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Awesome! I was born in Auburn, grew up in Brock, took piano lessons at and skateboarded the hills of Peru, and went to high school in Johnson. Small world.

My first exposure to computation was in a basement room at Peru State College, where Stan McCaslin set me up to play Trek on a line printer terminal that was dialed into some machine in Omaha. A couple of years later, the TRS-80 Model I was released, so this was quite a while ago.
This comes off as mindless sniping without any support for the point. It's a non-contribution.
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Thanks for the advice. You are absolutely right that motivation has to come from within. A fair amount of research shows that the happiest and most productive people are intrinsically motivated. My partner's true passion is transportation engineering and, more specifically, sustainable mass transportation -- but, as you note, it's a difficult field to break into.

A poster upthread linked a video about getting work. The speaker advocates doing free or nearly free work in whatever interests you most, the theory being that these activities will eventually pay off. I think it's a fabulous if rather unorthodox idea. Since we're financially stable with my income, I've told him to give it a shot.
The US did not come within one day of defaulting. It came within a day of hitting the debt ceiling, which is a very different thing. Despite the way it was portrayed, the government could have limped along for days our weeks without defaulting.

(I'm not saying that would have been a good thing--just that the idea of August 2nd as the day default would have occurred is incorrect.)
> Another example taking over the Ed Loans from the private sector and than not raising some type of tax to pay for it.

Don't take talking points at face value... Student loans in the "private sector" were a misnomer--they were backed by the Fed Gov't. The private lender had no risk, just guaranteed profit. We saved money by ending subsidizing the private market and making the loans directly. The "takeover" was simply ending the government backing of private loans. Not much of a takeover if you ask me. The private sector can still make loans all they want, they just have to be on the hook for it.
That could be my fault: I editorialized the title to emphasize Top Gear faking an electric car failure, whereas the original title, Top Gear's electric car shows pour petrol over the BBC's standards, places more emphasis on the question of why BBC is or isn’t maintaining its standards.

Mea Culpa, thanks for raising the point.
Dropping semicolons also breaks a good deal of minifiers.
(You have an invalid link there, according to the BLS.)

There was also another big event around 1973! Peak oil in the US, where oil went from being an increasingly available, cheap indigenous resource for the US, to a less abundant, less cheap natural and imported resource.

Here's the chart:
http://www.energybulletin.net/image/uploads/27804/us-product...

Of course, in reacting to this, a critical mistake was that the US started to become embroiled in global resource wars (versus fighting communism), culminating in occupying much of the resource-rich territories of the World. This, instead of expanding other resource avenues, such as solar and other renewable resources.

US Military World Footprint
http://www.ppu.org.uk/pm/usbases.html

If you look strictly at the effects of the current Libyan civil war / UN action, rather than the rhetoric, it's easy to see that beside the effect on the Libyan people, the primary benefit to the US has been to shut-down Chinese oil-exploration and production in Libya, and when complete, a US-friendly regime will be established that will allow US companies into Libya's oil fields.

<a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bNqdC4V... Energy Majors Evacuate Staff from Libya Amid Unrest</a>
do you expect an iPhone blog to give glorious reviews to an Android phone?

Taking the guys on Top Gear as legitimate motoring journalists is the same as taking Stephen Colbert as a legitimate Republican.

Top Gear is about three idiots who love cars. Watching Top Gear for car buying advice is like watching Jersey Shore for dating advice.
C'mon. Hacker is probably more suited for this forum.

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker

Having said that, Bork Bork Bork is my favourite, due to too much time watching The Muppet Show as a child.
"S&P has said their decision to downgrade the U.S. was based in part on the fact that the Budget Control Act, which will reduce projected deficits by more than $2 trillion over the next 10 years, fell short of their $4 trillion expectation for deficit reduction."

This confuses me. I'd always understood "deficit" as the amount the government spends more than it takes in, in a given year, and "debt" as the cumulative deficit, i.e., total money owed.

In this case, it seems like they're using "deficit" to mean total debt? Or is the US really increasing our debt by more than $4 trillion a year, and this is a plan to overspend by less?
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Then a financial crisis hits and the government finds itself unable to react to the needs of a paralyzed market. It's a nice idea in principle. But any time something like this or a balanced budget law/rule comes up in congress, it never has a provision for reacting to emergencies.
We were within days of the debt ceiling, not of default. Plenty of things could have been shuffled around to meet all debt payments (including some politically useful ones like stop sending SS checks, don't pay the troops, etc).
They deserve to be called out. This isn't their only mistake. These clowns are the same bunch who kept giving AAA scores to complex mortgage-backed securities during the housing boom.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-13/moody-s-s-p-caved-t...
This is a really stupid idea.
His name is Linus Torvalds, not Torvald.
"If you’re ok with not being able to use this from non-jailbroken iOS devices, you should use OpenVPN instead of PPTP as I do so below"

I had to read it three times, but you are both in agreement.
> Since cars spend most of the day parked somehwere, you have lots of opportunities to plug an EV in

Maybe in theory, but how many outside wall outlets do you see, and who's paying for the electricity?
I can understand this fear. Gold standard discussions are usually extremely dull and turn religious in no time.

