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In the United States I am questioning the need to keep the federal interest rate so low. Yes, it might have brought us out of depression?(I still wonder what the outcome would have been if Bush let the banks go bankrupt?)

Back to these low interest rates. At this point in the recovery, I am just seeing rich people playing with essentially free money--taking some big risks, but I don't see it trickling down to the middle class and poor--in most cases.

I see this essentially free money being funneled into the stock market, because there's no where else to put the money, except real estate, and speculative VC investments. That's fine and dandy, but the poor and middle class are having a hell of a time getting loans. They are essentially locked out of the party? Yes, the middle class is greatful their Company retirement plan is soaring, but it will drop.

Many of us(poor, middle class) speculate in CD's, and in my case I am getting .1 percent per year-- on my meager account. I can't afford to speculate. I don't think I am alone. I counted on the interest I used to make. It's gone. I now pay the bank more in fees than I get in interest. In my case, I have a negative rate of return on my money.

My point is I don't see this essentially free money the rich are getting trickling down, with the exception of the tech industry. You guys seem to be doing great, and you guys deserve it. And yes, their are hot spots like the Bay Area where houses are way up in value, but so are rents. Rents have gone up so high long term residents are being forced to relocate.

What I am trying to convey--poorly--is I don't think the economy is doing that great. Food stamp usage is at an all time high? The unemployment number is beyond skewed because they stop including you in that figure once that check stops--I believe? Student loans are at an all time high. Small and medium sized business are having a hard time securing those low interest loans. I see so many Homeless. I my county, section 8 housing is closed, and there's a three year waiting list. I honestly don't see the variety of jobs like I did before the ression. People are so desperate for work they are buying newer(2008) four door cars in order to work for Uber. Non profits are closing--some deserve to close, but some of the better ones are not getting the donations like in years past. I can go on, but getting tired.

My major point is so many of us are losing net value in this low interest rate economy. The renters who rely of cd's to hold their money are hurting. I don't blame anyone politically. I'm glad medically uninsurable home owners don't need to risk losing their home in a medical judgement attachment thanks to Obama, and a Supreme Court justice.(forget his name, but he is a kind man, and a Rebublican!)

I see another ression coming real quick. I hope families stick together, and pool their resources--and don't blame the wrong people when the chit hits. I'm usually 180 degrees wrong when it come to money--so I'll dummy up. Sorry--just venting!
Yeah, thank you :)
Is there a support list somewhere for DHE >1024?
Consulting and the Four Stages of Competence
This really doesn't deserve downvotes - it is a very valid point (even if "the fold" arguably isn't really a thing).

Everyone and their dog has videos on their landing pages now, but I almost never want to watch them, because having to turn the sound on will disturb whatever else I'm doing - and, to be perfectly blunt, listening to my music is more important to me than your product in the vast majority of cases. If there is explanatory copy that is compelling enough to make me watch a video, then you've done a good job with the copy and that was worth it in and of itself.
"Maintain order?"

After the violence and racism, a big problem with police is the crappy solution rates to violent and serious property crimes. The Drug War just masks that lack of effectiveness.
Exactly. A law being a law doesn't mean it's right.
I have never seen a venue that would have failed to give a complete refund in that scenario. That's basic customer service.
It seems like it prescribed too much.

I want to use LiveScript, Emblem and Stylus with the build modules of my choosing. Also I don't need any of these code generators. Broccoli feels also like they are running their own stuff just because they can.
Seems the web site is having some troubles...
Well, while we're throwing around logical fallacies, you just made an appeal to authority. I don't care what dang or pg say - downvoting someone because you disagree with them is stupid.

That said, I did downvote blumkvist, firstly because he stated his opinion without really providing any reason for having it other than "oh we don't really know what's going on" (this is annoying, but everyone does it sometimes and it isn't such a big deal). But secondly and much more importantly, even after being asked to follow up on his assertion and have a discussion, he chose to continue on his anti-HN rant.

(And seriously, why is going to Russia "super fishy" when you've got US Congressmen suggesting on national fucking television that the CIA ought to assassinate you? And why do those Congressmen get a pass for saying it? They disgraced their office in doing so. Still like an answer for this, blumkvist.)
Cannot abide laggy scrolling
I live in Northampton, MA (< 10 miles from Hampshire College). Not sure of your exact dates, but if in town, I can pick you at Hartford (BDL) or Boston and take you to Hampshire. I'm sure they will have some kind of accommodations for you (or can get them).

I have contact info on my HN page.
What about sending the data via SMS? T-Mobile has a $3/month plan with 30 text messages. 30 * 160 = 4800 bytes a month. Could probably squeeze more data through with the 30 voice minutes but you'd have to do analog -> digital somehow I assume.
Zenefits Launches Zenefits for Managers and Zenefits Business Intelligence
Your statement diregards completely the reason we have laws in the first place.

