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One by one:

1. Freer movement of capital. This is a false herring in my opinion. Virtually no countries outside the US/EU offer completely free movement of money. The thing that matters is whether this prevents foreign capital investment (because people are scared of not being able to get their money back). In China, I don't think it does based on the last few decades of foreign investment.

2. External investment. As above, I don't think people are discouraged by the rules. Yes, you have to make a 50% joint venture, bribe government officials, share technology, have no copyright/IP protection, and risk your partner entering the market as a competitor once they learn your business (see Asus). But, you can still make so much money that it's probably worth it (or so American corporations seem to believe).

3. Ghost cities. I don't know much about this one honestly. I've been hearing about this since 2009, but consider that China is increasing their urbanization rate by 1 percentage point per year (~10M people/yr). If I were asked to manage that as a central planner, having excess inventory of housing would be critical to prevent slowdowns and allowing for some burstiness. Yeah, there's probably ghost cities, but how long do they remain before becoming occupied. Are the same cities hanging around forever (and people complaining about them forever), or is it new stock every year?

4. Illiquid foreign debt. Most of China's debt is in two categories: 1) Popular debt (US/EU) or 2) strategically important countries. For (1), there's likely some market. You're right that they can't sell too much, but they've already notified the world that they will begin selling their holdings over the next decade and since central banks in the western world are trying to increase the reserve interest rate there should be people willing to buy this stuff (or the government can buy it and reissue at a higher interest rate to make people want it). For (2), don't think of it as debt, but operating expense, never to be recovered.
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> And the control key is in the right place (the bottom left corner of the keyboard) ergonomically. That alone kills all Apple hardware for me.

Personally I prefer using the caps-lock key as control, which can be set in the system preferences on a mac.
Brute forcing a password could take more time, with today's technology, than we have left on Earth depending on complexity and if there are known vulnerabilities. I'm not sure I would effectively consider this order an order to "unencrypt".
In response to your (first?) edit:

> The woman in the couple declared it right before the shooting[0].

I'm not questioning that she declared allegiance. I'm asking if she was in private contact with anyone. If you were responding to that, can you show me where that is in the NYT article you linked? I don't see it.

> Do you want a notarized letter from the deceased?

Let's try to keep this civil, please.

> Do you really view this as a government overreach or are you just trolling?

I actually believe the things I am saying. I am not saying them to anger or upset you or anyone else. Please do not let the fact that we disagree about the scope of the 4th Amendment cause you emotional suffering.

I am not ready to declare it overreach, because I do not know all of the evidence yet. This is why I have been saying things like "Do we have reason to believe that there is evidence of any pending crimes or any old unsolved crimes on the phone?" and "did they say or hint that they had been in contact with that group" and "I have not followed the news on this shooting, so I would not be shocked if the answer were 'yes, there is some evidence of a conspiracy'."

If there is no such evidence, I do think it is overreach, but my opinions on policy are not fixed in stone, and I sometimes change my mind about them when presented with new arguments, ideas, or philosophies.

> Under what circumstances, if any, would you see as justified a search of someone's email? phone? house?

I doubt anyone has a complete enumeration of all circumstances under which they feel a search is justified. I would feel torn if there was lousy circumstantial evidence that the phone would solve or prevent crimes, I would be in support of a warrant if there was strong evidence, and I am opposed to a warrant with no evidence. One thing I would call strong evidence is a shooter having announced that he or she was part of a terrorist cell in the US.

I will no longer reading or responding to your edits that are "edited to reply". If you want to discuss with me further, please reply to reply by using the "reply" button. I will not be editing any of my posts to "edit to reply".
Iirc it comes from the old APL keyboard
Do you really think they would invest this much R&D, yet somehow never thought to consider the cost or efficiency advantages of piping natural light?

I'm no expert but lighting has gotten a lot more efficient recently:

http://www.designrecycleinc.com/led%20comp%20chart.html

LEDs are also well suited to farming because you can tune their output spectrum:

http://www.lighting.philips.com/main/products/horticulture/c...
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Good point...

I would have to believe that within China there are many brilliant economists who knew that their "expansion" could not continue forever...

Further, I think government officials were informed of the same...

We have a vague idea of their "reserves"...that vagueness is a bit troubling...
I think he was referring to the software's per-core licensing costs.
Yeah, you just have to live with it because the landlord doesn't care :-).
If you're going to buy a 350k property, you're probably not who the OP had in mind when he mentioned "people on tight budgets."
Haha, my thoughts exactly
> your comparison of it to hair braiding should be prima facie evidence of lack of good faith on your part.

