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Abe is certainly making a difference. But a bastion of liberal democracy? Hardly. For instance, look at the man he parachuted in as the head of NHK:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25901572

And there's a large stretch between trying to boost the economy by encouraging female labor force participation and feminism. By that standard, Saddam Hussein might have been called a feminist in some periods of his reign.

Opinion is sharply divided over whether Abe's economic policies make any sense. I'm in the "they're insane" camp. I've likened Abe to the captain of a ship who, seeing an iceberg looming, calls out, "Full steam ahead! We're going to smash our way through." But all observers agree on these two points:

1. Abenomics will be a disaster without large-scale structural reform.

2. The reform we've seen so far isn't nearly enough.

Optimists believe that this reform is just round the corner ... that even as we speak Abe is busy quietly building the necessary consensus in key organisations, because that's the way reform is done in Japan.

The pessimists want proof.

Finally, there is a terrible, terrible paradox at the heart of Abe's economic policies. This is a complex matter, so forgive me for skipping most of the details and implications.

No matter how you measure it, the Government of Japan is up to its neck in debt, and is still sinking. The only reason it can keep going is because it pays remarkably low interest rates. But the first "arrow" of Abenomics is to push up inflation, and you can be sure that this arrow will meet its mark because they can always "print" more yen. One of the iron laws of economics is that, when inflation goes up, so do interest rates.

Now, to cut a long story short, it looks like the government's going to get out of this bind by directing the Bank of Japan to print even more money to buy it's debt at below-market prices. In fact, if you follow the bond market news, it's clear that this is already happening. And that, my friends, is a recipe for collapse in confidence in the yen.

Speaking for myself, as a Japanese resident, I believe that the yen is an increasingly risky asset to hold. I make a point of keeping at least 50% of my savings out of yen, and away from the Japanese financial system. When the shit hits the fan, I don't want my money to be stuck behind Iceland-style capital controls.

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EDIT: Changed "recipe for inflation" to "recipe for collapse in confidence in the yen" in response to comments below.
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>It's THAT ridiculous.

See second point i.e. "well you're also totally free to not go to that restaurant, you know?"

>That's part of the problem.

I don't think that it is. I don't smoke (aside from the very occasional cigar), but I certainly don't need to ostracize smokers either, and unless they are smoking in a place where it is explicitly forbidden, I don't need to complain about them either.
Webmerge.me is similar with lots of workflow options and salesforce intergration, how does yours differ?
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Url changed from http://sciencealert.com.au/news/20140506-25618.html, which points to this.
While I don't believe the CRA was the root cause, I do believe it influenced the invention of MBS to relieve banks of the debt they deemed too risky for their own balance sheets
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It seems women are becoming less and less willing to marry[1].

"The second change is that, among certain groups, people are not merely marrying later. They are not getting married at all. In 2010 a third of Japanese women entering their 30s were single. Perhaps half or more of those will never marry. In 2010 37% of all women in Taiwan aged 30-34 were single, as were 21% of 35-39-year-olds. This, too, is more than in Britain and America, where only 13-15% of those in their late 30s are single. If women are unmarried entering their 40s, they will almost certainly neither marry nor have a child."

1.http://www.economist.com/node/21526329
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About four years ago I was waiting for a plane in London and struck up a conversation with a former American Nissan exec who had spent a long time working at HQ in Japan.

He told me the story of countless meetings in which the senior female exec (there were very few) was expected to get up and leave the meeting for a period of time to retrieve and serve tea. He personally was disgusted and said that that was only a single example. IIRC he said in response to my question about why Japan had struggled to get out of their depression: "Employing only half their labor force might have something to do with it."
Now I'm sad
This was the game that made me buy an Amiga :o) I'd played other versions previously, but the Ami version was the best.
exactly, another profitable avenue might be to sell out to the government to make bitcoin unstable. what's puzzled me most about bitcoin proponents is they think the US gov would sit idly by and just give up centralized control of the most powerful thing on earth.
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> But they are MUCH less affordable for and admit far fewer kids from ordinary educational backgrounds with middle class parents.

That's just false. Huge numbers of middle class students enroll in elite institutions.

My family is decidedly middle class and, in line with their standard financial aid policies, every elite university I applied to offered an aid package which would make it affordable. The total debt required would have been around $5k over 4 years (just books).

Obviously this is just anecdotal, but I do elite education's unaffordability is a pernicious myth which keeps great students from applying.
Very cool article! I'm torn on the "bring your own hard drive" issue. In one way it is very anachronistic given today's cloud technology but the flip side is that the OP was dealt zero procedural roadblocks along the way. Nobody at the city said "No." and they seemed helpful at every step. I'd tally that as a Win in today's bureaucratic and overly secretive world.

