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At this stage there is no market involved.

Almost all Greek debt is from other EU governments, and in several cases the governments raised the bailout money with extraordinary taxes (Portugal comes to mind) so voters are well aware that it's their own salaries bailing out the Greeks.
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>and would routinely work 24 hour shifts at the hospital

This is one of my fears, that we'll crack the sleep nut and then workers will be forced into double shifts gradually. Sure, it'll be done with a velvet glove as the prices of goods and real estate will go up as everyone around you works 16 hour days and their wages reflect that (or dont get fired for not doing it). The same way an affordable middle class life went from only having one breadwinner to two as women entered the workforce.

I sincerely hope we have some kind of robot/automation labor revolution well before that. I'd rather build a better robot than a better human.
No offense, but nothing you've described is what I'd characterize as "difficult". I looked at your benchling link, and it's stuff that most labs give to undergrad work-study kids to get their feet wet with labs. Mostly it's about having access to the right equipment. Ligation reactions are trivial if -- as you've noted -- you use a (relatively expensive) kit. It's just a matter of time and labor costs, and with these new tools, you can trade some money for time/labor. That much is true, but it's never really been the limiting factor in biology. It's the constant on the algorithmic complexity of research.

When the parent says that "even the simplest wet-lab reactions take very exacting conditions to work", they're not really talking about transforming cells with plasmids and autoclaving plates. The conditions are exacting, but the equipment to provide those conditions is not exotic.

The hard, expensive part of biology is the part where someone spends weeks/months/years using those tools to make a new construct that should work, but then doesn't work, because unknown. Then you spend months trying to figure out what factor you're not accounting for, then you give up and start over from a new angle. Then you repeat for 5-7 years, and someone gives you a doctorate.

Saying that biology mostly works is like saying that self-driving cars are easy because we can reliably attach computers to the steering wheel and the gas pedal. It's the parts we don't know about that cost the money.
Can that handle statically linking dependencies with FFI calls?
> Governments do not produce money

Except that, exactly and literally, they do precisely that (though some, through law, outsource that function to an outside entity or combine together with other governments to do, or outsource, that production jointly.)
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Yoga has done so much for my energy, productivity, and happiness. I wish I'd taken it up years ago.
Your comment is grossly overstating the issue, and unnecessarily inflammatory. I have reviewed the type hints syntax, and it's not so bad. It's doubtful that anything nicer can be implemented on top of what you have clearly pointed out is a dynamically typed language.

Your criticism of Python being dynamically typed is also misguided. There are many benefits of having a dynamically typed language, which I won't bother to enumerate here since this subject gets beaten to death regularly on HN. It is a good choice to make this design decision up front and honor it as the language grows. Guido is not a moron; he knew there would be performance implications. Nobody today chooses Python for it's native performance anyways (although Cython and PyPi have made great strides for common cases).

The value of Python is not in performance, it's in the language simplicity, large ecosystem, and highly developed libraries. There are some disciplines such as machine learning and quantitative finance which are all but predicated upon Python, with excellent results. Comparisons to Go and JS are incongruous; those languages have other benefits which would make them good choices if things like concurrency (Go) and very high level abstractions (JS) are important.

The Python 3 transition was indeed rough, but in no way is it a "debacle". The community is not in "disarray"; that's absurd. The transition to 3 will happen eventually, and indeed this lethargy was caused by deliberate breakage in language features. Maybe not the best decision in hindsight, but far from this cataclysmic fantasy you seem to be depicting.
"Will it be possible to use it instead of node.js?"

It's been possible to use Python instead of node.js since before node.js existed. And by "possible" I mean "tons of people have been shipping code", not just "it's theoretically possible but nobody does it".

Node ported a well-established existing technique to Javascript, it didn't invent it.
C# has the reactive extensions API https://rx.codeplex.com/ which is the inspiration for the Perl 6 concurrency model which is also quite advanced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBHsdc0IVIg So not sure why you think Python is somehow unique in doing all this.
The ECB bought the debt from the private banks, right? So, I think the burden is still to be carried by someone. So, I don't think the ECB should've never bought back the Greek debt at all. The banks need to learn that there's no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to loans. But it seems all governments are hell bent on making the lives of banks far too easy (where the rest of us if we should fail are told to get bent).
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Nice analogy! Would love see a drill in to 12:01 to 2am for startups. :)
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This is the unfortunate truth. My company still uses Python 2 solely, not a single line of Python 3.

