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The claim was that debt must go up 1-to-1 with capital inflows and that you can't regard the inflows as good without also praising the necessarily-corresponding debt.

It seems all these excellent answers actually agree that it's not true unless the money is deposited and re-lent.

That's certainly likely in practice, but far from the implied "Oh silly layman, foreigners can't invest in your business without your country's debt going up, it's physically impossible."
You said, "after experiencing very bad service from Azure".

Now that you give details it doesn't seem to fit what you said. Sounds like your issues were pricing (no trial, higher cost, fewer resources per $) and your confusion with Microsoft "jargon". That doesn't equal very bad service to me.
It was an insight for me to realise the central role beaurocracies play in successful countries. Rule based governanance. Continuity. Fairness As just categorically applied rule according to some distribution.
That's what I suspected too. Let me give it to Google who wants it. Even when the company grows and I require more power and more storage, I will still give it to Google.
To me that rate almost sounds usurious
The 5 commissioners of the FCC are appointed by the President of the United States. The commission may not have more than 3 members from the same political party. Effectively this means the FCC is dominated by the party of whomever is elected President.
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Definitely agree. Time is important to some extent because knowledge is different from practice, but the requirements are generally outrageous.

I've also hired tradespeople who did put in the time and were worse than doing the job myself after watching youtube videos for a few hours, so at that point what's it even accomplishing.
Those extortion payments will have to come from somewhere - ultimately it will probably be your pocketbook.
Author here! I had a lot of fun working on this at Lever, and I would love to answer any questions people have about jank.
Unfortunately the JavaFX menu bar is just as broken as the one in Swing. In particular (I'm sure there's more),

1. it gets very confused about the focus when alt-tabbing between windows (as alt, on Windows, also toggles focus on the menubar),

2. there is no attempt to solve the problem of submenus disappearing when you attempt to move the pointer towards them, which is solved in Windows and Qt with a delay, and in Mac OS and GTK with ... the solution that is actually documented in the OpenJDK wiki but not implemented: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Menu+User+Expe...

So JavaFX might be high-quality in some way I haven't noticed, but to me its immediately noticeable qualities were its general slowness and brokenness.
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Access to useful wireless bands for mesh topologies is a hurdle. The unlicensed bands (e.g. wifi) are such precisely because they're generally junk w/r/t to propagation and atmospheric absorption. The licensed bands are unsurprisingly gated by license holders in a way to enforce exclusive access, which often does not correspond to full utilization of the available bandwidth. Especially so with license holders than just squat on their bands indefinitely.
The paper that is linked to uses the fact that the harmonic series diverges (sums to infinity) to prove that the sum of 1/p diverges where the sum occurs over all primes. The article does not show that the harmonic series diverges. The standard proof of the divergence of the harmonic series is already quite simple.

The paper linked to is nice but the title of the submission is misleading.
Not particularly impressive. You can make an engine significantly lighter by changing the short block from cast iron to aluminum. The only problem is long term reliability (if an aluminum block ever overheats, it is significantly more likely to destroy itself than cast iron).
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I have made this argument before on the internet and I have learned that it is a European vs American perspective.

American cars in the 70s and 80s were monsters. Definitely heavier than modern cars.

For example, here are 10 popular cars in the US from 1984. http://www.caranddriver.com/features/1984-10best-cars-1984-h...

Audi 5000s: 2850-3100 lbs
Dodge Daytona: 2830 lbs
Honda Accord: 2300 lbs
Honda Prelude: 2220 lbs
Mazda 626: 2220 lbs
Pontiac 6000STE: 3000 lbs
Pontiac Fiero: 2580 lbs
Porsche 944: 2830 lbs

On the heavy side, no?

Then again, the best selling car in the US in 2016 is the Toyota Camry which is 3,245 to 3,480 lbs so I guess I'm wrong. Maybe US cars were monsters in the 70's then?
Trolls need personal responses. This aversion to conflict is why we have a shit internet. I am asking the person to introspect to maybe answer for themselves why they are so awful.
Based on those links, I think you may have confused "taste" with "irony". :)
47 comments in 40 minutes, especially with comments like mine, probably set off the flame detector. Not really complaining, the author of this article doesn't even deserve to be ridiculed.
>The winning candidate in at least a semi-functional democracy cannot be far-anything

The Weimar Republic in 1933 seems like a pretty good counterexample to that. Incidentally, it shortly stopped being the Weimar Republic and became known instead as the Third Reich.
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I guess you play on your phone. What app do you use? And what would be a good app for casual chess playing, learning, solving puzzles?
They still give (pilots at least) speed.
There are bitcoin ATMs in my city, so I would use that.
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Unless my post is related to my workplace, I am certain my employer would just tell them to play hide and go f themselves and to stop wasting their time.

