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Historically in the 20th century, it is not that common for a bank to fail. Since 2008 bank failures have accelerated greatly.

I also could tell a story about people losing access to their money for weeks, waiting on the FDIC, when IndyMac failed at the start of the recession. But it is not my story to tell as it did not affect me, and it was also one of the largest bank failures in US history, at a time when the FDIC was already undergoing stress, so I doubt it was malice.

I just wouldn't count on FDIC insurance to save you in the short-term if shit starts to hit the fan. Have a cash reserve.

Edit: Here's an interesting graph to ponder https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BKFTTLA641N

The first major cluster of failures actually preceded a crisis(the S&L crisis) and fell off rapidly after, whereas in 2008 the cluster was timed with the recession and had a longer tail of failures afterwards that continues to this day.
My whole point is that it is not axiomatic, or fundamental, in any way. Instead, it's a consequence of the zeitgeist :) and because of that, I see it disappearing over the course of the coming century.
Again, could you provide concrete examples of what you'd want to see?

In practice I rarely use `interface{}`. I really am open to being wrong about this, but it would be nice if someone could show me what might be improved. So far everyone is just telling me that it can be improved and that "Go's type system is shitty".

I want to be convinced. I really do. I'm just not.
And indeed, it has: http://xkcd.com/1740/
This is often not about labels (though for some people it might be) and self-fulfilling prophecies. I am not afraid of human contact, I do it well, I even enjoy it, but I don't always want to do it. Plus, what I do in my free time is my own business.

So, if I don't want to go to social events, I won't go to social events. Period.

I also see no reason why I should have to justify my choice. The only justification is "because that's what I want to do". If that's not good enough, too bad!

What are you going to do, sue me for "selfishly refusing to meet people in my spare time"? I also find people who bike across the Alps in their free time weird, but it's their choice, and it makes them happy -- live and let live!
Except the fine hasn't actually been imposed. The actual fine will be about half, or less, which will be in line with expectations.

Given the ECB is more or less committed to sub-zero interest rates for the next decade, the German government bond auction very recently failed, DB's and the German financial industries' reluctance to accept what started in 2007 has ended right at their door because of their inaction, and 10 years of absurd Mercantilism that has crushed 30% of the European economy, to say this latest round of catastrophe is because of a fine is myopic in the extreme.
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Dynamic resizing fixes this, although hash collisions can still be a problem (albeit a very unlikely one if your hash is secure). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Dynamic_resizing
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It is if it save you money over the longer term
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Even if you can, yous implant a keylogger onto the keyboard, and some malware/implant into the screen you get a full readout of every keystroke and every pixel displayed.

If you are going to prevent physical attacks from adversaries that can circumvent basic protection (e.g. FDE) you have to make sure that every device is as secure because the system is as secure as its weakest link.

If your adversaries are just the random person that might steal your PC then any full disk encryption even a cryptographically insecure one would be sufficient because the people who end up dealing with these devices won't have the knowhow or the resources to attack even bad encryption.
>> Under Yeltsin ... population was free to organize and promote positive change.

I see that you have some illusions about that period, perhaps due to the fact that you could only see it through the lens of the western media. No, population was not free. The gangs controlled the country. If they did not like what you had to say - you were killed on the spot, right out in the open in the daylight. Simple as that. People lived in fear through the 90's. Fear of making ANY move: business - would be taken away from you by the gangs, or politics - ruled by apparatchiki with criminal connections who took you out if they did not like the way you looked that day.

I disagree with your blanket statement that Russians need (or desire) an authoritarian leader. Not all Russians are the same, far from it. (Its similar to going in the middle of USA and concluding that all Americans are god worshiping red necks or something like that.) There are (and were) a lot of progressive thinkers that are capable of organizing an opposition. The issue is - they are forced out of the country by the state (best case scenario) once they gain any traction or are eliminated in one way or another.

The choice for many russians is simple - do i want to suffer physical/mental abuse by the state, fight the system and stay in the country or am i better of immigrating? the choice is simple, especially if you have/want a family.

Russian immigration has been going on for over 100 years now for that very reason.

>>Oh, and by the way, Putin has you exactly where he wants you. He would like you to be a supporter, but if people like you are instead cynical and don't try to understand what is needed for positive change, then he is free to stay in power for the rest of his life.

