skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number is not that bad. Comparing to US Bank Nonperforming loans ratio,

Quarter	Total Loans	Nonperforming	Perc
2013 Q1	7,658,238,093,000	261,202,393,000	3.41
2013 Q2	7,732,341,313,000	239,430,499,000	3.10
2013 Q3	7,802,034,024,000	221,209,596,000	2.84
2013 Q4	7,893,109,125,000	207,256,779,000	2.63
2014 Q1	7,930,820,793,000	195,236,127,000	2.46
2014 Q2	8,109,181,723,000	181,567,784,000	2.24
2014 Q3	8,160,095,554,000	171,922,840,000	2.11
2014 Q4	8,309,545,800,000	162,654,076,000	1.96
2015 Q1	8,362,016,000,000	152,966,093,000	1.83
2015 Q2	8,546,950,627,000	144,686,145,000	1.69
2015 Q3	8,642,299,288,000	139,164,401,000	1.61
2015 Q4	8,839,565,653,000	137,835,965,000	1.56

Source:
http://www.bankregdata.com/allAQmet.asp?met=NPL
Michael Pettis is one my favourite China commentators, with a big focus on the shifts necessary in the balance sheet and composition of growth, and whether that can be done smoothly or necessarily through some catastrophe. Not to mention a broader view of the political economy of the change.

Here's a recent post he did that's worth a read (at least through the nine point summary): http://blog.mpettis.com/2016/01/will-chinas-new-supply-side-...
Do you not use git, because it hasn't been a decade?
Will you only start using it after April 7th?

I've heard someone in real life say "git just isn't there yet", so I couldn't resist humoring myself with this comment, sorry.
Main question: how is this better than Hugo (really simple one-binary application), and how is this better than jekyll?

Just saying that it is not "just for blogs" doesn't really explain how it is better for a use-case. Maybe pinpoint the issue?
Curasa has one for $200 that I've used for a year so far
I have a rule that a machine has to be with me for atleast 5 years. But around the 3 years, a ram upgrade and hd change is vital to extent the life. My HP Compaq lasted for 8 years before its fell in water. My thinkpad is done 6 yrs and I am current using that. I doubt I get equal life from my soon to be 1 yr mbp without some tweaking and the low score on iFixit is dishearting. iFixit is a great site and I feel it need more attention. I dream is to get a machine with iFixit score of 10.
Indeed, I've seen Cogent go for $800 - $1000 for a 1GE over 10GE commit.
AAPL cash reserves as of Jan 2016: 217B.

Looks like the judge's district is about to make a metric shit ton of money!
But you got paid and so did the seller. The seller did "wrong", not me; why should I give it back and not be compensated? You can buy it back from me for the full retail price that I paid plus taxes.
Have a look at https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

It lets me run ChromeOS most of the time, and then fire up an Ubuntu session when needed.
Fair points. I'm personally not a Dell fan, though I used one for a year that was purchased by my employer, and yes, it didn't completely suck. Just wasn't my first choice.

It did fail as a laptop, though. Something about how it tended to bend on a laptop would cause the physical trackpad "button" to get stuck when it was sitting on a lap in some positions until you picked up the laptop by the sides. :| It was also a lot heavier than my Toshiba.

But as a portable computer, it actually did a fine job.
> We already covered this in the link above: the 5th Amendment covers passcodes, not fingerprints.

No, it is you who is not understanding schrodinger's assertion. The secret knowledge of which finger unlocks it is in itself a passcode and subject to 5th Amendment protection.
We did exactly that- create stored procedures- to get around certain transactional issues we were facing. We didn't have any problems being able to create them as we manage the schema outside of the application. In general this has been a fine trade off for us and hasn't caused any pain. I remember way back in the day when using stored procedures is what you were SUPPOSED to be doing...
The encryption key is deleted. All data can remain on the flash for years, but it's useless.
Great stuff. Does anybody have any stats for drives' Bit Error Rates (BER) / maximum unrecoverable read errors (URE) / non-recoverable read error rates ? By my understanding, manufacturer quoted BERs for commodity drives, often 10^14, tend to be 10^15 or higher in practice.
I feel the same way. Every few months I will have a moment where I think, "I really shouldn't be using this small screen 14 hours a day, lets hook up my 22 inch monitor" and I use it for all of 8 minutes before I switch back. The text rendering is absolutely beautiful.
> If we want an interpreted language with somewhat intuitive notation, then it has to have crappy slow loops.