This seems to me an attempt to get folks spun up talking about the BBC. Are they hurting for money?
It IS cooler, because everything that Google touches becomes gold, according to HN.
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That's a bad practice. Did you know: email addresses are case-sensitive on the left-hand-side.

It's discouraged by RFC5321 whilst also being defined by it.
TRIR = (Number of OSHA recordable incidents)*200,000 / (total number of hours worked)

It's already normalized for workforce size.

Source: https://www.csmgroup.com/trir-a-key-safety-performance-indic...
The narratives described in this article - "captivating the nation with tales of people who made fortunes" - reads very much like that around start-ups in recent years.

Maybe the real money is in creating books and TV shows about startups...
Nope, never. Just coming back to the JVM ecosystem, actually, as I've been away since around the Java 7 release time (with the exception of some Jython work).
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I have a 2016 Ford Mustang GT/CS and consistently get 23-24 MPG with mostly highway/freeway driving. It's unreal that a 5.0L V8 with 435HP (stock) gets that good gas mileage. The materials and fit & finish is better all around too.

We are truly living in the middle of another "golden age" of automobiles. Watch out though - here come the EVs :)
"The alternative is to stop improving and to instead do what the rest of the industry, including the UAW, has always done. But being industry average would make our safety 32% worse. We care too much about our team to go backwards."
Rust has a pattern-matching "let" and then you can prefix names within any pattern with "mut" to make it mutable. So a basic mutable var is "let mut" but it's just a combination of two other features. I think it's a totally neat design.
I’m not sure we’re at the point where chess is universally “good”. That might have been the case in Soviet Russia, where chess was hugely pushed by the state, or America in those Cold War years where ordinary society saw it as a noble way beat those Soviets.

Nowadays, however, chess is probably met more with indifference than anything else. One often hears complaints that it is a gimmick that merely shows that a person is capable of memorizing many, many thousands of positions, not that players are intelligent people in some other, more general respect (whatever “intelligent” might mean here).

Furthermore, it is also understood now that unless you invest in a very large library of chess books and dedicate all your waking hours to memorization, you’ll never be able to play chess at a high level regardless of your passion for the game. Yes, people still play e.g. football among their mates even if they know they aren’t ever going to be pros, but chess competition used to have an aura of being open to any clever player who just used his thinker, and that has now been generally shattered. Plus, computers beat people now.
The modern, rational perspective has not answered the question of "how did we get here?". A divine creator is one of many proposed answers to this ancient question.
I didn't say that all tech originate from the U.S, I even referenced a Swedish company in my comment.

I never said the U.S was the greatest country in the world or even implied that. You are projecting. You also seem to have a quite a chip on your shoulder. You have no idea what my nationality is.

That being said please tell me the country that has produced more successful tech companies than the US? Or what country has more available funding for tech startups and the appetite for risk? What country is that if it is not the US? I would like to know.
My 1999 Camaro Z28: 320 HP and ~3,400 pounds

My 2016 Camaro 2SS: 457 HP and ~3,700 pounds

Well, half-right at least...

That said, IMO that 2016 car drives like a budget Porsche Cayman while the 1999 car was a glorious tire-smoking muscle car. Ironically, I get slightly worse mileage out of the 2016 edition (22 vs 25 mpg).
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Database plus Copy-On-Write file systems sound like a bad idea. I am imagining a modest 100gb database being re-written for every change.

I am sure there is some way to work around this, but wouldn't this be the default behavior with a typical database and typical COW file system?
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Very likely. At least in Faceboook's corner, they might be looking to make a tidy sum on this, I mean, who would want to use the ISP that doesn't have Facebook?
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Even with Object.freeze() it only prevents mutation of the top-level keys.
Thanks mate. Seems a bit odd using the archive in this way (which never occurred to me) 8)
Not really, it's more like "Oh my god we don't have to use Java any more". I don't think it is particularly loved on it's own, it's just much better than Java.

Swift is similar in that iOS developers don't have to use Objective C any more, but actually looks like a nice language in its own right.

I think although Kotlin is going to be an improvement for Android development, it's not going to change much unless Google drastically simplify the actual Android API. You're still going to have to deal with this shit: https://github.com/xxv/android-lifecycle
>The problem is that these changes don't correspond to movements in the usual suspects: interest rates, building costs, population or rents

Shiller is ignoring:

* Banks relaxed lending standards.

* Appraisers were pressured to deliver fraudulently high appraisals (see 2005 petition delivered to Congress which was apparently studiously ignored by Shiller (Greenspan's advisor) and Greenspan who claimed "nobody saw it coming").

