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> Oh, I don't think you should cite Japan as any example anywhere. The financial situation over here is catastrophic, and there's not telling when the country actually hits the wall, but when it will it will hit it BAD. Demographic decline, Productivity stagnating, retirement paid by workers (less and less of them), humongous debt (spelling out default of hyper inflation in the mid term)...

Wait, if the UK, which doesn't suffer from these problems quite as badly, still has lower GDP growth than a country that does, that says something bad about UK's growth. So it seems clear then that the UK has done something badly wrong.

> GDP growth is far from a good economic indicator

It should be good enough. For one thing, large systematic movements in any indicator can be used to measure things, and the indicator doesn't have to be totally precise for it to be useful.
That seems like a rather limited view of location in the opposite. We feel emotion in all of us including our brains.
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Or chew gum with xylitol (It's actually natural birch sugar) that will heighten the PH level and kill germs.
I thought recent versions of Android automatically activated "Google VPN" on open wifi.
86% according to http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/why-ray-kurzweils-pre...
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If you have an iPhone on T-Mobile (US), calls will automatically switch between cellular and "wi-fi calling".
Thanks - haven't seen UML before & will take it out for a spin. In your experience does it have a big learning curve?
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That's easy to do with data, both use the same google APN end point, voice its not so easy to do, even with selective call forwarding, its still less then elegant.
I clicked on London and got a video about Las Vegas...
Except Sprint is CDMA, and T-Mobile is GSM - again, for data its easy to do, both networks can use the same APN, so handoff is seamless and transparent, for voice, its less so.
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If R lands in excel we can see even more proliferation of unstable excel "applications" with unmaintainable VBA, hard (if not impossible) to follow logic all wrapped up in a program where the next release might flat out break everything.

Unless microsoft address some of the core issues with using excel as a "tools" platform - I'd prefer they didn't encourage it any more than they already do.
Austerity yes/no is the economic equivalent of a bikeshed argument.

All the arguments about printing more or printing less money completely sidestep the real issue: how do you improve the productivity of the Greek economy. Economists have opposing theories that it's either really good, or really bad, to drop money from helicopters or just outright give it to banks.

None of these people are looking at the Greek economy saying "this is how they can double tourism", etc. Over the long term these are the decisions will create actual sustainable growth.

As for getting back the €360B, well, I wish all parties better luck with their decisionmaking next time. Seems like they need aid more than they need loans.
That's a solution to mitigate losses but it doesn't address the fact that someone has lost money due to fraud - and I'm guessing it hurts small businesses the most.

Strategy-wise the solution is simple, but digital marketing is intrinsically flawed nowadays and it's one industry that could literally be turned upside down at some point in the coming decades as the internet evolves. And I think a lot of people wouldn't mind that - especially the people with the power to bring the change (i.e. developers and proponents of open source solutions and haters of crappy spam)
My Dad used to make me watch him growing up in the '70s and '80s. I don't think I really appreciated it properly at the time.
Correct, I should've been clearer that I use daemonize mostly out of frustration with systemd limitations and inability to tell me precisely what's wrong when there are errors launching the service.
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If your system is one of those 10% and if your trading algo is executing fucked up trades because of timing issues and you lose real money - I wouldn't call that exaggerated.

Also, not sure if any of the systems mentioned in the article run JS for critical server side code.
Your comment raises a solid use-case I hadn't mentioned: unix running underneath a single-user mobile device.

You do need permission systems for that scenario. But they don't have to be in the OS. You could implement them in the application container.

A difficulty with security services being tied to the OS is that you're tied to the featureset of the OS, which tends to have a slow-moving API. Much better to implement security via library, so it can move at the same pace as your application platform.

There are many ways to build a unix. Unix is strong at hardware interaction (drivers, filesystems), IPC, process control. Security models dilute it. This includes chmod-style filesystems permissions in that. It's lots of complexity that delivers little value.

Curious: Stallman built GNU on unix. He's an open guy himself, and had spent a lot of time with MIT systems that didn't implement security in the OS level.
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> still has lower GDP growth than a country that does

Even if GDP was an effective indicator, the author is completely wrong about his assumptions: the GDP growth for the UK and Japan during 2000-2008 is almost identical:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp-growth
Just add the UK at the bottom to compare, you will see both lines are on top of each other's.
Fascinating how the meaning of the word 'austerity' has drifted away from the meaning of 'austere'. A balanced budget doesn't seem very 'austere' to me.

Many people arguing against balancing budgets (or 'austerity' if you will) do so because the first budgets to be slashed are usually things where the benefits are long-term, such as education. But it's a false dichotomy that these are the only choices.

