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they don't care because interest keeps accruing on your loan and you cant get rid of it.

I often wonder if the easy answer is to make student-loan debt dischargeable on bankruptcy. Yes, some banks would stop making the loans. But, would they all? I have to assume there would still be a market for student loans.
Isn't XCode a completely artificial barrier?

In Linux and Windows, it's always possible to compile for any platform, at the worst using a VM

Essentially Apple is exploiting its developer community by decreeing that you must use a Mac to develop for iOS giving it guaranteed sales.
> I feel the jobs argument is outdated. As of right now the fed is unable to induce inflation despite huge amounts money pumped into the market. In other words the fed lost its ability to control employment.

That was probably true 2-6 years ago but since then the Fed has raised rates in Dec 2015[1], Dec 2016[2] and shows signs of raising them again (meaning that inflationary policies are doing something). The "liquidity trap" is mostly over.

> It also ignores the productivity gains from increased demands of bigger markets created by free trade.

How can an individual gain productivity from increased trade? Without increased education or new technologies, individual productivity (and in aggregate, world productivity) will not be affected by changes in trade policy.

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/201...

[2]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/201...
There was a subsidy relating to "business" vehicles weighing over 3 tons. It was supposed to target commercial equipment but lots of small business owners just started buying huge SUVs. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2008/07/high... It's been toned down a bit recently. http://www.section179.org/section_179_deduction.html
That is a cool product. I'm thinking of a form factor like that but longer or wider so the components are not all on top of each other.
The most interesting thing about the arrest of a senior VW manager and this is that, evidently, software isn't too hard to investigate. It's probably not easy, but if a white-enough-box test of the ECU shows it cheats by detecting a dynamometer using a simple expedient that has no practical use on the road, then you have evidence that will stand up in court.
I didn't read this article , is the title a good summary?
Consumer demands are a big part of it. I doubt they would have too many issues meeting emission specs if passenger cars were limited to the 40-50kW they realistically need.
Reminds me of the designer who redesigned Microsoft's branding [0], and got a job there [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195208
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5085915
What do you mean by calling the phrase "making a bet" a chauvinism? It just seems like a figure of speech. Gambling has existed for a very long time.

(I don't mean to disagree or agree with you, just genuinely don't know what you mean, might end up going either way after you explain your cryptic (to me) remark)
It is also important to recognize that Newtons time had come. Newton doesn't make those discoveries 1000 years before or after. Our thoughts are placed in time, just as much as this message is in response to the timing of the authors post.

In addition, It's not too infrequent that you'll find another scientist who wrote about the same thing 30 years earlier, or in Newton's case with Leibniz, concurrent.

Rarely do we take a big view of the species, a creature that has been alive and thinking much longer than us, winding its way through time.
It's a cache, not an origin.
100% of software operations are loops, it's just that some of them are only run once ;)

Joking aside, computers help us handle loops more efficiently; that's it. The 20% "non-loop operations" are just the fabric that tie the loops together.
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I enjoy the convenience of ebooks and that is the majority of what I read. Personally, when it comes to books related to drawing, art, design, I prefer physical books in these cases.

I like to lay these books out on a large working surface while I'm working on new techniques. I have tried digital books for this in the past, but found it inconvenient due to things like screens auto shutting off, poor resolutions, inability to flip quickly back and forth between marked sections causes an interupption in the thought process, etc...
Most stores don't stop accepting cash right now, and I doubt they will in the future. I know more shops refusing credit cards than ones refusing cash in France.

You can also live without a bank. Several people I know do so. Again it's work, but it's possible.

A lot of the time, people saying it's impossible really are asking "how can I keep my confortable life 'as-is' while going off the grid". THAT is impossible. You can't live your current life, because it depends heavily on the system.
Moore's law has not ended (yet). Transistor count is still following an exponential curve.
Instead of fancy design, I would rather see some fairly boring box that would enable Apple to use almost off-the-shelf hardware. Kind of hackintosh, but made by Apple. This way it would be much easier for them to bring regular (yearly) hardware refreshes.
Oh, absolutely. I'm not trying to make a blanket endorsement of, for example, "data-driven decision making" as a groupthink thing that everyone must do. That can, and does, lead a lot of unwary businesses down a lot of blind alleys.

But the flip side is also true -- blanket dismissal of information work as "self-preserving bullshit" is equally, or more, naive.
You should read the article I linked though. After taking the data and replacing it with a README that says where to pay the ransom, the server is still left unsecured.. so someone else comes along, takes down that README and puts their own up with their own bitcoin address. Presumably if you pay them, you'll get back the next ransom note that says who to pay next, and so on, and as long as no one screwed up and everyone was honest about the ransom, after you've paid several people you'd eventually get your data back.
EpiPens are medical devices, not drugs, so the regulatory approval process is significantly different. Whereas drugs usually take around 15 years and about a billion dollars to develop and approve, medical devices can take as little as 3 years and $25 million. For example, the entire approval process for the Revo MRI-conditional pacemaker was less than two years [1] (although companies enter an active dialog with regulators long before submitting the application).

