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I'm an Aussie that has not been in the country for 8 years. My friends and family are telling me more and more every day about the horrible things Abbott is doing.

I'm genuinely scared for the future of Australia, and I honestly don't know if I'll go back to raise a family (as I always thought I would)

Please, please, don't let him screw it up as badly has he's trying.
There was an article on here many years ago (some quick searching has failed to reveal it, alas) that 'demonstrated' the most sensible thing to do was buy a 2 year old car and sell it 5 years later.

This gave you the benefit of some of the new car warranty, and meant you passed it along before the more expensive fixes started to show up. Broadly, if you want to be sensible with your finances, don't buy a new car! You're essentially tearing up a whole lot of money the moment you drive it off the lot.

Late last year I did the numbers for myself (so again, sorry - no link!). I could run it through my company, so had the tax advantages of that when it comes to leasing. What I found was that the benefits only became clear when I compared leasing a new car with purchasing a new car. (iirc, Leasing with tax benefits was just a better option than purchasing with cash.)

And since I knew a new car wasn't a good idea, leasing was shelved and I bought a second hand (pre loved?) vehicle. Those tax benefits (which would differ in different jurisdictions) may be one reason why it's hard to find the site you're looking for.

On the related topic of financing a car purchase, which I did with my first car many years ago, an obvious lesson I learned the hard way was combining weekly repayments with the length of the loan. All I had in my head at the time was "$100 per week" - of course, the dealer immediately applied this to a 5 year loan which almost lost me finance on my first home some years later. If you can't pay cash today, think $x/week over 2-3 years max to ensure it doesn't become a depreciating black hole.
Don't complain about starbucks, but you should absolutely be complaining about the government.
> Goes to show you why you shouldn't kick Steve Jobs off of your project.

Does absolutely everything related to Apple have to turn into a Steve Jobs memorial wank?
I'm not arguing against a choice an individual seems fit for their benefit at all. I only question the value of college education in today's society. It is less magical and great than people proclaim it to be, college education needs more investment than just sitting in front of a computer or in lectures.

Also people with college are not necessarily better than people without college, that is an offensive view and very disrespectful to the millions of people without college educations who have done great things for this country and all over the world. Yes education is great (college is not the sole source of education), but one has to appreciate and work hard at their education to really claim that they are 'educated'.
I fb-like brands, specifically to show my friends which brands I like, similar to how I liked specific movies, books, and music.

A few brands that I have very high affinity towards: Crumpler, Nike, and Canon.
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Funny you should mention that. I just had the best Banh Mi of my life at Ferran Adrià’s new restaurant in Barcelona.
The "best thing to buy" depends on who you are, what you need and want, obviously.

Wasn't there a website where you could 1) say what you're looking to get, 2) answer a few questions, and 3) get one or two solid recommendations?
I'd be interested to see how corporate engagement is shifting compared to overall engagement. Also to look at things in absolute numbers.

Are people simple interacting less and this is a general trend across FB? Or are people just getting better at ignoring corporate posts?

Also do we have a finite interest/time to interact? As every company flogs the FB horse, have we hit a limit to the number of posts we will interact with in total and this is just being distributed over a wider no. of companies?

I was looking at FB social media marketshare the other day and was impressed how they continue to grow market share. Less engagement or not they remain completely dominent in this space: http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-social_media-ww-monthly-20090...
"One ... investor posed a question to Cook during a February shareholder meeting regarding whether or not Apple should avoid embracing environmental causes that lacked a clear profit motive."

Investors are pretty damn concerned about whether the value of the firm is going up or not. If that's not the top of your mind at all times as the CEO, then they tend to worry.
I'd follow more companies on Facebook (or Twitter) if most of what they posted where product updates etc, not inspirational messages and fitness tips.
> Even though it is preference of one woman, it makes me wonder if cultural upbringing influences the decision to work or not, more than the availability of opportunity.

That is also my understanding. No matter how many daycare centers you put in the country, the key "issue" (and most Japanese don't consider it as an issue) is the cultural uprising. Japan may be a developed country, but culturally it has nothing to do with the US in many aspects.
This is a very legitimate concern. I doubt Comcast or any other ISP using these community wifi services are really prepared to deal with this problem. Any Comcast customer who runs into problems with DMCA / legal issues (via IP) will have plenty of reasonable doubt on their side.
I've calculated free education, it would basically collapse our government's finances. A College education is nice, but is not the sole step to ending to our economic and societal problems.
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> But I think it is a social problem. This means a lot of jobs offered to women are shitty because employers know they will lose them around their 30ies.

