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Can't reply to your reply Zrail.

Due to the financialisation of housing the yield has not been 4%. People have gotten massive appreciation on their land which has left them with a lot of equity if they bought before banking went insane (pre 1990-1997).

The primary cost of housing is the land, not the cost to build, not the upkeep. The land. And the land price is set by available credit. Banks can create credit at will. They only have to stop when the price of land reaches the maximum and individual can service monthly in interest on the debt. With ZIRP this has reached insane levels. All of it is utterly unrelated to either wages or the cost to build.

I'm not blaming "home owners". I'm blaming speculators who are buying more than one home. A place to live and a place to extract economic rent from others. These guys are the foot soldiers for the banks. An army of exploiters in a zero sum game devoid of wealth creation.

Financial speculation in an item pushes prices way beyond their reasonable utility. For example the tulip bubble - people didn't want to live in a tulip but up the price went as speculators piled in.

If you're cool with that then fine. I'm not.
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That sounds to me like Equipment is not what's needed, since there is hardly anyone reliable we can give the equipment to. How about deploying a few millions soldiers? A few million sounds like a unreasonably large number, but on the other hand there were 4 million soldiers in Stalingrad alone and we should be able to treat this situation as urgently as things were handled in WWII. To me ISIS is right up there with the Nazis. So let's go all out and get this done with!
A genuine question, how is it differentiated from Stubby? http://stub.by/
The number of copy/move constructors is zero, by the way, it's not hard (well, could be one if you're using 1980s compilers)
And, in 1849, he predicted modern cosmology?

"In the last year of his life he wrote a prose poem, Eureka ... Eureka describes the origins of the universe in a single particle, from which “radiated” the atoms of which all matter is made. Minute dissimilarities of size and distribution among these atoms meant that the effects of gravity caused them to accumulate as matter, forming the physical universe. ... This by itself would be a startling anticipation of modern cosmology,"

and / but he also drew conclusions:

"for example that space and “duration” are one thing, that there might be stars that emit no light, that there is a repulsive force that in some degree counteracts the force of gravity, that there could be any number of universes with different laws simultaneous with ours, that our universe might collapse to its original state and another universe erupt from the particle it would have become, that our present universe may be one in a series."

I'm a fan and didn't know this.
>> Can you expound on this? Biofuels will (hopefully) be used for aircraft (best case, algae produced at airports, converted into biofuels), and we can already create plastics from corn and other crops.

The difference in energy density between bio- and fossil fuels is extraordinary. The very simple reason is that fossil fuels represent the concentrated results of millions of years of decaying biological material. I'm not sure there is enough accessible biomass on the planet to totally replace fossil fuels in their current applications.
We use Pact[1], but the idea of flakeyness is interesting. Would you end up with non deterministic builds with the flakeyness? I imagine you could get enough 404's to trigger a Circuit Breaker in your application and this would propagate to tests sometimes failing.

[1]: https://github.com/realestate-com-au/pact
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People keep forgetting that the Muslims all around the world are traveling there to rape children and murder civilian "apostates".

This isn't some "tiny" minority, they are over 100 of millions of supporters and people who approve of the doctrine that allows sex-slavery and killing apostates.
In fact, according to Pew Research as of 2013, the numbers reach up to approx. 800 000 000 muslims who think that honour killings are justified amongst other things.

As an ex-muslim (much like an ex-smoker) I am rather biased, but here it is http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...
I wouldn't place too much importance on their choice of implementation language. I'd imagine the goal of showcasing their reference implementation is to demonstrate the operational semantics of their virtual machine. Equivalent implementations could be produced in C for example.
Do you also consider libraries a form of protest?
I can see how it could have been taken that way. If I were in the Coast Guard, I would have been insulted too if it was insinuated that I only worked to protect corporate interests over mitigating an environmental disaster.

It's not a matter of "what" the government values, it's "where".
That's not copyright infringement it's trademark infringement... In this case if the author were to prominently mention Slack, then they might also be afowl of trademark.

Beyond that, there's still some gray area, legally speaking, with concern to the API interfaces themselves being either patentable or copyright... not even just the documentation of.
How did Mark Cuban avoid the crash?
Yes, but that is the equivalent of surveying a flooded city and declaring that the water isn't the problem, it's location is. The reality is that our society depends on expending massive quantities of energy to do work, and we've been wallowing in extraordinarily energy dense, stable, transportable happy juice for almost almost 150 years. It took 4+ billion years to make the stuff, and by all accounts we've used a good portion of it in a century and a half. It's like putting sugar next to an anthill. Fun times for the ants until the sugar is gone.
The Kurds, at least in Iraq, have consistently been friends of the US, and at least compared to the other states in the region, a basically progressive and moderate government. (There are issues with Turkey and Iran w.r.t. Kurds in those countries as well as with the idea of Kurdistan, since it would potentially redraw their own borders.)

