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The mortgage interest is not tax deductible in Canada.

Also, taxes are much higher in Canada than in the U.S.

I'm a bit skeptical about this article. I think the bottom line is that he had a bunch of stocks and mutual funds that he's been accumulating since he was a teen.

Most people lack the foresight and advice to do such a thing (God, I wish I'd done it) so this article doesn't really apply to the majority.
I've tried to use GitX and SourceTree in my workflow and always end up going back to gitk. There's always some information, view or action I can do in gitk that I can't make the others do. I find git from the command line to be the most painless. Everything else is always the third thing after gitk and command-line. Seeing multiple stashes used to be a great extra feature, then I just stopped using stashes.
And old offshore companies. I've been doing some research, startups usually ask for some web-framework (Laravel,RoR,Django,Sails) or "big/traditional" companies want J2EE expertise (and SAP).
Just let Flash die, there's a lot of wonderful, more advanced technologies out there, Flash should obsolete.
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Because one needs to consume housing, regardless of financial status. There are basically two ways to consume housing, to buy or to rent. Buying and renting are easily substitutable strategies and thus by basic economics the prices are equivalent except in speculative bubbles (renting is cheaper) and in panic crashes (buying is cheaper). Since the prices are generally equivalent it makes sense to buy a house if one would prefer to not be subject to landlord-externalities and/or if one would prefer to own one's housing outright 30 years in the future, when retirement looms.

None of this has anything to do with student loan debts. They are utterly irrelevant with respect to whether one should choose to buy or rent housing. It only makes a difference as to how much housing one can consume.
Voters should take a look into http://m.nsa.gov/about/mission/
It's actually pretty simple and the text is pretty short. You should have a read sometime. There are no exceptions, and it's pretty clear about that.

Now, that isn't to say that our judicial and executive branches of government haven't ruined its enforceability, but that's a story about the resolve of our citizens, not about the first amendment.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
You may be right about open-source software being sufficient on Apple gear. But I wouldn't want to go through the hassle of buying gear anonymously, and then discover that I need something via Apple.

I'm sure that I represent a small market. But it's arguably a market that Apple must serve well for Tim Cook's claims about privacy to be credible.
It's standard practice for negotiations between governments to happen in secret. If they didn't, negotiators would be looking over their shoulders constantly and the natural back and forth of negotiation would be impossible. The final draft will be released well before governments decide whether to sign and ratify.
None of those things you list are credit based. A credit rating is determined by your ability to repay debts, such as credit cards, mortgages, etc. If you never have those, how can you have a credit rating.

http://www.myfico.com/crediteducation/whatsinyourscore.aspx
There are escrow systems for that. They're not widely implemented, but that can change.
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I see.

It just shocks me to see how people who make good money still get deep into dept.

Well, maybe it's just that I came from a poor family, where taking any credits was only done by people who are bad with money. I had a student loan of 4000€ and all I wanted to do was pay it as fast as possible.
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How does that work with the WTO?
> Snowden probably should face charges

I agree.

Let's put him on trial right after the trials for Keith Alexander and James Clapper wrap up. And while we're prosecuting him for it, we can draw up charges against half the Senate for violating the Logan Act.

He should face charges (and be acquitted or given a very light sentence due to mitigating circumstances). But, he should not be a victim of selective enforcement of the law.
That's a pretty widespread system. I even saw an antique one in a newsagent in Broken Hill (way outback Australia) a few years ago. They did a little demo for me when I asked what it was, though obviously it was only a curio these days.
BTW, your wiki's certificate is untrusted, because it was issued for "bikeshed.cryptech.is".
I'm not sure. One thing I can say from experience though is that bills in Japan are newer and cleaner than they are in the US. My impression is that it would be unthinkable in Japan to write on a bill with a pen or to crumple it up. Also, I'd guess bills that start to get worn are taken out of circulation much earlier.

Compare that to the US where I've seen a supermarket teller draw a line with a pen across a bill after accepting it (why?) or people pulling wadded cash balls out of their pockets to pay for a soda at a convenience store.

I don't know what accounts for the difference but I did like the typically crisp and new bills in Japan.
I don't see why that anecdote makes it desirable -- can you explain?
The press.
Egor Homakov strikes again. This guy is a machine, just look at the vulnerabilities he's found this year alone:

http://sakurity.com/blog
You're probably right.