That's why I was carefully selecting the example of the Todai graduates I knew who has good jobs and still ended up quitting to focus on family and children instead of their jobs. They were not forced to, and they were in companies which were supportive of women having children (making it possible for them to take a year or more of leave and come back in their positions).

Most women are perfectly happy with their role in society in Japan, and consider it "normal".
It's not very expensive. They measure the frequency of the wing beats. You can even build your own: http://makezine.com/2010/08/30/make-23-how-to-shoot-mosquito...
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> the housing bubble was a global phenomenon

Is there a link that shows the foreclosure data in different countries?

I find it hard to take at face value as some large real estate markets (e.g. China) don't even have the same structure (mortgages, underwriters, loan originator, loan repackager) as US does.
Governments don't seem to be able to make Starbucks pay tax.
Over the billions of years this will take humanity's descendants will probably figure out how to create whatever universes they want
> The Play Store, for instance, has had five major redesigns in five years.

Is that a good thing?
nice one. It reminds me The Lawnmower Man movie. Soon, you will be able to physically dive into the code.
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Mathematicians prefer obscure technical terms to misleading and restrictive metaphors, because obscure terms force you to refer solely to (and eventually internalise) a precise and abstract definition.

I think this is the case for functors, because I've yet to see a metaphor for them which isn't misleading or restrictive. "replaceEach", for instance, would confuse me. I like working with parser combinators, where parsers are functors. If I replaceEach a parser, what have I replaced? The results of the parse? The parser hasn't been run on an input yet. Maybe it never will.

If I replaceEach a promise, what am I replacing? The result of the promise? Maybe the promise will be forever blocked, or maybe I'll cancel it.

If I replaceEach a continuation, what am I replacing?
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> austerianism IS still the default economic mode of thought these days amongst Japanese and western elites,

austerianism?? Where? Japan is overspending by large amounts every single year and I have yet to hear any Japanese politician (apart from Hashimoto) talking about making economies. Abe's program is all about spending to death.
Correct. As we understand it now, the black holes will slowly evaporate through Hawking radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe...

And, after that, oblivion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe#Curr...
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Yes, and a dupe as well: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tim+cook#!/story/sort_by_date/0/ti....

Submitters: please do your due diligence before posting. If an article points to a more original source, post the latter instead. If a story has recently had significant attention on HN, please don't post it.
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I haven't used haskell before and did not fully understand the code, but since python support those map filter stuff, can we write haskell-like python as well?
Especially when graphic programming using flow-charts will be implemented.
I remember that earning call very clearly and I believe Tim is being misquoted: He said "if you only want me to make...".

The word "only" can be critical here from an investor's perspective.

Update: The following article seems to have a more accurate and contextual transcript of what Tim actually said:

http://www.loopinsight.com/2014/03/03/tim-cook-doing-whats-r...
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This

request.params.get(&"userid".to_string()).as_slice()

is rather ugly in comparison with Express's `req.params.userid` (or Sinatra's `params[:userid]`). Can something nicer be done here?
I don't think this is what you're talking about but one of the ways of killing mosquitos is to lace a gallon of water with a chemical that attracts adults and kills them along with any eggs. In practice, this would basically target only females.

After a quick search I found this link leading to a page of Intellectual Venture's

http://www.intellectualventures.com/inventions-patents/our-i...

It's pretty cool but unfortunately looks tied to IV. My first guess might be to avoid any criticism that by killing ALL mosquitos, they're harming the ecosystem. I guess that's wishful thinking for a company that I kind of despise even being on their website.
> keep your career and status that you've worked so hard for

Let me disagree here. Most women don't have a career in the first place in Japan. They have office jobs, yes, but a career leading them to higher positions? Certainly not, for most of them.
And, with that question directed to Tim, that particular investor did more damage to brand than he realized. Later that night, he silently weeped in his pillow, realizing the irony of his mistake. A "show me the money!" nightmare soon followed.
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so... the worst case in both scenarios is that you die. The odds of a negative outcome are similarly negligible both ways.

