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>If only the Chicago and Austrian schools would change their minds when data supporting their propositions are weak or of low confidence.

Many classical and neoclassical economic propositions are of a fundamentally epistemological nature, not strictly positivist. Such as the reasoning that, if without interference person A does action X at time T, X may be taken as the action they most preferred to do at time T, as if it wasn't then why would they have done it? In which case any interference with their taking of action X necessarily produces an inferior outcome in terms of their preferences at time T, as they're forced to take an action other than their most-preferred action. In this sense a person's preference for an action is defined by their taking of that action over all other possible ones when not interfered with, and as a definition its validity is a matter of epistemology, not something subject to empirical analysis. The Austrian school uses this ordinal form of utility as its basis, building upon the idea that interfering with someone's free action is the one thing that can clearly be shown to be undesirable as above.

The Chicago school, on the other hand, also incorporates a quantitative form of utility, to allow for interpersonal utility comparisons. This requires some epistemological assumptions, for instance that preferences don't change over time or their rate of change follows a particular mathematical function, or that if someone buys 3 apples for $30 they value each at $10, rather than e.g. the first at $13, the second at $2, and the third at $15. Austrians dispute the validity of any such assumptions, and hence reach different conclusions.

These epistemological foundations are matters of logic/philosophy, and hence no more amenable to empirical analysis than a proposition like 'abortion is immoral'.

Modern economics tends to ignore epistemological issues, and instead focuses on finding the best way to maximise particular empirical metrics, without going into detailed study of the epistemological and philosophical validity of the metrics in question. So it's important to distinguish between economics as a tool for predicting and assessing the effects of particular phenomena on particular metrics (econometrics) and economics as an epistemological approach.
Maybe they're just using the average value of true?
I don't think that's going to happen until the Model 3 is launched.
> traitor to the hacker culture and to the human race

Regardless of whether your sentiment is right or not, do you really expect a comment with phrases like this to be taken seriously?
I dont like the tooling, but the fact is trying to do some of the things flash currently doe will turn a macbook pro into a melting mess
The genius which goes into getting these images is astonishing, and I'm not meaning to disparage that at all! The damaging part is when they colorize an image and then call it "true color", when this is simply untrue.

As an example, here's an actual true-color image of the earth: http://imgur.com/EEt635V.jpg

And here's a "true-color" image of Earth, produced using the New Horizons / Huygens colorization technique of combining a greyscale image with very low-resolution color data: http://imgur.com/IOqOTyw.jpg

What's wrong with this? A.) It flat-out isn't "true-color", and NASA shouldn't be spreading inaccurate information, and B.) It's arguably a more boring image than the greyscale original (http://imgur.com/hwYA6VK.jpg), which leaves one better able to imagine possible color schemes, rather than fixating one upon a single, inaccurate, and very boring color scheme.
I keep seriously wanting to write a webmail client again... Inbox is great in many ways, but it's also taken so many wrong steps, such as making it harder to see timestamp etc. and obscuring subjects.
There are already plenty "solutions" for the Fermi paradox, one of those is the Multiverse hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse another one is the Holographic principle http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-growing-evidence-t...
> and credit unions with a combined $2.5 billion in medallion loans are suing the city for failing to stop Uber from stealing customers.

As an occasional customer of NYC transportation services, I'd just like to throw this out there: I AM NOT YOUR PROPERTY! YOU DO NOT OWN ME! I CANNOT BE "STOLEN"!
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> UK banks sometime sends payments to a separate verification page which either returns automatically or asks further security questions.

Ahh, 3D Secure/Verified By Visa/MasterCard SecureCode.

It really needs to die right now. Basically it teachers consumers to fill in random iframes on merchant sites.

And the fact that the card industry thinks 3D Secure is secure or in any way a good idea is why they'll never make standardised forms.
What you get is basic knowledge about electronics using concrete circuits, and the parts to experiment yourself.

I don't think the main value proposition are the parts: if you know where to look, parts are very cheap. It's more about learning in an easy way.

You might say there are already tons of resources on the Net. The problem is that those resources don't come with parts, which might be problematic to choose when you are a beginner, and you might not know where to order.
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To me, Python is so close to pseudocode that I find it very readable. I found and fixed a bug in python code having never before seen any python code. At the time, I only really knew C.
> Hm, the OP asked what would I do to overcome lethargy. I personally would not lift weights, preferring instead the other forms of cardio activity I mentioned... so that is why I answered the OP's question as I did.