I find myself wanting to make a FOI request to my city. I have seen tricked out Parking Enforcement cars trolling the streets this year. They have license plate reading cameras mounted along the car's perimeter. I want to know if that information is stored, for how long, and who has access to it. Have any law enforcement agencies queried the database?

I would appreciate all the pointers I can get for proceeding with a FOI request. So far, I have been using MuckRock as my primary source of tutorial.
Speaking about the economics only:

And that, my friends, is a recipe for hyperinflation.

Perhaps, but given that the situation over the last 15 years has been deflation there is a big, big distance to cover before hyperinflation should be thought of as a significant risk.

Something needs to be done to combat the chronic deflationary cycle Japan has suffered in over 15 years. I'm unconvinced this is as bad an idea as you seem to believe.
Hm I wonder if KnightOS fits the GNU Project's free system distribution guidelines. The list of endorsed systems is pretty short right now.

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guideli...
If you want to see a never ending well of software for TI calculators check out http://www.ticalc.org/
The worst part is "let's statically preallocate* the heap size like it's 1975".

*Note: never more than 31GB
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Yeah, this is my biggest problem with Wind Waker, and why it's not the best Zelda - it's just too easy. Adding a couple of tough dungeons would've made it much closer to OoT's difficulty. We shouldn't be aiming for games that everyone can complete - and I say this as someone who doesn't complete a lot of games.
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I first read about this many years ago, in Olav Stapledon's brilliant Star Maker, about a man who takes a magical mystery tour through the whole of time and space:

"Then the Star Maker said, "Let there be light." And there was light. From all
the coincident and punctual centers of power, light leapt and blazed. The
cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers
of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one
retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single spirit of the whole;
and each mirrored in itself aspects of all others throughout all the cosmical
space and time.

"No longer punctual, the cosmos was now a volume of inconceivably dense matter
and inconceivably violent radiation, constantly expanding. And it was a
sleeping and infi-nitely dissociated spirit.But to say that the cosmos was
expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate
centers of power, each at first coincident with the punctual cosmos,
themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical
units and of the wave-lengths of its light. Though the cosmos was ever of
finite bulk, in relation to its minutiae of light-waves, it was boundless and
center-less. As the surface of a swelling sphere lacks boundary and center, so
the swelling volume of the cosmos was boundless and center-less. But as the
spherical surface is centered on a point foreign to it, in a "third dimension,"
so the volume of the cosmos was centered in a point foreign to it, in a
"fourth dimension."

"The congested and exploding cloud of fire swelled till it was of a planet's
size, a star's size, the size of a whole galaxy, and of ten million galaxies.
And in swelling it became more tenuous, less brilliant, less turbulent.
Presently the cosmical cloud was disrupted by the stress of its expansion in
conflict with the mutual clinging of its parts, disrupted into many million
cloudlets, the swarm of the great nebulae.

"For a while these were as close to one another in relation to their bulk as
the flocculations of a mottled sky. But the channels between them widened,
till they were separated as flowers on a bush, as bees in a flying swarm, as
birds migrating, as ships on the sea. More and more rapidly they retreated
from one another; and at the same time each cloud contracted, becoming first
a ball of down and then a spinning lens and then a featured whirl of star-
streams.

"Still the cosmos expanded, till the galaxies that were most remote from one
another were flying apart so swiftly that the creeping light of the cosmos
could no longer bridge the gulf between them."

Written, impossibly, in 1936.
That's the sort of the thing the city will deal with in retrospect after a leak leads to a robbery or murder.
Can anyone explain just what it means for the steam to be "supercritical"? The article doesn't seem to have explained it at all.
Fans of any flavour enjoy being subsumed by the crowd and I can imagine this behaviour was a way for those Japanese fans to prolong their feeling of group solidarity after the match.

I'd like to have witnessed the propagation of the clean-up-the-stadium meme as it happened.
My guess is that for most of the fans, they'd have been initially ambivalent; the niceties of this situation being unfamiliar. One fan decided it was the right thing to clean-up and their neighbours then propagated the activity throughout the population without giving it too much thought.
Once the cleaning was in motion, each fan would have to define their range of cleaning for themselves. Since the area is not specified, they'd err on the conservative side, cleaning a maximal range for any of their possible ejecta. This would reflect a preoccupation on quality over considerations such as opportunity cost or fairness.
So at what point are we going to just going to accept that people need the equivalent of an associates coming out of high school. I don't think less education is the answer but as a bachelors equivalent becomes necessary for even a modest living, it might be worth looking at expanding what secondary education covers.
Processing issues are usually only a problem if the information implicates the government in criminal activity.
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I watch or read the news for "gestalt". Most individual articles are not "actionable", but the aggregate over weeks or months probably is.

