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You are still free to join about credit unions, use local banks, and the like.

You get bigger because of all the support persons your need to comply with regulations. The auditors alone can be very burdensome to smaller banks. They certainly don't try to grow large just to fail.

I am not sure you understand the words you are using.

Paying the poor is a calculated game where politicians try to find the point they won't be annoyed enough to vote against them the next election and finding that point which they won't take stuff from those who are voting

Keynsian is easily proven wrong on many accounts

Capital pools until there is a good outlet for it. It also tends to pull when taxing systems become burdensome with regards to spending it

Investment and savings do not need separation. you could say that making loans is a form of investment with similar risks and rewards

finance is confusing to many but it isn't rotten

quantitative easing is the result of poor money policy of the countries enacting it. usually the result of the same country borrowing so much money it depletes that which is available to others

Austerity does not cause stagnation, first you would actually have to find a country that claimed austerity that actually reduced expenditure and not simply slowed the rate of increase. Greece is an exception to the rule

In the end adopting a the sky is falling outlook never works. Politicians created this mess and they are damn good at ducking responsibility. This is because most operate under the ideals of fascism, meaning pretty much force the hands of private companies to behave a certain way and then blame them when it doesn't work. This lets politicians further exert control because the general population doesn't understand what is going on
60 square inches per board is enormous, but they don't care because the material is cheap and the labor is about the same regardless of the board size. If you use their regular pricing that takes the area into account, it's still incredibly expensive.
It really doesn't seem like we should be blaming Apple here. Apple did what we wanted it to do, stand up for privacy. The FBI is showing off and acting ridiculous. I think they are the ones who are at fault here and we should stop making it sound like Apple did something wrong and that this abuse of power is their fault.

Obviously, they're an easier target so that's why people are attacking them but, honestly, what did they do other than stand for their (AND OUR) values?
That's not how anxiety works. You are crippled while interacting with strangers, not with teammates you've spent 8 hours per day warming up to.

You should really give anxiety sufferers a shot. There are some real gems there which you are dismissing out of hand.
At least make the error say WHY it should never happen.
Just looking at this one course and the projects... This is night and day harder than anything I had to do in my CS program. We just dicked around in Java for most of it, no C, and definitely no low level socket programming or reproducing an RFC.

I mean it sounds awesome, but really hard.
I'm pretty sure the goal is to play with people's psychology to get them to click. If the goal was to show the relationship to the reader, there are much better ways to do it.

That last bit seems tautological to me. Of course there's utility in the second sentence from the headline writer's point of view, otherwise they wouldn't have put it there. The issue with "clickbait" is that the headline writer's utility diverges from the reader's utility.
Good :-)

Do you have any link for this chrome detail about optimization?

str(x) conversion is missing... i'll will implement it asap
But some part of running requires vision since you must see obstacles and plan your footings. More the bigger and more fragile you are. So there would need to be another set of eyes and some basic processing then as well. And then, what about 3d perception, moving obstacles, predator recognition? You have to know what's just tall grass and what's a rock.

You'd be better off moving the brain down and just having a really long mouth / snout / tongue. And then you'd have an elephant...

You can only have very basic processing near the actual actuator.
I find it hard to reconcile that view with the historical examples. For example, assuming you agree that Newton made such contributions, how do you fit his thirty-year dabble in alchemy with the concept that such individuals put "true rigour" in their works?
I liked the book very much, until those kinds of things started happening. The last third of the book ruined it for me
Embrace, extend and extinguish (apropos Microsoft's newfound love for Linux)
Poetic Places Is a New App (Free) from the British Library
>Copper is a valuable commodity. No Chinese board house will be foolish enough to waste it. With modern processes, it's simply a case of neutralising the etchant and filtering out the precipitated copper.

Except that motivation will only results in removing just as much copper as it's economical to extract. They'd still discharge the remaining copper once it reaches concentrations too low to bother extracting (but plenty high enough to cause damage to biological systems).

This also ignores all the other stuff in the etching and rinse baths, which isn't exactly benign.
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The whole article feels like a non-sequitur. "Iceland put bankers in prison for helping cause the financial crisis, yet there is still crony capitalism." How are these two facts related? Putting bankers in prison for helping the economy crash is not intended to solve the problem of bankers being too cozy with politicians. It's intended to solve the problem of bankers reaping private returns from taking public/socialized risk. It's trying to ensure that when bankers hurt everybody, they feel the hurt too.
I'm not being deliberately obtuse: I don't really understand how this helps anyone particularly much.

(OK, I assume there's a small number of developers who develop, or at least debug, for both systems and prefer windows as a development environment, but I assume that number is small, at least on Microsoft's scale).

If you're developing to deploy on Linux but are more of a Windows dev, this helps you, but that doesn't help Microsoft ship more server OS licenses.

