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FWIW, I'm relatively quick, pick up languages (both CS and natural), frameworks, algorithms, etc. without much trouble.

But I've tried again and again to understand how our basic Federal Reserve System functions - Gov't debt, banks, reserve margins, mortgage loans, etc. etc.

I've NEVER gotten a basic "THIS IS HOW IT WORKS in 21 DAYS", Stack Exchange-type-answer. Lots of opinions...

This itself leads me to believe that Finance is corrupt.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

T. Jefferson
"Complexity that can't be coped with is rotten!"

I respectfully disagree.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
How many hours did you spend on the book to get to this point?
Hello and thanks for reporting! Do you mind opening an issue on github with the error you are presented?
Streak of 1000+ days OMG
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With whoever sold the derivative.
Is there anything I could do in a similar situation? I receive robocalls from several sketchy locations multiple times a day. I installed a call blocker on my phone which sometimes works, but would love to make it stop.
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OT: Do give Elixir a try. It's like am erlang with ruby syntax.
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Completely agree. Algos have limits and in almost every practical application that they touch my life, require a human to make sense of with understanding.
I'm guessing you're talking about Trapcall?

TelAPI has such neat features.
If I read correctly they're not recommending Tetris be played after every memory-forming event, just after distressing events.
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"Sperm theft" and "rape of father" are so rare that this argument is utterly ridiculous in the face of persisting sexual violence against women.
I use Google Voice. It picks up the spam pretty efficiently.
Isn't what you're describing essentially the ActiveRecord pattern? An object that has the internal capabilities to perform the various CRUD operations direct to a persistence store and only operates on itself?

EDIT: Also, from an architectural standpoint, do you not think that having SQL-speaking objects written in this fashion is too tightly coupled? What do you think of a "Clean Architecture" implementation with respect to your idea?
I don't know why but this kind of project brings me back to my Commodore 64 days. I remember seeing an announcement for a new version of the C64 but it would not make sense unless it could capture the spirit of that little yet powerful 16-Bit device that you can learn so much from and also play amazing games on.
Booting straight to Basic as the CLI inspired many of us to just try and write our own little "software". It must have been the beginning of many CS careers.
This type of inspiring device can only come in a mobile form these days and none of the current OSes are as beginner friendly and straightforward as Basic on the C64 was.
There might be a need for a tablet with an Oberon like system that could attract the teens of today as a customizable and easily programmable device.
A monolithic concrete dome that is energy-efficient, fire-proof, tornado-proof and earthquake-proof costs around $30k. But it's not your money so you don't care that the banks are subsidizing incredibly complex, unreliable, weak, stucco-wall houses that due to their unnecessary complexity, naturally end up costing several times more than a better, simpler house.
Sounds like the practical near-term solution would be a white list: only allow calls from a list of known callers.
This makes me think about the YC company Dating Ring, which just participated in a podcast season about their business. The denouement turned out to be that their curated dating did not scale, so they pivoted to being a lifestyle business. It makes me wonder whether curation is best when many canonical "good enough" solutions exist, but not when people try to seek the "best" from a set.

http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
It's hard to argue he was forced, though. And child support mainly takes into account who's the parent of whom, and well, he is the father of the child.

Seduction of teenage boys by adult women is both ridiculously easy and quite rare at the same time... One of the few crimes were the victim thinks he got lucky...
Trivial, maybe. Not only does it add a single point of failure, though, as the logs get aggregated on the syslog host, the only “benefit” rtail retains is looking at the logs in a browser instead of tail(1).
That is one way to do it, but not the only way. Scandinavia, for example, bases fines on income:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-...

The theory here is that punishment is meant to change behavior, so the impact has to be proportional.

> What's the damage of getting distracted by an unwanted phone call?

Even on this theory, you have to scale the damages in relation to the odds of getting away with it. Suppose I run a store and steal a dollar from each customer. Let's say only 1 in 1000 notices and cares enough to talk to the police. Should my fine be $1, which is negligible? $1,000, so I break even? Or greater, so that there's an actual penalty?
Neat, took me a few minutes to realize/remember that it is China and not Mongolia, might help to make it more clear. Had to google Ordos, an interesting story I wasn't aware of.