The reason we create laws is not to obey them because they are laws. That would be stupid.
If the laws are unjust, unethical or problematic for all but the powerful, they should be eliminated.

Also, the whole Snowden thing happened because the NSA was operating against the laws and because
what they did was obviously unethical.

If my employer does something unlawful or unethical should I continue to cover for him, just because
an employee must obey the orders of his/her employer?

That is obsurd.
Given all the vitriol on another front-page thread, I wanted to note from the site that "A close reading of published NSA leaks shows that the agency's attacks on VPNs are consistent with having achieved such a break."

I'm grateful to people who disclose and fix vulnerabilities instead of leaving everyone vulnerable, and kudos especially to Nadia Heninger from this team, whose work has only grown in interesting-ness and practical implications over the past few years.
> I think a cost-benefit analysis needs to be done for each drug.

Actually, no. Soft drugs are not a problem. Opiate addiction isn't addressable with prisons. We know treatment is far more effective and less costly. Other drugs don't have a large social impact one way or another. And on top of all that, disemploying narcs will get a lot of thugs off the streets.
We usually call them tractor eggs.
Is it your contention that the black cops in Baltimore are racist against black people?
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Now Open Source
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Understanding the role of Agile Technology in software development
That doesn't feel like a good reason. The author could easily have come up with a better task (eg. count the number of words with more than one occurrence). This allows you to approach the problem in the optimal way in each language.
Swift: The Tao of Mappage
Empirically, a biker war is treated vastly differently in the press and by the police than a protest against a police killing.
If the problem is racism and brutality in law enforcement, I don't think the right response would be "it was better before the 1960s". Law enforcement was racist before the 1960s because the law was explicitly racist then.
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I think you're right, popularity is really the only way to do this. And 0 popularity doesn't seem to mean 0 plays, I think a song with 5 plays 2 years ago would probably have a 0 rating. This definitely seems like a project where they came up with the idea first and then got as close as they could.
Totally agree as long as you're making a good faith effort to distinguish noise (which I agree blumkvist's posts basically are, especially after the first one), from unfamiliar patterns of thought.
There is a correlation between gun access and homicide rates. "Across developed countries, where guns are more available, there are more homicides. These results often hold even when the United States is excluded."

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and...
Duet Display – Ex-Apple Engineers Turn Your iPad into a Second Display
Since it was mentioned on the title, here's a tip

Don't sign up for the ZenDesk trial, unless you are sure of what is it about and that you want it.

You'll spend 10% of your time evaluating their product and 90% of the time dealing with their aggressive sales team and tactics
Where do you get that information? This Harvard review - http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and... suggests a positive correlation between gun ownership and homicide, both nationally and internationally
Avoiding the Question of Who’s to Blame in Autonomous Vehicle Accidents
"Legalize it and tax it" has been the mantra, with the taxes earmarked to fund treatment. The latter will never happen, because government cannot help itself from spending whatever money it can on whatever it thinks will buy votes.

And there will still be a market for black market drugs. The legal, high-quality, taxed drugs will be more expensive than the underground variants. People will still make and sell homebrew meth, just as people still make and sell homebrew booze.

This isn't to say that I think we should keep things the way they are. There are many intoxicating substances that cause grievious harm to individuals, families, and society in general and I don't think that any of the illegal ones are worse than alcohol in that regard. And I don't think that getting high or being addicted is a criminal act (though it may lead to things that are criminal, such as stealing, driving under the influence, etc.)

I also think that intoxicating oneself is usually a bad idea, particularly if it's done to escape from or avoid some problem or life situation that needs to be dealt with and resolved. My worry is that legalization will be percieved as endorsement, absent any campaign to highlight the ethical, moral and personal responsibility expectations that people will need to live up to. And we seem as a society to have really gotten shy about teaching that certain behaviors and ways of living can be right or wrong, absolutely.
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> The company fucked over the communities is received tax breaks from, so they should be rewarded with simply not having to pay taxes at all?

More like: "the politicians responsible for setting tax policy routinely end up abusing small companies with high taxes while rewarding big companies with low taxes and claims of Jobs Jobs Jobs (re-elect me!). the jobs are frequently a lie so mostly the big companies just get unfair advantages. this is manifestly unfair to small companies and to communities. maybe politicians shouldn't tax corporate activity at all -- besides the problems mentioned already it reduces incentives to invest and to have jobs in a location -- and we should get our taxes from economic activity once the money's left the corporation, like the executives' property, or a sales tax that penalizes excessive consumption, or carbon taxes -- which might also help the environment! and then maybe we should charge companies fees for the services that they use instead of general-fund spending so that companies have a harder time offloading costs onto the jurisdictions where they're hosted."