This comment was heavily edited relative to what I responded to
That'd still be pretty awesome, actually.
Do you think CloudWatch will ever be "good enough" to replace your custom stack/Atlas?
This isn't talked about more often but its kinda funny. During roughly the American Revolution there were 10 planets.

Neptune/Pluto weren't yet discovered. Instead we had Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, George (Uranus), Ceres, Vesta, and several other minor asteroids.
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Smartphones may fix this.

With Apple Pay, I now get iOS notifications for all the purchases on my Amex card.

Barclays now let me use their iPhone app as a software 2FA (bank-specific hardware 2FA needs to die—not being able to check your online banking at the office or whatever is a major PITA).

Both Barclays and NatWest have TouchID in their iOS apps.

I'm hopeful that mobile might lead the banks and card issuers to turn this ship around and make things less crap.
Okay, that sounds more worthwhile. When I did a simple test against a LAMP server, the only information I got back was "running 5.5.25, latest 5.5.27, this is a vulnerability". I assume you're presenting that info for different software.
The irony in your comment was delicious, thank you.
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I don't understand why people say that.
Even IF the multiverse theories are right (good luck finding evidence for that) our universe would still be amazing.
Sure I'm "just" an animal, but the stars at night are still amazing, flowers are still amazing, my wife is still amazing and so on.
I don't know of any evolutionary reason why humans should find the stars and nebulae beautiful and even if a reason was found I still see no reason why suddenly they would not be beautiful anymore.
Queue based implementation is obviously the cheapest but author does not mention that queue.erl time complexity is O(1) amortized. It does introduce latency spike when "in" list needs to get reversed because "out" list is empty.
Nootropics are quite hard to find in the UK. The best one i have found is intellimeds.co.uk .Could do worse than to check them out. Hope this helps!
Buy what you know is certainly a good heuristic. If I were a partner at a fund that invests in Internet-enabled networks of engaged users, I would be very alarmed if companies like AirBnB and Etsy started to drift outside the scope of "what I know". Also, what I know probably shouldn't be so limiting as what I use. For example, one of Warren Buffet's best investments was Blue Chip Stamp -- a discount coupon book publisher. I doubt Warren Buffet ever licked a discount stamp (other than as a stunt). But he does understand businesses that generate float. He is the master of investing float.
Yup, it's in the Oxford English Dictionary. I don't know when, but I'm guessing after September 4, 1998.
If you think that is bad, check this out:

https://twitter.com/BritishGasHelp/status/620956147680432128

British Gas have JavaScript that actively prevents you from using LastPass because "as a business we've chosen not to have the compatibility with password managers".

I want to be a fly on the wall at the meeting where they decided that making security worse was a good idea.
Nootropics are quite hard to get hold of in the Uk. Really only available on the internet. The best suppliers i have found are intellimeds.co.uk . Could do worse than to check them out. Hope this helps!
Not V1. V2 yes, it will.
If a developer is frequently ignoring returned errors, then they have larger problems and it's their fault. Panic was not added to assist lazy programmers. Even though some API has solidified, an author could later add different return errors. Heck, if that function was calling other functions with returned errors, then the list of possible unique errors increases greatly. You should never ignore an err because you think you know the possible reasons.

The package author should modify the phrasing of that comment.
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>The commander can be Air, Army, Navy, or Marine.

In non-combat joint operations. Like technological development, R&D, etc. The Marines are represented by the Navy, as they're part of the Navy.
I wonder, why he is ignoring the iron law of wages: Under free market conditions, wages tend to the minimum necessary to sustain the life of the worker.

When free market is interrupted by state, union power or lack of workers with a special skill, the nominal wages rise. But the situation for the workers will stay same, because of the Iron Law of Wages constrain. There will still be some days left end of the month, when he runs out of money. Because when wages rise at a local market, the housing cost will rise next at this market.

This can be seen best in Switzerland where wages, taxes, and housing costs differ in every canton. Similar if you compare housing costs and wages in upper state New York, and in NYC. Housing costs and taxes will rise, if wages rise. Pushing those with the lower wages out of the market of better housing.

So if a state wants that minimum wages or unconditional income grants have a positive effect on the people, then the same state must invest in social housing first, to lower the housing costs, before raising wages.
"New York must stand up to the hostile takeover being attempted by a Mafia-like Silicon Valley, in conjunction with predator banks,” Freidman said.

I understand someone is lashing out at losing their cash cow but I don't think I've heard Silicon Valley described as a Mafia before.