I loved it, but had trouble reading the tiny, thin, white text over the photos. I know shadows are out, but it would help legibility. I used Firefox and it worked fine.
I understand it is a relative...

but the rates should be similar to what is earnt by other professionals.. in this case the rates seemed to be at burger flipping ones for the region..

basically I feel lots of devs are underselling themselves..
we don't have it now. The prism art has been replaced by a photo-realistic actual glass prism. Looks tacky. iTunes refuses to let me get the original artwork back.
The usual wedding vows do not contain these conditions. Seems unfair, but then again, you don't need to marry, and not without a marriage contract...
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It doesn't go to a browser (unless you use something like https://keymetrics.io/2015/06/10/pm2-ssh-expose-a-fully-capa...) but `less` is great for tailing logs, output, etc... and lets you search, filter, set marks.

> foreman start -c web=1,all_worker=3 > /tmp/x & less -r+F /tmp/x; kill -SIGINT %

I run this inside of screen so that I can decide not to wrap the lines.
Wirth worked with Cedar at Xerox and wanted a similar experience at ETHZ.
Efficiency is therefore deliberately harmful, except when in the form of a paycheck, QED.

Well done, good luck.
The Cedar IV launched in 1963 was so successful that it was
commemorated on a stamp. It reached a height of 90 miles (145 km),
putting it close to the altitude of satellites in low-earth orbit.

So, sounding rockets, not orbital rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding_rocket

Quoting myself, from 3 years ago:

An object in orbit is both high and fast. *Really* high (160km) and
*really* fast. (7.8km/s)

7.8 kilometres per second is 17,000 miles per hour.

They were far, far away from actually putting an object in orbit. Altitude's the easy part, speed's the hard part.
Some highlights from Glassdoor. Strange since Zappos is championed on a regular basis by bschools for customer service, employee satisfaction, and culture.

"It was great the first 4 years, great leader great benefits. it has changed tremendously and not for the good at all."

"The reality is once someone leaves, they become persona non-grata to an extreme. They are not allowed to come to events, if they show up as your guest… Figure out how to say goodbye with some class. Figure out how to let people go with their souls intact. There is over 20% turnover every year."

"The relaxed environment becomes hindering when you need to get work done. Even simply asking others to tone it down or that you need to focus is met with purposeful continuance of whatever it is you tried to stop in the first place. It is a "so what?" environment."

"Many people joke around so often that nothing gets accomplished when it matters or takes a very very long time to do simple tasks. Voluntary outings that are really mandatory. You are viewed as an outsider if you do not act like you're part of the Zappos college fraternity like lifestyle. It is very much like high school or college all over again."

"After getting rid of the attendance policy, people are no longer showing up to work on time. Those that do show up to work are forced to deal with how busy the phones are. There are petty incentives and rewards for actually coming into work and doing what you're supposed to do."

tl;dr sentiment is that Zappos is like high school and college all over again with a lot of politics getting in the way of work. Reminds me a bit of some startups here.
The banks really succeeded in convincing you that that's the price of a house, but that only says something about you, not about the real price of a house.

A 500 sq ft monolithic dome house costs around $30k. It fulfills all the roles of a normal house, but better, safer, and cheaper.

Now tell me how I'm wrong because "furniture doesn't fit in curved walls" and how that justifies the $370k discretionary increase in how much you want to help banks prey on homeowners and earn more interest.
Reminds me of the time I was in a fairly fancy restaurant with my mate, who is the wine connoisseur of the group.

After a lengthy - and I'm talking ten minutes - to-and-fro with the sommelier, he uttered the phrase "something with that whole autumn leaf carry-on", the sommelier finally got it "aha!", and we got the wine. Suffice to say the rest of the table hasn't let him forget that one. (Hi, Alex!)
I wish a handful of folks got together, got crowd funded and travelled the world to cover cities and places in such a way.
In the UK drugstores are pretty much extinct, and are most commonly found as a desk in a supermarket. The UK is a bit different though in that supermarkets have sold non-prescription drugs and similar items you'd only find in a drugstore elsewhere for a long time.
> The Selma developed a crack, nobody knew how to repair it

Pykrete, however, appears to be repairable with seawater, a refrigeration unit, and a hose.
Anybody curious about the topic should check out the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library:

https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

I once happened to meet a researcher who spent some time with the data set and they had all sorts of horrific stories about how consciously evil the cigarette companies were. The one that sticks with me is the people planning marketing campaigns for mentally handicapped adults. I had no words. I still don't, really.
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Seems likely he would have an "accident" if he ever returned. He must know that.
It seems it would be better just to outlaw spoofing the identity of another entity (to prevent SWATting), but still allow blocked number calls. Spoofing numbers for fraud should also be deterred somehow.