Then there's the economists, who will pull out some toy model and claim xyz is good/bad. Too me it seems more like religions (being a Keynesian, Austrian, etc), where people search for facts that confirm their positions.

The problem with most macroeconomic theories is that they ignore too many important details.

So for example, you can borrow money to invest in the future which is usually good in the long run, or you can spend it on things you don't need such as hosting international sports competitions, ineffective military equipment, ... This means you can come to completely different conclusions as to the effectiveness of government spending. In the words of Warren Buffet, we don't talk about 'quality' of GDP enough.

There's a nice paper by Mankiw on the topic of science vs engineering in economics:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w12349
I'm always impressed with people who invent things like this. Well done. It inspires me to push my own skills, particularly when things get complacent at work.
Care to point us to a text written by Keynes advocating austerity in an economic downturn?
Of course it's legitimate, that this is gray right now is silly. That why we use encryption for communications, because we're expecting them to try.
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I gathered, however I passionately believe (through personal experience) that making an existing Static Site Generator do _exactly_ the thing you want is more pain and effort than just writing one from scratch.

Writing one from scratch is also fun and instructive as a programming exercise. A classic Input->Process->Outout problem, so many ways to approach it, huge scope for elegant engineering and, once you are done, a really great tool for your specific needs.
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High-frequency trading and other important realtime processes that handle money should of course be tested for this scenario (either by simply not trading for a few seconds before and after, or by properly handling it). The vast majority of the computer systems around the world are however not HFT systems and the world will continue to work normally. No Y2K-like doom scenarios needed like the article suggests.

We've been here before, June 30th 2012 also contained a leap second (see Wikipedia). The article only forecasts doom without looking back at previous leap seconds and evaluating its effect.
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It was a linux kernel bug, not a MySQL bug: https://blog.mozilla.org/it/2012/06/30/mysql-and-the-leap-se...
I'm stunned. I know that there was still tons of institutional racism after the Civil War, and I know that racism is still rampant, and there's still a long road to go there, but I was honestly under the impression that actual slavery at least ended with the Civil War.

I stand corrected.
Very cool. I have a bunch of html templates and imagemagick scripts for this, but always thought I would turn it into a more coherent suite at some point. Glad someone did it for me!
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I don't have any use for this but it looks really neat given how simple it is to create the set of rules to generate cards, nice work.
> We've been here before, June 30th 2012 also contained a leap second (see Wikipedia). The article only forecasts doom without looking back at previous leap seconds and evaluating its effect.

Clearly you didn't read the article.

If you had you would have seen that they noted that last time it was on a weekend when all the markets were closed.
You don't know ruby yet.
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Re. resource limits, I meant more than just softlimit - cgroups CPU and network throttling.

Re. namespaces - sure, it doesn't have to be built in. But many people use it and it's convenient when it is.

I used the daemontools many years ago and remember fast cycling to be an issue which was worked around by manual pauses in run scripts. If it was fixed later - I'm glad it works.

But my main point was that daemontools worked great when we had simpler inits. Running it with inits which could restart makes sense. Running it with modern inits just doesn't give you anything interesting apart from another idle system process.
The less we understand the more we think about it the more we attach ourselves to it ?

And beyond that the most amazing part is the bias we have in this regard. Doctors fail too, most of the time accidentally (fatigue, stress, collaboration issues, lack of information,...) but some time out of hubris. Got to see this myself: one doctor told a condition required removing an organ, another one told what was wanted to be heard, guess which doctor had the job and what was the result ?
Syntax is important too. A lot of design decisions are based on aesthetics, not hard criteria.
> Uber is still operating illegally

It's not.
UberPOP might be illegal. Uber as a whole, not.

UberX/van etc... is a simple transporter service which completely fits with the transporters-related legislation in France.

AFAIK you need to be a legal owner of a transporter licence to be an UberX driver. Most UberX/van drivers I've driven with even use Uber as a complementary stream of revenue on top, or besides, their main revenues as transporters. They will also drive for the main local UberX competitor, "Chauffeur Privé".

> The government has to take an action, then have this resolved in the court of law

Not really.
It seems you are unaware that the court of law has already resolved the case once, on December 12th, 2014, stating that UberPOP could pursue its activity in France (http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2014/12/12/le-tribuna...).

> I saw a video yesterday where someone dropped a cinder block from a bridge to what they suspect is an Uber car.