If you're a Windows dev this is irrelevant.

If you're a linux (or posix only) dev I don't see how this helps you much. It does help a person like me, who only uses Windows when I need some weird tool like a compiler for an exotic embedded part or vendor-supplied FPGA tool that only works under Windows -- again, not a large enough market t move the needle.

Could the market be CIOs? I.e. demonstrating "hipness" in a way that can be verified when the CIO asks the devs "does this really work the way MS claims?"

Obviously it's not opening the huge number of popular Linux desktop apps to the Windows environment. :-(
If my employer let me come in @10am I would be 2x as productive. I have to drag myself out of bed every morning and spend 9am-10am not really doing much at work anyway. If I could get that extra hour of sleep it would be amazing...
Gorilla Arm Syndrome
I agree that Apple is much more pragmatic right now. IMHO Microsoft is looking to emulate Apple in this regard: leverage open source when it makes sense, release code back to open source projects when it makes sense.
Too much text. Can anyone point to actual Wechant screens or video showcasing ecommerce?

I have had WeChat installed for the past year, chat regularly but as far as I'm concerned, the only thing you can do is buy nice animated drawings.
I work in electronics manufacturing and if I said "we made a new board for this project", I would mean we laid it out and sent it out to be fabricated.
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Never having to run Cygwin again sounds pretty great to me!
I would hate to go searching for a commit that broke something in this mess. Your colleague should be more descriptive.

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/731/143/3e3...
Has this been shared on HN yet? You put in your address and Google tells you how much you save by installing solar panels.

https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#p=0
I've used it an age ago. Don't bother. The software wasn't terribly sophisticated. The library support was OK at best. And the only thing it really does is make ordering a little easier. It's only slightly more work to use a FOSS tool and generate output which can go to and board house.
Thanks. I really appreciate your nuanced critique of the argument.
As an employer of people you are motivated to ensure that people perform at their best. By forcing someone to not work a schedule that works for them, you're diminishing your own investment and you have no one but yourself to blame.

At our company we have people who come in at 6 am and we have people who don't get in until 9. Everyone sets their schedule to what works for them and I think we're better for it. Does that make it harder to schedule meetings? Not at all, we can always find an hour or two somewhere where everyone is around.
> "descends from a multicultural, religiously tolerant empire (Ottoman)"

Where the terms "multicultural" and "religiously tolerant" apparently mean something quite a bit different from today (just like Athenian democracy from ours, for example).
This is a great summary. All value is future value and the only real way to 'store value' is to pump water uphill(or equivalent).

I've tried to address amny of the authors points with http://Catallax.info

-Rather than adding new ways to interact with the bank ledgers, change the power dynamics of who controls the ledgers

Build on Bitcoin or etherium

-Change who gets to issue money on those ledgers

Everyone is a bank.

-Change what it is redeemable for.

I don't think changing the object is as important as changing incentives and giving people reasons to spend local.

-Change the internal properties of money.

We use demurrage.

-Alter the financial institutions that dominate the standard money system.

We offer quasi-government accounts and self elected taxation to find those.
I have one that is now 2.5 years old. Specs-wise, it was basically top of the line. Quad Core i7, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 3200x1800 touchscreen, GeForce 750m GPU (which was one of the best mobile GPUs back then). It has a lot of nice touches that lower end models don't have, like 2 or 3 USB3 ports, with 2 or 3 USB ports that have power even when the laptop is off (super handy for charging a phone on an airplane while your laptop is still in your bag, for example). Wireless N networking, HDMI and MiniDP connections, able to drive two external monitors at once along with the laptop screen (up to 1920x1200 over HDMI and 4k over miniDP). The touchpad is pretty decent. backlit chicklet keyboard with variable brightness. SD card slot, 1/4" headset port... the only thing it's missing is an ethernet port, but that's just because it's too thin for the port. A USB3 gigabit ethernet adapter is cheap and works great.

And it's pretty damn light for a 15" laptop. Easily one-handable (I think it's like 2 pounds IIRC).

And what's great is that you can crack it open and replace stuff - I swapped out the hard drive and replaced a malfunctioning battery myself with just a torx screw driver (super tiny torx, but still, no glue or special tools or anything).

It was pretty expensive - like $1900 IIRC. You're paying for the high res screen, better build quality, and thinness/lightness. But it's still like $500+ less than an equivalent macbook.
He got lucky and he's arrogant because his gamble paid off. I really do hate this Silicon Valley mentality where when a decision leads to a success, they actually believe that there was a 0% chance the decision could have led to a failure.
Misleading article: This was a business plan competition. Details are not immediately clear: http://www.itcsz.cn/
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Not one mention of the blockchain in the story or here. How interesting.
Ah the Franco-Prussian war then. Nice
is that a bug? I was using that to hear chord, until I got to the bottom and saw I can also do it with my keyboard.
No, they went to jail for fraud.

