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1) (from what I've heard) Yes, you're correct, growing pot is very difficult

2) you'd be supposed by the dedication of some suburban stoner kids who don't have a care in the world for anything else, but marticulously tend to their pot plants.
If the VM doesn't have a disk, then yes...
I really do want to understand your viewpoint. But in my state (Oregon) which typically ranks near the top of anti-poverty programs, the average one could receive from food stamps and welfare in a family of four is about 950 dollars per month. Assuming you were accepted (post AFDC, there's no guarantee of benefits: it's luck of the draw).

In Mississippi it's about 850 for a family of four with absolutely no income or assets (assuming you get accepted in a state that has one of the lowest acceptance rates).

Neither break 12K a year, and I honestly don't understand how that can be considered exorbitant or supporting the sort of excessive sedentary lifestyle that you suggest is common.

And I don't mean this to be offensive, but, are your cop friends sure that these "welfare" abusers that they witness aren't actually just using that as a front for an illegal pursuit (i.e. drug dealing, undeclared gifts/gambling/taxable proceeds?)

Edit: after five years of benefits, this would decrease to about 548 in Miss. and 558 in Oregon. However, I don't find either figure truly sustainable for that size of family in the long-ish term.
Does a couple of other things, including choosing instruction sequences that are more compact afaik. But also favouring compactness over alignment and obviously jumps over unrolling. Obviously this isn't code that benefits terribly much from it, but it has been known to happen.
Unfortunately the values are hard coded in. I was expecting at least a simple algorithm to check realtime status.
Even more widespread here in NZ too.
I pretty much never sent an MMS before or since, and it had email which was better and cheaper. No copy/paste was more annoying, but a fair comparison is with other phones of the era, and my previous phone (some top-end but dumb Sony Ericsson) didn't either.
People selling were mostly top level merchants, people buying were mostly younger people with a lot of money but not enough connections/street cred to buy in person
> your ridiculous muti-lane roundabouts confuse the hell out of me!

It's really not difficult, at least when there are only two lanes:

* If you're going to travel for less than half the roundabout (going right), stay on the outer lane

* If you're going to travel for more than half the roundabout (going left), go on the inner lane

* If you're going straight, you can do either (it's mostly a question of traffic, if there's no traffic you can cut through the inner lane)

The second is more risky as not all drivers use their signals, let alone correctly, but normally you give your output direction when entering the roundabout (so use left signals if going left and right when going right), then cut off the signals when on the roundabout and signal right when you're between the exit you want to take and the previous one.

If you fear multi-lane roundabouts or are lost, just stay on the outer lane and do not use your turn signals. People will get slightly annoyed when they gave way and you were turning before them, but nothing more.
I'd like to see hard data on this.
I've heard numerous anecdotes on both sides of the debate.
Eg, "lost faith in humanity at my first job in the liquor store, as soon as Welfare day hit"
Except extraterrestrial objects - maybe BD will team up with SpaceX and send these robots to Mars :-)
> These absolutely do not work in Asia - they are pretty common in the Indian subcontinent and SE asia.

Considering traffic lights don't work either (unless there are a few cops looking for coffee money under the light), that's not exactly surprising.
The creator of Node was something of a Rubyist, i believe the main reason was around the stdlib / ecosystem not being event oriented, making it difficult to build non-blocking applications. EventMachine may well have strategies to defeat this, I just don't know.

This video gives some good insight into what led to his decision to start fresh rather than try and change things in Ruby http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0vQCC6UQ

So that's probably the biggest thing about Node - everything in the core is built with event orientation in mind, so you know you're not going to hit something that will block and kill you, and that minset is pervasive in userland too.
Romney really messed up royally on his IT during the election. It would have probably been much worse under him.
Roundabouts need traffic lights if any exit has a continuous stream of traffic; it starves the entrance immediately before the exit. If there's much traffic entering before a popular exit, it can easily get backed up. I've seen several roundabouts get traffic lights, or get converted back into a traffic light junction, because of this, as traffic patterns changed.
The article mentions "dutch roundabouts" without explanation.
Here is a page describing them:

http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/a-modern-amster...
Have not tried that... will give it a shot

But I guess we are then going away from idiomatic Go
> Plus I bet it is near impossible to text-while-driving in a roundabout, well at least not and stay alive.

Depends on the size of the roundabout, on some of them you can more or less go straight through (the bends can be smaller than a chicane).