I know right... shocking... :-(
The worse part? A (Uber) driver on duty at the airport gets harassed by about 60 taxi drivers. He's already on crutches because of a leg injury (few days ago a Uber client was beaten by a bunch of taxi drivers). So he panicks, and uses a portable tear gas can (some drivers carry one in their car because of carjackers) and spray it around on the taxis to be able to evacuate the zone.
Instantly gets arrested by the police (yes, the police are always there, they just DON'T stop the taxi drivers). Just got himself 6 months in jail.
http://www.rtl.fr/actu/societe-faits-divers/taxis-contre-ube...
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They keep rebranding it. It feels like Java. Based on that, Watson will be a success, but not where it was intended to.
The article was talking about a specific subreddit and it's purpose, nice try though
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Sure; there are specific cases where capitalism doesn't work well and other approaches are better. I see what I wrote goes further than I intended. What I meant to say was that in the general, overall average case capitalism works best. But "blindly" was overstating it.
Yeah apologies for this - I've been meaning to find time to make it mobile friendly
You summed up what happened to senior Flash/Flex developers who chose to turn to JS when smartphone came to be mainstream.
Thanks for sharing, this looks really nice. Does anyone know similar projects that help with developing card- and/or boardgames?
And 50 years old as well. He just looks like a tubby little fellow but I bet he's hard as nails under the overall.
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Ah, Japan & GDP growth numbers, the perfect example :)

Are GDP numbers a good indicator of the success of economic policies? They aren't that useful if you ignore all the details.

Here is an example when comparing US and Japan GDP growth numbers:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/es/article/10011

"In summary, three structural factors seem to account for the difference in GDP growth between Japan and the United States in the post-1990 period: (i) the slow population growth in Japan, (ii) the employment rate, and (iii) the decline of average hours worked in Japan from a very high level to the level in the United States. It seems useful to consider these findings when Japan’s experience is used to draw policy conclusions for the United States."

And yet we have been lectured by numerous economists (sometimes with Nobel medals on them) about the implications these raw GDP growth numbers supposedly have for economic policy.
The majority of mobile is still CPM. I dare say the vast majority. Source: I ran a mobile DSP until recently.
Also on reddit (http://www.reddit.com/domain/youtubemapexplorer.herokuapp.co...), dev's there for questions.
but it looks like youtube tags the location by its uploaders ip, except someone turns the feature off or overrides the location, by adding meta
There's a rule of thumb called the Tullock Paradox that suggests the ROI from lobbying is stupidly large, though no one is really sure why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox

On the other hand, and this is something I've always felt about Bill Gates, I'd need to see a full economic accounting of all the loss to global society from their monopolostic rent-seeking behaviour, before I'd believe that their giving the profits away to charity would counterbalance that behaviour.
I did know that. I just don't consider HFT to be so important compared to, say, traffic lights and apache servers continuing to function.
An official minimum wage is not the only way to create a de facto minimum wage. Welfare subsidies is another. Strong unions is yet another. High contributions to medical insurance and pensions paid by the employer is yet yet another.

There are also others way to create high unemployment: making it very risky and expensive to get rid of mishires or to reduce headcount if the company isn't going so well. Making management more difficult once the headcount reaches a certain level (because of unions or the creation of employee boards mandated by law) -- that leads to companies trying to stay below such ceilings. Others would be salaries/pensions/benefits tied to how long one has worked for the same company -- which discourages moves to other companies (that might fit ones personality or talents better -- or that has better management). The housing market also has an influence: there might be opportunities in a different city but how easy is it to move? It is relatively easy if you rent your house or appartment. Not so easy if you own it, especially if selling it means you realize a loss. Lots of laws and regulations in a country influence the structure of the housing market (how liquid it is, what loan types are available, how many people rent instead of owning, etc.).
Yeah - that didn't work out too well for him. From his Telegraph obituary [1]:

"Dibnah did not much care for holidays and never wanted to go abroad. Alison, stoic for years, decided that there was more to life than climbing chimneys. She took their children on a package holiday to Greece, and on her return moved out with them."

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1476086/Fred-Dibn...
>the mistakes of communism, where (e.g.) very good research into genetics and psychology was abandoned because people thought it wouldn't be useful, and resources were wasted producing old manufactured goods (inefficient machines and the like) that no-one wanted

Are you taking as given that this never happens under capitalism?
I thought about taking steps to make sure that tests are more fair and balanced, but decided against it because I think the small element of luck is part of what makes you want to play again :)
Very interesting. I'm interested in the same space alas I focus on prototyping the physical game virtually not generating physical prototyping materials.
My vision is building a GUI where you can define game objects which generates JSON (I had something like a game DOM in mind). However I've been pondering how to get the actual rules system done/integrate it.
It would be a lot nicer if one could define the rules via a DSL and link game objects to rules graphically than to implement them ad hoc.

