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I could be wrong. But I think that the two rates serve slightly different purposes.

The federal funds rate is an overnight rate for one. And I'm sure that American banks sometimes use libor for setting rates on securities.

I would be surprised if the Euro didn't have something that was closer to the federal funds rate than libor.
I use one of Google Docs, Confluence or Office 365
They just need people around to pick up all the dead birds...
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In the USSR there was a chain of stores ("Березка" - "Birch tree") where imported goods were sold for restricted currency. The currency was denominated in "rubles" but could only be obtained in exchange for a hard currency. The rate of the exchange has been arbitrary and the prices were too. The whole system had been set up to incentivize citizens who earned foreign currency (sailors, touring artists, diplomatic corps etc) to give it to the government. Giving it to the government had been mandatory, of course, but if they got nothing in return (or something as useless as regular rubles) they would be trying harder to hide their earnings. I'd imagine something like that could be going on here. It's hard to imagine an imported camera being offered for sale to regular citizens.
You underestimate the resourcefulness of farmers and the tenacity of reverse-engineers. To those who do it, I bet this is a lot more fun than cracking simple licensing protections on a software.
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I don't think it is wrong at all, I was just rephrasing it.
You can get a lot of Yogi Soothing Caramel Bedtime tea [1] and get very good nights of sleep for a year.

[1] https://www.walmart.com/ip/23658486
I am referring to commercial 3D printers which were $30k in 2010, compared to off the shelf printers sold today for $200. The cost of a microprocessor board of sufficient capability hasn't particularly changed between now and then.
> much better languages.

I disagree. Java has a bloated syntax, and C++ is a mess. Java also depends on a proprietary runtime, with mostly compatible free alternatives.

The biggest advantage C++ offers is speed, through memory management, which is usually a pain to deal with.

Go, on the other hand, has a well thought out syntax, good support for concurrency, garbage collection, and compiles to native executables.
Hey all, I worked on software for John Deere. This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. Opinions expressed here are MY OWN. I no longer work for John Deere or am associated with them in any way.

I was part of one of the many teams that work on this software. Specifically I was part of John Deere's ISG division also known as the Intelligent Solutions Group. The ISG division (was at the time) responsible for tying together various software built by OEM's, for building the central UI within the cabin, and for building various debugging and build tools. The team I was on, consisted of about 8 very senior engineers, and I think there were around 20 total engineers working for ISG at the time (though I saw, and knew only a handful of them). Now, when I say OEM integration, I mean suppliers and other John Deere divisions with their own teams mirroring ours. All told, I would estimate that John Deere has somewhere between 150-300 engineers working full-time on their codebase for their tractors.

Let me disabuse you of any myths. I have worked in software for 20 years. I have worked in large enterprises, and scrappy startups. This software is by FAR the largest, most complex codebase I have ever interacted with. Submission of any new code was seriously considered and reviewed before it entered production (sometimes to a pedantic degree), after which JD put all new code through 10s of thousands of hours of testing on production equipment. Production and release cycles take on the order of months to ensure that we don't kill people.

These are not riding lawnmowers. They are 30-ton combines, and 20 ton tractors tilling fields, with massive horsepower behind them. They have a real potential to end peoples lives in the event of failure, and these tractors do (in testing) fail in spectacular ways. If a team of hundred of engineers struggle with their codebase internally, Joe Farmer isn't going to have a fucking clue how to repair their software correctly.

Now should you, in theory, have the right to modify equipment you own? Sure. Absolutely. Hell, John Deere tractors run on open source software. But trust me on this, locking this down is a very good idea.

If you have the drive to make open source tractor software AND can make absolutely certain no-one ever dies from code you write, then go do it. Just keep in mind that the engineers that work on this shit really care about keeping people safe.
At the school I went to, many of the classes had no formal textbooks.

You bought a 50-100 page of not terribly dense text/examples; these were photocopies on plain old letter paper that were stapled together and pre-punched for three-ring-binders. Each class you'd buy one of those per semester and they were developed in-house. That was it. Naturally, it wasn't always this way, but certainly for the basic classes it was exactly this way.

Note this wasn't any sort of engineering field and what they were teaching didn't have a lot of authors writing standard issue coursework to begin with, but it was great material that was very focused to the classes they were teaching. I still hold on to them, too: very concise and a nice reference if I ever need to brush up.
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Environmental concerns is one of the two big reasons I would accept non-user-servisable hardware/software, second reason being safety of others (think people modding self-driving software in cars).

Because the minute an easily applicable patch that makes tractors do more for less, but with more pollution becomes available, a lot of people will apply it. Diesel cars already have this problem with particle filters.