For example, these bankers [1] approved a loan to a shell company owned by the bank's insiders for the purpose of buying the banks shares. None of the large banks in the U.S. did anything like that. The closest we've had was the LIBOR scandal, where prosecution is certainly happening.

[1] http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iceland-crisis-idUKBRE8BR0E...
"...you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets."

Michael Lewis in Boomerang.
> Freedom of speech does not mean irresponsible and banale flow of whatever one thinks.

Actually, it is. Freedom of speech can't be whatever seems civil to each person, it's a binary issue. Either you have it or you don't.

For example, France, which seems freer than Turkey, actually just fined a comedian that have insulted the prime minister of half retarded Musolinni. That's not okay and it's not fundamentaly different of what's happening in Turkey.
Building Open-Source Maps App Using React Native, Mapbox GL and OSM2VectorTiles
Just to verify, watched a video that explicitly said that it does get around the path limit (though if you then go look at those files in explorer, explorer "has problems" whatever that means).... but that's just because explorer still uses the legacy APIs that do have a path limit.
Father asks Apple head Tim Cook to unblock dead son's iPhone
If it's any consolation, using anti-terror laws against banks feels slightly, though just slightly, less intrusive and overblown than using the same laws against bin crimes. ("Dustbin Stasi" is the word).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-counc...
In the Opera blog, some dev said that it's coming in a couple of weeks
1% of San Francisco's population is ~8374 people.
Yes to your 'EDIT'. If we can't even see increasing frequency of hurricanes, then how can we even begin to attribute things to AGW?
"Austerity stagnates an economy".

How did overspending work out for Greece?

[ edit: I'd be glad to discuss substance. The admittedly rhetorical question stands. What is the evidence on overspending and growth? ]
Depending on which name it is, you may simply be able to use the name, without any association with Pokémon. Don't ever reveal you got it from a list of Pokémon names. If asked, insist that you just made it up and that it is a coincidence.

The explicit association between your product an Pokémon may be worse than the actual name clash itself.

For instance, suppose I manufacture mini submarines and I name one of them Seaking. Well, guess what, that is a Pokémon character name. It's plausible that this is a complete coincidence and I can get away with that claim even if I did in fact get that from the Pokémon name. If I broadcast the Pokémon association, then that could get the attention of someone at Nintendo; they could come to the conclusion that I'm trying to use their business to promote mine somehow.

Just consider the name carefully and how plausible it is that you came up with it independently, considering factors like: how weird is the name? Are you known to others to be a big Pokémon fan? Have you blogged or tweeted anything about Pokémon, and especially that Pokémon?
Interesting, I really don't see myself reaching up 6-8 inches to touch the screen when I can do it faster (and with less finger smudges) from the trackpad but maybe I'm wrong, I love my iPad but I still just don't feel like I would like it on a laptop.
In the same place where there's a horse in a seahorse.
How did they manipulate the market?
Theoretically, in the end, everything might be crap but in reality we will never arrive that point once apparently there will always exist things that don't look like crap.

There is hope!
What's interesting is that (as described in the present top comment on this article, about "CALL BRIAN"), if the abstraction of "type safety" is leaky (as it is, e.g. in the presence of memory or hardware errors), this kind of paranoia can actually have real-world benefits even though you can prove the impossibility of the code running using static analysis.

Sometimes the important artifact is the executable in the larger context of the deployed system, rather than the code you generate it from.
Common, by definition, means "found often." If it's indeed 1 our of 100, that means there are 2-3 people in my office right now like this. That's a big enough issue for management to perhaps consider accommodating these people.
> If you're developing to deploy on Linux but are more of a Windows dev, this helps you, but that doesn't help Microsoft ship more server OS licenses.

Could it be something to do with helping Microsoft sign up more Azure customers using Linux? Windows dev, Linux on Azure deploy, end to end Microsoft.
Farmer's markets are popular because the food is higher quality. The reason for this is simple: it's fresher. You're buying it right after it was picked, and it was allowed to ripen fully before being picked. A lot of produce from grocery stores isn't like this: it's produced in other countries, or using methods to artificially ripen it after picking, so that it'll look ripe in the store.

It's simple biology and physics: if you want freshly-picked fruit, you have to get it nearby, unless you're going to pay $$$$ to have someone ship it to you by overnight shipping (and it's not economical to ship food that way).

How is some local farmer going to "help me out with whatever glitch"? He's busy running his farm. He doesn't live next door to me, he lives 20 minutes away. He might as well live across the country. But his food is probably going to be fresher and better quality than food at the supermarket that was shipped in from Central America.
I have confidence in the rigor of Newton's alchemy.
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If it is discovered that Apple knows about the exploit, regardless of how they know about it, then they can be compelled to reveal it in court. An NDA does not give one a pass on testifying in a court of law.