Aside from some very specialized troops (combat controllers and maybe some other SOF; high level logistics people to interface with the rest of the supply chain; some trainers and advisors) you could probably equip the Kurdish forces with modern weapons to good effect.

The biggest issue is bypassing the Iraqi central government basically admits that Iraq is/was/will always be a failure, and guarantees it. This might cause both Iran and KSA to intervene in the territory. This could lead to escalation; I'd personally be willing to accept the status quo in Syria if the alternative is a regional war.
Check out Javelin Browser [1].

[1] http://javelinbrowser.com/
hah - suddenly the reply button appears - i guess it's a timeout to stop rage replies. I replied above. Take it or leave it :-)
Thanks! We're having a company happy hour so I'll leave my response at this. Have a good weekend!
I remember a course I took once with the venerable Peter Denning, the hardest professor I ever had and the proudest I've ever been from a grade I received...he was giving a lecture on processes in Operating Systems and one of the students raised his hand over some minor point:

"I don't think that's correct"

"what's not correct?"

"<whatever the minor point was> I've run ps on my linux laptop and it contradicts what you are saying"

"#1, I said no computers during the lectures for this course, #2 I am in fact correct because I invented it, now either close your laptop and pay attention or get out of my class."

Now, many years later, I'm constantly surprised at how pertinent and immediate what I learned in that class constantly is and how it keeps unfolding in my mind. The kind of simple, composable concepts he lectured us on have penetrated almost all of my work since then. It's amazing what robust ideas our forefathers invented from whole-cloth!
"Senator McConnell’s bald-faced use of the tragedy of 9/11 as an excuse for surveillance programs that trample on the Constitution is as repugnant now as it was then."

I have nothing to add.
I'd be super interested to hear the story behind said extension. Sounds really impressive.
That's a good article. It has a long introduction that resembles libertarian twaddle, but then Section V brings it home to tie the knot in a way most econ 101 libertarians ignore.
It is horrible.

That said, we saw the same concern and destruction of historical artifacts with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
What's the benefit of using a moral framework that doesn't lead to success and happiness?
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Never left them in the first place. Great products actually.

Also lots of hardware available, everything is upgradeable. Not like MBP with soldered RAM, soldered SSD, weak ventilation system, no LAN and just 2 USB ports. Can buy a laptop or assemble your own desktop workstation.

Linux I don't know. It still looks ugly and no great apps available for it. Visual Studio for Linux? Adobe tools for Linux? Of course not. Just amateur toys and fonts with ragged edges. Thanks but no thanks.
PHP as well which in many areas is just glue over C in design.
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It's astonishing the breadth of the face of the Earth early humans managed to traverse. If you want to understand the uniqueness of humans, it's not so much toolmaking, language or the thumb, it's our ability to migrate across and succeed in vastly different latitudes and our ability to change what this writer [1] calls a "cultural inventory"...all within the same species.

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2fprtw/with_...
I have a master on automation & contorl, and never thought of using it outside the industry
The parable of the Mexican fisherman: http://renewablewealth.com/the-parable-of-the-mexican-fisher...

:)
Possibly OpenStack's Swift. Its API-compliantish with S3.
Turkey would also really not like it if we armed the Kurds.
Sorry but no. I can't reply to most messages other than with a OK or NO so my phone comes out. The apps take so long to load than again my phone comes out.

And seriously I have nearly every Watch app installed and none of them are that great. I like the TripAdvisor/Foursquare glances and some of the flight ones aren't good. But they aren't killer apps.

I need more continuous, contextual notification based on my where I am at that particular time. I need to be able to reply to text messages without speaking e.g. why isn't there writing recognition ?

It's a version 1.0 for sure. But they really need to get more creative with it.
I'm planning to refocus my mobile app business, and while I had planned on just continuing on cashing the checks from my other apps, lately I've considered the idea of selling them and really concentrating 100% on the main one.

A few questions:
1. What kind of cost do the popular escrow services charge? I assume it's percentage based, only on successful sale?