I wouldn't go that far. It's just the naïveté of "Why there gotta be so many laws obstructing my disrupting?!" taken to its logical extreme.
restating your question: Has Apple been lying to its customers for years?
Where can you buy a CPAP/APAP/BiPap for $150?
Same here, the x1 carbon is linux friendly and has a great keyboard. I don't have a retina display, but I don't need that to write code.
I am not sure I'd agree that Netflix could've been more profitable if they went with their own DC. I think Netflix does not utilize that much hardware. Their streaming is on their own CDN, which I heard that are placed directly in the big cable companies' DC. Tracking and storing user profiles and other meta data would not require a huge amount of hardware. I think Netflix also does quite a bit of video encoding and analytics, but these workloads would fit well with EC2.
Its different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but basically running an unlicensed taxi or livery service.
It seems like we could learn more about Clinton's emails by asking under FOIA for emails sent by a wide variety of other public officials to/from her? Do you know if this has or is already being done?
Ahhh the old' China crisis again! The dog that didn't bark. The Charlie Brown football that never got kicked. The constant and unending crisis that is on its way any day now.

As I have explained over the years in many previous comments, China's banking system is partially privatized central planning, the government prints it's own money. Thus, when there is a credit crisis the government just recapitalizes the banks with freshly printed Yuan and sells off the bad loans at a discount. Bankers who behaved badly get executed or disappeared and the whole thing starts over.

Don't believe me? Let's take a trip down memory lane on HN:

China: Crisis Gauge Rises to Record High
2 points Cless 2 years ago 0 comments (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-26/crisis-gauge-rises-...)

China Interbank Rates at Record High (think Lehman Bros.)
1 points teawithcarl 3 years ago 0 comments (http://m.theepochtimes.com/n3/118747-china-banking-crisis-in...)

China's Brewing Crisis Is a Thousand Times Greece's
8 points ytNumbers 6 months ago 4 comments (http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2015/08/25/ch...)

Skyscraper index points to elevated risk of financial crisis in China, India
2 points cs702 4 years ago 0 comments (http://www.scribd.com/doc/78470886/Index-Bubble-Building-100...)

China fears bond crisis as it slams quantitative easing
1 points chaostheory 7 years ago 0 comments (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...)

China hit hardest by US Downgrade
2 points ca136 5 years ago 0 comments (http://gulfnews.com/opinions/editorials/us-crisis-hits-china...)

China’s Coming Economic Crisis?
3 points kercker 2 years ago 0 comments (http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/08/chinas-comin...)

Why China Will Have an Economic Crisis
1 points eande 4 years ago 0 comments (http://business.time.com/2012/02/27/why-china-will-have-an-e...)

Confidence of China VCs drops to new low
2 points ilamont 7 years ago 0 comments (http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/10/29/global-economic-c...)
..... I currently have a lot of time on my hands, so sure, I'll bite....

> I did not ask if police CAN randomly get warrants to search random houses in high-crime neighborhoods, I asked the commenter if he or she thought they ought to be able to do so

Given that the answer to CAN they is a solid no, and that random searches of homes is in no way related to searching devices used in a conspiracy to commit murder, what is the point of this? In one instance, someone has clearly committed a conspiratorial crime, in another instance, people are living in houses with low property value.

> if there is any evidence of a conspiracy

Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

Point 1: A conspiracy took place. A plan to kill people was kept secret between multiple people until it was executed.

Point 2: Immediately prior to commission of the murders, one of the participants declared that they were part of a larger group, known for organized commission of murder and terrorist attacks.

Given these points, what information is missing that would motivate you to think that a search of the attackers' phones should be conducted? Are you really asserting that there is no evidence of conspiracy that extends beyond the deceased, despite the fact that they said they were doing this under the flag of a larger organization?

I don't see any room for a normative argument defending against a search. I don't imagine that you're arguing that the post-mortem privacy interests of the terrorists prohibit investigation. Are you suggesting that the risk from not knowing the contents of the phone are so low as to not rise to outweigh the privacy interests of anyone incidentally mentioned on the device?

Sorry for all the questions, what I'm trying to get at is that from a normative perspective, societies generally allow investigators to search the shit of known participants of violent criminal conspiracies in order to detect previously unknown elements or plans of those conspiracies. What is the moral base from which you are arguing that this nearly universally accepted standard is somehow deficient?
Obviously he is not an enemy of the Chinese people, but the enemy of the Party.
I think the bigger difference is that the rules that Uber, Lyft & AirBnB are bending directly result in customer benefit whereas in the Zenefits case, there is little or no or even negative customer benefit.