I'm mostly interested in rules based systems and AI and my research was leaning towards creating a DSL for describing players' strategy. I started out doing it in Prolog as an internal DSL but switched to ANTLR and changed it to an external DSL.
Ruby is a pretty great choice which I considered before moving to ANTLR.

Edit: As this is geared more towards creating physical prototypes you should post this on boardgamegeek if you haven't already.
Not necessarily.
In small companies you'll need to code whereas in big companies you'd just manage staff.
Thanks for letting me know - will look into it!
It hardly even matters if the company is put up for sale.

Assume a kitten-loving company that will rather die than let your data be abused. They take VC funding, hit a bad turn, take more VC funding. Now the board is controlled by VCs. You're now trusting the VCs with your data and not the company itself.

Assume a second kitten-loving company that will rather die than let your data be abused, and is run by only two co-founders. You give them all your data. The two co-founders end up in a plane crash. Their company is transferred to... who knows really? Your data is now sold off in liquidation to.. who knows really?
Great idea - I'll hopefully find time to make it mobile friendly in the next few days so will definitely implement this.
This is why you want reusable rockets. If you recover the rocket, you get to see if any components are suffering damage, cracking or wear beyond limits, and then redesign systems to prevent future potential failures. This is much harder to do if you don't get the rocket back. According to the press conference, SpaceX do get over 3000 channels of data from Falcon in flight, but that's still no substitute for examining a structure that's already flown for damage.

Of course this looks like a second stage failure and SpaceX aren't currently trying to recover that, but there are a lot of common parts between the stages on Falcon, so once they start to recover the first stage successfully, I'd still expect a lot of reliability lessons to be learned.
This is why we need data protection laws. No matter how trustworthy a company is, you can never really trust them.
This is one of the reasons I didn't put Hacker Monthly up for sale when I've decided to shut it down.

Our subscribers (a little over 10k) trusted us enough to provide us their contact information (and mailing address for print delivery). Turning them over to 3rd party (even after due diligence) just didn't seem right.
This is a decent article on some of the underlying standards: http://www.radio-electronics.com/articles/cellular-telecoms/... I worked on an implementation of an IPSEC VPN using SIM auth for IMS. GSM standards are amazing in how they make everything work together across many different generations.
Absolutely loved watching Fred growing up. Interesting seeing it on HN, but I'm just glad it means a few more people can appreciate this amazing man.
That's a very strict position to take. So using a GPL'd library in my code means my code is now GPL as well? I understand now why many companies blanket ban GPL software.
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If you explicitly configure them, it doesn't appear to for "LTE data". It has an autodiscover mode that will open a VPN before using wifi for LTE data.
If you're using IMS then it's all data.
> and if you're a lobby (and they clearly are), you even don't get arrested

Taxis are, in France, under the tutelage of The Ministry of Interior. They also have strong historical ties with the political party currently in power.

The principal taxi company had or still has, within its ranks, a close friend of a former French president (François Mitterand, same party as the current one), and the former Cabinet Treasurer for the current president's campaign.
Previous submission and discussion can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9771997
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Those who don't appreciate free jazz as a genre, may still appreciate the fact that Coleman started the movement with a bang in the late 50s and gained Coltrane's deepest appreciation almost immediately. Trane saw the value in Coleman's experiments and even recorded a spot-on homage, "The Avant-Garde" in 1960. It started a beautiful movement indeed.
So does Chirp just turn a directory on each computer into a single big directory everyone can access?
"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" is an awesome book. I've read it first when I was 12-13 years old, and my it has been a motivational source for me ever since.
Ah, this is one high-profile example of the CAP theorem in full action (not counting Linux kernel bugs).
> Assume a second kitten-loving company that will rather die than let your data be abused, and is run by only two co-founders. You give them all your data. The two co-founders end up in a plane crash. Their company is transferred to... who knows really? Your data is now sold off in liquidation to.. who knows really?

At least in theory, that's possible to avoid. If you accepted the data only under a specific set of terms, and ensured either that the original terms under which data was obtained are those that apply, or that specific privacy and usage terms were required to survive into any successor agreement, then in doing so you'd bind any future owner of the company by the same terms. You can't sell (or liquidate) something you don't have the rights to yourself.
I did a stint in a rural bangladeshi hospital while a medical student.

I went on an outreach camp with an opthalmologist. In one village we saw dozens of elderly people partially or fully blind from cataracts. None of them could afford the surgery. I asked the opthalmologist how much the operation was and he said "$40 each", so I said "ok choose the 20 people who need this operation the most and ill give you the $800". They put 20 of them in minivans and took them to the hospital the next day and all 20 got their operations. Had a whole ward of really delighted people.