2. Do places like FEI sell apps, or just websites?

3. If not, any recommendations on places to sell an app or bundle of apps?
for what it worth - we had investors coming, and ordered bbq from franklin. brisket was just like any other brisket from numerous trailers in austin. sausage actually made several people sick next day...

looking at what going on with food in austin, i certainly can say, it is not that much about flavour (it was good, but nothing really special,) but rather hype and ability to spin up hype quickly.
OCaml and Mirage now running on rumprun, including bare metal
I worked for a company and saw the writing on the wall that tough times were ahead. Realizing this I left, hoping to give more time to my coworkers before cuts were instituted. A few months after leaving, the company had to cut everyone's salary by 20%. They were kind enough that they went from being expected to work 5 eight hour days down to expected to work 4 eight hour days.
Disabling it when forms have focus would be useful.

But this makes it a real pain to close a tab.
I goto the gym every day for an hour. The Apple Watch is a fantastic workout tracker. And it's great that it's reminding me to stand every hour. But what is the point of the data it collects ? Apple isn't doing anything smart with it (yet).

The workout tracker is not the killer app. And neither is everything out there right now.
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Of course CEO of a company that coordinates credential evaluations between employers and employees thinks that this is more important than interviews. His business depends on it.
Yes, I've noticed that. There is nothing wrong with not being first, Apple should focus on trying to do it better, not faster.
There's some really good YA genre fiction out there, but I think one of the defining aspects of the genre is it's written about teenage protagonists with a number of very teenage problems, which I find increasingly tedious the further I get into my twenties.

That said, Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles (to pick a somewhat less known example) are pretty excellent sci-fi, if you can get past the annoying teenage romances of the protagonists.
Perhaps Turkey could funnel some of that dislike in to making their Southern Border a little less permeable?
Work for Slack – but mostly (only?) in an office
millions of personal machines and users, mostly outside of direct institutional
control. Where would the applications and training come from? Why should we
expect an applications programmer to anticipate the specific needs of a
particular one of the millions of potential users? An extensional system
seemed to be called for in which the end-users would do most of the
tailoring (and even some of the direct constructions) of their tools.

There are millions of people using personal computers. But the fraction of them who do any programming is miniscule. The applications and training come from a small number of companies becoming very rich by doing the programming for those millions of computers.

And yet I continue to read of people suggesting that the tailoring problem can be solved by teaching users how to program. What has happened instead is application developers have learned that it is much easier to program the users to suit the needs of the computer than it is to program the computer to suit the needs of the user.
> Merging EE functions into CE has always been at the discretion of the core team

If someone independently implements all of the EE functions without looking at or using the EE code, will the core team reject the patch due to the fact that it would give a reason for customers to stop paying for EE? Is there any scenario where the core team would accept such a patch?
My wife and I had the opportunity to travel to Palmyra in 2010, and it was an extraordinary experience. Not only are they some of the most spectacular ruins in the world, but while we toured, there was almost no one else there. It's just crazy to take in vistas like [0] and feel like we're the ones there to appreciate it.

Nevertheless, the potential damage is insignificant compared to the human losses under both Assad's regime and ISIS.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/mc7jofyfhb36ozb/palmyra.jpg?dl=0
Google has a cached page for this article...

To access the cached copy, just search in google with the "cache" keyword prefix

"cache:" + ${original_URL}

for example:

cache:expdev.byethost7.com/2015/05/22/shellcode/
It isn't inheritance at all. Read the other replies. When an embedded struct has a method called on it, it is completely oblivious to what it is embedded in, no different than a direct call. It does not get any sort of reference to what would be a the superclass if there was any inheritance going on.
That's not true. Leased space is very different from IPv4 space you own, specifically legacy space that pre-dates the creation of these RIRs. You can definitely buy IPv4 space and use it however you want and re-sell it, split it up, etc.

ARIN has the most ridiculous policies on IPv4 space and RIPE actually has the best, in my experience.

IPv6 is coming no matter what and a healthy IPv4 market is not going to stop that. The IPv4 market improves efficiency by re-distributing the addresses to people that actually need them.

Right now there are millions of addresses in the hands of people that don't even need a single IPv4 address and often don't even remember registering the space in the 90s (IPs that have not been publicly announced on the Internet for decades). They gave out too many addresses to the wrong people in the 90s and an open market will help distribute it to the people that have a technical need for them.
not growing up on these parts i'm usually lost when it came to branding history (which is mostly a very good thing)

I've always thought patagonia was a cheap, generic branch from china. Since all they seem to sell are ugly jackets made from the shortest polyester fibers.

i'm actually shocked that patagonia is supposed to be a high end shop. now thinking of it, i recall seeing one or two boutique stores from them. but mostly, i just encountered their products in costco or some corner of department stores.
I think this is a good introduction to PID for people who don't want to have to dive into the nitty gritty. Linear feedback controls is a complex but complete theory and it would take at least a semester at a university to understand the theory behind time and frequency domain design and the effects of discretization.
> As you can probably tell - this problem doesn't even make sense in mathematical terms. Because remember, math is not an ordered execution of statements, it’s equality. You are not describing what to do, you’re describing what is.