* The loans packaged into mystery-meat CDOs, misrepresented and sold on to investors by ratings agencies that agreed to look the other way for a fee (and declared their right to lie under the first amendment when challenged).

Shiller has always been a regular apologist for bankers though, much like that other Nobel prize winner who writes regular op-eds in the New York Times, so it's not that surprising he dumbed it down and shifted the blame.
Or just write a function to accomplish the same behavior: http://stackoverflow.com/a/35522422/364135

Would be nice if there was a multiLet in the stdlib. Probably something that happens eventually anyways.
Humans commit infanticide and some humans lick other human's buttholes. You're invalidating the sexual preferences of many people by claiming the latter is sub-human.

I'm just glad that a good portion of humanity has the intelligence to understand which evolved behaviors are and aren't appropriate. Maybe eventually we'll all figure it out. Your argument just doesn't stand up because, like humans, some animals have homicidal tendencies and others don't.

The global corporate food industry is a behemoth, but I still don't understand how the scenario I provided to you above, or sanctuaries, or zoos, are "holocaust". Please elaborate.

Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(biology)
Answering "how did we get here?" with "god did it" is just kicking the can down the road. Where did the god come from?
This is actually an Nvidia Project so theoretically it'll be used to target GPU's

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-NVI...
For the same reason omitting braces in C-style-syntax conditionals and loops is questionable, i.e. misleading indentation.

As a bit of an unreformed code golfer and a fan of ML-style syntax, I actually kinda like it myself; I was just listing a few things that are "considered questionable" (by some people) and present in both languages.
But those monsters have been replaced with SUVs, which are just as heavy, if not heavier.

Eg, the 1977 Ford LTD Country Squire Wagon had a curb weight of 4500lbs. It has been replaced by SUVs like the Expedition, with a curb weight of 5500lbs.
>Any errors the NN is making are not worth learning about.

But that's the whole point of this method! To understand what errors the NN might be making. It's also quite possible the NN's errors aren't really errors, if there are mistakes or noise in the labels.

This technique has been called "dark knowledge" and is really interesting. See http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/dark-knowledge-neural-netwo... They train much simpler models to get the same accuracy as much bigger models, just by copying the predictions of the bigger model on the same data. In fact you can get crazy results like this:

>When they omitted all examples of the digit 3 during the transfer training, the distilled net gets 98.6% of the test 3s correct even though 3 is a mythical digit it has never seen.
Based on the photos, it looks like they are playing some local variant of chess rather than the conventional game:
- the board is turned 90 degrees, so the white king is to the left of the queen;
- initial positions of knights and bishops are swapped.

Are there multiple different versions of chess played in India?
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Hm, I didn't get it to work with the prepopulated collations - I'll have to try again tomorrow when I'm back at my development machine.

Anyway, thanks a lot for this patch! It looks like it was a lot of work, and I'm very happy this made it into PostgreSQL 10.
I still fail to see what makes this questionable. It's just syntactic sugar that you don't even need to use, and which is pretty clear when you see it in the wild.
That's no longer true, at least in the US and at least officially. The only remaining "official" boost is Modafinil, which is much weaker (and none of the fun).
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"you're"

I wouldn't be so quick to not take a person seriously because she recognized an actor from a film you didn't like or see.
> First of all, the guy is stretched way too thin. He runs two huge companies.

As a CEO and founder, if he doesn't do enough, he can place greater burdens on his executive staff.

Now, this can be seen as 'unfair', but to whom? Why?

> They are building cars that real people will drive. You can't rush or cut corners with something that will kill people.

I feel that this is up to government regulation. The government should prevent unsafe cars from entering the road, not leave it up to the judgment of car-company CEOs.

> However, I'm starting to lose faith in him.

I maybe a natural cynic, but I never had 'faith' in him. He's doing the best he can, but his success or failure isn't something I root for. If he succeeds, well with all luck the outcome will benefit us all.

If he fails, well perhaps his competition will succeed in his place. It might take longer, but having electric cars popularized in 5 years, or in 15 years isn't too big a difference to me.
Thanks for sharing. Concise and easy to follow.

I ported it to C to try it out for myself. Turning off console output makes it finish almost instantly!
What I've noticed in most cities is that picking your ISP is a choice between the crappy but affordable cable connection, and the ultra-expensive but reliable fiber connection.
I'm generally in agreement with you, but one minor criticism, cell carriers are not home ISPs and there's a lot more competition in the cell carrier business because cell carriers are not limited by physical lines.