I'm not sure you thought this through.
This is just ill-informed. Just one among a multitude of links showing a strong correlation between formal educational credentials and income: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of...
The mentioned paper "Air-Stable N-Type Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids"
published in Nature Materials is also available here:

http://www.light.utoronto.ca/edit/files/nmat4007.pdf
Nice write up. Interesting how you discovered a different use case with the tech and ran with it
Just a lone test-engineer? Sorry to be a bit rude but it does appear you're too lazy to bother to look at the arguments. There are plenty of people with distinguished careers in science whose sceptical positions are very well argued. There's Richard Lindzen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen and Judith Curry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Curry (chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology) for instance but there are many more if you look. Two websites to check are http://wattsupwiththat.com/ and http://bishophill.squarespace.com/. Both sites invite counter-arguments from 'warmists' whereas you'll find it difficult if not nigh impossible to post a sceptical comment on a non-sceptic site. That tells you a lot about how the science is conducted.

If you want to skip the science and move on to the economics try this one. Billions of dollars are being spent world wide on the basis of lousy climate models in so-called climate effect mitigation. However let us assume they correctly predict the future. The expenditure is demonstrably insane - there is no other word to describe it. Countless billions to lower temperatures by literally immeasurable fractions of a degree! http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/. And would you like to argue that the stupendous flow of cash doesn't influence anyone? That has to be a fairy story.
I suppose any argument in the internet can feel hostile if you care about the subject, but my apologies for any distress I may have caused anyway. My message is not intended to be about whether you are wrong, but whether the example you gave is valid. I did read your explanation, and I find it mistaken. Let me rephrase my argument, and you can point out the part you think is wrong.

If we say that a problem is caused by half-assed adoption of X, it implies the problem can be solved in two ways: (1) Properly adopting X, or (2) Reverting back to no adoption at all. The example you gave can only be solved by 1, because it is an inherent problem of the imperial system. If you take metric out of the equasion, the situation is not affected. While you may have meant to say "the imperial system has problems, let's use metric", one can also understand it as "the transition to metric is causing problems, let's stop it".
And also:

server.smelt(JSON::new());

At least they're consistently hip!
You don't measure success in economics over a single year. Already companies are starting to revise their forecasts since they are starting to face expensive commodity prices (coming from the weaker yen) and the whole domestic economy is hurting because of the rising Petrol price.

Yeah, a resounding success by all measures!

Let's reconnect in 5 years and see such policies transformed Japan for the best.
Existing fossil fuel plants (ie. Coal) are designed for supercritical steam. If you can make that with solar, it should make retrofitting much easier.
Quite interesting, but there are only facts, no recommendations how to avoid new issues, that may appear in future
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Yeah, that's exactly what I am talking about. Glad there are some people with a pair of eyes out there.
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> Uniqlo planning to raise prices does not reflect a　failed fight against inflation.

Uniqlo is a good example because they had never changed their pricing no matter how up and down the economy went in the past decades. The fact that they are doing it now is actually very worrying as a trend for Japan. It means they had no choice but to do that.
The answer is simple : economic freedom. If companies have the right to merge, it's not because "right-wing free-market ideologues" think it is best for the economy, it's because it is their business and they are free to organize it as they will.

Saying that only "many players can ensure progress continues" and thus prohibiting companies to merge is interfering with economic freedom in the name of "I know better", and that is planned economy. And that, is "just like communism", as you put it.
Nice. The main reason I own a Casio (9750g) is because I can't stand the TI8x OS. The hardware is better than the Casio but the software isnt. This could be the sweet spot :)

I understand some people might call me crazy but I couldn't use a calculator that forces you to shift to enter EE.
Nice. It's strange why don't we have such computers nowadays
To increase temperature you need to increase the power being transferred to the water. There are several ways you can do it. (a) increase size of mirror array (b) increase reflectivity of mirrors (c) improve sun tracking so that mirrors point towards the sun. (d) improve radiation absorption of receiver.

Except the first, each of these is a very non linear. eg. taking reflectivity from 90 to 95 percent might double the cost. But then taking it to 97 might double the cost again.
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"the upscale Democratic elite – a constituency historically more concerned with social and cultural issues than economic ones. [...] If their children begin to face hurdles similar to those confronting manual and semi-skilled workers, interest in a more activist government may grow"

Yeah, right. This flies in the face of everything we have learned about human nature. When faced with economic shortages and crises the first to be thrown overboard are the poor.
Broadcasting the secondary SSID by itself has no significant impact but there is a wireless performance penalty to having lots of nearby devices connecting (by default) to open networks especially on single radio/band devices. If I lived in an apartment building or near a public space like a coffee shop / etc I would opt-out. On the security front I don't think it's much of a concern. These community wifi services have been widely deployed to millions of devices around the world and enterprise wireless APs have offered similar features for many years. There's always some risk but nothing extraordinary.
Merely paying taxes is obviously less publishable than holding back taxes and then sprinkling trace amounts on some good cause.
Problem, it's very difficult to find non-smoking restaurants or bars in Japan. You are exposed to smoke wherever you go as a non-smoker. So your solution is, I shouldn't go out ?

