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> Property values in denser cities are much higher, which indicates that people prefer to live there than elsewhere

No, it doesn't, because:

(1) property is not used exclusively for living space, and
(2) even leaving aside #1, you'd expect higher residential property values in one kind of area than another if the supply of residential space in the first kind of area was lower compared to the number of people that prefer that space, no matter what the overall aggregate of preferences was between the two kinds of space, so "there is less space in dense cities compared to the number of people who prefer them than there is outside of dense cities compared to people who prefer living there" would be a better conclusion from that premise than "people generally prefer to live in dense cities", even before considering
(3) you ignore the fact that dense cities tend to occur in places that are desirable for reasons that exist prior to the density, and that density is an effect, not the cause of the desirability.
Usually you can't really use cutting edge features anyway as the devices run older OS version (at least that's common in the case of Android)
>Guix/Nix don't run on Windows

Correct. On Windows you can't do any better than a swarm of language package managers. Without the ability to create a custom Windows distribution starting from a systems level package manager, there's no hope in having anything better.
Windows 10 apps in HoloLens look amazing and completely ridiculous
That trip took 17 million years according to the Wikipedia article. Seems a bit long for anything to survive, surely?
Everything you said is true (especially the taxes on beer).

It was a little tongue-in-cheek, however I still am surprised that there are so many illegal immigrants in the US...
There is no real alternative to ASP.NET.
It's like a Glacier had a meltdown! In California, it's all dried up! No lifeguard on duty; beware of sharks! It's like the cloud crashed! Rough seas lie ahead! To set up a data retention policy, right-click -> properties -> configure dynamic water conservation! Well, I guess this is how they deal with the rising tide! "A place to dump all your crap"! Tell your data to walk the plank! Your data will be swimmin' with the fishes! When the data evaporates, performance can really bog down! A good solution if you're swamped with data! I wonder how they handle marsh-alling! "We can help increase your data liquidity"! When it breaks, you'll yell "dam"! A great way to shore up your big data needs! A great place for a lawsuit fishing expedition! "The data were lost at sea, sir"! Maybe they're just trolling! This is their answer to Google Wave! Tributaries include the River Styx! They really caught the market off guard! I wonder if it works with Docker! More "S.O.S." than S3! Call their sales team if you're interested in a deep-dive! They'll sell you hook, line, and sinker! Great for product launches! I bet this can provide some deep insights! Data recovery is now known as search and rescue! I wonder if this falls under DMCA safe harbor! If nautical nonsense be something you wish, jump on a conf call and blub like a fish!
Physics models of quantum phenomena are fantastic and interesting, but there can be a bit of lag between the theoretical developments underpinning the technology and the material science and general technological advances that make such theoretical developments real
These are after the fact justifications.

He does indeed say that lowering rates to inflate asset prices would be our easiest way out of the situation.

He goes back only to say that it is unlikely that we will cut rates enough so it porbably won't work (ie this will fail because our attempt to create bubbles will be too half assed to work.)

He's pretty clearly serious that lowering rates to encourage investment is our ticket out of the problem.
>the WSJ is describing a model where benefits are being reduced while at the same time employees are being "paid in full" as an alternative. I don't think I am reading between the lines there.

I think you're misinterpreting what WSJ wrote.

The "paid in full" in this context means wages are adjusted up. (I'm not saying that in real life, the businesses will do this. I'm just emphasizing what "paid in full" means mathematically as WSJ wrote it.) If you read the later paragraph[1], you'll see that they mean for the total monetary compensation to be adjusted up (via the dollar contribution.)

This is in contrast to the current situation we have. If we use WSJ's phrasing, ever since WW2 wage controls, we've been "paid partially" in dollars.

today: compensation "paid partially in dollars" + employer insurance

possible future: compensation "paid in full as dollars" (DIY insurance)

Again, the above is just the interpretation of the text.

As to whether or not things will play out that way, that's more of speculation about economics and politics. The journalist and we readers can't predict the future and know for sure if businesses will use it as an opportunity to "trick" employees by never adjusting wages or actually readjust wages to stay competitive in recruiting.

In my opinion, a possible future includes ABC Inc offering $50k-with-employer-insurance and XYZ Inc offering $60k-with-DIY-insurance.

[1]from the article: ... employers consider whether the “best” option is simply to give employees a certain “defined contribution” dollar amount toward their monthly health insurance, ...
They use webkit -.-
Well, we do run IIS for realsies: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-an.... :)
Eh, I mean the dude is 19 and in High School. I sure as heck didn't have time for a 20k app while in school.
I've been using putty since 2007 for managing remote unix systems. It's nice to have a uniform interface for everything. If I ever get to a point where using putty becomes a headache for some reason (and it hasn't in 8 years) then I'll switch to mintty. Mintty is definitely a better way to run the windows gui stuff from the command line if you care to do that (I just use the start menu to run windows gui apps).

