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It's still early days of allowing independent (i.e. apolitical) monetary policy committees from controlling money supply/interest rates, but we are and have been in a unprecedented period of relatively low inflation for the past couple of decades. This is despite the greatest financial crash since the great depression.

I'd say there is good grounds for saying this is a great human invention - although probably not on a par with sanitation.

No the system isn't perfect - it is structurally flawed like all other systems - but it has worked well and the negative side-effects can be managed
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> The Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship later this year

I seem to recall the Navy deployed lasers intended to blind enemy pilots in the mid 80s.

Postscript The UK Royal Navy deployed laser dazzlers in 1982, in the Falklands - http://www.gizmag.com/falklands-laser/28574/
I'm not familiar with qmv so I cannot tell but, if it's Linux-only, then one advantage of massren is that it can work on any platform supported by Go (currently tested on Windows, OSX and Ubuntu).
What does it even mean to shut down the control systems on a moving car? All stop? Coast? What's the physical behaviour that isn't likely to kill someone?
The reason that you want a VM is because it reduces the attack surface for a process, and sandboxes it effectively. The administrative overhead gets cut down because you can more easily snapshot it, and reduces crosstalk between components. It removes access to data that other processes should not have access to, in a way that is tedious and difficult to do with file system permissions. It removes the ability to communicate with services running on localhost, increasing security that way. And so on.

Containers do the same thing, without the overhead of a VM. The advantage of a VM in administrative overhead isn't because it's a VM, but because it has restricted access. Tossing in all the other crap that a VM has into a container because "it's like a VM" is simply cargo cult programming.
Currency is not meant to hold value; it is not an asset. Currency is a means of transacting. It needs only to hold its value in the short term and change value at a stable and predictable pace.
Which, in Hong Kong, is likely to happen when you are 35 and have kids already. All living in about 400~600sqft.
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His "network" advice is really just "how to use people", and it's reprehensible.
Well, it hasn't been in common use for, what, 400 years? But it's a perfectly cromulent usage.
Google Translate might not be very clear, but the article actually says that Li Ka-Shing denied authorship of this article on 20 February 2013. (Yes, 2013!)

This current resurgence is probably linked to an English translation being posted on e27 in the past 24 hours, before being subsequently picked up by TRS: http://mirror.e27.co/li-ka-shing-teaches-buy-car-house-5-yea...

Just a note that The Real Singapore is not representative of Singapore's media scene.. while it is not quite an equivalent of The Onion, it is also not the first news source for most locals. I am quite embarrassed to see it linked to on HN.
I don't know if Russia is responsible for anything that's happened so far. This fight is largely between ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Russians living in Ukraine. If this escalates too far, Russia will intervene and probably on behalf of Yanukovych.
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The single oddest thing about these protests is to outsiders the whole thing seems utterly impenetrable. It seems really hard to tell who here could be said to be supporting or subverting democracy. Who are the puppets? Who is making the decisions?

Obviously the brutality involved is extreme, but the protesters causes don't exactly make them sound like a bunch of angels either. It seems like the enemy of my enemy is my friend, until they're in power, when they become my enemy again on a massive scale.
I think their objection is more that Ahab was all about killing them... Other than that, your average modern whale is generally fairly accepting of human foibles.
>The lower end is pretty much in reach of any professional working in New York or San Francisco with more than a few years of experience

Only if you define "any professional" as less than 1% of the population. Accept the fact that you are a high income person, and react according to what your morality dictates for high income people.

In a room with 100 random Americans, you are as likely as not to have the highest income in the room.
The months and days of week are 0-indexed. The dates of month are 1-indexed. Same as javascriopt. You always have to be careful with this API, but it helps to remember that they return an index in an array for the items that have a name in English (“January” and “Sunday”).
They typically charge the retailers a few %. That few % is also represented in the cash price as very few places these days have surcharges for credit card payments.
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Switzerland hasn't been invited for 800 years precisely because it does have a considerable army (to wit: every able-bodied male), not for want of would-be conquerors.

A famous exchange between German and Swiss military leaders:

"We have 400,000 troops ready to invade. You have but 200,000 civilian militia. What will your people do when ours arrive?"

"Shoot twice and go home."