Unless you're Julia, JavaScript or Lua with a fiendishly clever virtual machine. Look at the benchmark figure here: http://julialang.org/
How this founder survived on half a dollar a day to getting his startup acquired
Juju – service orchestration tool from Canonical
How to Build Trust and Security in the Cloud Computing?
Even ignoring Godel - take the stuff that's been legal in the past & not anymore.

Slavery? Restricted Suffrage? Genocide? Witch trials? Heroin?

Or stuff that's been illegal before

Inter-racial marriage? Hemp? Gay marriage?

Due process isn't enough for a legal system to work - the law has to change & revocable Axioms aren't exactly a thing.

In fact, my sister goes on and on about Jurisprudence in such discussions - letter of the law and the spirit of it.
US treasuries are at historically low rates -- if China dumped 'em all it probably wouldn't move the needle that much. And the reason they hold so many is not as some control play against the US -- its because it was the best way to devalue their currency enough to support exports.
I agree with your assessment for most of your post.

I was mostly responding to:

>Why would somebody who occasionally fly for business necessarily have the cash to burn on redundancies?

It wasn't clear to me that `somebody` was exclusivly referring to you.
Hoare shames us with that quote. Really, what else is there to say.
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Social media is broken, palpiction tries to fix it
The IBM T60 is great, and its running price is around $50-65. I've been using a similar model for about a year, and with a lightweight Linux distro, my development efficiency is not decreased due to the performance.
I guess, the GP intends to say some "celebrity" figure gets raped/murdered when he/she mentioned "high profile incident". The incidents of the women who have been raped or assaulted by Uber drivers, were not "high profile incidents", that will demand large front page news or equivalent news on TV on prime time for days or weeks altogether on Times like influential, popular news media.
I also have UX305 and I easily get at least 6 hours under moderate loads. Eight or nine with light web-browsing (avoiding javascript pages that spike cpu usage), ten or more with lighter use (text editor).

I installed Ubuntu 14.x and i3 window manager. I have dual boot with original Windows install and power use is comparable between Windows and Linux. It's a pleasure to use. Only power management tweak I made in Ubuntu was to install the TLP power management tool and (I think) make simple change from its defaults: http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html
Similar experience with WD. I bought a western digital USB drive. It failed, I RMA'd it for a new one. It failed. A year later I bought a bigger one, and it failed after another year.

I cracked open the enclosures and the drives are just fine. I still use them for backups with no errors.
I think High Schools focus to much on theory and not enough on practical application to make it interesting.

They do the same for most math. Always learned math better when it was being applied to actual things I cared about personally.
Oh yeah, sorry. Distinguishing between premeditation or not in order to charge and sentence properly. Without premeditation there may be no crime at all. I did not spell that out well and only touched directly on it in the first post. The point is that it's evidence and not really different than if I wrote it in my dead tree diary. I'm hobbled a bit here because I'm trying to make the very unsexy point that most electronic things are not unique because they're electronic (kinda like how "doing it on a computer" shouldn't be sufficiently novel to justify patent protection). The extent to which "devices becomes more and more an extension of the brain" is at the moment not far enough to justify unique treatment to your iOS notes.
You could rewrite the bootloader and recovery firmware to really do anything. Resize some partitions and dual boot into a shell with some drivers for keyboard and wireless.

Basically jailbreak..
C compiler performance in the 80's for home micros was so bad, that functions were basically naked entry points to full inline Assembly.

And here we are now discussing how good modern C compilers are.