It is in Apple's best interest to find out what the exploit is, how long it's been out there, and fix it instead of playing legal games. Such an exploit in the wild is a security concern for every person who owns that phone, not just criminals. There is no telling how many people are out there accessing privileged information in the private and government sectors with that phone. It is a concern covering criminal activity all the way to foreign government spying.

As a bonus, if it's an exploit that's been known from before the FBI's claim that only Apple can help them breach the phone, then we know the FBI was full of it. The FBI has been known to use questionable tactics before and backed out of cases that weren't going their way to avoid revealing those questionable tactics. This whole iPhone thing reeks of this.
> This doesn't solve the whole "I don't want people tracking me" thing. I'm not really sure how to solve that.

Maybe loading those whitelisted ad domains through Tor?
Can Money Buy Happiness? (2010)
Heck, sometimes I'm amazed that when I turn on my computer it does anything at all with all the complexity going on inside it
That's a smart design! If you spin up to 0.5g and accelerate at 0.5g (which, while not enough for takeoff, is plenty for interplanetary travel) the tether angle would be 45 degrees, more than enough to get out of the exhaust plume.

Another free benefit would be that on a change of acceleration, angular momentum would be conserved. Rotation would increase or decrease to keep the acceleration felt by the occupants approximately constant!
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It's one thing to have an ego, but it's another to back it up. Jordan backed it up. My point was a lot of players have the ego without the skills. Also, Jordan's ego was focused on winning. He never made stupid statements in public (that I heard of). I can't tell you how many times LeBron said or did really dumb things off the court. Of course, all driven by his massive ego.
This I've got to agree with, they are EXTREMELY reliable machines in my experience, I've never had an issue with one other than my DVD drive on my first macbook but I never used that really anyways, it honestly could have been broken from the factory and I just noticed it after about a year (still in AppleCare). I watched my friends buy a new PC every 1-2 years because theirs were literally falling apart but continue to buy $500-$600 crap laptops.
"Not even the kids want to wake up at 6:30."

Not my experience, and a standard complaint when commiserating with other parents is how early their kids wake up on the weekends.

My 6 year old reliably wakes up about 15 minutes earlier on the weekend than she does on weekdays.
“Art Appreciation” in the Pigeon (1995) [pdf]
I initially assumed the same as you, because it would just make so much sense.

And yes, it looks like all of this came down to the short PIN. It's likely a six-digit PIN would still fall, but a proper passcode would have made this whole affair moot. It looks like even the older phones are still totally secure in that case, although the lack of Touch ID can make it somewhat impractical.

This is a major problem I have with the "iPhones got less secure" idea. Apple has gone through heroics to make short passcodes somewhat secure, but there's only so much you can reasonably expect there.
Title isnt misleading. The title literally said what its content contained.
If any software company would decide to use the same strategy adopted 25 years ago, then all of them would horribly fail. Context is different, mission and vision as well. I honestly dont see how is this similar to any of the examples you mention. This is MS targeting developers like me that decided to buy an MBP over a Windows laptop (In my case: A MBP over an XPS). IF I would have bash, I'd buy XPS.
Bad science drives out good science
Read my reply above, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11397602 ... hopefully that clarifies.
In a lot of these cases they probably know they'll have access to stack traces/Exception monitoring.
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For every one of you there are probably 10x others who would totally abuse it.
Foxconn agrees to buy Sharp after slashing original offer
Oh yeah, I 100% agree that the policy is in general misguided and borderline crackpot.
Not taking sides here but there are many middle-grounds between austerity and overspending.
The grandparents post is an alarm clock. The blue light things you use during early morning like with breakfast to prevent SAD. I found the alarm clock to be amazing for about a week and then not much different than other alarms after I adjusted to it. That said I still prefer it to other alarms.
Kviabryggja facilities: http://www.visir.is/fancy-facilities--icelandic-banker-heads...
I had (1992, man.ac.uk) VDM, Pascal, SML, Prolog, midi-port communication in 68000 assembly, Pascal-with-embedded-Oracle, Tarski's World, etc., and not a single damned thing from that course has been useful since.
A much more likely scenario would be for you to star it on GitHub if you like it and start blogging and evangelizing it yourself while encouraging others to do the same.
You seem to be assuming that an intelligent organism would have uniform thoughts across their entire body. Cephalopods, at least, don't entirely match that description. Different parts of their bodies act on their own, often with no need for central organization. A larger intelligence could perhaps work like that. Maybe then you would consider just a single section that is still intelligent when severed from the rest to be the "organism" and the rest to be some sort of "colony", but what if the borders aren't clear. What if any cubic meter chunk of alien flesh was sentient, no matter where you cut it from?
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