> Do other countries have a similar text-while-driving problem?

Yes. A number of countries have laws against operation of a mobile phone while driving (be it texting or calling).
Being from Spain and having seen the reaction to high quantities of money available. A system like this will need to be very well monitored, it can help immensely to those in need, but if done unconditionally it will certainly encourage laziness in a sector of the society.
My wife is a doctor and before the crisis she used to have patients DEMAND the permanent disability, because they wanted to stop working. They were always saying "It´s my right, give MY disability!". They were regular people with no or little physical problems.
Of course the people that really really needed the disability (very ill and in pain) didn´t want it. They just wanted to keep working and bringing money home.
Now as there is no money, the former has almost disappeared from the hospital.
I think you raise an interesting point on the second-order effects, but that is only relevant if a big country introduces basic income.

In the case of Switzerland, I think the first-order effect greatly exceeds any other effect on the neighbouring countries's labor pools. Because Switzerland is freaking small (7 million people - the size of a big european city) and is surrounded by large countries (Germany, France, Italy).

So let's say you get 2 millions people from each of the 3 large countries, that's 6 million people. For the large countries, this isn't such a big loss. But for Switzerland, it's almost doubling the population, which is going to be a huge problem in term of finance, housing, transports, etc...
Boomerang.js is pretty much the best client side library capturing and beaconing back timing data.

How does Bucky differ from this?

What cleaning up of the data does it offer i.e. isn't not unusual to see quirks in the data that comes back from the Navigation Timing API?
IPhone 5S motion sensor malfunction may be widespread
Oberon was the programming language and environment used to teach first year programming classes at the university of antwerp when I studied there back in the late 90's. I ended up using it as my main programming environment for months at a time. There was a definite learning curve because of the weird mouse approach. They used mouse behavior that I haven't seen anywhere else, like interclicks (chorded mouse button click combinations). Mostly though there were keyboard alternatives, like ctrl-enter for middle click, so you didn't have to have the mouse in hand all the time. Once the learning curve was over I remember finding the keyboard/mouse behavior quite efficient, though you did need a three-button mouse to make full use of it.

I initially had a negative reaction to the clunky appearance of oberon and the weird conventions, but grew to like it quite a bit over the course of the year. It was really a programmer's OS, because there was essentially no difference between documents, programs and user interfaces. You could look at any application and decompose it into its building blocks and program code quite easily because "view source" was an intrinsic part of the system. The downside was that it didn't actually do much, given that there was basically no way to port existing software so it ran inside the oberon environment. Had it somehow gained the ability to run other programming languages than Oberon within the same UI paradigm it might have been quite popular as a geek OS.
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How many seconds is several - is there a danger that is might be long enough for the radio to have gone to sleep on a cellular connection?
First of all, I didn't down vote you. Secondly, all I suggested was that the OP take cost of living into account for his calculations. This is hardly senseless considering that cost of living in most Swiss cities is higher than most tier 2 American cities.

Swiss cities often rank at the top for most expensive cities in the world so yeah, I'd say cost of living is certainly on the high side. Of course they also rank at the top for quality of life but that's another side of the same coin.

Lastly, my numbers may not be current or correct (last I went to Switzerland was July '13) but your tone is certainly rude and out of line. Sorry I didn't represent Swiss prices correctly, thanks for the correction.
Ironically the biggest pain with Ivy is that 99% of your dependencies will be pulled in from Maven oriented sources, so you still have to deal with Maven's deficiencies around dependency configurations.
I don't think anybody has suggested introducing the basic income amount of a country with that from the country with (one of) the world's highest costs of living. $33.6k is, at least in comparably priced Norway, a very very low income. As in: way less than what a cleaner or a supermarket cashier would make. The amount would obviously be different in different countries.
Also in the UK according to some comments here[1]. Some comments suggested buying from websites like biovea. Do you happen to know if it's legal to buy there and import to Germany? (they even have a .de website in German).

I'm living in Germany, but not a native speaker, that's why I'm asking.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495576
Opal -- Ruby runtime implemented in JavaScript browser/node.js may revitalise Ruby.
I am all for more fair wealth distribution, but I don't see how this would be sustainable. With a basic income so high and higher taxes on the rich, what's the incentive to work for money? Hence, who would pay this?

I think Georgism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism ), which doesn't tax income, but it only taxes land (so, not earned income) is a better approach to get a sustainable and more fair distribution of wealth.
Am I the only one that doesn't want the shutdown to continue indefinitely? Why does everyone see this as some bad thing that needs solving?