It's not just companies that are greedy and want to profit off externalities; so are many (most?) people, especially when incentivized by financial pressures.
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Safety checks can have performance penality but that isn't necessarily impossible to optimize. Perhaps a new language is required? Can't we have a langauage for GPU with the same promises Rust can solve above C and C++?
The Chinese model of innovation is very different, precisely because they have a very different notion of IP too:

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
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I won't touch the geography of it all, but if a very good developer told me they were just average (as far as they knew), I'd say they're just being kind. True no matter where they are -- but I think more likely for remote workers, where getting along well is the best protection against office politics they can't see remotely.
There's something about a near-duopoly in technical fields that seems to encourage camps of dedicated partisans.

In addition to GCC/clang and Firefox/Chrome already mentioned, think Microsoft/Apple, Intel/AMD, nvidia/AMD, Boeing/Airbus, Playstation/XBOX...
I think that was Gurley's point. In many Asian countries the need is greater and the ability to sue lower, so self driving cars will be on public roads much earlier than in the US.
I'll gladly pay the cost of a John Deere mechanic from time to time before I go back to the purely mechanical tractors we used to have on the farm.

When I hear this kind of comment I have to wonder if: 1. The person has never spent time in a tractor. 2. Has never spent time in a modern tractor. 3. Has never spent time in an old tractor.
32,000+ stars is insane, how have I not heard of this? Does anyone have production experience with it?
To add to my own comment after seeing a lot of others.... Big companies won't screw you if you have a solid contract. No contract, no work. Fight hard for NET30 and stop working the day the bill is late.

We never got fucked by a single client more than maybe 1k. Not once. Because we stopped working when we didn't get paid.
I say the same thing on many of these threads. Most people rejected a at BigCos aren't rejected for failing to pass the technical bar(s); those people get filtered out in the phone screens.

The by far most common reasons interviewers offer for low scores are: didn't listen/didn't acknowledge when they reached the end of their knowledge/didn't test when they got off the rails/just didn't seem like a cooperative coworker.

These are all filters that may not matter at ye olde startup; but in a stable long lived team, these are red flags that seem corellated in my experience with lowering the morale of a dozen other people. So, even if you're a rock star, you might get rejected.
Level 4 includes autonomy in the "operational design domain (ODD)" of a vehicle. I'd have thought that on a tollway that's being maintained specifically to support some self-driving trucks that the difficulty of Level 4 is a few orders of magnitude easier than cars in a residential district.
forget damage the [million dollar] machine". an incorrectly modded component could, rather easily, kill or maim the operator. John Deere may not have authorized the component/root cause of the death, but you know they're gonna get dragged to court anyway
We use an Ember library of Semantic UI [1] and it's pretty much a drop-in install to get a visually coherent front-end up and running with a minimal amount of redesigning a wheel. It's themeable and pretty extensible on the CSS side (and is all prefixed with a 'ui' class), and on the javascript side Ember lets you get right to it's hooks with Ember.$.component(). It may be a little on the heavy side, but it's been designed to be severable when needed, by component, by css, and by javascript-requiring components. I've not felt hemmed in or constricted by it's design mechanics.

I've had a few javascript 'settings' fail to make it all the way to my Ember components, but in general these were bugs that were promptly fixed in newer versions. Docs are pretty good too.

I kind of like it. It's been pretty nice to just have a dropdown, a button, a label, a whatever out of the box without me having to figure out all the CSS tricks for mobile or various browsers. And the more I've used it I've been able to craft my own visual components upon its foundation that conform to a consistent style.

[1] http://semantic-org.github.io/Semantic-UI-Ember/
I am explicitly considering people totally unlike me, and I seriously think the musicians of the world would be better off without copyright too. Aside from the major rockstars, most artists I imagine are concerned with putting food on their tables, maintaining shelter over their heads, and keeping clothes on their backs.

I claim that without intellectual property the average person would have significantly more material wealth, the cost of living would be lower, and it would be much easier to maintain a living off of patronage than it is today.

My personal long term life goal is to understand how to reduce the marginal cost of supporting a human life to zero, so "we can have socialism for free" as I sometimes say. This necessarily requires that we eliminate artificially inflated costs, which is what intellectual property is. It requires other things, including more automation, but that will come. The issue is that more automation WITH intellectual property law means the wealthy of today will maintain their power over the poor tomorrow, continuing to artificially inflate prices for their own profits at the expense of average people. I believe that would be much more difficult to do if there were no intellectual property protections.
Cool video of a K-MAX in action. That's a really unique aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_K-MAX
They have two versions: an Excel doc and a cloud service. I have no idea what the cloud service is liek because the Excel doc is free.
Better than the scrolling I had on iOS which was shaking up and down as it was semi scrolling. Thought I had one too many drinks.
>>You don't want your final build to have a bunch of 'col-md-6' class names.