No Putin does not want me to be where i am now ;) yes im cynical but i do know what is needed for a positive change. there is one little thing - i do not want to waste my life on fighting that system "for the good cause". Life is too short to spend it on "nari".
Operations Research is totally unsexy. It still works better than ever before; I'm shipping a work project based on stochastic programming pretty soon. But we'll probably call it "AI" in marketing materials.
Chip-and-pin cards have been hacked.

https://www.rt.com/usa/354657-chip-pin-cards-blackhat/
There are indications, just not ironclad evidence. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of aggressive propagandizing on both sides that makes the subject difficult to discuss objectively.
That's a very image-centric explanation, and I'm not at all sure it makes things any easier.

Conceptually, in the image case, features are "things" in images that ML tools use to perform tasks.

A image with lots of blue it it has a chance that it is of sky.

An image with lots of hard edges might be something human made - a house, a book etc.

Pixels are really a distraction - there are alternative representations of images which don't use pixels at all. Think wavelet based compressed sensing techniques.
Are they putting each bill into evidence as an entry or are they using a Foxpro database, or both?
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Hash tables are a big example. You can implement pure associative arrays, and they have some nice benefits, but the best functional implementations still have much poorer asymptotic performance than a basic hash table.

Pure data structures also tend to include a lot of extra pointers. That can create a lot of overhead. A pure list of 32-bit integers will need either 4 or 8 bytes of overhead (depending on whether you're running 32 or 64 bit) for every item stored. A resizable array just needs whatever empty space it preallocates, plus the occasional memcpy when it needs to add capacity. Also locality of reference and all that fun stuff.
Considering the move proposed in this thread to move even SMTP to HTTP, how would preventing connecting to SMTP prevent spam when one can still POST to SMTP-over-HTTP?
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Can anyone explain why they would (a) crash, rather than attempt to land the probe on the comet's surface, and (b) turn the power off at the moment of touchdown?

Everything I've read (admittedly, not much) says they will get more data from crashing it, but that makes no sense to me. Surely landing it as intact as possible and leaving it running means it could send data whilst it has any remaining power, and maybe again in the future whenever it gets enough sunlight? Even if it was just a semi-intact archaeological curiosity for future generations, surely that would be better than wilfully destroying it?
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> If you claim to be an experienced programmer and can't explain roughly how a hash table or a linked list works you've obviously got big holes in your knowledge in the areas of optimisation and scalability.

What is your definition of "roughly" and how do you think lack of that knowledge affects knowledge of optimization and scalability? I ask not because I necessarily disagree, but because your statement is very subjective. Also because I used to write large-scale real-time signal processing code that didn't use hash tables at all, so lack of knowledge there wouldn't have this effect on our code.
It is important to remember that the reason many countries are out our cash/ deep in debt is because so much money has been spent on bailing out banks. E.g. in the UK, this was more than a trillion pounds at the peak of the crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/nov/12/bank-b...
Has the refrigerant level/pressure been checked? If it is too low evap coils commonly freeze up, esp. in humid areas.
> the same persons work in the same IT deps for decades...

Guess I've found my solution to my persistent angst over the repeated 'old geeks are screwed' stories around here!
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The really poor also don't have the rope.
yc does not provide an edit button.
no github?
A lot of people will use spot instances to get cheaper computer power for non-critical calculations. So they can control demand by the price for spot instances.

Also, they'll get a lot of instances up and running before publishing the post. At the moment, p2 spot prices seem very low (~9c for p2.xlarge).

Especially in the GPU space, a lot of calculations will likely not be very time-sensitive. The spot market is optimal to control demand and ensure high utilization.
Yes. D-Wave approached me partly because I was already in Dallas and they needed someone on-site in Fort Worth to support Lockheed.
North America, Europe and China are slowly wiping out everyone and their own future generation.
Yes, but there's no free lunch[1].

In theory, on average over all possible problems all algorithms are the same.

In practice, that's a pretty useless piece of information, since the only thing that matters is your problem.

Tabular data, and not huge amounts? Tree-based systems are your friend. Vast amounts of binary data (or increasingly text)? Deep neural networks will get you the best result.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
In terms of net assets, no it's not. It's going from $0 to, say, -$50,000 as now you owe interest.
Absolutely, after 2 years you would properly not have that many work projects.