The prescription you get for adrenaline is actually for the autoinjector mechanism, which is significantly cheaper to develop and test than a pacemaker, so I'd bet the numbers are at most 5 years/$50 million.

[1] http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpma/pma....
"We can't press charges when someone's driving drunk until they crash into something or kill somebody. Our hands our tied!"
Really helpful feedback, thanks! I can definitely incorporate and adapt a lot of these points with what I do.
10 million net jobs were created during the Obama administration. How many of those did he tweet about?
> Which fallacy is that? The "fallacy" of substitute goods?

That your opponents won't notice this happening to the first currency. You're trying to starve the system with billions of dollars of transactions!

You're discussing taking on the coins in order, but you only get one element of surprise.

> Maybe in your haste to cry fallacy you just forgot to mention an actual Bitcoin side chain that would be competitive with Ethereum or Montero in that situation?

No, I did but you didn't notice. The off-network exchanges. They're already what 90% of coin holders think of bitcoin as, so they wouldn't notice or care that big transactions between exchanges took a long time to settle. Like I don't care where or when my physical bank trucks the paper money.

Also, the $1B / month you're injecting would fund a lot of work on the ecosystem.

> Burden of proof is on you at this point.

No, it doesn't swap back and forth every post. When I discount your vampire-bats plan by pointing out the sun, I don't suddenly have to prove the existence of the sun.
You are free to choose a level repayment plan if it would be a lower monthly amount than IBR. I do exactly that.
The Democrats are a threat to our democracy. Less so than Republicans, but still. One only need to see the deregulation under Bill Clinton, the war machines of Clinton and Obama, the explosive growth of the surveillance state, the war on whistleblowers, and hell - even how Democrats manage their own primaries by rigging townhalls, the party itself treating it's own candidates unfairly, and having a system of super-delegates in place just in case all else fails. So quit acting like they are somehow sacrosanct.

The article never stated Trump is a victim - in fact, it advocates opposing him.

The article never claimed Putin was a good guy.
Immoral by what measure?
Practicalities of getting people to learn throughout their careers are daunting
But... isn't it true that at Newton's theology was at the foundation of his physics? The idea of a single deity whose intelligence crafted a rational world, the laws of which it is man's duty to uncover, is certainly not incidental to his discoveries.
Linux on the desktop for the last nineteen years, in various flavors. It's just never going to compete with the MacOS experience.

I used Mac as a software dev for three years and went from enthusiastic to "never again".

Macs aren't for everyone and while I move back and forth between Linux and Windows I still defend Mac users, even wish there where more of them to really stokke the fire under Microsofts desktop division : )

What I can totally live without though is the "Mac is objectively best" attitude. It is NOT. At least not for everyone.

So: can we please stop? I'll defend you paying for your tools and you guys stop acting like our operating systems of choice aren't as good as yours?

Please?
If browsers detected AMP pages and treated the address bar accordingly:

Cached from: nbcnews.com/some-article

Would you feel better about it?
Another reason to think it's nearly industry-wide is that ECUs, ECU firmware frameworks, sensors, and interface firmware come from a small set of common suppliers. Anyone not hitting a competitor's' numbers knows their competitors are using the same hardware and much of the same software.
FTA:

"This testing revealed that the FCA vehicle models in question produce increased NOx emissions under conditions that would be encountered in normal operation and use."
As show very tangibly by Apple recently opening up and allowing their AI researchers to publish.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/26/apple-publishes-first-ai...

> AI is an increasingly competitive field, and Apple's past reluctance to contribute to scientific knowledge may have scared away potential hires who wanted their discoveries recognized. If papers like these become relatively commonplace, Apple might have an easier time attracting the talent it needs for self-driving car platforms, Siri and other AI-based projects.
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Train top20 language pairs.

Make mobile app that takes picture, runs OCR, detects language and feeds into model.

Translate

???

Profit

All offline, after the models have loaded once.
Of course I a admitted a degree of certainty and responsibility, that is required in either case. I just argue that it differs, because the lethal dose of cannabis is ridiculously high.

But I can appreciate the Irony of the question, no doubt.

Edit: wording

Edit: well, the LD is probably not that high, i wouldn't recommend to try for it
EPA: Fiat Chrysler diesels have illegal software to thwart emissions controls
Incredibly relevant. Also entertaining. Thanks.
How so? Many of these workers will likely be coming from similar jobs in the retail space where Amazon's increased presence is simply displacing them. When workers are paid at or below the minimum wage they often have to rely on government subsidies to make ends meet. The article even points some of this out.
> Please don't get stuck on semantics.