The federal government is massively overbudget. Even if all of this stuff stayed shut-down, we'd face tax increases. Turning it all back on means those tax increases will only be that much greater.
Are the new lock-free concurrent data structures like clojures persistent data types? That would be very useful. Great work/plan!
That guy needs a new camera, idk. why, but his camera has a ghosting effect!
I initially thought it's a built-in effect, but it's his camera..weird..
Wrong. People should learn to make the difference between an sentence they're issuing being wrong or false, and they being bad. "wrong" does not mean they're bad persons. Perhaps at most that they're lazy or bad thinkers. That's all. In any case when something is wrong, it would be wrong not to stop it immediately, telling it wrong.
Not just from the recipients - any public sector workers who administer the programme are also bought. This is the problem we have in the UK. New Labour added a million people to the public payroll, and they weren't nurses and firemen...
The exchange rate that would equalise the price of a Swiss Big Mac with an American one is SFr1.55 to the dollar; the actual exchange rate is only 0.96. [1]

== Swiss Franc is most overvalued currency

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/01/daily-c...
It's easy to say after the facts, but if women aren't allowed to vote and aren't citizens, then 100% of citizens do vote.

Most systems we call democracies don't consider their population under 18 as citizens, thus don't allow them to vote, and that's usually around 20% of population. Most also don't consider that immigrants should vote, and in the case of Switzerland that's another 20 or 25%.

I'm obviously not saying that not allowing women to vote is good or anything, but that you can't say a system is not "purely" democratic just because of full class of population doesn't vote. As long as 100% of citizens vote, then it's democracy (like in ancient Greece, where no more than 20% of population were citizens).
WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!! Thank you for posting this!!

I'm just emerging it: emerge -av x11-wm/eaglemode
Don't be so oversensitive about the votes your comments get. The best thing you can do on HN is to post and leave for an hour. By then some interesting discussion might have popped up. Don't be bothered by the random downvoters. They are more afraid of you than you are of them.
Very interesting to watch from another country. That is the real reason politics moves so slowly, because the usual results of political experimentation is mass starvation.
And hence my point. Coming from the US, and many expats there are from the UK, the amount of stern criticism leads me to believe driver education will continue to be a problem, and they need intersections and more clearly cut rules (read: radar detectors, with expensive fines, increasingly more common in Qatar) and things will continue along the same course, just faster adoption of cultural standards.
Hm, maybe if someone made a plugin that would show that even manen were mis-resolving dependencies even when building itself. Like 3 years ago. Hm.
I remember thinking during the reveal that that's a neat hack, the live digital video output from a phone that presumably is running bleeding edge software and drivers and whatnot. It's really mindblowing how well it all came together. Most teams in the world would not have pushed themselves that hard, I think.
> Apple introduced flops as well, see apple TV

By their standards perhaps, but I think some of us would like a "flop" as successful as the Apple TV!

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/28/4374480/apple-tv-sales-13-...
But if you plot the tax paid by each person, you reach a different conclusion.
The bigger the government gets, the more intrusive it becomes and the harder it is to convince a majority of the people that they can use the government to live better at someone else's expense: at some point too many people become the "someone else" who is providing the financing. Therefore, as the government becomes bigger, it has to become less democratic, less responsive to the will of the people. We are seeing this now in the rebellion in the House of Representatives, the most democratic part of government.
There needs to be some incentive for tedious work to be done at a modest wage. Otherwise the supply of labor will crash through the floor.

As for accreditation of services, I agree to a limited extent. Personally I think government should -- where possible -- get out of the business of service delivery and focus on accreditation. The idea of a government selling pizza is absurd, but so is the idea of a government allowing a disgusting rat infested kitchen to sell pizza to the public. We effectively accredit vendors to sell food. The same model should work for education -- set minimum standards for everyone, then let the market decide.
99% of Obamacare applications hit a wall
"They hate us for our success/freedom/money/beauty" is also a typical defensive narcissistic reaction to avoid having to acknowledge any actual criticism.
What happens if you use this with a different promise library (e.g. bluebird)? I'm rather confused - if everything implements it's own promises, does it "just work" or do we have to worry about it all getting rather messy?
I didn't imagine my statement would be so controversial. Granted, it's just my personal opinion, but if women aren't citizens that's not a democracy either.
I guess, it's an unsupported compiler option (as in it can disappear any new release).