Here's a good take:
https://stratechery.com/2016/zenefits-and-regulation/
Is there any chance they'll update the version of Ubuntu? 12.04 is.. old.
It's more than just that. It's about setting a precedent. If you let the government walk all over your security, then where do you draw the line? What's the point of security at that point? Security doesn't favor good or bad.
From my understanding, if you had for example a 128-qbit quantum computer, it would be able to crack any 16 character password in a single operation.
Honestly this looks like an advertisement to ADP.
I guess 7100 lines of C might sound simple to some, but that sounds pretty complicated to me! :)
And he didn't even mention the terribly shitty trackpad that every single pc laptop has. And its shitty synaptics software.
They can already compel you to give a DNA sample though I believe they typically need a warrant or something official to do so.
A 2007 (maybe 2006) HP EliteBook was the last non MacBook Pro laptop I had. I loved that thing and it was incredibly easy to add my own RAM and an SSD to. Pretty sure it maxed out at 8GB.

I'm sure they're sleeker now but that thing was pretty thick and the batteries on them seemed to wear down and die very fast. Bonus points for having an AWESOME dock that worked near flawlessly in Windows 7 for me, not so much, but not bad with Ubuntu 10 Desktop. Also you could get extended batteries and the batteries swapped easily, so I had a pair that could get me through a day at a client's site with no power if I needed.

I can't imagine I'll go back, I love my MBPs, but I would check out the latest EliteBooks if I was going that way again.
Lenovo T-series and W-series both had trash tier track pads last time I used either of them. Literally un-fucking-usable. For the first time in my life I got a tiny usb mouse to carry with me. My cardiologist wouldn't stop complaining about my blood pressure. Writing haskell should not be easier than right clicking.

Maybe they're different now, but if not, I mean, great scott that's terrible.

The keyboards were about as good as a macbook, which was nice.
It's not in that article, but a number of later articles have been published, here's one - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/paul-aker-us-marshal-student-l...
They don't say whether they actually caught the DVR in the act of e-mailing frames. A simple Wireshark trace could reveal the difference between malintent and some dumb vestigial debugging code.

Actually, from a brief scan of a related codebase, it's likely that it doesn't send e-mails. The title of the article is therefore at a minimum unsubstantiated.
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"Will VCs Rein in Their Unicorns? "

The language indicates that the VC's are the controlling owners of these companies.
As a developer I work with text all day, a task made thoroughly more pleasant with good font rendering and proper HiDPI support, neither of which are available on Linux. I'll take my 13 inches of Retina display over a pair of 27-inch externals any day.

SSH and rsync for remote editing work just fine from an rMBP.
> Wrong. If Alice announces that she's looking for people to attack then of course we go looking so see why she's doing that and if other are others involved.

What, in your opinion, are the limits of that investigation.

So

1. Alice announces she's looking to attack someone.

2. She attacks Bob.

3. She dies.

I gather that, in your opinion, we can search her possessions. Let's say she has a living mother and a best friend who died a week before the attack. Can we search her mother's things? How about her best friend's?
This 1000 times. We are also doing our college students a disservice by creating 'safe spaces'.

This is just a continuation of the mentality that 'everyone should get a trophy' that started in the early 90s.

I still remember when I was in school (which is when all of this started) and we would be required to end kickball games early, so we could 'tie'.

If you can't handle being offended, you won't ever learn how to overcome it.
AFAIK, the point of Vulkan is to get to modelling the hardware as possible. It's not even supposed to be a high-level API but allow efficient access to today's GPUs.

OpenGL is an abstract state machine and it requires a great deal of effort to convert that state into what today's GPUs are actually capable of efficiently handling. Getting that triangle onto the screen in OpenGL is maybe 20 lines of code but you will have 200,000 lines of code in the OpenGL driver translating the commands into the actual configuration of the hardware unit. And if you want to draw 2 million triangles you will have to work hard to work around the overhead introduced by the OpenGL implementation.

Then again, OpenGL can be reimplemented on top of Vulkan for end-developers and more complex game engines will be written against Vulkan directly, and then people will work on those instead of writing direct Vulkan code. Once you get the building blocks right you can build on top of them layers of abstraction that suit what you need.

This is in contrast to the current situation where the abstractions are fixed and don't necessarily suit the end-developer nor the driver developer. Today you need to implement your game or graphics engine abstraction (which you will use yourself) in terms of OpenGL (requiring lots of tricks), then the OpenGL driver has to implement OpenGL in terms of the actual hardware (again, requiring a lot of clever trickery to handle and transform the state efficiently) and as a result the pixels will show up on the screen but at the cost of a potentially huge overhead which could be introduced somewhere along the route.
Specifically regarding question 5 - how does the burden of proof work? How do statues of limitations apply?
I think mr. Madoff need to be let out of jail to educate Chinese government.
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It'll be contempt and possibly more if you don't unlock the device with your fingerprint.

It's not hard, the "precise distinction of law," is "unlock this with your finger, whichever one does it." I don't know what complicated back and forth you're imagining, but it's never occurred in any case that I've heard of.

they would effectively be asking you the question "which finger did you use to lock this phone" to which you may plead the 5th.