Why not? Who cares what your class names are?
This looks cool! thanks for pointing it out!
> The liberal millennium was upon us as the year 2000 dawned; fifteen years later, the autocratic apocalypse is at hand.

Oh please. We lived in a golden age of enlightenment, peace (our past president, did after all get the Nobel Peace prize), and prosperity and now the dark ages have come. Probably brought about completely unexpectedly "by the Russians".

> the failure of liberal élites around the world to address the perpetual problem of identity,

Maybe one of the reasons for its failure is precisely because they addressed identity, but in the wrong way -- creating "Identity Politics". Everyone gets to get called by the label they pick for themselves and it seems everything is good. Except it is good only on the surface. Ultimately this is just impotent outrage. Those who have power still do, those that don't still don't, even if they get called however they wanted in the public sphere.

It is interesting that this also gets shuffled over to the "left". That is liberals call themselves "leftists". Except, Marx would have probably laughed at that, and would have said "Why don't you destroy those who have power, instead of just forcing them to call you by a different label".

> American atavism has to take into account that the same system that produced Trump had immediately before given us the eight forward-looking years of Obama, who remains a far more popular figure than his successor.

Right. If the years would have been really forward looking and wonderful, we would not have ended up with a TV personality as the president. Trump is just a symptom. People expend tremendous amount of energy trying to get rid of Trump somehow. Marching, talking of impeaching, veiled and misguided hints at assassinations and so on without understanding he is a symptom of something deeper. If he is gone, there would be Trump 2.0 replacing him. And I am sure, just like I've heard people praising G.W. Bush compared to Trump, they'd be praising Trump compared to Trump 2.0.
I love semantic UI React for my teams internal tools. So easy to drop in an use without having to think about css
Sounds like an opportunity...
Tesla (the "car company") and SpaceX (the "rocket company") should be forever banned from discussions about the awesomeness of free market, because they're outliers. They're driven by a person with clear goals for the actual change of the world conditions, and companies themselves are used only as best available tools to achieve those goals. This is as far from your typical companies and entrepreneurs as one can get.
>The same "problem" occurred when people invented GPU mining, then FPGA mining, then ASIC mining. As long as SHA256 isn't broken, it doesn't matter what kind of speedup miners manage to get

This isn't a break of SHA256 obviously but it is a break of the PoW for Bitcoin. The whole point is that you have to hash the same amount of data for each attempt to find a block. ASICBOOST is about not having to hash the same amount of data. This isn't a speedup of the hashing algorithm, this is about avoiding needing to hash the same amount of data for every attempt. Call it an optimization if you want, but Bitcoin was designed with the goal that this wasn't possible.
Can one only see comments on that blog if they are logged into txtpen?
Since they store the actual passwords and lose the connection as soon as you change them, I'm shocked that you went years without changing those passwords..
A claim like that is better with links that show it. Especially if compared to John McCarthy. Show us what you have.
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Why are you disturbed ? The whole point of Mint is to track your spending so that you have a unified dashboard of your money ? If it didn't import all of those things you wouldn't have much use of it. Also you can remove accounts from it if you don't want it to track.
Apple designs their own SoCs, but they do not manufacture the chips themselves. Fabrication is contracted out to Samsung and TSMC.
Might also check out Ant Design.
https://ant.design/

It's integrated with React and there's a separate mobile UI for it. Ant is Chinese, with docs translated into English.
Like China, it's huge^^
I've just been fooling around with it today for the first time in create-react-app and seems good so far. Haven't tried on mobile.
There is no recording of any BoE official asking Libor to be changed, which I had partially expected.

Instead, a Barclay employee is on record saying: "The bottom line is you're going to absolutely hate this... but we've had some very serious pressure from the UK government and the Bank of England about pushing our Libors lower."

This is the equivalent of hearsay evidence, and how Dearlove brought up the BoE only illustratively further distances the BoE.

Also, the manager just says they had pressure for lower BoE rates -- but charitably read, the BoE may have meant through actually lending at lower rates and trusting your fellow banks. After all ensuring trust in the banking system is a core BoE function. Your parents might pressure you to get better grades, but often they don't intend cheating.

Now does is this evidence that the UK government wanted Libor rates lower -- sure. Does it increase the chances the BoE encouraged the manipulation -- probably. But is it a smoking gun where the BoE explicitly instructs manipulation? Far from.
Author of SUI here. There's some weird JS flickering occurring on the homepage in iOS.