Unless there is some major breakthrough in porting tools (in combination with more and more libraries supporting 3), Python 2 will still probably be the only Python version in many enterprises for the next 10 years.
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> If I don't set an alarm my mind/body will happily sleep 9 to 10 hours a day.

This isn't normal? :P

But seriously, if I don't set my alarm, I usually sleep about 12-16 hours. When I do wake up, it's often because of my bladder / stomach / limb-falling-asleep, and not because I feel rested. Waking up is not enjoyable regardless of how much sleep I get, 2 hours, 12 hours... I'm always a zombie-like, groggy mess. But 30 minutes later I feel great and full of energy, again, no matter how long I slept.

This is day-after-day too, and not just when I'm sleep deprived. Over the Independence Day 3-day weekend, I definitely slept more than 12 hours each day.
lets see how it goes
About those notifications, apparently Opera Mini support them now.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.mini...

Not sure i am a fan of their new interface though, and it is a proxy browser (pages get pre-processed on a Opera run server).
They (the citizens of the other European countries) should've voted better. Giving in to the banks was the first mistake on top of the Euro itself.
> Greece saying NO is not Greece giving the finger to Europe, it's Greece giving the finger to the people of Europe.

Its not giving the finger to anyone. The Greek government was offered terms, which it could accept or reject (neither of which constitutes "giving the finger" to anyone, choosing to accept or reject an offer is just a routine part of negotiating.) The government gave this choice to the voters with a recommendation, rather than acting unilaterally on it. The voters made a choice to reject the terms, which was the recommendation given by the government.
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ain't that the lesson of the last 7 years?

private gains, socialized losses, and fuck the taxpayers
In a democratic republic (and since the Greeks originated this concept, I think we can allow that they understand it) voters are responsible for the actions of the government they elect. To say people aren't accountable at all for government borrowing is silly; ultimately it's the electorate's responsibility to ask candidates and political parties how they intend to pay for their programs. Of course, it's very hard for voters to understand a whole economy and assess whether a party's proposals are good or bad, or to assess whether a party or politician is likely to be able to deliver on intentions, no matter how sensible, or to fall back on other measures. I'm pretty sure that when Syriza was elected their collective hope was not just to be in conflict with other EU countries but to get the Greek economy growing again so as to increase revenue and reduce the ratio of debt:productivity, but of course what you hope to achieve and what you can actually get done are often two different things.

I also think the referendum vote was the correct one because other countries, politicians, and populations in Europe have been deluding themselves about this situation to almost as great a degree as the Greeks were, and it's plain that the existing strategy has just resulted in the Greek economy shrinking more and more and the external debt becoming impossible to pay.

But this notion that the population of a democratic country is in no wise accountable for the actions of its government is just facile. It's like trying to get out of your chores by saying 'I didn't ask to be born!' Well it's true you didn't, but you still have to clean up your room before dinner.
Agreed. It's almost...accidentally perfect.

I mean, considering:

1) The video cuts out -precisely- at the point in Dr. Who where the guy says "A massive electric shock -- he must have died instantly!" ...probably accidental, but just perfect..lol

2) The block of shows on WTTW (Channel 11) on Sunday night were often very, very avant-garde in content. To be able to take it to an entirely higher level like that, against the backdrop of already weird stuff...thats just priceless..

3) The fact that the public was split between those who found it hilarious, and those who found it frightening... what more could you ask for?

As a hack, with all its warts and confusion, it's a triple axle quadruple salcow kind of performance. :)

BTW, speaking of weird -- I've been asked on occasion, how weird. Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgEjyn8ArM

This is "The Shivering Man". There was a show that aired late nights on Channel 11 at the time, called Image Union.. Image Union was sort of a showcase for short subject amateur/experimental/avant-garde films and videos. It was on the air about maybe half an hour or an hour after Doctor Who every sunday night, and usually ended the scheduled broadcast day.

One of the films that aired on Image Union around that time (1987-1989 or so) was "The Shivering Man". Here, you've got a ballet dancer in a red dress jumping around guy covered in talcum powder having a conniption fit/seizure, followed up by a fat bald guy in a chair who, uh, suggestively..sprinkles.. when the chair is shaken..lol..