This is a fairly common economically-conservative public-policy position. It can be debated as desirable or undesirable, but!!! it is consistent and coherent and does attempt to achieve equity under the law. It's probably hardest to implement in a place like the US where there are multiple jurisdictions involved and the revenue from a sales tax or property tax could end up far away from the communities where the corporations impose costs (though the fee-for-services model does mitigate that).
Great idea!

It could have the option to send its location only on request, using in daily driving cars. Or even better if you are close, it could know about it somehow (bluetooth?, NFC?) and stay in sleep mode.

I was thinking about a similar thing, by creating an app which does the same, buy a low-end phone with GPS and hide it in my car.
What's the difference to Stackoverflow? Code oriented help platform for developers sounds like Stackoverflow.

Edit: Finished googling ZenDesk. If I understand correctly then what you are doing is a platform independent ticket system for open-source developers? Then that's not what the title says.
> so why no responsible disclosure?

Presumably because the main danger here comes from state-level adversaries who already know and actively exploit the issue, not script kiddies who might get funny ideas after reading the announcement. So the sooner it is published and people can start fixing their servers and clients, the less damage is done.
It seems like your goal is to be a better search engine than Google, and focusing primarily on the command line.

What is the reason for a developer not wanting to type into a normal search engine a few keywords about a coding issue?

This concept just doesn't make sense to me: "Describe your problem in details with markdown supported. GitHelp will use your description to find you the most relevant content and resources to help you solve your problem instead of Googling."

Here is a suggestion, show us an example (with screenshots or a video) of a query or question using Google search and using GitHelp, then we can properly see the value of the service.

The "getting stuck" part is the most fun for me personally. It means I've hit a challenge that I've not faced before and have to do something thinking and research to solve it.
I've always been interested in WCF. This a good thing for those companies that have lots of WCF services.

That being said...Scott Hanselman calls it WS-Death Star for a reason. (WS-*, heh. Nerd Jokes. Check.) Hopefully this kick starts the same kind of rapid evolution that Asp.net MVC had after it was open sourced.
In the general case, we can't of course, as Turing proved. How we untangle special cases and categories of algorithms around this is part of the wonder of mathematics for me.
Thank you! I think you just saved us a ton of money. I didn't know about that term.
Those animated gifs throughout the article were awful. But as for the substance, does it really take knowing people on the inside to have a successful app these days? That seems surprising.
Not just another app: Number26 (Berlin) aims to take banking to the next level
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As a .Net outsider, it's not very inclusive of them to have an acronym in the title like that.

I had to look down on the page to figure out that it means "Windows Communication Foundation". It was not easy to quickly figure out what this actually means, but I guess that's since it's highly technical and I'm not immersed in the Microsoft/.Net talk.
any idea about what hardware is impacted?
To be fair, it wasn't just the German POWs who ended up imprisoned for decades; Russian POWs who managed to survive the German camps were shipped off to labor camps in the USSR.
Even though Norway is not part of the EU, it is quite dependent on it for all sorts of reasons. This is an example where the Norwegian government tried to stop that through high import tariffs on butter, and it backfired.

Because of its small population and northern location, it essentially has to import much of its agricultural products from the EU, and thereby accept most of the EU regulations and academic degrees without having the slightest say in the matter.
If it was up to me Apple would shut down the Mac app store and give the audience back to the indie developers.

They kind of already completely gave up on it because of the iOS appstore is much more popular and it's not really adding anything good to the consumer.
>If someone signs up for e.g. Taskrabbit and does a few hours a week, they're then "self-employed" and no longer count against the unemployment statistics

Are you implying that this is having a significant effect on the US unemployment statistics? And that, in the context of the article and discussion, there is no economic recovery?

Every time unemployment statistics are brought up, anywhere on the internet, these edge cases get presented. Read how the BLS measures are calculated. Yes, the unemployment rate is based off of surveys and statistical inference, so isn't a 100% accurate representation of the real world. Yes, the dynamics of the labor force change over time, and it isn't necessarily stable over decades or centuries.

But the U6 measure, which includes "discouraged workers" who are no longer looking for work, as well as those forced to work part-time for "economic reasons" has fallen from a peak of 16.7% in 2010 to 11.3% today. That sort of move just isn't explained by people signing up for TaskRabbit, or anything like it.

I think part of the reason people deny a recovery is occurring is that they conflate it with boom times. Recovery doesn't mean everything is running at capacity; it doesn't even mean we've recovered yet. It means the trend is up. Looking back to 2009, that's hard to deny.
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Atom with eslint, the react plugin and eslint-babel is just amazing for ES6/7 and React development. It's so much faster than it used to be, it's actually amazing.
Total unemployment rate supposedly counts workers who stopped looking. The government includes it in U6 column. I can't even conceive how they calculate U5 and U6. I think they it must involve guesstimating? Here's the link. I didn't know they are claiming to calculate that part of the unemployment rate. So I'm reading the total unemployment rate between 10-11 percent--which still seems overly optimistic?