Occasionally I get tripped up on linux terminals due to the additional requirement that I "ctrl-c" to activate a copy, but that is extremely minor since that method of copy/paste is shared by almost every other tool I use except for putty.
They found my 2007 email to Steve: http://jonathanmarkwell.com/2013/08/23/me-and-steve-ballmer-... ;)
Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling
Yeah, I think one can check the status of quantum computing every 5-10 years, and still keep on being informed. The field has not taken any huge leaps.
I honestly don't know too much about Java and its technologies outside of a general understanding of it. I specifically chose to stay out of the Java ecosystem years ago because I disliked the Java community as a whole. They had a real beef with C and C++ being more performant and constantly pushed and railed against both C and C++ to the point of being what I considered completely divorced from reality.

Java as a tech is strong, but Java as a community was full of pretentious assholes who had a complex about performance (in my opinion of course).

I have no doubt your example was most likely due to some technical issue preventing hotspot from doing what it should have. When hotspot can do it's work it's amazing, you just have to enable it, and you're right about doing arcane things to get performance. That's true in any GC'd language though, even .Net has it's boogeymen.
Scala is getting really interesting lately though with projects like Spark and SparkSQL. Spark takes a Scala AST tree and computes a plan on it in order to distribute it to a cluster of possibly thousands of nodes and then uses transformations on that plan, similar to how an SQL query optimizer works, to make the plan more efficient. The cluster compute benchmarks on it are crazy good.

The only problem I have with Scala is that it has so many features that it tends to have a steeper learning curve than most languages. However, this is mitigated somewhat in that it lets one switch between object and functional depending on what's more convenient or performant, thus making it easier for programmers who are not highly skilled in functional programming to pick up.
I'm a software consultant. I travel or work from my house depending on the project. I think I like doing front-end dev type work as far as technical work goes. At least I seem to enjoy it a little bit when I actually get to do it on my projects. I keep getting rejected so I'm guess it's because I'm not a "real developer". IE I don't have experience with TDD and I don't code most of my day so I am always rusty.

I thought about pulling a Peter Gibbons and getting in to construction or something a little bit physical. My family are all in construction and most of them make more than I do and spend a few months per year laid off (meaning time to do other things besides work).

Outside of work I like lifting. Am trying to get back into running and even some competitive sports (ice/roller hockey) but it's hard to make time for it. Especially with travel.
"Node applications are generally scalable by default." no bias there..
I'm guessing this is the plan with the new system of "builds" we've seen in the Technical Preview. Just install the month's build and then the few updates it needs after that. Fingers crossed, anyway.
Cool, really looks good and I'm excited to play with it when I get some down time.

Nice work!
this point is valid, conditional on the assumption that current GDP level is fixed. Then, govt spending is just money that is taken away from private sector. The point though is that, under certain conditions, govt spending can raise the level of GDP. Those conditions, specifically, refers to times when private sector for reasons of essentially, risk aversion, is under investing. I am not saying that Krugman is 100% correct, but he is describing a valid state of the world, and it is you who doesn't get it :) Now, there are other cases when even under normal conditions increase govt spending, for example, to finance basic research, can raise GDP
>Your estimate and mine are almost the same. 0.017 cents is close to $0.00022

Ugh, yeah. 0.00017 and 0.00022 are indeed the same (for our level of accuracy), I just had not seen the "cents" and thought your 0.017 value was in $.
I'm not sure, but I think the author was being sarcastic?

I mean, I can hardly imagine "node.js" and "bare-metal performance" being in the same phrase and not being sarcastic.
Well, there's QUIC, which serves HTTP over UDP. But I see your point, and you're correct. TCP and UDP have different advantages (at least for now).
> I've noticed there's a bizarre phenomenon surrounding Krugman where people just refuse to read what he says and instead put all kinds of nonsense into his mouth.

It's because he writes like a Nobel award winning economist. Meaning a dry writing style, and advanced concepts.

Most people hated economics in school (either because they don't understand it, or found it boring - it's basically math that most people see no practical outcomes for) or just strait up don't get it.
This only works for Windows Store applications, which is a tiny subset of all the .NET applications out there.
And at some point someone will notice that you can't do ECN with existing UDP implementations, so it'll start all over again but this time assembling the raw IP datagrams in userspace, and then that will have to be moved into the kernel to perform well...
QE is definitely not the opposite of austerity. Fiscal stimulus is.

QE means that the central bank buy up bonds. The hope is that this lowers interest rates on bonds, making it less attractive for banks to hoard bonds instead of lending money to companies wanting to invest.
Nice selective editing in that title.