That's a blaming statement used to indicate someone is being pedantic, which can then be used to "prove" them wrong by the followup. All of your counter examples are based on the obtaining a better position, which is all about dealing with globalized suffering (money is stored work and work is a unit of causality and suffering is a result of causality).

Newton presumably pursued understanding the unknown, which means he chose his own suffering/work that was different from any objective based on making bets to get ahead in life at the time.

I think it's entirely fair to point out that Newton wasn't betting at the time. He was discovering purely for the sake of discovery.
Is it a political move? How couldn't it be?

They're hiring 100,000 people because they can put them to work and make a profit.

They NOT hiring 100,000 people to make Trump happy or make favors in the administration.
>In 1929 John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2029 people in the developed nations could enjoy a perfectly civilised standard of living while working for 16 hours a week.

This is true today if you wanted to live at the same standard of middle class living in 1929, complete with eating only meals hand cooked from base ingredients and no concern with the environmental effects of things like burning coal and garbage.
more supplementary readings:

"SILENT RISK :NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB" ( pdf )

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/SilentRisk.pdf

and

"Taleb: The Intellectual Yet Idiot"

https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
That's a very interesting insight, but isn't it also true that Newton decidedly left theology out of calculus and mechanics? What distinguished his three laws was that he chose not to explain, for example, the motion of something by its "ferver" or "jubilance," as his predecessors did. People at the time may not have treated the fields so separately, but Newton did.

Edit: I just ran the quote through Google Translate. Still, merely casting God as being ultimately responsible is a step forward from interweaving theology throughout your physical theories.
Rates would need to skyrocket to compensate.
>I have never heard of such a link or economic property that would demonstrate that volatility is impacted by the sign of the inflation rate.

Then you must have been asleep during economics class when they covered the great depression.

Most modern currencies are inflationary and have taken steps to remove deflationary properties like the gold standard, because it exasperates volatility and economic bubbles. It promotes hoarding, which decreases liquidity and increases volatility.

It's exactly why quantitative easing is used to increase supply of money in order to maintain a specific range on inflation.
You didn't answer anything I asked,

Did you ask anything? I read over the thread and only saw statements.

other than anecdotally saying A is better than B, just because.

This could have been a reply to your posts actually.
Inflation is on the way back in the rich world, and that is good news
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The news is too late for me. Two of our development servers are already compromised. Anyway I added those servers under NAT so those servers are inaccessible from internet. Added admin access credentials also. The news should have been spread without any delay.
There are jobs so bad that being unemployed is an improvement because at least then you have time to find something better.

Too many people are stuck in the trap of working for a terrible employer that beats them down psychologically, treats them like dirt, and forces them to jump through endless hoops just to keep their crappy job.
It's all out in the field, and fixing the problem in the field would be devilishly hard. VW's cheat enabled them to sell diesels without urea injection. Retrofitting that without admitting guilt or drawing attention isn't practical.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DepthHub/

It's a curated list of in depth submissions(posts and replies) from many subreddits.
How much time would it take for a professional designer to put something like this? What tools would you use?

I'm not a designer and just curious.
> One is idemopotency - The fact that it is not easy to run the above script on a bunch of host just to 'fix up' a config that was somehow broken or to add or amend a directive in httpd.conf type of thing

In my case, I simply overwrite all config files and restart all services. This is not "efficient" (but still sub-second), but I believe this is idempotent by all means.
Take full advantage of it?

I mean, cloning things has its advantages too. Could be a good idea for some people to deliberate screw up the process and drastically cut down on their daily workload. Or perhaps as a way for the less ethical to not kill or work alongside their accidental copies, but ship 'em off to join the army or something.

Teleportation going wrong can be just as exciting as prospect as it working out fine. Cloning has a lot of useful applications as well.
People don't (normally) die on the street of preventable diseases because they cannot afford a doctor. We also take care of our elders and have mostly free quality education for everyone. Our streets are clean and we have public infrastructure/services.

But job opportunities do suck, that's why most of the good people go abroad to get better jobs.
I like https://www.reddit.com/r/sixwordstories/. A good place to start with it is https://www.reddit.com/r/sixwordstories/top/?sort=top&t=all.
So djb writes crypto code that works and everybody switches to it but it isn't because his stuff is any good? Through the entire article he doesn't list anything wrong with the djb crypto stuff and ends up calling it 'brakish' and 'camel dung'? Really? It isn't because djb stuff is good, it is because everything else is crap? WTF?
A) We're talking about Amazon here so don't be too quick to talk about profits.

B) They've only stated their intent to hire people. They haven't actually done it.