But the article describes the political context, people and decision-making of this historic event. Much was guided by thought of TV audience response and the next election result. Those concerns are not necessarily the best ones to build a financial system on. Still this is what shaped the decision.
This this this.
Part of my job is to do industry analysis to help my partner write blog posts to build our brand.
After a few very painful months spent debugging crap data and models, I realized that the consumers have zero interest in accurancy or correct meaning, so we shouldn't have any either. It is all in good fun gossip.
Tea Party. Given how the Tea Party has paralyzed the political process.

"process in Washington" makes it sound like inclement weather. It's poeple.
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While this is cool, i'm surprised by its lack of features : no real editing, the rendering is nowhere near openoffice standards, and the documents just "look different".

Also, did it really take all this while for someone to come up with javascript apis for ODF? Or are there existing tools out there?
Surprising that there are no full featured web-based ODF editors even when the standard is completely DOM based and open, and quite old already. How hard is compiling a bunch of XML (what ODF is) to some HTML anyway?
I thought gold stopped backing up the dollar in the 1930s, just after the great depression?
First of all the $4 trillion was over 10 years, not 1 year. Second, as far as I know, they haven't actually done any spending cuts - just cuts from the "spending increase" they were planning.

And USA may "plan" $4 trillion dollar less spending, but that doesn't mean they will actually do it. Right now the deficit keeps rising, and fast. It's supposed to go down, not up.
In 1998, I wrote MIDI support into Frodo (the C64 emulator). Later, my suggestion got the developers of UAE (the Amiga emulator) to implement MIDI support in UAE.

So it is possible to recreate the environment by passing the MIDI data back and forth between Windows and the program running on UAE.

The same goes for mouse support, graphics tablets, etc etc.
This was my favorite part: "Independent of this error, there is no justifiable rationale for downgrading the debt of the United States."

Apparently having a fraction of Representatives (you know, reps from that body responsible for initiating all spending bills) saying that default might be a good thing is not a "justifiable rationale".
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Here is a link to a comment that I made in another thread that might be helpful;
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2799727
In that sense, the wall scanning is a bit of a gimmick; the critical thing is to remember you want/need to buy something.

This is the big thing. I work for an online grocery shopping startup, and when speaking to lapsed customers the biggest answer we get as to why they've stopped shopping with us is that they forgot we exist and went to the supermarket instead. Breaking people's habits is a hugely difficult thing, but vital in a sector where most people's first thought is to go to drop into Tesco on the way home from work.
He is the anti-Steve Jobs on the axis of closed/open systems. He is similar on other axes, which is what anti means for stuff like physic particles.
"The Cloud" has radically changed this situation. Sure, it will always be possible to accidentally delete or corrupt something, and, yes, there are formats that will be unreadable in the future, but the fact that

- ingress to the cloud AND
- storage in the cloud

have costs rapidly approaching $zero mean that storing duplicate copies is already almost automatic.

I have a stack of 5.25" and 3.5" floppies with all my high-school & college papers and code on them. They may or may not be readable today. But EVERYTHING I have done in the last 15 or so years is on multiple hard disks both in my home and in the cloud. I did not have to work too hard to make that happen.

Today it's even more automatic. Dropbox, Amazon S3, Amazon Cloud Drive, Flickr, cloud based email, all mean just about everything I do/have digitally is preserved in a far more accessible and stable way than ever was previously possible.
Do you need an extended warranty to get this level of support from Apple, or can you just walk into the store and demand that they fix it?
Modern Monetary Theory reveals the entire premise of this issue to be false. The private sector does not fund the public sector in the way that most people believe. Non-convertible floating FX currency regimes (ie fiat money) such as the US,UK, and Japan can meet any and all financial obligations by issuing currency.
Thus:
1) Taxes do not fund government. ( they 'back' the currency)
2) Treasury securities do not fund government. ( they are a tool to control interest rates)
3) Social security is solvent and we are not creating a financial burden for our grandchildren. (we are creating a burden by not upgrading and investing in infrastructure such as roads,highways,mass transit,etc)
4) Medicare is solvent ( though we have to clean up the fraud)
5) Private sector savings do not fund investment. ( banks create loans out of thin air)

The public is being lied to by politicians( on both sides of the aisle) who are selling a false need for government austerity when in fact what we need is the government to invest more. Much more.