Especially if it can be related to the job you are applying for.
It's possible (probable?) an absence of sustainable agriculture and / or energy may present an existential crisis at some point.

Agreeing on a set of weights and measures not so much.
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> While Germany might not step up now, the ECB will not let DB fail [...]

I think that the main reason this can't be, is because of the Maastricht rules effectively blocked the creation of a proper banking union. Mario Monti, when he was Italian PM along with and Mario Draghi, tried to create a proper banking union, but Scheuble under the instructions of the Bundesbank blocked the procedure. Ironic isn't it?

Of course since Germany at this point could have the cake and eat it by bending the rules, but that wasn't the case for Italy 2 years ago.

We'll see. However, I believe that given the current state of disintegration in the EU it's politically toxic to issue another bailout to a major European bank while unemployment is in record-highs all over the European north and the south.
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Because the Democrats are a bourgeois party.
I'm not sure about (a), but it would probably be very difficult to land it with the thrusters on the probe. Philae almost bounced off the comet and it was designed for that purpose...

For the second one, seems that https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/781814758404005888 has the response (with not a lot of details).
From the ESA FAQ

"As soon as Rosetta hits the surface, its main systems will be turned off, including the attitude and control systems, as well as the main transmitter, the latter in order to meet regulations aimed at avoiding interference on deep space network communications channels"

"as soon as Rosetta hits the surface, its high-gain antenna will very likely no longer be pointing towards Earth, making any potential communications impossible"

"One of the key features of the trajectory design is to minimise the spacecraft's relative velocity at impact. The current scenario predicts that the impact velocity will be around 90 cm/s, around walking pace."

I recommend reading the whole FAQ, it's very informative.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rose...
There is some truth in what parent is saying though. We have reach a point in the West were a comfortable life is basically possible for everyone. However, we still have the bullish culture from after the war that paints a guy that want a simple life as some sort of loser.

So we go on holiday and marvel at the simple life of artisans, farmer or other, but we teach our children that such a lifestyle is a failure.
"Insurance takes time to claim"

It's less than 20 days by law in my country and almost everything is done without depositor's input -- money are transferred to another bank and you simply come there with your ID to take your money in cash or open an account in another bank. I really wouldn't mind to wait a week or two as opposed to billions paid of tax money.
Is YC-HN just a front for homo-sexuals to meet young-ins?
The majority of 'things' in HN are bot's, fact, you can tell by answers.

Then you look at this requirement,that young must go live with them for 3 months in hell 'SV-hell', I mean so close to the grove, but so close to the devil.

In summary, having watched all the YC videos at stanford, and reading this blog, its clear that the humans are GAY, and HN is ran by bot's that click-out humans.
I didn't read on, but my guesses:

- batteries will die when cold, they can't reanimate the probe when it comes back from the large ellipse of its orbit
- probe has orbited the comet for 2 years, and has seen the most important period (closest to the sun). There's not much to learn from more pictures of that far away
- landing would not work (no landing legs, not enough gravity, see Philae), and the camera is not made for it.
- at the speed of impact (walking pace), it won't be crushed entirely, and will probably bounce a few times before settling on the comet. Philae is already there BTW, so that's an artifact.
If you're in the EU, your deposit is insured up to 100,000 EUR, and you must be paid out within 20 days under EU Law (Seven in Germany).
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DB has capital structure issues. The fine is only the proverbial nail in the coffin.
>We're just making it a bit less hospitable for us.

Since we happen to be us, that's a massive problem. You're supposed to give a shit about people dying, you know?
No. That was the case for Greeks and PIIGS in general.

The Greek bailout, was an indirect bailout of Franco-German banks[1]. Ms Merkel was not able to ask for a second bailout, so she masked the bailout as a solidarity towards Greeks.

Of course Greece's public debt sky-rocketed (from 120% of the GDP to 180% in 6 years) but the worst part was the total disintegration of the Greek economy. Since, throwing money in failed banks never works, we're back in square one. Oh, in the process she also destroyed the Eurozone, but that's just a side effect.

[1] http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2016/05/04/german-esmt-stud...
Is it worth discussing during an interview or relevant work experience? If not, then no.
I wonder why they uploaded a special software which disallows any communication prior to the impact [1]. Why don't they just let Rosetta impact and have a look if it still works? Why is it necessary to shut it down to disallow command instructions from earth?