Unfortunately, the article's first lesson is that you probably won't change your mind quickly enough to profit from anything you see on either CNBC or CNN.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercritical_steam_generator has a helpful explanation and some links about supercriticality.
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TI-73: 6MHz Z80, 25K RAM, 512K mass storage
PDP-11: ~4.5MHz, 16K RAM, >1M mass storage

CPU looks powerful enough and the amount of RAM is comparable to early Unix machines but you might run into storage space limitations.
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Thank you, appreciate the consideration.
On the other hand Abbott's government in their recent budget announced cuts to CSIRO and Clean Technology Innovation Program. Go Figure!
Oh! So `go` is a function that's defined within `shift`. That's the crucial part I was missing. Why is it named "go"?

EDIT: While I have your attention, do you mind also pointing me to some resources to learn about this ">>=" operator? I recall it's something related to monads...
What should companies use instead of Facebook to reach users with small updates and the like?
KnightOS is not:

- Complete

- Self hosting

It also does not replace a single non-free blob that's written to read-only memory on the device.
> Erlang: genuinely useful for its use case, distributed systems. This is a language where the intended use was really woven in the language design, to great effect. For the rest, it's a bit like ML without types. Personally, I see no good reason for leaving out types, so that tends to annoy me a bit.

I believe there's an interview with Joe Armstrong (creator of Erlang) where he mentions that the one thing he'd wished he'd added to Erlang was a type system at the jump. I'm not a 100% sure on that, though.

In Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good they talk about the lack of types in erlang [1]. Apparently some Haskell folks wanted to make a type system for Erlang, so they called up Joe Armstrong and asked what he thought. (this is all a really cursory outline; check the sources for better info)

Joe Armstrong recounts the story and says that Philip Wadler told him "he had a one year’s sabbatical and was going to write a type system for Erlang and “were we interested?” Answer —'Yes.'"

Philip went on to write a paper [2] about the type system they wrote, but obviously it never really got traction. More info in The History of Erlang [3]

I don't really have a particular point to this, other than it's interesting and maybe of some historical interest to folks looking into PL's and how they end up getting made.

[1] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/types-or-lack-thereof
[2] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/erlang/erlang.pd...
[3] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZHq_V41... (google cached version; couldn't find another version right off hand)
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I strongly believe Google will replace ChromeOS with Android some day. ChromeOS compared to Android "Just Works™".

I'm usually an iPhone user but I am very curious about Android so often make the switch. Last time I switched to Galaxy Nexus my experience was not so good. Battery life and UI smoothness was far from iPhone. I switched back to iPhone.

This time I switched to Android via a Nexus 5. Battery life is still not acceptable and many times I experienced things not working. Having to kill an app or cleaning their local cache are things I don't want to do on my phone. Specially when I'm trying to get around or find a very urgent information. I'm going to switch to iPhone with next release and wait for an operation system from Google that work as good as Chrome or iPhone.
Does it do math?
I hope to eventually implement C support in some form. You're right about SDCC making huge binaries, though - GlassOS is enormous, there's very little space left on the device and it supports fewer calculator models.
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Docker + tmux = dmux
Interesting tidbit at the end on Dicks, and I completely agree. As simple as it is (only four variations on the burger, cheese, no cheese, all the fixings, double with everything, one size of fries, shakes, and that's their entire menu), one can really appreciate it.
Tell HN Fathers: Happy Father's Day. 
As it says! From a father of two (1.5 & 3yo) girls, with a full time gig, personal ventures, freelance, a mortgage and more. For all the fathers that hustle and hack for a bigger purpose, you're not alone. There are tough times and great, but it warms my heart to spend weekends with my kids and and I hope you get the same!
Wow, this is a profound step, and something I hope we can all applaud Starbucks for doing.

Lets hope that other large employers offer similar arrangements for their employees (be they skilled or unskilled)
No, but it's being worked on. It wasn't being worked on until recently.
Supposedly Bill Gates said the same thing when he was in Saudi Arabia and asked how it could compete. Something along the lines of it's going to be difficult when you're only using half your population.
Ha ha ha! I did know all of the male words, thanks to AD&D and the History channel. Meanwhile, on the feminine side I was shocked to be confronted by 7 out of 12 words, that I would be hard-pressed to use correctly in a sentence.