Yeah, sounds fair and reasonable.
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How is this fuel cell different to some of the other products out there? e.g.
http://bluegen.info/
http://www.flowenergy.uk.com/the-flow-boiler/meet-flow
Nice thing. Now people will have less motivation to fire from Starbucks - i believe in this case the employee will need to pay by himself. Additionally, managers will be able to push employees to work harder and therefore the amount workers, required to work in one place might be reduced.
Genius!
Yeah, I'm a schmuck, I forgot to add release notes :(

I've been thinking I need to do a 1.4.1 release just for that!

(Plus we're getting some cool new features suddenly. @wtlangford (on github) is working on regexps, for example. Maybe a 1.4.1 so soon would be justified.)
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I apply my degree all the time to things that have nothing to do with my job. If nothing else a college educated parent will probably do a better job raising and education their kid, which can have significant knock on effect for the rest of society.
This is a lot more subtle than most programmers realize, thanks to floating point weirdness.

An essential property of MIN is that it is symmetric with respect to its arguments: MIN(a, b) and MIN(b, a) are the same thing. But the expression (a < b ? a : b) is not symmetric with NaNs. So what do we do?

We could assert that if only one value is an NaN, we return the other value. We might write it like this:

if (a != a) return b;
return a < b ? a : b;

This isn't symmetric if both arguments are different NaNs, but in practice getting different NaNs takes some work. (Note that C99 requires that fmin behave this way with respect to NaN.)

But we're still not quite symmetric, thanks to negative zero. Negative zero compares equal to positive zero, but it doesn't seem right that the sign bit of the result should depend on the argument order.

glibc doesn't bother to handle negative zero, but Java's Math.min does:

public static double min(double a, double b) {
if (a != a) return a;
if ((a == 0.0d) && (b == 0.0d)
&& (Double.doubleToLongBits(b) == negativeZeroDoubleBits)) {
return b;
}
return (a <= b) ? a : b;
}

Delightful. Java has the best min.
I think you (and @twic in discussion below) misunderstand what's going on here.

`class Bar<String> : Foo<String>` is exactly the same as `class Bar<T> : Foo<T>`. The identifier `String` in declaration of `Bar` does not refer to built-in type String, it is a tag for any type.

In other words, you CAN have `Bar<Int>`, `Bar<Float>` and `Bar<everything else>` after using that declaration of `Bar`.
Well, people don't see the world as you do. They don't/can't see they are giving more information to Facebook by liking a brand.

They do it because it's a way to socialize.

Also when you like a page, you will be following it. That is, you will see news from that brand's page on your news feed.
There are huge power-oriented architectural differences.

1) Background an app, it doesn't use power.
2) ObjC doesn't keep gobs of unused memory around
3) Hardware / software integration allows things like spinning up the radios, doing all the updates, shutting the radios down.
4) C code runs lightyears faster (aka. uses less power) than java.
5) iOS uses the GPU rather than the CPU to do most rendering tasks, and provides great tools to let developers know when it's CPU rendered.
6) Instruments tells you exactly what code is using power.
7) Location services, if an app uses too much GPS you ban it from location services.
8) Timer coalescing allows the CPU to sleep more
Would you please stop putting "/word" at the top of your comments? Gimmicks like that don't work here.
Node is great, and a port of jq to node would be awesome (someone once hinted at such a port, but I've lost track of it).

But jq also has libjq, a C library. And jq uses a copy-on-write, reference counted representation of JSON values, which is, for example, inherently thread-safe (though jq isn't using atomic operations for refcount management yet). The library is easy to use and powerful.

Ultimately the main thing I love about jq (and why I contribute to it) is the jq language itself. It reminds me of my one-time favorite, Icon. But in a world where C is still the champion of systems programming (until Rust takes over?), it's real handy to have a C JSON library _and_ a functional DSL that's easy to invoke from C.