If there isn't the willingness to spend the money to optimize performance, of course it won't improve.
Be Lazy
If you use StartSSL, and then down the line they go well and truly rogue, browser vendors will have to consider ceasing to trust StartSSL in future releases. If your site is popular, it will be one more reason for them not to do that, which would leave their users less safe. If they do decide to untrust StartSSL, this will break your site.
Official Anonymous Site :)
China is miles ahead of South East Asia and much of India. Chinese tourists go to places like Vietnam and are seen as wealthy and sophisticated by the locals. From the Western perspective it may seem like China, SEA and India are on a level playing field but that is far from the truth.
Do you have any idea about how many times you read/write individual bits before you encounter errors (are manufacturer quoted BERs accurate)?
That's probably the case for you and I, but I'm sure with sufficient knowledge of how DFU works (for example by employing the engineers who designed it) you can persuade it to only rewrite particular blocks, leaving the data intact.
The website is not allowing any searches. Anyone know when it will 100 functional?
Is it really only one day a year for you? I was given the latest MBP for my new job, which was the first time I'd used a Mac.

The external keyboard uses a non standard USB port. That's broken.

It's not easy to maximise a window fully. Apparently I'm not supposed to do this, but I don't like being told how I'm supposed to use a computer.

Focus follows mouse can't be done.

There are very few ways the window manager can be customised.

Homebrew lacks many packages. Coming from Debian / Ubuntu, the package repository was always the first place to look when I needed some software.

The window manager plus homebrew pushed me to using Kubuntu after a month. It doesn't yet support using a high dpi display at the same time as a normal, external display, but that's all.
Interesting way to "blindfold" people and make us feel what they feel.
Sure, but the marginal utility of a given flight is far higher than the marginal utility of a second computer. Moreover, I may be paying for my computer but my company may be paying for my flights.
"The findings are yet to be published and reviewed."

Are people really ok with this practice of researchers talking about their discoveries without having shared the methods and data (I don't care so much about the review aspect)? I'm certainly not, but apparently many think this is acceptable for some reason because I don't see any pushback.
So he says there are some good computers out there (like the Lenovo Carbon X1), but due to his bad luck and timing on his part it's a bad choice for another month.

If you just wipe Windows clean on those Lenovos and use them for Linux (Fedora runs great on them!) you wont have to worry about those Superfish issues and everything else plaguing the world of windows-users.

I can see why you would decide not to want to reward Lenovo with your money after those incidents, but it's still some of the best you are going to get.
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But why is it religion to look at all the problems caused by C code and say, let's try something that doesn't have these problems? Why isn't it religion to look at that history and say no, it's okay, let's keep using C?
China also holds more US debt than any other country

... except the US and domestic sources, which hold 2/3rds of all our debt. In other words, domestic sources hold over 9x the debt that China does.
Thanks for sharing, I do like the philosophy that avoiding esoretic syntax and unnecessary configuration, that would prevent anyone from writing clean and solid code.
> it suggested to remove the circumflex from above the letters ‘i’ and ‘u’ where the accent does not change the pronunciation nor the meaning of the word, as in ‘paraître’ (to appear) or ‘coût’ (cost).

Looks like it's a functional change. I'm a spanish speaker, and would hate to see all the accents go, because they indicate how a word must be pronounced. But we too, have cases which don't indicate anything, and I'd like to see these equally gone.
You wouldn't find it intuitive if your first language was Scheme.
How it looks depends a lot on your bias. The fact remains that China can soak up $1T of US liquidity.
I agree. Fantastic is not what I'd use to describe npm. Mostly it usually works a majority of the time... It's tough to get reproducible deploys even when we have our versions pinned.

Recently I ran into issues with npm global, Jenkins, and Windows Server and I was ready to burn the building down. I give npm a share of the blame, but not all, but the major issue was where npm global installs tried to install when run in Jenkins as a service.
Does this link work for anyone else?
Microsoft Surface Book.

Easily the best device i have used in a very long time. Expensive (especially the i7 dGPU option) but i am amazed at how good this machine is.

Huge battery life, powerful when it needs to be. Connect to a dock and you have a powerful desktop.

Currently use it when im working in the office doing design work (plugged into a couple of Dell U2715H) then when i am out on mine sites use it as a portable machine in the field.

