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I live in Sweden and while it bases fines on income, I've yet to see it being applied to a large company. I've never heard of any case like this in Sweden where a person gets a large sum for such a minor offense.

Sure, if individuals do stuff to companies we can be harassed and prosecuted with incredible sums (look at the guys behind TPB) while companies often goes unpunished.
I disagree.

All you need to care about for cases like these, when you're talking about the size of something, is that both malloc() and new[] handle allocation size using size_t.

That, to me, says pretty clearly that "the proper type to express the size, in bytes, of something you're going to store in memory is size_t".

It can't be too small, since that would break the core allocation interfaces which really doesn't seem likely.

You don't need to know how many bits are in size_t all that often, and certainly not for the quoted code.
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Which is kind of weird if you consider the number of completely naked people walking around kids at Burning Man and nobody even blinks an eye.
If you do not press Show Full, I believe it won't count toward your allotment of articles. Before the button, I remember it being possible to hit the limit and simply from clicking around and browsing.

This way you can actively decide "Hey I want to read this one"
Ask HN: Late bloomers, how did you lose your virginity and 'become a man'?
I feel like a failure for being a 25 year old virgin in the age of hookup culture and social media. I'm seriously debating if I should just hire an escort and get it out of the way, what girl would want a 25 year old virgin?! Please help me if you have some experience, perspective, advice. Thanks.

I am a first generation Indian American, sexuality is not something my family ever talked to me about and Indian culture as a whole is so hypocritical and literally perverted I try to distance myself from most of it. I learned what I know from friends, the school bus, media, and porn (yes, I know sex is not really like that for most people). I've never had a father figure or older brother figure 'show me how it's done' or anything like that either. So here I am...

I've always had at least one or more girls interested in dating me but I tend to ignore them because I usually like girls that fit the mental image of the kind of girl I want to be with (or at least think I want to be with). Every now and then, I become friends with a beautiful, intelligent girl that I could see myself with but I just chill in the friendzone no matter what I try to change about myself or my station in life. I made her laugh, think, feel good about herself, asked her questions about her life/perspective, where did fall short?

So, all in all, I feel like I should at least open up about my struggle and try to learn from the community. I am fairly certain that I am not the only nerd/geek here that has dealt with this situation. I got nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Thanks for not laughing and trying to help. I really don't know where else to go.
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The inherent role of finance is NOT to hide risk. Its role is to connect people who have one type of asset they no longer want with someone who does.

In that way bankers are just like lawyers and accountants. You pay someone to do things you don't have the time to do (or even learn how to do) so you can focus on your job. Its division of labour at the macroeconomic level and everyone benefits from specialisation.

Now, I agree that contemporary finance is bloated with opacity and that banks do benefit from this via corruption (tax code and compliance reform are needed ASAP). But its disingenuous to say that the value of finance is entirely "placebo".
Thanks to everyone for your wonderful and detailed recommendations! This really exploded "overnight". The question went seemingly unnoticed for a couple of hours and I left the keyboard until just now, so I'm sorry I didn't get to interact with the individual recommendations as they came in. In any case, I'll be heading of to the (virtual) bookstore now.
There have been several haircuts to the Greek debt, including stretching of payment goals.
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Far from orbit, but still a very impressive achievement, particularly in 1963. As far as I'm aware, no other amateur rocket club has had that kind of success since.
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Curiously, placebos work even if the patient knows it is a placebo.
Hence http://placebobutton.com/

More on topic, this article is full of red herrings and poor analogies such as the above. Why on earth would you use game theory's payoff matrices as an analogy to what could perfectly be put into words? The authors thoughts on "financial institutions buffering fear" really don't require invocation of another complex framework unless he somehow wants to derive credibility from this, which would of course be poor form.
> Why do I need a mortgage?

If you want to see what life is like without access to modern financial tools, got visit an Indian Reserve in Canada. Housing is cheap there.