No invasion.
No, you can pay a 3rd party that claims it will remit your bitcoin payment in the form of USD to the IRS. The IRS doesn't accept Bitcoin.
I don't have an answer, but I do think this is a legitimate question to ask. My hunch is that these are just freak accidents and have nothing to do with the bigger picture. Somebody got pushed far enough and violence ensued. However, IMO the whole thing started because of Russian influence and if Yanukovych didn't have the (at least mental) support of the Russian government he would probably have backed down by now.
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Given that apparently all it takes is for someone to "declare" an unrecognized micronation, I hereby declare one particular square micron in international waters, known only to me, as the world's new smallest unrecognized micronation: Nanotopia. Our motto will be "never found, never conquered." We allow dual-citizenship so long as you don't tell anybody.
Does anyone have insight into United States possible role in all this?.... oh wait http://youtu.be/qv7qy7jot30
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You make some really good points, but I think simple json documents are much simpler and easier to re-use by other clients in interesting ways than simple html pages. I think the API + client (note, not just traditional web browser) rendering is actually a more "pure" interpretation of what the web can be - data sources and data consumers that interpret and present that data on behalf of their users.

I'm also not sure that rendering everything client-side is advantageous enough to warrant its current popularity (hype...), but I do see some advantages. Firstly, I think it is a better separation of concerns - the server is in charge of data discovery, persistence, consistency, and aggregation, while the client is in charge of determining how that data can be most useful in the current context. In practice, this means it is possible to have different front-ends for the same back-end. Admittedly, that is certainly not always a necessary or desired feature. The separation also makes it easier to build the front end and back end of an application separately from one another, and possibly even in whichever order you prefer. That can be a good thing, though I don't think it's really taken advantage of very often. I also think that true web applications can be made to feel much snappier and closer to native. The line between what should and shouldn't be considered an "application" is unfortunately blurry (the Blogger example is a good one).
There is also LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) [0] which gives lisp style macros and some other goodies to Erlang

[0] http://lfe.github.io/
My card requires a second factor they didn't have. A credit card is not sufficient ID for a loan or withdrawl.

They got nothing from it.
All of the praise here for scala can be applied, verbatim, to Java itself. Some of the concerns are no different than Java (UTF-8), or are actually not a problem there (intellij IDE vs eclipse).

While the comparison to dynamic languages is valid, this is a rather shallow discussion of scala itself.
This article seems to avoid the most basic explanations. Human sexuality is complicated and not yet fully understood. Homosexuality could simply be a slight variation of the usual components of human sexuality. Evolution is about the effect on reproduction, but this is extremely complex to estimate because not breeding can enable members of a society to help others raise children and handle other challenges as well. Evolution in primates may seem to be about selecting individuals, but may in practice be more about selection of shared social behavior.
OK, having looked at the SO source, it's evidently not very concise. Full of inline script, lots of 'data-' attributes, even - gasp - tables for layout. (I think I was dimly aware of that last point, but had chosen to pretend it wasn't the case. And, yes, I know that HN is no better in that regard) Still, FIFTEEN times weightier ...?
But it certainly raises the priors. Corollarily, if you haven't studied something intently it is actually quite probable that you don't understand it.
Or as it's known today, the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Javascript and PHP, mainly.
I don't disagree in the slightest that the software had a deadly bug, or that that bug shouldn't have been allowed to make it into production. But I am surprised no one in this thread has yet identified the real source of the problem. From Wikipedia:

> The accidents occurred when the high-power electron beam was activated instead of the intended low power beam, and without the beam spreader plate rotated into place. Previous models had hardware interlocks in place to prevent this, but Therac-25 had removed them, depending instead on software interlocks for safety.

I am just a self-taught programmer, and certainly not any kind of trained engineer. But when there's something your machine must not be able to do, and it's possible to design it such that it physically cannot do that thing, what possible excuse can there be for not doing so?
> - Why does the circle make it harder to see at a glance? This doesn't seem to be true at all.

Ok lets try this another way… WHY a circle.

Different for the sake of being different?
Not all of the satire works, but enough works that I found it to be damn clever. The "perfect for criminals" part was especially enjoyable, given that it's easier to trace the history of bitcoin payments than cash transactions if you aren't marking bills.
Yes! I think the interface of rebase is great. There are probably other similar "complex" operations that can be simplified by opening a text editor.
Not really. We want people to solve the problem, not invent something that needs maintenance. In some cases, from scratch is important, but for most it's not.
If you just check that they did face the right way, then cheating is still trivial. Just instantly turn and fire instead of just firing (this is what aimbots actually do anyways). The problem is you can't have the client send all 1000 "the mouse position changed" events to the server and have it approve them to ensure that you actually moved the mouse rather than just instantly changing to pointing straight at the enemy's head.
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What is the point of articles like this? I'm not trying to be snarky; I really am trying to understand why a company would go out of its way to advertise the technology its using.