Can anybody explain how this is even a remotely comparable thing to say?
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“New York must stand up to the hostile takeover being attempted by a Mafia-like Silicon Valley"

That is so rich, the people who want to force competitors out are calling their competition Mafia like. This article is so bizarrely worded ... Uber is "invading" "stealing" customers. Nope, no bias there. (/sarcasm)
Fortunately that was ~8 years ago. I think the current interpretation is upvote="thank you", downvote="less than uninteresting".
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How do your examples specify that T and U are generics?
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You're right - by crawling out of the wrecked building through the window he entered a pocket reality designed to help him discover the true ruler of the universe. Or something.

I can't remember whether it happened that way in the radio series or the books as they're quite different (let's pretend the film never happened).
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If it's just for taking screenshots I'm curious why you chose phantom rather than say wkhtmltoimage/pdf?

I've used phantom (via Casper) for some scraping tools but for images I would have thought the wkhtmlto* project was simpler?
I suppose the benefit of a human system is that we can correct errors that we haven't fully anticipated, by using a general rule such as legal precedent. Remote edge cases in a purely machine system would lead to uncorrectable errors, from time to time. I think an ideal system would combine machine rules to avoid dumb-ass mistakes like mislabeling a share cert on transfer, with human systems to overrule unexpected bad results (e.g., transfers that were obviously not intended by the parties, though processed mechanically).
Oh my, there's even COBOL for iOS! I might have to erect a shrine for the spirit of Grace Hopper after all.

I'm always looking out for an implementation of language X on iOS, and COBOL is not what I expected to materialise there :) Still, it might be fun to play around with — you can never know too much and I'm curious as to how compiler output looks like (though I probably won't see that on iOS).
This is _not_ by the NSA but by its contractors. Namely employees of Onyx Point, Inc. and KEYW Corporation.
Great article that covers the basics and the tradeoffs between these techniques.

Yet i wonder if the techniques these days require multiple passes ? what kind of new techniques are used today to do this with one pass ?
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When I started using quaternions for rotations, which -- if we're honest -- is the #1 practical applications, I had much more success building my intuition around this Wikipedia section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati...
Non-solution to non-issue.
Just learn the precedence table, seriously.
There is more logic to it. We try to detect if you use ubuntu/debian and suggest those updates. From the moment we know the exploits, we show them. Probably you're talking about PHP? For PHP 5.5.25 there are the following exploits CVE-2015-3414, CVE-2015-3415, CVE-2015-3416, CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326 and CVE-2015-3152. But none of them have information yet. (see https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3152) So as soon as they are disclosed, the exploits will automatically be shown (within 5 minutes)
Meanwhile if there are life forms in Magellanic Clouds they are probably looking at the spiral arms thinking that it is a shame that they did not evolve in a galaxy proper...
That is how it's done in Swift. Are you saying there are C languages that do the same thing?
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No particular tips on how to do it; but at least make sure you don't put too many in serial if you're at all concerned about fire safety.

My father was once involved in a big lawsuit over fires caused by faulty junction boxes and he swore he'd never let the total wattage exceed say 500, max 800, or so watts for panels installed on a house.

After all; it only takes a single slightly faulty contact and you essentially have an improvised arc welder on the top of your roof.
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If you're willing to listen to the likes of the New York Times, perhaps you'd believe the fall in medallion prices is a good thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/nyregion/1-million-medalli...
That would be interesting to investigate but you have to keep in mind that the centroids move between each iterations. So you have to re-build a new metric tree at each iteration. kd-tree / build time complexity are between `n log(n)` and `n (log(n))^2`. You don't benefit from the classifical speed-up of metric trees where you build the tree once and then do many queries on the same tree.

Also metric trees such as k-d tree and ball tree do no bring any speed-up in high dimensions.
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Is the zip sent to the card processing company? Do they check that the zip matches your address? What if the customer just moved?

I've implemented card payments on multiple occasions, but not once have I seen a credit card processor that offered to validate the zip code.

Unless the name and zip can actually be sent to the credit card processor, and they have access to that information based on the credit card number alone, I don't see the use. Which brings up names, how fare of can your name be? I know plenty of people who wouldn't think twice about leaving out a middle name that they hate.
> Millions of people use it everyday for professional work, including in film and music studios, where stability and timely performance are much more paramount than for some corporate cubicle running Excel.