Tame by internet standards, but totally WTF-worthy by late 80's Chicago public television standards. By running this sort of stuff, they were all but inviting a visit from Max, if you ask me. Weird attracts weird.
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Greece has to pay back its debt. You can philosophize all you want. There is no way around it.
It's a richer visualization than that. The Sieve of Eratosthenes only marks which numbers are composite -- this visualization actually shows each of the factors.
My understanding is the peak oil predictions were at least vaguely correct for conventional oil, but the gap has been made up by tar sands and fracking.
Even if those with the mutation lived shorter lives, they might live longer "useful" lives (because they are awake more hours, in total, than someone without the mutation than lives years longer).
But god help you if you need SQL server beyond what express provides. (Web is OK but expensive, "standard" or enterprise? Now that hurts)
> past European governments shouldn't have lent them the money

It wasn't really European governments lending Greece money, at least not until the bailouts. It was European banks. Incidentally, that's why France and Germany broke the EU's rules and bailed out "Greece": they were protecting the European banking system by offloading bad Greek debt from European banks to European taxpayers.

The only workable solution I can see at this point is implicit restructuring through extending loan terms tied to the implementation of reforms and saddled with snap-back provisions. Raise the retirement age? Some portion of the debt is extended 5 years and inflation takes care of reducing it. Ditto tax collection, etc. Then every reform would be politically manageable in Greece because each one would carry with it some measure of debt forgiveness.
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What if I was to tell you that all the money that you deposit in the banks is not used for anything. The banks borrow money using a credit lending window from the central banks. They can get as much money as they want. Money doesn't actually exist. It's a virtual method of coercion to get people to do things. As long as there are things for Chinese people to do, the Chinese economy will keep running. As long as China can source raw materials and sell them for a markup to someone else, the Chinese economy will keep running. At the end of the day even if robotics threatens the Chinese economy, the government can step in and stop robotics from destroying jobs. That's the level of control they have. Any problems that they will have economically, everyone else will have first.

Most of these pundits that run Western economies follow rules that they themselves make up, and then use those rules to control other people. But China don't play these games homie, China knows the game homie. China make its own rules.
My Great Depression Economics professor at university had the opinion that the newly formed ECU was going to be temporary or at least limited in scope, due to the lack of exchange float - similar to the gold standard. I also see a lack of "political float" here. op/ It's too idealistic to expect separate nation states to ignore their differences. /op
Now that link is an interesting artefact in how HN shows entries... Totally looks like a text post.

@OP: I guess you got the wrong link?
Probably depends on the "Terms of Service" that the client agreed to when they first logged into the system.

Most online backing systems have specific "Terms of Service" regarding account security that indemnifies them from responsibility if you share your username/password.

I expect that a payroll system's "Terms of Service" would be much more restrictive than that.
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I highly recommend using an accounting package, even if it's just quickbooks online. it helps so much when it comes to tax time.

For my business we use Xero so we can track expenses against the income for tax purposes.

Are you tracking hours so you can confirm your hourly rate? I use a tool called Toggl for that although there are others.

you can look at your bankstatements and focus on your cash flows in, then project those out.

Also, try to get 50% upfront wherever possible, especially if you have to pay others. Because that last payment seems to drag out a while....
Yep. Six hours is the maximum I can sleep. I thought there was something wrong, but since I'm fully rested on that amount, I no longer worry about it.
>Short-sleepers like Ross never feel lethargic, nor do they ever sleep in.

I'd be curious to know what her IQ is, how good her memory is, how good her puzzle solving ability is, how creative she is, and other metrics. I'm always a little surprised when I read interviews with people I admire at how much sleep they need. Seems to me, that people who are thought/analytic/creative heavy just rough up their brains more and that might mean a need for longer sleep schedules to recuperate.

>A positive outlook is common among all of the short-sleepers that Fu has studied.

Smart people are almost always fairly negative if not outright depressed. There's a lot of study in this area. This is an interesting result.

I wonder if being a low sleep person comes at the cost of smarts and creativity. Maybe DEC2 comes along with other things we're not looking at and that package may be unappealing once we get the whole picture.
Yes. With computer games, the actual rules are almost never completely described somewhere. They must be divined by trial and error.

A good example is Hearthstone vs. Magic: The Gathering. Hearthstone has all sorts of non-intuitive edge cases and unwritten rules. M:TG needs to be fully understood by all players, so complex interactions are still resolved with a fairly simple set of rules.
His creators are perfectly happy to take the credit for destroying New Coke. ;-)
I think that as the tools for intrusion and defacing have gotten more common and easier to use, you get a lot more low grade trolling.