People stop believing the bullshit from mainstream media bought and paid for by the plutocrats. Spend a bit of time to educate yourself on Modern Monetary Theory. It will change your political outlook. Its an earth is round vs earth is flat type of revelation.
You can Google the following list of founders and well known MMT advocates in academia and the blogosphere.

Warren Mosler - www.moslereconomics.com
Dr Randal Wray - UMKC neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com
Dr Stephanie Kelton - UMKC neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com
Dr Scott Fullwiler Wartburg College neweconomicperspectives
Dr Bill Mitchel - U of Newcastle, Australia. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/
Marshall Auerback http://www.newdeal20.org/
Dr James K Galbreath UT - Austin
Mike Norman Fox Business Analyst www.mikenormaneconomics.org
( Mike takes a beating on Fox -bless him)
Well, they were raked over the coals (though more should have been done) when they were too lenient. Now they're being too strict, and are still getting crap for it.

I'm not a big fan, but from a 'credit worthiness' standpoint, I'm not surprised the US was downgraded. With the sorts of people running the show, we demonstrated that we were cavalier enough to nearly get to a point where we couldn't pay our bills. And the rhetoric coming out of the Congress was serious enough to contribute to this.

Perhaps this is an oversimplification, but if I kept broadcasting to the all my creditors as well as experien, transunion and equifax that I might not pay my debts, eventually that might factor in to my credit score. If I kept announcing that I might not pay, and my credit score was lowered, I shouldn't be surprised.
Please note these are statistics for one online dating site. I don't use online dating sites and if this is typical, it is all the more reason I shouldn't bother. I happen to be a 46 year old female who began divorce proceedings in my late 30's. My actual experiences don't seem to fit with the data they present. I've been chatted up/hit on by men from lots older to lots younger and everything in between. Granted, people routinely misread me as a good deal younger than I am. So I'm not saying I am "typical" for a woman my age. I am mostly trying to say that statistical norms don't dictate specific individual outcomes. And statistical norms for a single dating site don't necessarily generalize either.
Maybe someone should go build an Econ News, so we can send people there to bludgeon each other about the same topics over and over again, and we can stick to startups, hacking, and random, interesting, non-political articles.
Bought some US stocks
By the same logic, why do all the other rating companies still give USA an AAA rating, when they shouldn't? Maybe S&P is the only one actually doing the right thing here, no matter how upset people get about it. Nobody likes to get downgraded. That doesn't mean it shouldn't happen if you're wasting your debt away.
Comparing a browser engine to an operating system to determine which company is more open? Why not compare Android to iOS, or Safari to Chrome?
Compared to a typical European car, such as the Diesel Passat station wagon, the Prius IS a joke. It has worse fuel consumption, carries less, and has a massively more complex drive-train.

Sure, the Passat is a bit of a slug, but light-footed, I made an estimated 50 mpg in Italy, 4 up with luggage, AC on, during an Italy trip, something you couldn't do in a Prius.
Is this a point that we're dancing around here? Let's resolve it: for the most part†, you're right: the things that break clientside JS web crypto are things that break (in various degrees) the web app itself. The problem with accepting this is that the point of clientside crypto is to inoculate users from the downside risks of the simple security flaws that most applications have. What's the point of sophisticated clientside crypto if it's undone by any trivial XSS flaw?

† There are issues that damage clientside JS crypto that don't blow up the app itself, but they are not the core issues I'm concerning myself with here.
who reads CNN Money anyway?
My reading of the Treasury release is that this all has to do with"baselines". Compared to current spending the deal didn't make cuts at all--spending will continue to increase over the next 10 years. The "cuts" are compared to a projection of what would have been spent without the deal, called a baseline. There are various ways of calculating baseline, i.e. how you account for inflation.It seems that S&P's error was related to misunderstanding which baseline the 2.1T applied to.
> All right, so we all agree that software patents are a problem.

The problem is much bigger than software patents.
Well, I think it's more readable without semicolons. Less linenoise. And after reading about exactly how it works I'd rather omit them where I can. The cases where it behaves differently than expected are almost all cases where I think "I would never do that anyway"
Can you explain more about the knowledge / IQ thing - even briefly? In my experience, I've seen many misguided intelligent people not much helped by it, some even worse off as they use their smarts to muddle through where the terrain should have dissuaded them long ago; think eg over-complicated under-abstracted code. And reading Mensa newsgroups will disabuse you very quickly of the idea IQ alone is even a positive, rather than neutral at best, trait. You need intelligence to make a leap of insight, but knowing that a leap of insight is possible, that any particular problem deserves a novel solution rather than an existing one, requires perspective or foreknowledge, or knowledge of the history of solutions that didn't quite make it. So I'd agree with Kay here; smarts alone are almost useless.