Sometimes we see blog posts from devs at companies (often pretty senior) who write things like "We went with Clojure, and we've been really happy." That's clearly a geek-to-geek thing. But what is this? I mean, it's also geek-to-geek, but it's more "official." Users don't care -- they might have no idea what's even being discussed.

Honestly, it's hard not to read this kind of thing as, "We had a whole bunch of meetings where we debated what language/technology/platform to use. There was bitter, acrimonious warfare, but we don't want to be a company that is about warfare, so we're writing this post that makes the case for why the people on the side of the angels won the argument."
Don't forget TOM.COM.

His nickname in Hong Kong is "Superman" so everybody trusted him. During the first dot.com he jumped on board the IPO wagon resulting in mom and pop investors getting absolutely fleeced. I think after that episode people began to see him truly for what he is: just another rich guy playing the politicians to extend his empire, built mostly on property.

Another tidbit. His younger son, Richard Lee, promoted himself as a tech guru having graduated from Stanford studying computer science (it said so on the IPO prospectus). Journalists later discover that in fact he had attended but dropped out of Stanford, and instead went to Canada to work at his dad's financial firm, before returning to Hong Kong to help run the family business.
The vast majority of the world is dangerous. Please don't assume you are the rule, not the exception. There are half a million or more robberies every year in the USA.
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But everyone in eastern Europe knows that the large groups of ethnic Russians around act as puppets of Mother Russia. The classic example of that was the riots in Estonia.

The problem is it means any actual protesting by Russians over legitimate grievances is likely to be viewed suspiciously.
Well, after struggling for a year and if your second year salary is still RMB 2,000, then that means you have not grown as a person. You should be really ashamed of yourself. Do yourself a favour and go to the supermarket and buy the hardest tofu. Take it and smash it on your head because you deserve that.

This is hilarious. I wish people in western media would say things like this more often.
My understanding is that ukraine was veering towards closer alliance with europe before all this started. That makes the sudden emergence of violent uprising, possibly necessitating american-style "intervention" on the part of the russian government rather convenient. If that does come to pass, I will be extremely suspicious.

Of course this is just ill-advised idle speculation.
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> You can stay single, be happy, and hide from yourself.

Again, I'm not pretending that my choices are for everyone, but I think the case can be persuasively made that an equal number of people hide from themselves by getting married as by staying single.

My point is that there are a great number of "right choices", not just one.
For one, it's a good way to attract hires. As they mentioned, Scala developers are not as common as say, Java developers, so a post like this is a way to announce to Scala developers looking for work that Coursera is a potential employer - many people would view being able to use a language they like as a positive about a job.
As somebody who is in that field for a little while now myself...it seems like they care more that you document how you intend to fuck up than that, you know, you don't actually fuck up.
There may also just be a cultural difference. Dramatic & tragic as it is, a hijacked commercial plane is not an existential threat to a nation. "9/11" aside, most hijackings are resolved peacefully as fuel runs out and perpetrators discover surrender is the only survivable option. Viewed as a police problem and not a military concern, I can see those in charge deciding it wasn't worth pouring enormous resources into for little more than an irrelevant show of force.

This in contrast to the US's increasing approach of militarizing absolutely every criminal transgression down to growing the wrong kind of plant.

Cultural choices.
> I really am trying to understand why a company would go out of its way to advertise the technology its using

Simple - hiring.
That's an unnecessarily mean-spirited way to say "I disagree", along with no explanation as to why you think parent is wrong. Here, have a downvote.
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So the grandparent poster is not in the 1% of wealth, but might be in the 1% of earners :) .

When I think of the 1%, I think of the former, but I guess many are referencing the latter.

In any case, I am neither :P
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It's now 'V' for 'Vanity', stroking egos for profit.
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I don't think that Russia cares about a few extremists rioting in a small area in the downtown area of Ukraine.

Russia wins either way.

If the Ukraine ends up on the EU accession path, they will just end up destabilizing the EU itself.
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Is pulling up ones bank history and see if they include a choice transaction different from pulling up ones DNS history?

If the intention is the same (preventing cheating), I don't know if a judge would rule different based on the technology used. Both techniques steals computer resources (CPU, memory and disk usages), and both steals private information in order to achieve their goal. Would you be sure that knowingly use a computer service (the dns cache) without authorization is legal? Or for that matter, is computer trespass illegal in general if done for the explicit purpose of anti-cheating? The law as described require "intent to commit or attempt to commit or further the commission of any felony".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_trespass
In Hong Kong, most people don't leave home till they marry.
Simple certainly is good. It requires technology to create the notes but none to transfer them.