Most of my life I had the impression, that buying a home would be a huge waste of money. Funny thing is, I always saved much money for the future. If I had bought a home, I would probably paid as much per month as I now pay rent AND have money invested for the future, so I could subtract those payments from my monthly savings.
So this means anyone who buys the wrong Samsung smart TV is sacrificing their right to privacy in their own home? Scary.
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But shouldn't you always use a virtualenv anyways?
>Your earlier comment did not provide any "hard-nosed technical justification" for why you don't like them, it was just "they're brittle"

I gave three reasons. Did you not read them?
wow, didn't even know of jq but look's super cool. was trying to avoid using packages you would have to 'install' since it seemed that all the functionality the post I responded to used built-in's for powershell commands.
Hi Solomon, do you have an ETA for Docker 1.7? I see that it's currently in RC1. How soon will we be able to take advantage of libnetwork via Compose? Is there any documentation yet on how it will be done in Compose? Is there currently an easy way to try it via Boot2Docker?

Sorry about the barrage of questions. As you can probably guess, I'm very interested in trying this out.
"If you have any questions, feel free to ask."

What tools did you use/craft to clean the source data?
> Do you believe that a significant number of deaths have been prevented, say a number close to those killed by ATV's* in the US each year?

I never understood these kind of questions. Don't you think there's a difference between premeditated murder and accidental death? You can't prevent people from accidentally doing stupid things and mishaps, you can only minimize it. Whereas premeditated murder can be prevented.
BIDMarch (mentioned in this paper) looks interesting, and benchmarks well[1]. I hadn't come across it before.

The PageRank benchmarks are very impressive.

[1] https://github.com/BIDData/BIDMach/wiki/Benchmarks
1. "supposed"? you kidding?

2. if you would care about protecting human rights then you wouldn't care who is in this council. you would only care if their claim has merit or not.
Because if that anecdote is true, Morgenbesser is clearly insane. Drill down on your intuition about why he's insane and you arrive at "he's violating IIA".
I completely disagree, that is the kind of thinking that causes OSX only software to be written. I use Windows because that's what I grew up on and as a practical matter, I can buy the same equipment for half the price of a Mac. And I use all maner of "cool tools" like this as much as possible.

Pissing on devs who use Windows may have been somewhat valid a few years ago, but times are changing, and people use it even if they aren't doing VS/Eclipse work. (FWIW, I hate Eclipse. However, Visual Studio is a very good IDE, if you like IDEs)
real estate speculation can be quite lucrative, but it's all about location. Following that advice in Vancouver for example would have been a great financial move - at least in retrospect.
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If the teller takes 10 min (on average) to serve someone and people arrive less often that 1 in every 10 minute, the average wait time is going to be finite. If people arrive more often than 1 in every 10 minutes, the queue is going to grow infinity large, and the average wait time is infinite.

So as the frequency with which people arrive approaches 1 in 10 minute (from above), the average wait time will increase dramatically, reaching infinity at 1 person / 10 min.
That there is the question!
Take a look at P4Merge for doing your merges/diffs - it's a very nice tool for merging. You don't need the entire P4 ecosystem, the merge tool is standalone.
I also prefer the stack exchange sites, but there is some information of Quora that is just not available anywhere else.
Somewhat unrelated to the article, but trying to work out the math of whether becoming millionaires by the time you're in your 30s is hard or not for a pair of engineering couples in silicon valley.

Assuming graduated when they are both 22 yrs old and worked till 30 years old on a typical software engineer salary (pulled this out of my ass, but let's say 125k) they would have had a total gross income of 2 million. If they save aggressively and invested wisely, this shouldn't be too hard to do?
> 3 years ago I wrote a blog post about broken regular expressions in Ruby, ^$ meaning new lines \n.

Are they actually broken? One of the first quirks I learned writing Ruby is that you use \A and \z instead of ^ and $.

I know better than to blame security vulnerabilities on "bad programmers" rather than usability problems with a language (or plain old PoLA violations), but changing the meaning of these anchors will be a tough migration, possibly.
> (Nader, Bush, Gore) is much less likely

You're right that it was a smaller group, of course, but it wasn't an empty one.

Jello Biafra's endorsement of Nader plus Gore's attack on Twisted Sister for the Parents Music Resource Council means N-B-G was actually the order of preference for anyone where "the right to rock out" was their single voting issue.

(I was young, ok?)
The anecdote illustrates why it's desirable: Morgenbesser's change of mind doesn't make any sense, and the reason why it doesn't make any sense is that it violates IIA: whether they have cherry pie shouldn't make any difference to his preference between apple pie and blueberry pie.

(Except that it might -- e.g., imagine that making cherry pie is incredibly difficult and most kitchens can't manage it, and that the special skills and equipment required are also useful for making really good blueberry pies. Then knowing that cherry pie is on offer could actually be evidence that the blueberry pie will be good. This is maybe just a tiny bit similar to, e.g., changing your vote from A to B when you learn that C is standing, because C is a terrible candidate but might win, and in scenarios where C is close to winning B is C's main rival.)
Have a phone interview during lunch. Come in early, leave early. Come in late, leave late.

