastered the game, because a handful of humans are better than it?
> video editing capability that's only possible with custom chips, re-architected motherboards, etc.

> first in the industry to do something noticeably different.

Apple had better hope that not just competitors in the mobile space, but also in the cloud technologies, playback, and other such spaces, follow suit.

As somebody who worked extensively with AVFoundation-based video editing apps for iOS, I can say with certainty that such ambitions have a long way to go until they're enterprise or even startup-ready. The engineering challenges associated with taking the malformed bullshit Apple calls a "QuickTime media file" into something actually usable at scale is insurmountable for even a very media-knowledgeable dev team.
I believe they could, but then anyone view it by going to the same academic source. Only the NFL could profit from it, but by then the game would be freely available.

I'm also curious about the reproduction of "the work". If I write a symphony, that arrangement of melodies and instruments is mine. If you "performed" my work and recorded a copy of it, that copy is yours. I would probably take issue with you profiting from this copy without my consent, seeing as I own the IP rights, but what rights does writing the symphony give me over a performance of the work. If a school orchestra decides to perform my symphony and a proud parent records it, how much right do I have to the contents?

The analogy is rough at best. I use it to point out that there was effort in the production and maintenance of the copy, so the NFL may still not have the right to broadcast that "private production" without Haupt's consent, even if it were made public in an academic venue.

This is similar to how a fan's cell phone recording of a play belongs to the fan, even though he can't go about selling copies. If the NFL got ahold of the cell phone video, they also wouldn't have the right to broadcast it just because it's a recording of their IP.

Copyright law gets complicated and I'm certainly no expert. If someone can correct or clarify any of the above, be my guest.
I wonder how far we could get with an rPi setup..
On a technical note regarding archiving: the tape is Quadraplex[1]. Quad was the first video tape format and was replaced by much cheaper/smaller/quieter/better helical-scan tape. Very few Quad machines still function, and as far as I know there is exactly one guy[2] who refurbishes them. (I worked under him for a summer job in college 25 years ago when Quad was already long obsolete). Not sure if anyone will take up that business once he retires.

Makes an interesting real-life example of the problem with archiving anything for a long period of time.

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

[2] http://www.zinvtrworks.com
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I can't find any information as to how you would contract this.
>If everybody looked at atrocities and tries to "make their peace" with them, you can imagine how the world will turn out.

Which brings us back to the issue of the spider and the butterfly. Do you just make your peace that the butterfly will be tortured to death, or do you intervene, thus indirectly causing the spider to die a torturous death of starvation?
So apparently very few people actually ever follow up on their talk of leaving the country when someone they don't like gets elected.

And the people who do tend to leave after those who don't complain so much about it on Twitter and the likes?

Kind of reminds me internet communities, and the people threatening to 'leave forever' after a major flame war/disagreement. Just as they're usually back within a week, so are the people threatening to 'quit' the country.
I thought convention in SI units was to drop down a level when at less than 1 of a unit..?
Because until a group does or plans/encourages something like the Oregon takeover or the Nevada standoff they aren't really much more than a particularly pessimistic neighborhood watch with a penchant for guns and a bit of dress up.
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If beating somebody better than 99.99995% of the people isn't mastering something, what is?
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the team from Waffle.io made a similar choice with Docker for on-prem http://blog.waffle.io/how-to-build-for-github-enterprise/
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Copyright law (and not just US copyright law, but international law) is pretty consistent that people have the right to make copies for archival purposes, for personal use -- but that they have no right to share those copies with anyone else.

When you buy a book, you are actually buying a copy. When you videotape a TV show, you're not buying anything, you are MAKING a copy. That is the critical difference here. It would be more like if you borrowed a book from the library and made a photocopy, and then tried to sell that copy to someone else.

I'm not making a moral judgment here, just explaining my understanding of the law.
When I was reading this, and I have no horse in this race, I was asking myself "What are they afraid of?"

The only possible scenario I can think of is that they actually do have footage and are keeping it to themselves and essentially waiting until this third party footage corrodes and fails entirely due to time.
The problem is see is that Google has been back and forth about their tablet commitment.

Back when Android 3.0 shipped, they introduced a single bar UI that could be compared to the Windows UI that has existed since Windows 95.

But then as later version of 3.x, and then 4.x was released, Google was introducing new restrictions and slowly rolling back the 3.0 UI.

For example with 3.0 you had one storage permission, "external". But come 3.1, they introdced another, "media". And only system apps could gain write permission to "media", unless the OEMs went in and changed up key files.

Thing about "media" was that it got applied to all removable storage. Be it SD slots or USB drives.

Then as 4.3 shipped, anything smaller than 8" got a "hybrid" UI that looked like a phone, but acted like a tablet in various ways. And with 4.4 the tablet UI that was introduced with 3.0 was fully replaced with the phone UI.