I looked at it more as an option for when you want to cram out possible extra performance of release builds.
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I agree on that. When something is already started it gets harder to sync to that same sort of idea.
Chamberlain?
org-mode in emacs.
It can do hyperlinks, tables, structure, export to various formats, etc. Its very own little kitchen sink within the kitchen sink :-)
The flipside is that it's impractical to pay companies to maintain the capacity to build everything they've ever built for all time.

The defense contractors handle that problem by putting those people on other projects. Sometimes it is productive work, sometimes it is just any project with a budget surplus. Their intent is to maintain institutional memory even if the project itself has been mothballed.

That's what I saw happen to people numerous times while working as a consultant to a couple of DoD contractors. I billed a crazy-high rate and they even shuffled me off onto a peripheral program in order to keep me around as a sort of security blanket for the original program that was (slowly) spinning down.
Blackberry's were sought after by status hungry students and later by BBM-addicted students.
Chart: Entrepreneurship differs wildly among countries
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Either that or the development of robotic solutions to these needs will act as a strong incentive for the enactment of this type of program.
I've been using etckeeper on all my machines for a while. It is a wrapper around git + some hook scripts to preserve file permissions and the existence of empty directories. I can't imagine going back to an unmanaged /etc directory now.
What L.A. schools forgot in boneheaded iPad hand out
Frickin' everyone would. If someone offered you 30k/year basic income would you quit your cushy programming job, or would you buy more stuff?
Because when you chuck it over the fence to ops, it's not your problem any more, right?
Political experimentation usually leading to starvation... Have you got a high number of examples to back that up? I can only think of a handful.
Business students?
The first thing all these people do the day they are laid off is file for unemployment (justifiably).

So this passes all the costs onto the states.

Unemployment insurance is primarily paid for by payroll taxes that go into a dedicated fund. That probably doesn't apply when the federal government decrees an extension to unemployment benefits, but the first 180 days or so come from that dedicated fund.

My understanding is that the payroll tax varies based on the historical rate of lay-offs. So a company that regularly lays people off (say a hollywood production company that lays people off at the end of every movie project) will have a higher payroll tax than a company with much better employment continuity. I could be wrong, that's just what I've been told and I have not dug into the details, although I did marry a woman who works in movie production.
My tone is out of line, huh? How about your entire comment is factually wrong and yet you picked an advisory tone for it. The coke doesn't cost 6 franks, nor the cost of living is "extremely high".

Also, you should realize that people who might be interested in these 2500CHF will not be living in Zurich, which is more of an exception in terms of cost of living in Switzerland rather than the norm.
>I think it's 'common knowledge' which has outlived it's relevance as I can't recall the last time I found -O2 outperforming -O3.

I can, was about 4 months ago with GCC 4.8.0.

>practically every performance oriented open source program I come across also defaults to -O3 these days

How large is your sample size there? I have only seen -O3 in the default makefiles of audio/video encoders. Those tend to be a natural fit for -O3. In contrast, here is the current makefile of my favorite "performance oriented" FOSS program:

http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/src/Make...

CCOPT= -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
# Note: it's no longer recommended to use -O3 with GCC 4.x.
# The I-Cache bloat usually outweighs the benefits from aggressive inlining.

>I can't recall any loop unrolling options which are turned on at -O3.

You are right (I just looked it up). Guess my memory failed me there.

>I'd say they typically use the upstream optimization settings

I wish! Packagers love to fool around with the upstream sources and makefiles to make them conform to whatever "standards" they have.
I read how TeamCity did their incremental builds and wrote my own script. I drop an anchor, detect changed files and then build up a list of modules that need to be rebuilt. I then tell maven to build those modules and their downstream dependencies.

Speeds things up a tonne.

http://blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2012/03/incremental-build...
http://fullfact.org/factchecks/has_eu_budget_rejected_audito...
You always have a schema. The only question is if you know what it is, or not.

In the next few years there will be a lot of money to be made getting data out of these stores and back into relational databases.
Just to add to that, these are the countries with the highest amount of statements of support (out of threshold level needed to be reached):

Slovenia - 79.95%
Croatia - 56.12%
Belgium - 37.32%
Hungary - 31.04%
Netherlands - 26.85%
Austria - 25.33%
France - 25.3%
Germany - 24.39%
Spain - 22.41%