[1] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rose...
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It could be an attempt to put pressure on the U.S. to reduce the fine. I'm sure DB will be bailed out if the situation is there.
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Can you explain the ICANN transfer?
I'm kind of surprised there isn't a recent thread with comments and analysis of the impending relinquishment of US control over ICANN to another body.

I've read several articles, but I'm still having trouble understanding the reasoning, or even the technical details.

Does anyone understand what's going on?

What exactly is wrong with the current setup?

I would greatly appreciate an informed opinion.
They "crashed" it at a walking pace, at worst it's a bit twisted, definitely still an archeological curiosity. Why do that? Probably to try to get close-approach data that the detachable probe failed to. Why crash? I don't know if the vehicle even has the capability to retro-thrust itself to a stop but trying would be a fiddly maneuver and would likely mess up the science (puffing up an opaque cloud of dust, blasting the landing site). So approach-and-keep-going makes sense. But then the vehicle will lithobrake with predictable smashy consequences. So it's toast one way or the other; turning it off is probably just tidiness.

All the above is guesses but seems to make sense to me.
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One interesting alternative to hash tables that appears to get too little love is the Judy tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array

They are not quite as versatile, I think, but for simple cases where your keys are strings or ints, they work just as well and are quite fast, too. The API is very simple, too.

I don't do much programming in C these days (pretty much none at all), but I used Judy in one toy project and have fond memories of it.
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That's all very interesting stuff, but somehow I missed something: how was he able to verify the fake finger prints from the minister were usable and close enough to the real finger prints to fool a biometric device?
I read the article twice and haven't spotted how he verified the hack worked in the case of the minister.
I also have a Samsung fridge with the same very well known issue, so it's likely not the refrigerant level. I don't have the wherewithal to rig it like OP has though.
I can't say I agree with the first two points.

For point #1: cloud services are fairly competitively prices with each other and using the tools they provide will lock you into a vendor but also drastically reduce cost. For example, we used to roll our own MySQL and Postgres now we use AWS RDS and it has saves us so much money I can't believe we didn't do it in the first place. Does that mean it will be more work to switch off of AWS? Yes, but it was worth it for us.

For point #2: with that attitude we would have never adopted Docker. And adopting it early put us well ahead of the game. Now almost everyone seems to use Docker or something like it but if we waited for it to mature it would have taken longer to get the rewards.

I completely agree with #3, though. Although back to #1, taking advantage of cloud provider specific monitoring tools can save a lot of time and money.

Edit: someone is way too downvote happy. Or maybe I'm using downvotes wrong. I use it for "you're an ass" not "I disagree with you"... I'd love to hear the opinion of the person who downvoted me and why they feel that way.
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You also don't use integers!
I have a 5 year old Samsung fridge also. It's a piece of shit - since Day 1 the freezer makes ice and everything else stink of chemicals. Even after numerous air-outs, cleans, baking soda, the works. I can't wait until it dies. Fuck Samsung.
Looks like a copy and paste error on HN link, links to the one below... I think it should be:

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As someone living in a country where one of the biggest banks was robbed to fund hostile takeovers and media propaganda for many years (€3Bn spent on that), I can assure you that the law means jack shit.
If you're large enough it makes sense to be vertically-integrated with services you need frequently. They have a lot of wealthy people who need to operate in insecure regions, it makes sense that they'd deal with kidnappings etc. relatively frequently (indeed I'd look askance at an employer that expected me to work in a dangerous region and didn't have a policy/plan for such occasions).

There are any number of private security organizations; like any industry most (but not all) are professionals who know and operate within the relevant laws.
They estimate, sometimes well sometimes not. Recently Ive seen a region that ran out of an instance type, launching gives you an error, and you're sol for days if you can't adjust. Reserved instances are more than just a price reduction
what are you doing about offline attacks against the SSD crypto?
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Fingerprint is username, not a password.
That's a very good question :/. I have no idea why my post is being downvoted, it meets the community guidelines, and contributes to the discussion by pointing out an actual problem that users who were playing have encountered.
That appears to be false, as https://nic.blog/ is soliciting registrars to offer it and .blog does not appear on ICANN's list of exclusive use gTLDs.
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Is there a matrix of X-over-Y implementations? I would assume that we are converging to a fully filled matrix.
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