Odd thing is that with 6.0(.1) they seem to be moving somewhat back towards the 3.0 tablet UI. rather than having the 3 bottom bar buttons always centered, they split up and move to the bottom corners on larger tablets.
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Would symbolic arithmetic help with that? Of is that just too slow a priori?
That's his personal opinion. I have no idea why people are getting so upset about it.
There are other experts quoted in the article, who believe that the NFL has a strong case here. You shouldn't necessarily believe what the NFL says, but if they were blowing smoke, I'm pretty sure that the Times would have found someone to call that out.
> Why doesn't the Fed just send money to consumers?

Because the Fed isn't the government, just a quasi-independent agency within the government with limited scope of operations, and "just send money to consumers" isn't within that scope.

If you think the government ought to do this, then that should probably inform your votes for Congress and the President, this being an election year and those being the actors that would need to be involved in that.
Is that a trend? Less work for freelancers?
FWIW, It's not just the AtlasObscura writer. NASA calls it analog on the page referenced: "Workers remove the analog countdown clock from its mount..."
I'll get hammered for this statement but.

Traditional AI suffers from a love of solving parlor tricks. Solving tick tack toe, checkers, chess, poker, Jeopardy(tm), are parlor tricks. It seems important because frankly humans just suck at parlor trick type problems and other forms of intelligence like say a cat brain don't even get parlor tricks. SO then we found that computers were really good at parlor tricks and it seemed like we were really onto something here. But nope.

On the other hand playing Go is not really a parlor trick, it's actually hard simple symbolic logic totally fails to grasp the problem at the first level.
Why would 10^24 be a million billion billion? It's 4 blocks of 6 zeros each, so that I'd expect you to call it a billion billion billion billion, if anything.
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I didnt say its impossible.

I said its completely unreasonable.

Do you honestly think thats reasonable? For someone to be altruistic they /should/ have to make all those decisions and sacrifices?

If you do, i'd love to hear why you think it should be impossible for a secretary, or a janitor, or an accountant to be altruistic and to work towards altruistic goals. Or for that matter someone living in New york or san francisco. Should those cities be devoid of altruism because they are more expensive?

I don't think you've earnestly considered the implications of your suggestion and that was the point of my responding at all. "helping animals is easy! just quit your job and move across the country" echos exactly the ops sentiments that it takess a herculean effort to effect any change in todays economy. You disputed that by laying out a specific herculean effort and tried to brush it off as a simple life decision.
I am mentally ill and have to stay away from some forums. They are not moderated and when someone finds out I am mentally ill they call me names and troll me. I would try to report the abuse and nothing is done. I would try and troll back. It is very unhealthy and these sort of environments just socially conduction people into becoming trolls.

Hacker News is different were the users mod posts and comments and flag them for administrators that do a good job at moderating. I don't have the same problems here that I have on other sites.

If someone is being a troll a dick or a jerk, moderate their comments and posts, and let them know why you are moderating them. Ban then if you have to.
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> a real operating system

Must say that the notion that some OS is more "real" than another is odd. I could kinda understand it back in the featurephone days. But these days the distinction seem arbitrary at best.
Rates will never be negative when banks lend FROM the fed.

Interest rates could become negative when the banks lend TO the fed (IE parking the money overnight).
> If AlphaGo eventually beats humans at go I think it says more about the game (or the way humans play the game) than about AI in general.

AI problems are always mysterious until they're solved. People say this sort of thing every time an AI achieves some task which had previously been deemed impossible.
I constantly have Vdd shorts due to ground loops when measuring stuff. But a more frequent case is worn out cables (every lightning cable I've owned has eventually broke).

Its not rare enough of a failure mode to ignore.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=michaelochurch

And specifically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10019003
That's true, for the definition of "the environment" being: "the environment that humans and all of humanity's dependencies exist in currently."

That environment may or may not change dramatically(1), and humans and animals and plants as they exist now may not exist in the future, but I would guess that life in some form will survive, and if you define the environment to be "earth and its atmosphere," it will survive as well. It just may not have humans or animals or plants in it. Who knows.

(1) I'm not a climate scientist, but it seems like dramatic changes in our environment may well be guaranteed already. That said, I don't know for sure, so I'm being careful with my language.
Incorrect. He already made a "copy" (maybe we should call it something else: a recording?) by videotaping the original broadcast. He did not buy a pre-recorded copy of the tape.
Perhaps, but this patent (https://www.google.com/patents/US8407580) and a history of litigation (e.g. (http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/) may be enough of a barrier to prevent its adoption.
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Many drugs undergo first-pass metabolism by the liver and their metabolites are much less active or much more non-specific. I don't know if that is the case for ketamine, but I suspect that it must be.
For everyone looking for exercises in other languages, there is actually a project to curate exercises for programming languages called exercism.io

Maybe the OP could contribute their exercises there, since their Rust exercises were not very good when I tried them.
Yes, a recall of the "test equipment".