Even without this, one could develop Bayesian filters to detect likely spam calls and run them through a captcha first.
Easy: Play an Instrument on the street (This precludes a normal job)

Medium: Make a basic iPhone game and sell it for .99

Hard: Publish a blog and live off the advertising

Bonus Round: Publish local coupons permanently online for a small fee per retailer (Local companies already have print ads, why not offer to have them always available for something less than what it costs to print in a paper?)
I guess that assumes infinite access to credit? Otherwise there would be an opportunity cost associated with bulldozing the rocky mountains in favor of some other activity with higher marginal utility, right?
Just want to say that I have two books on Leanpub totalling about 12.000 readers and am extremelly happy with the platform! Big thank you to the Leapub team, you folks rock!
I really don't get this. The Greece population is barely bigger than the population of Los Angles county. It's GDP is 60% less than Los Angeles yet they are $318-Billion in debt, of course they can't pay it.

But most confusing is how this is couched as potentially destroying the Euro.

"...Yet if Greece is in turmoil, so is Europe. The entire leadership of the eurozone warned before the referendum that a "No" vote would lead to ejection from the euro, never supposing that they might have to face exactly this...."

The European Union has no constitution, no "all powerful" executive, judicial, or legislative power over any it's "states" and worse than that there are seemingly no consequences when a states over borrows and under produces.

Imagine if Los Angeles said, "Ok, we are defaulting, we are creating our own currency, bye bye!" It would not fly and neither would a bailout.
the backend is just a bash script I wrote (github above) that compiles to a static site. It really needs a lot more work before I'd want to release it though.
Urg, that might be impossible to estimate. Hundreds on the various tasks (writing, editing, designing, researching, etc.)
I heard from somewhere that technically, OS X does not preserve backward compatibility for system calls, so you should use libc function's instead, otherwise it is an undefined behavior. Whereas Linux keeps a hard compatibility guarantee. Is that true? I guess Apple will really hesitate before commiting breaking changes, but I'm genuinely curious if they reserve the rights in thoery.
> Now tell me how I'm wrong because "furniture doesn't fit in curved walls"

Well, yeah, if you are going to have a house that small -- 500 sq. ft. -- optimal shape is a pretty big concern.

> and how that justifies the $370k discretionary increase

Well, much of the increase is going to be land price. Even a 500 sq. ft. dome home anywhere more typical home prices for reasonably moderately sized homes are around $400,000 is going to be a lot more than $30k just of the land it sits on.
I sued a telemarketer once and got a few thousand dollars: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4023834
>You will get quite a different punishment for watching child porn than from raping a kid.

Source? The handful of cases I've heard of don't seem to match that claim.
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It's a nice catchall phrase for all kinds of discrimination that would be illegal if stated explicitly. If we call it a gut feeling or culture fit, it's suddenly legal.
And how does he know the email addresses he published aren't from some clueless persons compromised gmail account?
That's awesome, is there a list somewhere of the different experiments that have been done at MDRS?
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The "this is how it starts"-narrative is not necessarily true. While Germany has strict privacy rules for victims and criminals - media cannot show their faces or their last names and so on - I do not see that it is the country that has problems with its agencies and military-industrial complex being out of control and censoring stuff on their behalf.

If there were photos of me being raped as a kid I would want to see the rapist get punished and like-minded people forbidden to watch them. I do not think that it is moral to hurt people in concrete cases because of an abstract (debatable) threat to the values of a society. What do these values even mean if you do not have the mercy to grant victims this right?

You can still inform people about the crime without showing the victims face or the actual explicit imagery.
> "Think of it like hand washing. Hand washing is not a fancy intervention, but it can reduce all sorts of illness. This is similar"

How did they miss the obvious analogy?

hand : handwashing :: brain : ___________
Can Holden? ... if there's some reason for a "deal", then there must be something important (in easily copied digital form) that he still holds as leverage.
> Holder said “we are in a different place as a result of the Snowden disclosures” and that “his actions spurred a necessary debate” that prompted President Obama and Congress to change policies on the bulk collection of phone records of American citizens.

Hmm. "We stepped up and fixed all the problems, so there is no need to continue the debate." I guess at face value it's kind of nice to say, but it doesn't carry a lot of weight since it's not an official statement. The current AG spokesperson is quoted, "I can say our position regarding bringing Edward Snowden back to the United States to face charges has not changed." It doesn't exactly contradict striking a deal, but it doesn't sound very open to doing so.

> informal discussions of... a plea bargain in which Snowden returns to the United States, pleads guilty to one felony count and receives a prison sentence of three to five years in exchange for full cooperation with the government.