We already covered this in the link above: the 5th Amendment covers passcodes, not fingerprints.
FYI, that will pretty much break DNSSEC.
Just get a MacBook Pro and skip the aggravation entirely. You pay more for a reason. That reason is that no one else knows how to make a proper laptop anymore.
Right. Opponents of Citizens United would have us believe that banning the act of people (acting through a corporation or otherwise) paying to have a political movie aired is not suppression of speech. That's doublespeak--saying that speech is actually money even though the expenditure of money is wholly incidental to the act of political expression. By that reasoning the government can ban spending money to publish a book, or buying a bus ticket to attend a protest.
It's not really a single operation though. How would that quantum computer test against an iPhone when each test is a mark against the 10 max test count? An iPhone is still based in standard silicon using bits; you can't exactly pop a process that uses qubits into it and expect it to work.
> Similar "prevention" rationale is offered for governments to spy on virtually all telecom all the time, now. But this shooting happened anyway.

1) Anyone with a plan promised to stop all terrorist attacks is lying to you, stupid, or both. You can't have a free society and a 0% chance of political violence.

2) Yes, searching the possessions and communications of dead terrorists unsurprisingly are substantially more likely to lead to useful criminal leads than reading your metadata. A warrant to read this person's stuff isn't unreasonable in the slightest, an order forcing apple to do shit might be but that's a procedural thing unrelated to the core issue of "is there a good reason to read this person's stuff"
Their desktops are great, we use them for all of our dev boxes. Their laptops are basically branded Clevos, they're plasticky and feel like they were duct taped together. This is pretty typical of most of the "Linux Laptop" vendors.
That would be terrible
I also relatively recently bought a Zenbook with the mobile fanless processor also (battery life is pretty decent, but of course I can't play many games on it or anything), put Arch Linux on it -- been happily hacking ever since!
I had one fail, got a replacement, and with the replacement and its replacements continued that cycle until a new generation of drives came out, at which point I sold the stupid thing on eBay. It was unreal.
To play the devil's advocate: 20 years from now someone trying solve a hard problem could stumble upon your patent via a simple google search.
Would you mind changing the links to the HN threads rather than the original news articles? I think that will better illustrate your point. But, if those threads were all zero comments, then I'm not sure they count as memory lane. Nevertheless, this does sound a bit like "suits make a corporate comeback".
During late nineties, my startup was providing technology consulting/development service to other dot-com startups. Demand for our consulting service was so high that our company resort to auction kind of process to select customers. Then dot-com bust happened, 97% of our customers had gone out of business, quickly, very quickly. Obviously, our company fortunes dwindled and never recovered from that.
Nope. For general search operations (modeling your 128-bit cipher as a black box) the best we know how to do is Grover's algorithm, which gives you a quadratic speed up. Your 128 bit problem is now a 64 bit problem (which is of course still quite good).
I think the bigger issue is that China faces labor competition on the lower end of the unskilled market from South East Asia and India and is trying to enter the lower end of the skilled labor market but finding out that the Americans, Europeans, and Israelis are fairly competitive.

I'm generalizing and neither list of countries is exhaustive.
the article misses everything.

lenovo is not even relevant anymore. Their new keyboards (since 2009!) are complete garbage.

his "research" was probably asking some guy at the water cooler "what's a good PC laptop" "lenovo" "thanks"
Awesome presentation about building blocks for Product development — https://speakerdeck.com/fson/building-blocks-for-product-dev...
A few counterpoints.

From your original comment

> In addition, it doesn't seem like this rate is accelerating (since 2009), but linearly increasing.

That is the overall percentage of bad debt increasing linearly, meaning accumulation of bad debt is accelerating faster than growth of "good" debt. This was also the case in the US mortgage crisis.

From this comment

1) It would be less of a concern if China had less liquidity while Chinese companies were also getting less access to liquidity. Shadow lending from wealth management product (WMPs) is a massive structural issue for the Chinese economy. When the underlying assets fail, you have a recession. It also means a centralized economy with lots of the downsides (bribes, joint ventures, etc.) but without the control.

2) American corporations believe there is tons of money to be made, but not many have been successful. In the event of a Chinese recession, those experiments will be vastly drawn back when Chinese consumers become pessimistic. In the event of an American correction, they'll pull back to invest in proven markets.

3) I haven't seen evidence that these ghost cities are the result of central planners building slack for expected growth.

4) Internal private debt (see 1) is a much larger problem. Most of that is owned by the central government, which means either a bailout when companies fail, continued lending until a bailout, or letting their economy correct.
I too have grown tired of shitty articles with shitty headlines that make some misunderstood argument on why China is about to have a bad time. It's at the point where I'm wondering if these publications are just fishing for clicks.
Or buy another laptop. Could have been a hardware issue. Or install another distro.
> Bonus points for calling apple website an icon of web design when it weights almost 100mb.

Huh? My chrome network panel registered 13.3k for apple.com