This can be said about Windows
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That was a quote from the movie Taxi Driver, as is all the italicized text in the article...
The automatic formatting seems more "cool" then actually useful. I'd much prefer that it show characters as I type them, like pretty much every other text input field.
That’s exactly what GiroPay is. The merchant can use it as simple as they can use PayPal, but GiroPay then redirects you to the online banking backend of your bank. Depending on bank, this can use 2-Factor authentication, SmartCards, etc. Most banks use Smart Cards and 2-Factor authentication.
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Also, I'm kind of amazed that this is attracting loads of downvotes. Do people think I'm trolling?
I just realised that I have no idea how I normally pronounce VAT... It's like trying not to think about pink elephants.
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Well, mine does ( https://github.com/FeepingCreature/fcc ). I don't think it's very widespread, sadly.

Example: https://github.com/FeepingCreature/fcc/blob/master/tests/tes...
Where did I say that I wasn't judging him? Of course I'm judging him, just like you and aaronem are judging my comment and I was judging yours. The point of my first paragraph was a counter to your comment, not the article. While I agree that he sees himself as an outsider, I disagree that he is expecting nothing from passengers.

And, as I said, he considers the non-conversation about his medal to equate to either not noticing or not caring, which definitely aren't the only options on the table. He's a bit hurt that no-one wants to engage with him about it, so the only reasons he allows are 'uncaring strangers'. Throughout, while he considers himself an outsider, he's miffed that people aren't engaging with him... but I never really felt that he was understanding where the passengers' motivations were.
Revelation. Thanks.
Sounds promising - anything that can improve on our current use of the frankly non-intuitive Google Analytics in providing clear metrics is worth a shot.
If you talk to any economist that does research for a living, they all will acknowledge that the data used in empirical studies in the field of economics is notoriously unreliable. Chief among the reasons for this is that it is impossible to collect data on all the different factors that go into a human's decision making process, and also that there is an observer effect (similar to that in physics) that influences data collection in many types of economic studies, especially forward facing ones.
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Initial interpretation of the first image apparently suggested an active (geologically speaking) surface. This would tend to remove visible craters. Think Venus (highly active surface) vs the Moon.
Thanks for this. It would be great if links were clickable
Yes. They are asking so that it can be sent to the credit card processing and used as part of a anti-fraud algorithm. Have you implemented credit card processing yourself or used something like Stripe? It's honestly a pretty common option. At least around me in the North Eastern US, pretty much every gas pump will refuse to sell you gas if you can't provide the billing zip for the credit card.
It's a great metaphor when I can say "I bet it's a Piet Mondrian shirt" before clicking on the link.
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It's a good companion piece to the Fred Wilson blog post on the Gig Economy: if we took care of our veterans, if we treated poor people like we want to be treated, if we didn't make rules for the economy that let wealth grow at the expense of the poor: then Uber couldn't exist in their current business plan.

Saying "at least Uber lets people make some money" is an excuse for exploitation. It may be true, it may be better than nothing, but it's not actually a good solution.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge people who do like to talk, and more power to you. I just loathe small talk, and find the signal-to-noise ratio too low to do it with cab drivers or other people you spend only a few minutes with out of circumstance. I'm just trying to provide an angle on why some people don't like talking to drivers, as the article felt like it was unduly blaming them for not entertaining the driver enough.
When you have specialized code you use the specific terminology - just as when you have code that works only with a list, you'll use list terminology rather than generic collection terminology. You use the monadic parts when you need to abstract over it, just like with generics.

E.g. I have three client reports that share a common superclass but have different requirements. One of them needs some extra aggregated statistics (Writer, similar to treelog). One of them needs us to make an async call to their system for each row (Future). One of them needs some data from redis. But the superclass logic of "read a bunch of rows from our database, combine the per-row results into a single report" is common. So the superclass uses the generic monad operations, and the subclasses have the specific implementations, and I don't have to copy/paste the same code for the three different reports.
Thanks for the feedback (both of you!) - when writing this, I envisioned a use case where the secret was static within the application, so it is easy enough for the developer to check their secret is 32 characters and not have to bother with checking that particular error. I didn't use panic because although a non 32 character secret puts my library in an unrecoverable state, it doesn't mean the application implementing the library is also in an unrecoverable state, hence why it returns an error instead of panicing.

Also, in terms of the top comment in this chain, the work server (master) never gets work from the workers, the workers push completed work back to the server, maybe this isn't clear within the current docs. All communication between the worker and server has to be coordinated by the application implementing the library.
An idea is to include a function in the library called MustNewServer() that panics instead of returning an error. A usability perk of having single return is that the function can be chained, i. e.,

ws := gowork.MustNewServer(key).AddParams(...)
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I haven't read Permutation City yet, but virtualization in Diaspora is far more advanced. The default, as I recall, is ~800 times meatspace. I recommend reading Stephenson's Anathem first, however.

Edit: The Planck Dive is a follow-on.[0]

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