Go to something like a meetup relevant to your interests, meet people, see where it leads.
Intriguing. This looks like a good summary:

Chapter 2 and 3 presents two key design ideas that guides the overall development of BIDMach: codesign, which means choosing the right combination of hardware and designing
algorithms to best leverage the hardware, and roofline design, which means quantifying the theoretical performance limits of each component of a ML algorithm and making sure to get close to them. When implementing a algorithm, we need its hardware mappings. This includes computation pattern required by the algorithm, memory/IO pattern and communication pattern when designing a distributed algorithm.

To reach performance limits, careful and often iterative design and coding is needed. This is time-consuming. It would be problematic to do such optimization for every machine learning algorithm. Instead, we create an intermediate layer - a set of common computation and communication kernels/primitives, between BIDMach and the hardware. This includes BIDMat, butter
y mixing and Kylix. These deal respectively with matrix algebra, model synchronization across the network, and algorithms on graphs. An important role of BIDMat is to manage memory with matrix caching, which we will describe shortly.

So it's a really well-engineered approach Some bold claims:

We can bring the performance of sample-based Bayesian inference up close to symbolic methods

"Symbolic" here seems to refer to expectation propagation algorithms such as http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/infernet/
Then the problem is in the model. A credit rating is supposed to index your financial stability. I'm obviously stable enough to not have debts, but my credit score does not reflect this.

The bank guy I explained this to got physically agitated.
Good games that push the envelope is entertainment and art, It may also be genre creating.

Katamari-damacy for PS, Dynasty Warriors for PS2, and Quake comes to mind.
This is purpose built for this use case. The MapReduce system you talk about is part of what's built in. Each aggregate function in the query language is represented as a MapReduce job that gets run on the fly.

The other part of it is that we're optimized for this use case. I've built "time series databases" on top of Cassandra before. It requires a great deal of application level code and hacking to get things like retention policies and continuous queries, which are built into InfluxDB.
Windows + Linux is still ~80% of the developer share according to Stackoverflow surveys, so this might not be the best direction to spend effort
I have a question that's not about clustering.

We're using Influx for analytics, basically storing events with lots of detailed metadata and data, allowing us to ad-hoc aggregations like "select count(*) from viewed_product where product.category = ? and site = ? and user_agent = ? group by time(1d)". We're storing a lot of nested data; we are in fact merging in original data models so that we have historical event data even if the original data is deleted.

But reading about the changes in 0.9, I've noticed that you're moving towards a more fine-grained data model tuned for collecting measurements, with typically a single value per item + metadata in the form of tags, a lot like Prometheus' data model. This would seemingly make it even less appropriate for our use case, despite the fact that InfluxDB is apparently still intended for analytics. Influx also isn't performing very well at querying our data (compared to ElasticSearch and PostgreSQL), though I have been hoping this is because Influx being young and unoptimized and (as far as I understand) doesn't index any part of the value, only the tags.

Can you shed some light on this? Should we move off InfluxDB? Or will the new tag-based data model improve our use case?
There's nothing wrong with negotiating in secret. I'm not convinced it could be done any other way. At some point, though, it needs to be ratified in some democratic manner, without secret clauses or gentleman's agreements.
It's unbalanced forces you feel, not unbalanced acceleration per se. If you have a constant acceleration, it's because there's a consistent force on you.

It's why this part of the article is wrong:
>Humans are also terrible at perceiving velocity at a constant speed. [not perceiving sway] is why, when you’re traveling on a train at a steady fifty miles an hour, your body believes you might as well be sitting perfectly still.

Humans in a train moving steadily are enclosed in an environment where everything is moving at the same speed as them - seats, air, everything. There are no unbalanced forces to feel in the first place. Just the same as we don't perceive the earth's movement around the sun (well, in a moving-body sense) or the sun's movement around the galaxy (which is blisteringly fast on a human scale); because our frame of reference moves with us.

Of course, in the real world, trains do sway side-to-side and also up and down a little where the rails meet up (click-click click-click...), and we all feel that. But we're talking about a theory train here, and only looking at forward velocity :)

Edit: Wikipedia says the sun orbits the galaxy at 220km/s. Monty Python's "Galaxy Song" says 40,000mph, which works out to 18km/s. Either way, it's pretty zippy for us humans.

Galaxy Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
Wait, what countries don't use these? At least in Canada every restaurant that isn't fast-food is going to give you the receipt and change on a tray or in a leather booklet.
A hybrid approach is a better strategy once you have product/market fit. You should build your core domain as a monolith but have auxiliary infrastructure services built as microservices. The hybrid approach has the advantage of safely investing in microservices architecture that would later allow you to refactor your monolith once you truly understand your bounded contexts.
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Not the person you asked the question of, but I have a few reasons:

1) Hardware - cost is 1/2 Mac hardware, and I can upgrade cheaper as well. For example, my ultralight notebook came with 4GB Ram and a 128GB SSD. For ~$1000 - Mac equivalent was ~$1400 at the time, with no option to match the screen (1080p). Since then, I've upgraded but the SSD and Ram for another $300 - would have cost almost $700 to do the equivalent upgrade on the Mac and it would have been at the time of purchase.