Or to make an analogy: IQ is like strength, but knowing where to push needs perspective (literally a different point of view) or a map (knowledge). Applying that strength to gain perspective instead of just pushing requires some self-awareness, particularly if just pushing even harder always worked for you in the past.
Presumably the press release was issued after the write was pointed out to them. They warned Treasury in advance about the downgrade.
You're right, but the good thing is that nobody is really giving S&P that much credit here. Yields on new gov't debt haven't risen significantly. Sure, people say if Fitch and Moody's raise them then it'll trigger sell-offs from institutional investors.

Thing is though, the institutional investors who have policies of holding x% AAA debt can always change those rules. Because there's only so much AAA debt out there -- that's why it would be kinda bad for everybody if the US Gov't didn't carry ANY public debt.

Suppose you're a fund manager of a huge fund with $40bn under management. A full 1/4 is T-bills. Your mandate is to hold 1/4 of your fund in AAA debts. Well -- where do you put than 10 billion?

I can see many funds saying -- "look, the ratings agencies did their thing. But the world is no different today than it was yesterday."

This is especaially true because all these buyers of AA+ US Debt would stand to make a good bit more $$ than they would've before as the markets use these ratings agencies to justify increased yields.

But even that is not guaranteed because the debt is sold at auction. If there are enough buyers willing to buy at current yields, then sweet. And there may be because in this climate, if you're that fund manager, you desperately cling to safe havens like US public debit.
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Yes, I think it is about the balance as well. A rising star needs to be able to product decent work already, and keen to learn more to become that super-star.

We had experience getting a young graduate, and it turned out that it took a lot of time to teach him some basic things. It did not work out at out at the end.
This article shows so much of what is wrong with tech journalism these days.
Perhaps, but then, the expression "caveat emptor" comes to mind. As the readers of such predictions, we should be taking these things with a healthy grain of salt.

That's the unspoken compact between the prognosticator and his audience. It's his job to make as good of a guess as he can; it's our job to keep in mind that he's guessing.
Doesn't the inability to pay even some of your debts, means you're in default?
Doesn't the inability to pay even some of your debts, mean you're in default?
While I understand that this segment of theirs was a joke, it did have a point to it. They were trying to show that it is possible to drive a Prius in such a way that you don't actually save any fuel over a non-hybrid.

I don't think anyone would dispute that a Prius is more fuel efficient than a sports car in stop-and-go traffic and having that segment on Top Gear just wouldn't be possible as it would make the show "fair" to the hybrid and actually about cars which it definitely isn't.

And I think they make these silly claims at times since they know they are so over-the-top that it's hard for anyone to take them too seriously.
Yes, the two cases where I actually think I could run into that are that and
var x = i
(function() {...})()

where it wil think i( is a function call.
This isn't whining - the Treasury isn't simply complaining about the downgrade. They are pointing out a fact that the original justification for the downgrade was proved to be wrong, yet after realizing this S&P maintained the same conclusion based on a different set of justifications.

This would be like a student pointing out that the teacher incorrectly graded his paper; and after acknowledging that fact, the teacher maintains the same grade.
It sounds like what he is doing with his wife/girlfriend is probably tax evasion. If you don't care about never seeing the money again then I'd just hand it over to the IRS and explain the whole scam he has going. Unlike the DA, the IRS will probably take action on it and the whole wife/girlfriend thing won't be an issue for them.
Its a pity that he is so absolutely wrong about the bike for one of its main use cases: Traveling a reasonably long distance over terrain that is not perfectly flat. A bad analogy weakens what follows unnecessarily.
That kind of tight-budgeting might work when introducing a 7-year old to the concept of an allowance, but national economics is slighly more involved.

"Vast sums," LOL. Very telling you don't mention the drain on the economy by the military or by the financial industry itself.
That does not make him irrelevant when he is still here. For example, the direction he "recently" gave to the arm branch (basically ordering everybody to clean up their shit immediately), will probably imply that Linux has been and will be more successful on portable devices. Would the same thing have happened without him? Maybe, or maybe not.
maybe they can move the program to Fox where it belongs.
Yes, we would like to get him couple days a week as a contractor to start-up. If we work together well, we would be more than happy to make the relationship even closer.

His rate is fairly high to us, but I know he is happy to discount the rate for us. I really appreciate it. A lot of people discount their rate working for us as well. I just feel a lot of appreciation of that, and hope I could pay them the rate they deserve (or other type of compensation) very very soon.