The tablet mode and pen is just a cherry on top. Writing notes in the field, marking up drawings etc. ridiculously easy.

i love it.
I've had retina for the last couple of years and while it's a nice bit of fluff I'd take software & service reliability over it any day
It really depends what "Wall Street" means to you. With big banks (my area), you're looking at market rate salary (~100-150k, junior-senior). Retirement+bonus can push it up 25-30%, but that's not salary, of course. My company uses enterprise technology (IBM stuff, Natural, COBOL/Java, Oracle). I have mostly normal hours, open office plans, etc. Python has some traction going. Nothing new and exciting, tons of legacy code. I vary between back-end services and web dev. It is your average boring, corporate gig.

The other part of wall street, the hedge funds, can pay way higher (data analysis/quant stuff). Those spots are quite rare, plus pay is more tightly tied to company performance. Who you know is more important than what you know, if that's what you're aiming for.
In general, blood cancers are more accessible than solid tumors. With blood cancers, the majority of the cancer cells are in the blood or in very well perfused tissues (bone marrow, spleen, thymus, etc), meaning that drugs/treatments can get to the targets very easily.

With solid tumors, you have to deal with the complexities of the tumor microenvironment. The tumor microenvironment is the complex environment of the cancer tumor tissue. Of particular note, decreased lymphatic drainage, increased connective tissue, and aberrant angiogenesis (growth of new blood vessels) create very high interstitial fluid pressures within the tumor, limiting the ability of drugs or cells to penetrate within the tumor and "work their magic" by reaching the cells/target molecules of interest, etc.

Blood cancers are a good proof-of-principle for many cancer therapies; translation to solid tumors is difficult (see challenges with CAR-T cell immunotherapy).

As for gene manipulation in blood--yes, it is relatively easy to manipulate genes in blood. Hematopoetic Stem Cells (which differentiate into all different kinds of blood cells) can be withdrawn without too much difficulty, manipulated in the lab, and then reinjected into the patient.
Something tells me American Congress is not paying attention THAT much.... XD
Since the prevalent opinion on HN appears to be against contracts of adhesion, a request for sources is an expected request when presenting the minority opinion.

Rejecting the offered source with a "tl;dr" complaint is an invalid distraction from that request.

Not to mention, many topics have not been the subject of peer-reviewed research; if you require peer-reviewed research as a necessary condition on you being persuaded about anything, then you are severely limiting the scope of potential debate.
There's a conjecture, in economics, that out of a fixed exchange rates, free capital flows and a sovereign monetary policy, a country can only pick two. This is known as the Impossible Trinity [1].

The United States plays strategy b, relinquishing a fixed exchange rate. Greece plays a, trading away its monetary-policy sovereignty within the eurozone.

China is trying to move from c (ex free capital flows) to b (ex fixed exchange rates). In the process, it's caught in the Impossible Trinity. Either coördinated decisiveness or some combination of a currency and/or capital-outflow will force them into a stable configuration.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
What is the alternative approach?
I don't really know whether the media is biased against China, it's certainly plausible, but in any case you said literally nothing about the actual situation the story is describing.
The Pendulums of Venture Capital
My personal solution is a desktop and a 7-inch tablet. Sure the tablet loses some of the power as compared to a laptop, but huge portability gain. And it fits my use case. I don't write code while on the move. I do that at my desk. For all other use cases like consumption of data or even blogging, the tablet works.
If you keep saying China has economic crisis, finally you are gonna be right some day.
| In the scheme of things skipping a video won't kill a company.

Skipping the video is not in itself what could potentially kill the company. However if clients are able to claim that their insurance was mis-sold by Zenefits, it seems to me that could. Mis-selling of payment protection insurance in the UK has already resulted in settlements north of 5 billion GBP, and the issue is not fully resolved yet.
After Z80 and Sinclair Basic, my next languages were GW-Basic, Turbo Basic and Turbo Pascal, followed by many others.

The Borland languages like many other that allowed for system programming in those days, allowed for disabling bounds checking, as Borland customers weren't like Hoare ones.

I never felt the need to disable them.