But seriously, are "flouncy" and "flouncing" substantialy distinct enough to be counted twice? I'm ashamed to ask, but I have to, since I really can't come up with a serious definition for either.
A DJ's investigation of denialist "critique" etc.
He gives the "outlawing DDT killed millions" canard, and on the same slide claims the ozone hole was not due to CFCs, but I didn't see anything about vaccines or birth certificates.
When every company under the sun is pitching to you, trying to engage you on a personal level, it seems like it would become tired and old. Maybe there was a point when it was novel, but now everyone is doing it. As the level of advertising increases, it seems logical to me that engagement will decrease across the board. There's only so much a person can handle before they become saturated.

But what do I know? I don't use social media or willingly look at ads.
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Do you believe in God?
Temperature-pressure phase diagrams (example linked below)

http://images.flatworldknowledge.com/averillfwk/averillfwk-f...

have a line that separates gas from liquid, but this line has a finite length. One endpoint is on the triple point (solid, liquid, gas coexist at one P,T) and the other is on the critical point. That's where the distinction between gas and liquid vanishes -- the viscosity, index of refraction, etc of one phase approach those of the other until differences vanish altogether at the critical point. It's a little arbitrary to say that steam at a given temperature or pressure is supercritical (there IS a rigorous definition, T>T_criticalpoint&&P>P_criticalpoint, I'm just saying that it's a bit arbitrary), but the gist of it is that you're in the part of the phase diagram where movement in the phase plane is going to avoid the gas/liquid transition. Nothing physical happens in a liquid->supercritical or supercritical->gas transition and there are no phase transitions in the supercritical region.

This is exploited for the production of aerogel. Normally you can't dry out a gel and have it retain its shape because the liquid/gas interface during evaporation/boiling has enough surface tension to tear apart the microstructure of the gel. But if you scoot around the liquid/gas transition in phase space (e.g. by heating past T_criticalpoint, lowering pressure below T_criticalpoint, cooling below T_criticalpoint, and finally releasing any lingering pressure, or in other words liquid->supercritical->gas) then you can get rid of the liquid without ever boiling/evaporating it -> no nasty surface tension to tear apart the microstructure!

Here is a video of CO2 being heated past the critical point. Since there is a gas-liquid equilibrium, the system will move more or less exactly along the curve separating gas from liquid until it "slips off the end" into the supercritical region:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLAv56CgHL4P8vk6FDm9s1Zw&...

EDIT: || -> && in the formal definition

EDIT2: linked a phase diagram for those who don't stare at them all day :)
Not going to happen.

Android is phenomenal success and needs no messing with. It will spread from tablets and handsets to TVs, cameras, cars, appliances, etc. Android will have a multi-decades dominance like Windows had, but spread across more different touchscreen hardware platforms.

Chrome OS is doing a brilliant job soaking up Windows refugees with a laptop/netbook form factor, where you have a touchpad or other pointing device, so you don't have to make the Web finger-touchable, which it isn't.

People will try to mix the two, but there is no point.

EDIT: Yes I know TV isn't touch, but it is a d-pad/select style of interaction, which Android always supported, even before touch.
Wow, this brings me back to the early 2000s and MirageOS, which wasn't actually an OS but a glorified shell: http://www.detachedsolutions.com/mirageos/

This is a complete replacement though, right? IIRC, the firmware updates had to be signed, how did you get around that?
I think Android benefits from the general Google halo effect, but it just isn't very good. It's OK, in the same way Windows 98 was OK. My Nexus 5 has been buggier than my Lumia 620 or the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4 I had before that. Just little things: messed up text boxes in Chrome, app hangs in Chrome, etc. Some random bad design: if you turn off location services, which I do because of the marginal battery life, Maps will just sit around waiting for a location--it won't tell you to turn it on in the preferences. Its not the reliable appliance I want it to be. I have a regimented weekday schedule, and by midday I could be on my last legs battery wise, or still have half a tank. For some reason, I have a Gallery app as well as a Photos app. Of course, it'll continue to be popular because it's free.

It's fine. It's just not that great. I too am back on the iPhone when they come out with bigger screens.
The consumption tax went from 5% to 8% right? Not sure why they decided to go with such a regressive tax instead of other alternatives :(
I am increasingly of the view that we need publications for a lay audience that focus on debate between experts. While an opinion piece can seem reasonable on its own, it may be full of errors that are easily highlighted by an expert. However, popular publications today focus on publishing the opinions of well-known figures, and if there is scrutiny of their views it typically appears in a different publication. While this approach gives the non-expert reader a warm and fuzzy feeling of being informed, they may worse off than if they had read nothing at all.
> This is a complete replacement though, right?

Yep.

> IIRC, the firmware updates had to be signed, how did you get around that?

Here are Texas Instrument's private keys: https://github.com/KnightOS/kernel/tree/master/keys