The real title is "Windows 10 apps in HoloLens look amazing and completely ridiculous"
Good work. I can envision live editing to become standard and we're bound to see new 'code' builders where programs can be expressed using graphics mixed with text.

That being said, editing text in 3D isn't fun. Text is by definition 2D and it's weird to edit it projected (although the idea itself seems cool).

I'd be perfectly happy with a split screen of 2D editor + 3D scene being edited.
Yep, this is exactly what I'm talking about.

I don't see why they cant 'look ahead' to say; Oh- this update X depends on update Y, but it's going to be installed, so we could just add it in the queue anyway.
It's an ssh client. It is robust, easy to install and it works well.

How much energy do you expect me to waste evaluating and choosing new ones when the one I have works just fine the way it is? I have better things to be doing.
Using a permissive license is the strategy that makes the most sense when your primary goal is proliferation over developer community. Thus, it's nothing surprising.
Well it seems that they're not universally enforceable, which is probably why some people are having difficulty accepting it.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/12/no_through_traffic_signs...
mono is integrating the coreclr floss bits pragmatically... so you can probably use mono (if it's in the raspian repo).
instacart should have bought that domain!
Right, and that takes care of the 'big ones', but you still have tons of other minor updates that are released every Patch Tuesday.

I currently have Jenkins build an OS image every two weeks, just so our Deployment Server has an up to date image.
Kids are probably the most "socially acceptable" reason to not want to work yourself to death. People would think the other reasons are "selfish".
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The 40 to 50 year global experiment in Keynesianism has been a complete disaster. The greater extent a country has put it to work, the bigger the disaster.

All it has done, is give governments an excuse to drastically spend beyond their means to fake growth and well being that isn't real. Then they act so shocked when their economies sink into recession the moment the stimulus programs stop. The US, Europe, China, Japan are all drowning in this fraud, with $60-$80 trillion in new debt over the Keynesian reign, and absolutely nothing to show for it but economic strangulation and upset voters.
How about patent use grants, hmm?

If I remember correctly, Microsoft is making a lot of money off of Android by licensing patents.
An extreme example of this is South Korea. The basic idea in most medium/large companies being that underlings must be present whenever their bosses are, so people will turn up really early in the morning to greet the boss, and leave really late at night, often just waiting for the boss to go home.

Hierarchy is a very important cultural concept in SK, socially and professionally, and generally companies are far more layered than they would be in most western countries, resulting in lots of bosses. Because of this you have a trickle-down effect of "work more than the boss" hours, with people at the bottom working completely ridiculous hours.

This has two interesting consequences.

The first one I call "gold star sticker promotions", whereby people get promoted on a regular basis, often without a pay rise, sheerly for "working" more hours than the next guy. While the promotions often mean very little by themselves, they tend to result in slightly less work hours.

The second consequence is that people, as described in the article to some extent, actually end up doing very little work despite occupying a seat for so many hours. A friend of mine actually plays Diablo 3 while seating at his desk, and everybody's ok with that. In fact, he got promoted three times just last year. The point is not to get work done, it's simply to show that you're willing to give your soul to your employer.
It seems like you have to be really bitter about some framework wars to pull this from that article.
Especially with presidents like W – remember the Clinton surpluses? They were austerity in good times.
People are already using Swift in production. In fact, they suffered through the slow compiles, etc of the older Xcodes.

http://making.duolingo.com/real-world-swift

I wouldn't write any new code in Objective C. Swift is just a better language to work with. 12 months from now, you'll be much happier that you wrote 25k lines of Swift in 2015 instead of Objective C.
The short answer( which is almost always the short answer to generic investment strategy advice) is it depends.

I wouldn't select an actively managed fund like inverse ETFs based on their strategy. You aren't just investing in the strategy but also in the fund managers ability to execute on this strategy.

Because you have a specific time horizon and you mentioned hedging the options strategies seems like a decent idea. You mentioned buying puts, but you could also sell call options, much like shorting stocks. This will give you leverage. You can do this by using derivatives of index etfs or hand select the companies you think are going down.

You mention the fees at low cost brokerages being too high. They are typically around $15 per trade. To be honest if you aren't investing ~5000 even the greatest return probably woulnd't be worth the time and research necessary for completing the transaction.

Also ignore the people saying its a sure fire way to lose money. Being speculative is an important function of the economy. No risk no reward!
And Obama won the Nobel Peace prize

Krugman is a hired shill who no longer even professes his original economic thinking.