Yes they did had a few ms to the program execution, but nothing that would impact the user experience of the application.

This is one of the biggest problem in our industry, specially among C and its derived languages (C++, Objective-C), to micro-optimize each code line without any sort of measurement how it impacts the final application.

Of course there are cases where it really matters, like HPC, games and such, but those are a tiny portion of the software that gets written every day.
They have specifically stated that they do not have any plans to support parsing JSON.
A statute of limitations prevents you from charging someone with a crime once some period of time elapses. It says nothing about how long you have to prove your case in court. That's more likely to run afoul of the right to a speedy trial.
Isn't that why many companies are using Stripe and similar payment processors now?

https://support.stripe.com/questions/do-i-need-to-be-pci-com...
Statue of limitations is only until the court date. Once that starts there is no statue of limitations, even if the case takes years.

The closest I can think of is a right to a speedy trial, but that has so many exceptions (for example if the person is out on bail) that I couldn't say how a judge would rule in this scenario. Especially if it was the defendant causing the delay by refusing to reveal the password and making the prosecutor get it the hard way. (Not applicable in this case, might be applicable in another.)
If they could do that, they could also read the memory for the encryption key stored in the enclave. No such attack exists that we know of.
Macbook Pro is best windows pc - runs perfectly via bootcamp.
So much better than slower flackier virtual options - i tried all of them - fast reboot so easy to switch.
I need windows for 64 bit Excel 2016 much fatser than mac 32 bit only.
2 diplay ports also great- drives 2 32 inch high res monitors perfectly.
Those are strange metrics of success you chose: number of cars produced annually, amount of public debt held.

I'd have gone with GDP, military strength, set of advantageous alliances, or some other measure of economic, military, or political power.
A Working Mom's Paradox
Mouse's NB900 model is just a rebranded Clevo P750DM. The other models look pretty Clevo-ey too.
But it has a matte screen, which sounds glorious!

I am still using a seemingly ancient macbook pro 15" 2009 model, simply because it has a matte screen, yet still runs the latest OSX. The super glossy screens make my eyes hurt after a while. I have been hoping that some day the glossiness gets down to a level that I can tolerate enough to get a newer macbook. However, if my laptop ends up giving up the ghost along the way though... I may look at using something like the matte screen zenbook discussed by the parent, and running FreeBSD or OpenBSD on it.
The clever “solar dice” design kit mentioned in the article (see https://goo.gl/YRPsFf). Anybody care to share application ideas?
Yes, they 'can' soak up $1T of liquidity the way I 'can' lock myself into my house and set it on fire. Common sense suggests they will never actually do so.
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I should apologise, it's not directed at you specifically. I've just been hearing this complaint for several years now and it's really getting on my tits these days. I generally mean everything in that comment, I just could have phrased it a bit less like we're face to face in a pub.

My apologies for that.

And yes, I have a double whammy - I'm Australian, and I'm a sysadmin, so I really like to complain :)
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No surprise here
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My anecdotal evidence points the other way. My own Ho dv6 gave me a good 4 years of running.

- Yes, the crapware is unavoidable. but who doesn't ship with that?

- For me the system restore worked like magic. I tried it a bunch of times on my own machine and those of some friends. The machine was virgin again with just a click of a button.

- It's also very easy to get into. Very helpfully labeled; tons of guides available online. It's like its designed to be opened and hacked around. When it finally died, I scavenged it for parts and ported to my new desktop machine
Amazing stuff!!!! I never knew Clojure could Scale so well. I will definitely consider switching to HttpKit now!
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I've been very happy with my Dell Precision M3800 which has outstanding build quality, easily comparable to my previous MacBook, and runs Ubuntu perfectly. In fact I like it better hardware-wise than the macbooks because it has a much more pleasant keyboard-surround surface, which is not freezing cold like my MacBook, nor does it have that unpleasant vertical front leading edge which in my opinion is uncomfortable when touch typing.

On a separate note though, Lenovo has kinda promised to build a 90's-level robust "retro-Thinkpad", the feedback forums for which were wildly successful.

http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-to-think
Can we get one in the shape of a kitten?