2) I've grown up using Windows, CMD, batch files, etc. I know my way (a little) around the registry, services, etc. I'd have to relearn all of that on the Mac.

3) I hate all the program menus being at the top of the screen. I have a Mac on my desk at work...and it just drives me nuts. I'm sure I'd adapt, but it bugs me.

I could find more, but I've come to admit that I'm just a Windows user. If I need Linux or something, I just install a VM and go to town.
This is just paranoid nonsense.
I didn't read the paper (so I might be full of shit) but I think the idea is that the semantic sliders represent vectors in a vector space that is learned by a machine learning model, based on a sample set of examples. So the idea would be to take a bunch of examples (made by a 3D artist, taken from existing work, scanned in from real objects, etc) and first rate them in each category (which is subjective, and does still take a fair amount of human work)... but then you use an algorithm to train a model that can generate new examples in that vector space. Then, the sliders just modify the values of the different components of a vector representing a new, generated example. I doubt that the behavior of the semantic sliders is hard-coded - instead, there's a general algorithm for coming up with new sets of semantic sliders. So - ideally, for problems this model works well for, you would ideally be able to dramatically reduce the number of 3D models you need to characterize a whole space of parametrized variants.

EDIT:

Just actually went and read the paper. It's not machine learning, it's crowd-sourced. So it really needs a lot of people working on it... so I think that your concerns are totally well placed).

(Maybe we'll see the machine-learning version of this in the near future!)
I'm curious - based on previous agreements like this, how much time (in weeks or months) would you expect there to be between the terms of TPP being made public in full and the signing of the member governments?
try and schedule Friday afternoon interviews and take half day off on Friday(s). Makes it look like you are taking a long weekend.
How about at the counter of a 7-11?
We use this library at work and although keeping up with the constant API changes is annoying, it works well. My main complaint is that this library is very "un-Go". Everything is a pointer, even required parameters. I understand that this is a result of automatic code generation used meet the needs of various APIs with different semantics, but Go's lack of pointer literals makes it hard to use (you can't write something like &"hello world"). So I consider this a low-level library, and wrap it with more Go-friendly code.

The devs are definitely aware of this issue, and I thank them for getting rid of map pointers. I don't think there's an easy solution.
In the abstract, absolutely. In these two specific instances, absolutely not, not if it were actually reasoned out. The publicity surrounding Jenner is a media phenomenon, and mostly symbolic. Reporting surrounding the specifics of the Patriot Act expiring and the USA Freedom Act passing are tangible and have wide consequences.
This is a linkbait article for a financial blogger: of which there are several (Mr. Money Mustache being another that comes to mind).

He publishes monthly updates, so you could go back and figure out the "how" and the curve over time. It would involve looking at at least 100 blog posts, so here's a notional summary:

Investments: Dropping $2k/month into a $70k financial account earning 8% per year for 8 years yields $400k. FV(.08/12,12*8,2000,70000). The power of compounding interest.

Real Estate: A $266k property appreciating at 4% per year for 8 years is $365k.

Those two facts alone total more than three quarters of a million. Debt is going nowhere but down. Scrimp a save a little more, get a few reasonable raises/bonuses and it's "easy".

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I hate the treatment of debt in this article. DEBT IS BAD, it screams. Mortgages aren't bad; car payments aren't bad. Long-term CC debt is bad because interest rates are insane, but everything else is a time-value-of-money problem.
1. Whatever you think about Israel, they're certainly not the most serious human rights abuser in the world. It makes no sense for Israel to be the only permanent item on the agenda.

2. When the EFF is parroting the claims of "UN experts", the credibility of said experts is relevant.
Could you please explain when I'd want to use this vs. using the built-in Meteor mobile app system[1]?

[1] http://docs.meteor.com/#/basic/buildingmobileapps
Lol, wonder how many people opened the discussion because of the typo...
Each of those continuous query data points would be an insert. I guess if you're recalculating it frequently, those new points would be updates, however, under non-failure conditions that won't be a problem.

If failure conditions occur, hinted handoff should take care of it, or the next CQ run that recomputes the result should make it correct after the failure condition is resolved.

Finally, those aren't contentious updates. You're not talking about multiple clients trying to make different updates to the exact same point, which is really what I mean when I talk about not optimizing for updates.
Might not want to use pink comic sans on a slide deck if you want be taken seriously...
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This was my thought too, but I am also from Canada (west coast) so it is plausible that it is just us and the Japanese? Interesting.

Edit: and Germany, according to the poster below...