But great job on your mindless obedience to authority and honors. Try studying economics and looking at the world instead.
I don't think they are. Other than the first paragraph, with its self-deprecation and references to Node.js and NoSQL, which seems intended to head-off the derision such a hipsterish manifesto would rightly incur, the rest seems entirely serious.
In what sense do you mean Japan has "debased" the yen? Inflation has been virtually nonexistent. A weaker yen promotes exports; obviously not something that is automatically bad for the economy. It's absolutely not true that having a weaker currency means growth is illusory.
There is no analogy to putty on a Unix platform, because its not just implementing the console interface, its also the SSH implementation as well, on Unix systems, its pretty easy to write a fully functioning terminal, because your just hooking into the existing pty system, so all you need to do is write (or borrow) a competent vt100 emulation, and make a UI.

PuTTY is great, honestly. It's not pretty, but neither is the windows console nor PowerShell.
Codeless API
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9460072
Fun fact: I helped tweak up a Powershell script that does this exact thing:
https://github.com/tomswartz07/packer-windows/blob/master/sc...
Solar inner planets are mostly metal-silicate worlds. The seven major satellites are mostly hydric.

Under different circumstances, particularly if there were no Jupiter, we might expect a metal-poor, water-rich rocky planet in the system, larger in volume and more massive than Earth.

Jupiter has had a huge influence on the solar system, and if that mass were not concentrated there, it would have to be somewhere. The H and He would probably have blown away, but the silicaceous, carbonaceous, hydric, and metallic materials might have contributed to terrestrial planets.

If you squashed all the moons of Jupiter together along with the entire asteroid belt, you almost get a wetter, less dense Mars. Add the 5% of Jupiter that isn't light gases, and you get about 1*10^26 kg, which is about 16 times the mass of Earth.

So if the light gases blew away instead of forming Jupiter, and the remaining mass formed asteroids that combined via capture and collision, the solar system could have had a super-Earth. But instead, Jupiter sucked down most of that mass and put the rest into stable orbits around itself.
Yeah, to be clear, those notions aren't internalized... they just bring into clarity the need for those processes to happen in the meta level.
The issue here isn't soliciting photos of candidates. In this case it's the employer possibly throwing out a perfectly fine resume because it includes a photo because of laws that do not account for the existence of social media profiles and the increasing likelihood that people have their actual visual personas online as pictures and avatars.

>Linking to your GitHub that happens to also contain your photo is probably not a big deal to anyone.

Nor should it be.

>Having an online resume where half the screen is taken up by your picture is different

Discriminating in 5 seconds after seeing the first image or discriminating after viewing the Github profile changes nothing if there is going to be discrimination (intentional or not) take place. In this case, his Github profile (which also contains his picture) is one of the first things you end up seeing while looking through his resume.

>Companies may just request that any information sent to them doesn't include a photo - this is a reasonable request. With this request they have covered their legal basis of saying "we aren't judging your resume based on how you look" but also might not throw out something that has a photo.

A statement that protects a company on legal grounds but is not actually enforceable is one of the issues with our legal system. This statement, if anything, introduces a legal scapegoat for actual discrimination and bias to take place without punishment. Any minority that sends or includes a picture by accident or slight could be tossed into the trash with this statement as the scapegoat. "We said not to include pictures or this might happen!" If anything it hurts more than helps.

The entire area of discrimination can be a tricky one - as proving it is discrimination is rather tricky and troublesome. This is why many discrimination lawsuits take place after a person has had an interview. Where, regardless of the lack of photo, your employer now knows what you look like and can openly discriminate against you.

Removing photos from resumes may lower open discrimination - but it also makes it more difficult to prosecute for discrimination. If an employer is throwing out any resume with a picture of a minority - it becomes far easier to prove they are discriminating against minorities. Wouldn't you agree?

Require a company to retain any applications from the past 6~12 months and to require photos. Discrimination based on age, race, or gender would be easier to prove - as well as if a candidate was lacking required credentials on their resume, etc.

I'm willing to hear flaws with my proposed method and how the current method is superior.
That's beautiful. The only thing I could have done without would have been the constellation lights set into the pavers. Those seem like a gimmick, and don't really relate to the rest in a natural way.
Yeah that line bothered me too. Still I thought the content of the article was valid.
> Most of the world has been following the recommendations of this “economist” for decades.

Er, no, most of the world has not been following Krugman's advice for decades. In fact, pretty much none of it has.
An addendum to this is that Windows needs to restart way too often compared to Linux. When I apply my daily yum updates for CentOS, only kernel updates, which are very infrequent, require a reboot.

Every time I do Windows Updates, I need to reboot. This is highly annoying and IMO makes Windows Server YYYY completely unsuitable for servers.
They do seem like very similar languages. I imagine in most cases your choice would have effectively already been made for you by the context -- e.g. whether you wanted the option of fast native binaries (OCaml) or deep .NET integration (F#).
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Windows has an analogy to sudo, called runas

UAC is designed to solve a different problem, users on Windows historically ran as administrator, and much legacy software requires it, UAC is designed to provide an apparent administrator environment to the software but catch what the software is using, and give the user a chance to approve privilege escalation.