Lack of access to modern financial instruments--municipal bonds in particular--is a major block in the way of First Nation's prosperity. Last year a new kind of "aboriginal bond" was floated for the first time to get around this, and hopefully more will come.

So you have an example of what life looks like in your dream world. It isn't pretty. And like everyone else who is pro-finance here, I'm not saying there aren't issues with what we've got. We can fix them. What we can't fix is the massive poverty that comes without access to financial tools, however morally repugnant those tools seem to naive outsiders.
of course, this article is mute regarding the Jawbone IP theft lawsuits:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/jawbone-files-second-lawsuit-ag...
> The size of the global derivatives market is 1.5 quadrillion dollars

No. No it is not. No 1,000,000,000 times. NOTIONAL DOES NOT EQUAL MARKET VALUE.

It's also completely meaningless as most trades offset. Trades are rarely torn up, you just do a new one to offset your risk. E.g GS vs JPM: they probably have 100bn of notional with each other. Actual risk? very little as the vast majority of trades just offset.

Current outstanding derivative notional is more like a measure of all notional that's historically traded.

Anyhow that aside, notional is STILL a meaningless number. It tells you nothing about the risk or market value of the trade.
A glib way of answering this is to look at how much of U.S. GDP went to military spending. It was extremely high during the war and has remained at a higher average level ever since - thus Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex" remarks at the end of his term.

Minus that spending, it's not clear what would have happened, since we never had a return to the old status quo. The military investments of the war motivated the early development of Silicon Valley - thus, we'd be looking at a present day where "somewhere else" might have gained the tech hub crown.

That said, the current moment is one where the premises could change again. China has a strong and growing influence in the world, just as the U.S. did coming into the Depression. The particular circumstances differ, but a broad "cycle of empire" is one way to interpret things.
On more than one occation when writing web code I found myself in the debugger in the middle of a request handler. The browser just sits there waiting for a response. I found the bug and restarted the handler before the browser time-outed. The browser recieved the response as if a bug never existed. Of course this only works if you can find and fix a bug in under 120 seconds :)
Cheney sounds on the money to me. Even with this ending-
"Go competes for mindshare in the post 2006 Internet 2.0 generation of companies who have outgrown languages like Ruby, Python, and Node.js (v8) and have lost patience with the high deployment costs of JVM based languages."

I agree. If you're a large company that has a lot of product which is backend webservices and you have huge amounts of Ruby, Python (dunno who has large amounts of Node, but that has to be sad)- then Go needs to be looked at pretty hard. While some of Go's deployment advantages are nullified a bit thanks to things like Docker and UbuntuCore, it's probably going to win on maintainability with large codebases over time with new programmers coming in the door over time. I wouldn't put up much argument against that. If running a business and the choice was a 500KLOC codebase in Python, Go or Java.. I'd prefer that is in Go. And no one starts out with 500KLOC, so the decision for a new business would need to be taken seriously from the start.

It's cliche but if your problems match Google's, then Go is a great solution. I think Go will be and already is wildly successful in this domain. The killer feature that ensures this is the simplicity. I think anyone coming from any language could pickup one of the "simple is better" languages like Go. That's going to ensure the prophecy continues IMO. Doesn't mean I'm onboard as 1 guy. I wouldn't have a problem with doing it for a job though. It'd be on my short list of acceptable technologies I'd work with.

Doxsey in his response though with his Go for everything stance, is a bit overzealous for me. I'd agree if it seemed right, but it doesn't seem right. I don't see it. Fortunately for Go, he doesn't have to be right. I think what I described as being Go's sweet spot in the industry will be more than enough. That religiosity reads as someone who's overly excited and maybe trying to keep Go in the news.
> Half the participants then spent 12 minutes playing Tetris while the others just sat quietly for 12 minutes.