(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm)
I agree, but it's more that Gen Y is kind of split in half between people who have ever not had a cellphone, and people whose first cellphone was an iPhone (not a dig at apple, the iPhone came out before Android did). Of which I am the former, and feel the latter is certainly ideologically different even if "generations" don't show it.
Those people are considered unemployed in the U6 measure.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Why auto-increment is a terrible idea
i'd like to see an explanation of why this syntax was chosen instead of ANSI MERGE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_%28SQL%29).
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It works the other way around
>Graphic design is like that.
Graphic design is art. Not everyone is an artist. Not everyone can be an artist, because a lot of people's minds (or "eye) don't work in an artistic kind of way.

But getting the basics of Graphical Design can still help both appreciate a good design and "understand" why "that stuff" feels ugly, and being able to discuss with a graphic designer and talk the "same language"

Same thing with "Programming".
No one claims that 100% of the population should understand Rust borrow checker or functional purity

But everyone should understand (and be able to copy-paste some code and "fix" it until it works) the concept of a sequence of instruction, a loop to generate repetitive stuff, the concept of variable (and therefore template and mail merge), a if (and therefore be able to do basic stuff in Excel).
So they can talk to engineer and get what they way.
And maybe everyone should be able to do FizzBuzz or display the number from 50 to 1 with a loop going from 0 to 49. At least in pseudo-code.
Private prisons are only part of the revenue generated from the war on drugs. Civil forfeiture is a huge income stream for local and federal. They basically wait for the drug dealers to sell their drugs and then catch them with the money and take it. Some police departments allot for 35% or more of their annual budget to come from civil forfeiture. Add to that the amount of federal money received to fight the war. Also fines and fees. There is a lot of money changing hands and jobs being created by prohibition.
In the US, the legally-protected title is Professional Engineer. I switched majors from CS to CS & Engineering because of the former was not accredited to allow becoming a PE, whereas the latter is recognized by the PE licensuring body. http://www.nspe.org/resources/licensure/what-pe
Saying "no matter what this is about, not following any rule/breaking trust" is automatically "unethical, illegal and immoral" is wrong. If that was true, the concepts of ethics and morals wouldn't exist much in the first place. In some situations breaking a law or disobeying an order is a must, i.e. when ordered to commit a war crime. So, why not have a look at the specifics of the situation at hand instead of dismissing it outright?

What are you trusted with? Safety inspections? Overseeing any compliance issues? I could see many areas and many scenarios where I would hold you accountable to not just do as you are ordered, but speak out against wrongdoings.
Judging by the tone of some of the comments so far, and in keeping with the spirit of the times, maybe we should include a trigger warning in the title of any Microsoft-related news.
As the old saying goes, there's nothing new under the sun. DevOps is very closely related to sysadmin work. I think it would be fair to say that DevOps is just a specialized form of sysadmin work. You could even say that it is just an approach to sysadmin work.

DevOps means using orchestration and automation tools to perform sysadmin tasks, rather than doing everything by hand. It's a layer atop the tools that sysadmins are used to using. The "dev" part of the term relates to the "infrastructure as code" concept. This concept dictates that your infrastructure should be defined as code that outputs your infrastructure.

Depending on how far along you are in your sysadmin career, and depending on the size of the organization you work in, this may be nothing new, but more recent DevOps efforts extend this to organizations of much smaller size. For example, it is not unusual for environments requiring only a handful of servers (or even one!) to use a fully automated provisioning and deployment toolchain.

Ultimately, you can make the argument that this is nothing new. You can do that with just about anything. "DevOps" is not a provable assertion; it is a refinement of the language used to describe the jobs we do.
Unlikely...

A lot of the complexity is baked into the WS standards of which WCF is only an implementation. So until new standards are rolled out there is a limit to how much clean up can happen.

Then the other thing is the fundamental concept of WCF requires a lot of inherent complexity.

There is still a good amount of complex for complex's sake that could be cleaned up so hopefully that happens.

But its been said WCF is pretty much dead so not sure how much effort will go into it.
Honestly, the fact that it's only 64% raises my opinion of Americans slightly. The barrage of propaganda you have to put up with there is truly remarkable, and especially considering the rivers of bullshit that streamed out of every single major media outlet in the wake of this, the fact the over one in three Americans still thinks he's an alright guy, with one in ten considering him a hero, speaks volumes for their resistance to it. Nice work, America.