C) Is this net +100K or just 100K new hires? It's not clear if this is including churn or not.
You don't seem to understand the technology or the argument you made. The URL bar says google.com because google.com is serving the content you are reading. In other words, it exactly honors the "fundamental contract" you find so important.

I also dispute your qualitative opinion that nbcnews.com works "just fine". If I load their top story currently from AMP it loads in about half a second. If I visit it from nbcnews.com it renders in about seven seconds and doesn't finish loading for about 90 seconds, and then when it does I get a big popover survey/ad thing with a dismiss button that's too small to touch. The mobile experience on this site is far from fine.
The Notice of Violation (NOV) [0] is worth checking out if you're interested in the nitty gritty details of regulatory enforcement. It's quite readable and paints a clear picture that EPA believes FCA violated the Clean Air Act. Specifically that they have software/code (AECDs) which were "neither described nor justified". Also interesting that they already set up a short URL for this particular issue. [1]

[0] https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-01/documents...

[1] https://www.epa.gov/fca
Plain decentral RSS is being used and has been all the time since like 1999-2001.

If you're missing a big-time "disruptive" announcement on HN, let's run a story about RSS so that it becomes a thing again in people's minds. We can pepper it up with JSON support and call it RSS 3.0 (but please let's not go down the Atom rabbit hole).
Sibling comment by lucozade is good. To be more specific, it's because OS-level threads are the only way the kernel gives applications to run any code at all. When an OS-level thread makes a syscall, it ceases to run any application code until that syscall completes- it's just an ordinary function call that also switches to kernel mode.

The OS kernel itself provides both blocking and asynchronous syscalls. So if your OS-level thread is switching between several coroutines, and one of them makes a synchronous read() syscall, the whole OS-level thread blocks and can't run any other coroutines until the read completes. If it instead makes an asynchronous syscall, the kernel returns immediately and the OS-level thread can switch to another coroutine while the first one waits.
I'm sure we'll get another image format based on the I-frame compression from a video codec but I agree that BPG is unlikely. More likely is we get something from AV1, which should be patent unencumbered and hopefully perform better.
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To clarify Blender was originally a closed source private software created at Dutch studio Not a Number (NaN). Which Ton Roosendaal was software engineer at and helped create blender.

The source code was then releases by NaN under some licencing scheme. Only after a fund raising drive to buy the code for something like a few hundred thousand dollars from NaN and re-release it under an OSS licence did Blender become open source.

Its important to understand that Animation Studios hire the majority of Computer Graphics researchers, Programmers and Artists. Without the commercial Animation industry there would be a small fraction of the research and innovation that we have today. And also a fraction of the innovative open source Computer Graphics projects that we have.

Open source projects like Open SubDiv (Pixar), Ptex (Disney), Open VDM (Dreamworks), and many others are all projects that are created by Animation Studios and would not be possible without the funding and expertise that these studios have.
I agree. I think a better alternative to the alarmist "induce a recession" is probably something like "lower demand".
"We can't press charges when someone's driving [seemingly] drunk until, [we know for a fact they are drunk or,] they crash into something or kill somebody. Our hands our tied!"

Be careful, your hubris is making conclusions you don't have facts for. You're more than likely right, but its a bad habit to start.
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YW. Enjoyed reading the article.
I know my manager is flailing and/or drowning when:
> As the article says, Bernstein's stuff won out because his work is at the intersection of solid crypto, clean and performant code, and sane API design.

As a casual observer, my impression has been pretty different. Here's an excerpt from the README of curve25519-donna, which it seemed like everyone was using for a while:

curve25519 is an elliptic curve, developed by Dan Bernstein, for fast Diffie-Hellman key agreement. DJB's original implementation was written in a language of his own devising called qhasm. The original qhasm source isn't available, only the x86 32-bit assembly output.

Since many x86 systems are now 64-bit, and portability is important, this project provides alternative implementations for other platforms.

My impression has always been that what we get from DJB is some wacky implementation written in a language of his own devising, or just the 32bit assembler output of that, or some partial code fragment that has to be disentangled from his benchmarking library, and the only thing that makes this usable are people who are motivated to do the work of making it digestible by mortals.
In other news: git just announced a cheap generic alternative to ObamaCare.
Um...SPARC is still fabbed by Oracle and Fujitsu in a Couple of different forms, and in the past by at least Sun, TI, Weitek, Ross & HAL. From an implementation perspective, there's been, what, 9 generations of the ISA now? And all sorts of variants: SPARC, SPARC64, SuperSPARC, SPARClite, HyperSPARC, Niagra, UltraSPARC, TurboSPARC and whatever Fujitsu called their just introduced supercomputer SPARC variant.
Since he's not president, the credit is definitely not due to Trump, though I'm sure he'll take credit for it regardless.