There is goodness in this. Hey, the lights are out -- can I buy some water from you -- my family is thirsty -- no? sorry, not until the the intertubes are back on.

I'm not claiming that cash is somehow better in all ways to crypto-currency
Obviously hyperbolic and not a perfect comparison, but gets enough right to be pretty damn clever. The "hardware wallets" security flaws and anonymity facilitating criminals are particularly enjoyable.

The more policy-oriented economic points aren't nearly as strong, but overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Just to be clear: I like Bitcoin a lot, but I don't think it will ever replace national currencies. I just enjoy pointing out the hypocrisy of a lot of bitcoin detractors.
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> imo there are other ways to get students to crowdsource your content at no or low financial cost, just hustle (Yelp Elite).

I've tried it all. I go to Pitt, and I had to hustle hard to get kids to answer there. Most people ignored me, and I had to keep following up to get like 5% of the people I asked to do it. I asked my friends, random people, people I just met, people I work with, play basketball with, at the dining halls, I made announcements in classes, put up flyers, handed out flyers, basically everything.

Then the question is what to do for other schools. I tried asking everyone I know on Facebook, but very very few answered questions. I tried emailing club presidents and RA's at other schools to tell kids about it. I tried asking school administrators to help me out. Tried posting on Reddit. I tried paying a representative $50 to get answerers for his school (didn't work).

Then I tried smaller amounts of money. I tried $5 for 50 questions + $100 bonus. Didn't work. Then $10 for 10 questions + the bonus. Didn't work. Finally, I tried $25 for 50 questions with no bonus... and it worked! So given all the things I've tried, I think that it's necessary.

> (in which case, maybe ping Mike Kim to ask about his experience running Yollege.)

Thanks for the tip! He seems like the perfect person to talk to!

> i'd pick one thing and do it really well.

I am - providing more comprehensive student reviews by asking a bunch of questions that currently aren't being asked.
> This is despite the greatest financial crash since the great depression.

Inflation isn't necessarily a problem when you have a depression or recession (unless inflation is the cause of the pain). During the Great Depression we experienced deflation, IIRC, as the money supply contracted (a shrinking number of dollars chasing a more-slowly shrinking number of goods). So while I'm not saying you're right or wrong, the absence of inflation during an economic crisis really isn't evidence of anything in particular.
A tomahawk is around $569,000 per unit! http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2200&tid=1...
I think blunt incentive based systems tend to encourage aggressive tactics.

If someone is going to suffer from the recklessness of a sales tactic, its someone outside the company.

If someone is going to suffer from the recklessness of a tech strategy, its going to be the company.
Lot's of exaggerating claiming going on there in your posts. Then you position into some kind of analysis of what I'm assuming and finish with some kinda point totally lost way down five posts later in this argument. I'm guessing you like using cards. You go use them. I'm gonna use cash. I've been buying stuff at target all year and I didn't have to go cancel my credit card or worry about it having charges I had to dispute.
"Combining for-comprehensions with composable futures makes asynchronous concurrency look like straightforward synchronous code."

I would really enjoy seeing this in Java.
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> We should aspire to a society where people have the choice to take pride in what they do.

And to do what they take pride in.

How many people today are really proud of what they do? How many aren't? How many are simply doing it because it pays the bills? Wouldn't it be much better if they didn't have to do that drudgery anymore, and could instead focus on what they really want?
And I can't see how working on nlp could possibly have "only negative impact", to say the least. Thus it seems strange your need to keep on thinking about that, and to solicit people to answer a "why am I bad?" q.
There's more and more of text analysis APIs, would you mind comparing your feature set to something like Textrazor (http://www.textrazor.com) or Open Calais?

What is special about your project ?
Exactly. It about having the choice in doing them or doing something instead.
Don't worry, our government want to sell it off and try and model it on the US system....
You're confusing market rate with employee value. If an employee produces $100 worth of goods per hour (after non-labour expenses), that employee is worth $100 an hour. It doesn't matter if the market rate for that job is only $12 an hour.
That's one of the main reasons I enjoy programming in C#/.NET. The fact that there are, as far as I'm concerned, a solid set of de facto libraries without having to hunt around for third-party ones somehow makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
The funny thing is that RUSSIA is veering towards closer alliance with Europe, and continues to do so. An awful lot of the changes that Putin has brought to Russia are exactly the kind of things that the EU demands of its member countries. But the other former Soviet republics are all lagging behind.