Seems problematic. What is "full cooperation" -- enumerating all docs? What if they say they don't believe him and the deal is off? Does he have to agree to discrediting himself in order to get people to put less stock in anything attributed to the "Snowden disclosures"? Publicly thank them for the aforementioned policy changes and shed tears saying it's exactly what he set out to do -- we can stop pushing for more change?
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I also use Alfred for a quick definition if I'm pretty sure the system dictionary can handle the word (otherwise I ask Google), but I agree that a vanishingly small number of additions to Spotlight would render Alfred defunct for me. For 90+% of the things Alfred does, I find myself thinking "oh that's pretty neat", but I simply can't make it go into my workflow.
Does Scala have "compile speed issues" compared to Haskell? That's probably my biggest pain point using Haskell day-to-day.
The size of the global derivatives market is 1.5 quadrillion dollars. Global GDP is not even $90 trillion.

90,000,000,000,000 GWP
1,500,000,000,000,000 global derivatives

Do you think it got that far by "sitting"? It gets reinvested ad infinitum.
But the NaCl key is randomly generated for each connection.
I would say I need 9 ~ 10 hours to feel fully rested, 8h is not enough.
This is a deflationary spiral playing out in a predictable manner. First commodities declined, hard. Balance sheets and earnings fell. Real estate falling. Equities now rocked, the effect amplified by fear and increasing uncertainty. There is about 2 trillion of US dollar reserves on China's balance sheet, and I am guessing that number will decline by half in the months, possibly years to come.
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I have invented the bicycle, backup app which allow to backup even millions of files. Others cannot copy even 100000 files to remote server. http://www.immortalfiles.com Does anybody need to copy so many files to remote?
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If you make a martyr out of Snowden you'll bring a lot of negative attention to the issue of mass-surveillance. So the best outcome from the USG's perspective is for Snowden to go through some level of punishment that will act as a deterrent for other would-be whistle-blowers while not rustling the feathers of anti mass-surveillance proponents.

Makes you wonder, does the USG feel a sense of relief now that all this mass-surveillance stuff is out there and the general public doesn't care that much?
This can be implemented on a PSTN, but I doubt any providers would bother to do it for a single, private customer. Shame really.
The Chinese military knows who pays their checks.
If there's no manual override, then it would be trivial to stop the car and threaten the passenger. According to the LA Times [0], Google is trying to make their autos fully autonomous, without any user controls. I'm not sure if there's more recent news than this.

If there is a manual override (wheel and pedals), the door is already locked when in motion, so the driver should have enough time to floor the gas and escape.

Unless Google incorporates some seriously advanced detection and response, I see SDCs being an easy target for criminals.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-google-car-20140...
Congrats! How do you manage the inventory for hard copies? Like how many copies do you pre-order for printing? (Sorry I have no knowledge in this space)
I use Zig Writer with Moleskines without any bleed through. Heck, I even use a Papermate Flair with them without issue sometimes. Edit: I see you use fountain pens, that explains it. I prefer the fine tipped markers since you get a smooth writing experience with an adjustable line width without the mess or bleed through.
Must disagree. The companies asset values are in decline. Raw materials, machinery, real estate... All down. A bounce in bids cannot change the underlying reality.
I do Xerox PARC archeology, always looking for documentation from those days.

This was triggered by having been a Smalltalk and Oberon user on their glory days.

It made me realise how much the IT world lost by having UNIX clones going mainstream instead of these systems. Specially the culture that still insist in using their computers as if they had a PDP-11.
I guess the Gregor Kiczales
slides are here: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~gregor/papers/kiczales-oopsla-07-for-v... (page 16)
Personally, my main opposition is to the industrial-scale production and sale of recreational drugs, because addiction and capitalism are a terrible combination.

As an example, the park nearest my house has a guy who comes by occasionally on some busy weekends to sell pot truffles. I'm sure he makes a modest living, but I have no worry about people getting dangerously hooked. If we were to let Coca Cola put the cocaine back in, though? Or to let 7-11 sell hash and crack, with prominent placards outside and a billion-dollar ad budget? No thanks.

My other half-serious plan is for licensing. Imagine that to be able to legally buy and take LSD, you have to take a 12-week class with practical exams where you drop acid with your instructor. I can think of no better way to remove the appealing mystique of drugs than to make kids turn up after school every Wednesday for a semester and have some teacher drone at them about mechanisms of action and key safety considerations.
Even a wild rumor is a stupid reason to halt trading. If someone is dumb enough to believe it and they sell their shares at a massive discount, it's not the job of regulators to stop that.
I agree, thats kinda stupid. Pedophiles will use it anyway, but legitimate users will not.