The physical lines are what kills competition in the home ISP business and largely breaks the market. If you look at countries where they've freed the physical last mile lines, the issues are a lot fewer as there is greatly increased competition.
unrelated to this particular release, but since we're talking about postgres... how do people find the ability to write stored procedures and functions in languages other than just SQL? I'm coming from a MSSQL shop and curious how writing a query in python for example has benefited anyone if at all -- did you / can you use modules like numpy or pandas in a postgres python procedure?
My first car crush was in high school: the 2002 Subaru WRX. It would be fine to get some souped-up monster, and high-end BMWs are always fast, but when I first saw those silly little bug eyes and the trademark blue color? God did I want one.

It was weird to figure out that it only came with a 2 liter engine. Apparently turbos help a lot. It was even weirder when the 2005 STI came out with the same engine ... and a bigger turbo. And it was yet weirder when I looked at a 2014 BMW 3 series ... and they have twin turbos and tiny engines.

To me, the last 15 years have been car manufacturers figuring out that with the right kind of engineering, you can get rid of turbo lag, and if you don't have lag or reliability problems, turbos make everything better. Smaller, faster, more fuel-efficient. My dad's sedan has a twin turbo these days. It gets 35 mpg.

I get that it's only one piece of the puzzle, but it's been so fun to see that tech go from niche-y to ubiquitous.
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Freedom of press does not mean you can just report on classified information without consequences.

In the US, you effectively can, assuming you are actually the press and have the means of defending yourself. While there are laws on the books that supposedly limit this in various ways, they are generally not invoked - notice the government typically asks papers to delay publishing classified information they may have received.
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1. Sure you can, if you have encapsulation.

2. Java does a lot with the keyword 'final'. I guess here you're talking about the concurrency behaviors of it? Does it bother you that you can remove 'final' via reflection?

3. It's still useful (e.g. not needing to use yoda-style ifs in languages where you can assign inside an if expression Just In Case you forget an =), but not very. That's my whole point.
Yeah, but it's only ~2800 lbs. And my FRS can easily average 40+ mpg on road trips. Sticking with 200hp seems like a good choice.
No affiliation with Heroku but to be honest, that price is basically nothing compared to the salary of an engineer who maintains a system like that.
You don't have to be eligible for a trial. Everyone can open a trial account with 200$ for 3 months. Additionally Azure App Services has a nice free tier which, if your needs are basic, might even let you run free forever. Disclaimer - I work for Microsoft.
This is an example of the DoD's insane bureaucracy. I can absolutely see this being the requirement or recommendation passed on to contractors. But the USAF, in building their default images, uses IE only. Like I said, other browsers can be installed on request.
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Did you try to check Wikipedia before writing this?
Language is named after island near StPetersburg where JetBrains main office is located (proof http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/breslav-1932...)

It has nothing to do with military bases. Just a memorable, concise name which sounds good in many languages.
Interesting but I am not sure you are not over generalising the legacy experience. With Tesla motors lately using induction motors for their top performance as well as their top economy models, that is a fair suggestion that 'PM free' can be superior, perhaps enabled by capabilities of modern power controllers.
Economy cars have gotten heavier, largely due to safety concerns. Bigger cars have gotten lighter.

So perhaps it would be fair to say that vehicle weights are converging on the low-mid 3000lb range.
Your 2000 Corolla was made roughly at the middle of the charts on that page. It's nearly 20 years old.
Nice one! I'm in the UK too so thank you :)
You might be interested in netflix's opensource solution ice ( https://github.com/Netflix/ice )

It's been very helpful to notice and track down extra costs as they come in
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Can you explain what you mean by this? I certainly am no math major, but I have a CS degree.

Also, how does this relate to ideas in computer security?
> The supervisor came screaming because you guys cant get it done

Every car company ever. A relative works at BMW, one of the "Zeitarbeiter" hired fordisassembly work on a old production line cut the power-cord that supplied the whole new assembly line drive unit in the other part of the hall. Suddenly - lights out (Guy wasn't hurt). Then those faces starting to search for the source.
Then the usual choir showing up, including if you delay long enough - factory management. Always the same tune.

Funny thing is also i you get the inter-weeks repair gap time to replace a stations robot. They are still producing at the line going out - when you rip the robot out, and replace it, measuring in, teaching - its all with the big stop-watch in the background.

Program changes are usually prepared ahead of time in this scenario- but when the unexpected hits, you get "Visitors"- i guess supposed to improve the "productivity" by applying "pressure". Usually you play as a team then, one "Catcher" keeps the "Suits" busy and away from disrupting the guy who has to code as if his life depends on it. My boss would have to tell you more funny storys..

TL,DR; Yes, Tesla makes Cars
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This doesn't take into account that manufacturers used to under-rate the horsepower on their cars. Legend has it for the purposes of insurance and the NHRA.
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