Not an issue with the library (other pages besides homepage are fine), probably an issue with the gradient animation at the top of the homepage. I'll try to add a fix.
This is absolutely a valid criticism and should be debated rather than down-voted.

EDIT> Is it moral to give money to a regime that has killed millions of its own citizens? I mean, unless you're secretly giving medical supplies to the poor, your money is only benefiting the elite.
But designing and manufacturing are different.
I still can't imagine that this makes sense. Even if everyone is a developer on paper, you should be spending more time on all the other parts of running a company. CEO still writing code half of the time when everyone else is writing code all the time puts it over the edge. Don't you also need Designers, QA, Ops, Marketing, or CFO?
I've done a few projects with Sematic UI. I think it's great for desktop based business applications. It looks slick, and has great animations. Plays nice with heaps of frameworks, I was using meteor.js

However, don't use it on mobile - it will destroy performance.
I think Google takes it one step further and minifies the CSS class names
These two rates serve different purposes. The Fed Funds rate is the rate at which banks earn interest on money held there (so keeping it low encourages banks to not keep it there, raising it does the opposite).

LIBOR (and there are different LIBORs for different currencies and maturities, the main one is USD 3-month) is the rate that banks lend each other on an unsecured basis. Technically, each bank determined their own LIBOR based on how they see the market and what they believe they can borrow at (hence our problems).

The important thing about LIBOR is that many trillions in notional of derivatives use it as a reference, so changing it has very real impact for all market participants (including pension funds, etc.). Even floating rate loans are often based on LIBOR.
We used Semantic UI for Startup School (https://startupschool.org) and it has been awesome. Really happy with the choice.
This isn't just about phones or other devices.
But my worry, as an American, is reciprocity.
Nobody, except the individual that has to change them all when you need to swap out frameworks or upgrade to a version that breaks compatibility or the product team decides on a new layout across the app...
I don't know this game but just want to say this sounds like a great plot to put on a movie. I wonder if anyone recorded these online and can turn into a documentary. Would be exciting to watch.
The risk of disinformation to manipulate sentiment (and Trump) is high. It may be an Assad WMD attack (ie they cheated on WMD destruction) or it might not (ie ISIS agitators using false stories). It's hard to tell without "slow news" investigative journalism to get real facts.
His delivery is the most incredible thing about this video. It makes the AI's output seem almost comprehensible.
>They're always about John Deere and only John Deere. Aside from the Motherboard / Vice article, they never provide any specifics about the maintenance or repair operations that farms are prevented from doing on their own.

John Deere essentially is the entire market for these machines. Especially in the US.
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Some people think bootstrap without dashes in the class names is better... or is there more to it?
Yes it is. Didn't know they published it this way.

If I may, I didn't like the "we the real OO man, look at our dispatch" feel sometimes. Hubris if you ask me.
I'm not familiar with the actual design decisions involved, but I'd also imagine field of view for an on-the-spot operator would be better than for someone operating through cameras, unless you invest in a very expensive surround setup.
Correct.

Labeling stories "real" or "fake" news does nothing to advance human knowledge and understanding.
The cigarettes section of the "Privileged Store" [1]. At least Kim Jong-un cares about your lungs. (Also, the electricity goes off and nobody bats an eye [2]. They must have the POS computer on a battery.)

[1] https://youtu.be/uLvJgOgW4hk?t=245
[2] https://youtu.be/uLvJgOgW4hk?t=505
A recent HN post about four square is that they pivoted to an API that tells you who is shopping and where. They use Instagram data . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052444
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You sure nobody is being forced to buy new ones? That would be true if new ones offer no competitive advantage. If there is an advantage, then farmers trying to increase output or reduce cost might have to go for new tractors.
LIBOR refers to a package or rates of which the US Dollar 3 month Interbank offer rate is the most famous. If the Bank of England wanted to control this rate, they would have to come in with infinite liquidity to control the rate. The Fed effectively has infinite liquidity in USD so it can control the Fed Funds rate. Also, it is worth noting that the fed funds rate is an overnight rate, and 3m LIBOR is for three months, so the capital commitment to control it would be much larger.
> I see two import aspects that Spring provide: first, dependency injection/inversion of control as basis and then a way to 1000+1 things "right".

DI creates debugging nightmares by moving what used to be compile time checks to runtime. Fowler was wrong.
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One thing you have to say about the criticisms of liberalism and its structural failures that led to WWI: at least communism, national socialism, and various totalitarianisms had some meat to them. These attacks on Enlightenment liberalism are just whining.
Gigabit port limited to 30TB. It should be able to handle the load patterns fine. That's from Hetzner. That's only one continent by itself, but that's a very significant chunk of the load solved with 1-2 servers.