I think this is my fundamental concern with Haskell. "Describing what is", aka mathematics, has two fundamental problems:

1) It is hard to reason about. After all, the entirety of mathematics, including problems outstanding for hundreds of years, concern these problems.

2) Describing what is does not give you what is.

In math you first describe what is, then work really hard to prove that it actually is, and after all of that work you still don't actually have the thing that is.

Obviously Haskell is concerned with what actually is, and obviously the compiler can't do arbitrarily difficult mathematical analysis, so in practice you're left with a "describe what is" language that is arbitrarily less powerful than real math, and arbitrarily more concerned with laying things out so a computer can do it (being imperative, essentially). Haskell sits between pure math and imperative languages, but exactly where it sits doesn't feel elegantly prescribed to me, whereas math and imperative languages do.
Sorry for my ignorance... how does anything auto-run anymore?
Understanding the history of the rise of ISIS might help us avoid similar situations in the future, and it might help us to reconcile with them if such a thing is even possible, but mere knowledge alone will not defeat ISIS. It may be that their movement is unsustainable and will wither away on its own, or it may be that local forces will eventually be able to defeat them, but if not then either we will take action against ISIS at some point, or we will have to coexist with them. Considering that this is a group whose express goal is the assimilation or destruction of all human cultures not their own, peaceful coexistence seems unlikely. (To be clear, I don't consider ISIS a global threat obviously, but they are certainly having a great deal of success locally at the moment.)

The West is so morally compromised here that it's hard to imagine that we could credibly (in the eyes of non-ISIS players in the region) take action against them, but that does not mean that destroying ISIS is not the right thing to do in theory. It just means that we probably can't do it. That's not a defense of ISIS though, it's an indictment of many decades of utterly stupid and short-sighted policy in the Middle East.
I thought things like facebook and OS X and windows have taught us that small incremental designs are easier on the users.
If someone has no preferences about tools, I doubt he has any experience at all.
The world's largest tyre manufacturer (not what you'd think)
Apple Watches "selling out" is an unfortunate Apple manipulation (one, as a businessman, I agree with the use of as it is a valid tactic) that does not mean much.

I want to know how many they've sold in the first year vs all of the Google Wear watches their first year; that is a much better metric.

However, the metric I was using as a "better platform" was there seems to be more apps supporting Google Wear than Apple Watch, Google Wear seems to have more features out of the box in both software and hardware, and Google Wear seems to be less buggy.
When you roast beans, you introduce CO2. For a few hours after roasting, CO2 escapes, which is the process called degassing or off-gassing. When you grind, more CO2 escapes. Limiting CO2 impact on coffee is well understood by the industry -- you can degas in a nitrogen environment, for example.

We at HiLine Coffee did a lot of testing with different single-serve pods, and I can assure you that you can tell the quality changes over time (what you get with 1 month old pod and what you get after 6 months taste very different). This is one of the reasons why Nespresso, Keurig and other large manufacturers don't state the date of the roast on packaging. People wouldn't want to buy 6 months old coffee. Instead they buy coffee that is "best consumed by" a date in 6 months, whatever that means, particularly since stale coffee doesn't have any discernible health effects other than sadness from poor taste. After spending more than a year working on new ways to better preserve ground coffee in single serve packaging, we determined that the only sure way to deliver fresh and great tasting coffee in a pod is to roast for each individual order. This is the model that we are testing now. If you want to try it, check us out at https://www.hilinecoffee.com or send us an email for free sample.
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didn't they bought yammer some time ago for much, much more than their client list was worth?
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MIT's OCW offering offers more on the subject of automatic control: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-0...
Need to sell my chrome extension, 130k users.
>I want to know how many they've sold in the first year vs all of the Google Wear watches their first year; that is a much better metric.

The GP is making that sort of claim ("out sold all Google Wear devices sold in one year on the first day.")
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Netflix since they've seemingly embraced something similar to this honesty as an integral part of their company culture.
This is an interesting study. I've always had trouble understanding speech in anything but a quiet environment. Even the small amount of audio information lost in a phone conversation makes it hard for me to understand what people are saying. However, I don't think I'm depressed any more than the average person (we all have down days sometimes).

So, while depressed people seem to experience this kind of reduced speech comprehension, I wonder what other groups of people experience the same?
Last Fall my roommate was taking a class on computer networks, he ended up inventing PID as a flow-control algorithm, though he didn't know to call it PID.