Like you have a million schoolkids writing dirty limericks on the bathroom walls for every real-life "Turk 182".
Except large chunks of the 3.5 standard library has been backported and are available via the cheeseshop.
Perhaps you could do this if you're on Linux, and booting into separate OS's that run off the Linux kernel. Or if you're using boot2docker. However, in neither case does Docker itself provide the kernel in the container.
> Money is just a reflection of production

No, its not.

The value ascribed to money is, of course, related to what it can be used for and how much of it is floating around, and production in the area where the particular form of money is the preferred medium of exchange is one of the factors that is relevant to that. And, perhaps the statement about governments not creating money meant that governments don't create value. Which would still be wrong, but in different ways.
I must confess I'm conflicted about this. While it's encouraging that Lisp is being used to build a web framework, this is not a Lispy approach. It's more like Python written in Lisp. In particular the use of Python decorators in Lisp grates.

A more Lisp-native approach could be to use higher order functions in Lisp as well as to use macros instead of adapting Django templates.
China's working age population peaked 4 or 5 years ago, and has begun to decline. It's awfully hard to continue to grow when your population is no longer growing, look at most of the EU and Japan for examples.

The long term consequences of economies based upon the exponential growth of debt will be felt within the coming decade. Math will have its day
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"...is offering talented researchers with big ideas a grant of up to $100,000 of microbiome sampling kits"

This is not a $100k grant, this is a grant of $100k worth of microbiome kits.
I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders
If you can't be sufficiently productive in 16 hours a day, I'm not sure having another 4 hours is going to help.
Great article. It reminds me of the Apple hype cycle: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/15/chart-of-the... .

The more one knows about a subject the less one trusts the press: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/07/03/why-you-really-cant-trust-... , but the editorial standards in the field a person knows are probably no higher than a field a person doesn't.
Cool. Very cool.

My first thought (aside from "Cool") was that the current time would be the tricky thing that can't be incorporated into a continuous view. But even that seems to be handled! http://docs.pipelinedb.com/sliding-windows.html

Looks pretty impressive. :-)
Not particularly well, though. No actual explanation was given for rejecting ^(star), and :(star) wasn't even mentioned.

(Aside: HN really needs a better way to escape star inline in text.)
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Not necessarily. You can overload @ to do some other kind of object combination, which fits your paradigm better. You're not tied to using it for matrix multiplication.
Well, that very wikipedia says:

> An athletic dog, the Komondor is fast and powerful and will leap at a predator to drive it off or knock it down. It can be used successfully to guard sheep against wolves or bears.

I dunno. Further googling:

> Bred to drive away predators, not hunt them, the powerful Komondor will try to kill any animal that foolishly chooses to fight back.

http://www.dogchannel.com/dog-breeds/dog-breed-profiles/inac...

I dunno. It seems they kill coyotes not too infrequently, but it doesn't seem like wolves usually stick around long enough to kill or be killed by a Komondor, indeed. Wolves don't generally choose to fight animals that can fight back, which I guess is the message of the original aphorism. But if the wolf stayed to fight, the Komondor would fight it to the death one way or another, and their ridiculous looking coat is apparently actually pretty good defense against predator's teeth, and they've got very powerful jaws. At any rate, it's clear the Komondor is a fearsome fighter, despite looking like a stuffed animal to us, heh. And it doesn't protect the herd merely by sounding the alarm, but by being powerful enough to defend against wolves, for sure.

Wait, what's this thread about again?
Did you consider Nim? It compiles down to C, has a very similar syntax to Python, and is quite fast. It also has a robust standard library.
David Cameron is unsustainable. He can no longer be tolerated in the face of governmental terror.
The concrete canoe community is doing rather well though. http://concretecanoe.org/
Just because if market does not move fast enough in the direction of their option trade - the value of their option investment will very quickly becomes ... $0.00

:)
>also Python is so well entrenched as the successor to Fortran in the scientific computing space

Uhhh... no. FORTRAN is literally the fastest programming language in existence. Maybe Python is good for prototyping or pre/post-processing some data, but with a performance hit in the 100x order of magnitude, you won't run Python scripts for the bulk of any serious scientific computing project.
> You cannot produce value from thin air.

Even if true (which, its not, value is created "from thin air" all the time; otherwise, wealth would be zero-sum, and per capita wealth always declining with increasing population), this is irrelevant to the upthread claim which was that governments do not create money. Which is quite obviously false.
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