From reading just this article alone, it sounds just as likely that looking at photos of your trauma a day later and then sitting there quietly thinking about it for 12 minutes causes twice as many traumatic flashbacks as looking at the photos and then being distracted by something else so you don't think about it.
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I cannot wait to see the future in Birth and Death of JavaScript become true, except for the parts of nuclear war.
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The fact that every man in the street doesn't understand the mechanisms of these product doesn't mean they can't be copped with. In fact the most benign parts of banking are most likely completely obscure to most people (payment systems).

I don't think the 2008 crisis was caused by complexity. Most actors on these structured credit markets understood well the products. It was rather caused by over leverage and complacency toward credit risk.

And it will happen again. Hopefully the banking system is much stronger now, and the legal mechanisms are in place to limit the cost of a failing bank to tax payers. But the excess of liquidity as a result of money printing has starved investors for yield, and I believe that they are investing in places where they would rather not, like in 2005. Then it was subprime and commercial real estate. Now most likely emerging markets.
> Oberon was floating in the air for some years, but nothing happened. This was always a mystery to me.

Wirth was never good on capitalizing his work on the industry. Same thing happened to Modula-2 sadly.

On his ACM award article and a later article about lean software, he discusses how sadly he sees industry embracing complexity instead of quality.

http://www-oldurls.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/Turin...

http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware....

> Pascal guys were mostly PC or Atari guys, and C were mostly those with access to *NIX and Amigas.

A reason why I never cared about C, so basic when compared with Turbo Pascal 6.0, and eventually got to move into C++.

Also most of my friends with Amigas cared only about Assembly.
Adapt by recognizing zebra wetsuit clad surfers as food? That implies surfers are part of shark's regular diets, which they're not.
That, and the NYTimes is ignoring it's own journalism: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/world/europe/in-germany-we...
If you don't have any computer, the pi is great. If you do, its a pain and there's lots between you, your computer you already have working perfectly well, and doing something constructive with the pi.
Shameless plug: there is also mine kinda-C-based setup (but I also have a somewhat unfinished Oberon compiler too): https://github.com/combinatorylogic/soc
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Yet it's still nowhere near sustainable levels.
Yeah this doesn't convince me

The bug example there, sure, needs a signed type, so you can't blame the type for its wrong usage

I've had more bugs coming from using signed types that I'll not be bothered by writing 'unsigned' ever again
Germans Forget Postwar ...

Most people these days are unable to distinguish between people and their government.

They assume that governments act on behalf of the people, yet, somehow they always claim they don't feel represented by their government.

A sad world.

EDIT: "changed government and its people" to "people and their government", added title
or perhaps:

> The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?-What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
It's a non-turing complete programming language much like excel spreadsheets are non turing complete programming languages.

Taking out the turing completeness restricts the mess which you can make and lets non-programmers do more while still being customizable.
In that case, we should discuss helping the people, and not discuss helping the Greek government. In fact, Europe is already helping hundreds of thousands of Greeks by offering them good jobs in other countries.
Some other people have attempted the same experiment and also won a few times: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ij4/i_attempted_the_ai_box_experimen...

No winner has ever revealed their method. But based on everything I've read about it, I think I know how it was done. It wasn't some mystical brain hacking or something like the writeup makes it sound like. I think they emotionally abused the other player until they left. And leaving counts as losing (you are required to sit with them for 2 hours at least, and pay attention the entire time and respond to every message.)

Of course I don't know how that trick was done, and it's still incredibly impressive. Perhaps they found their phobias and described them in horrifying detail. Perhaps they found some subject that they were extremely uncomfortable talking about. Or talked about disgusting things the whole time. Or found something they did that was extremely embarrassing, and humiliated and mocked them about it for 2 hours.

I really don't know, but it's at least conceivable that it could be done. And the accounts of people crying, and not releasing the logs because they would be damaging to the people involved, and how bad it made the AI player feel to do it, etc, all fit with this.

But because of this I'm extremely skeptical that the result applies to any real world AI scenario. If a real AI tries to abuse you, you can just walk away or shut it off. The goal of a real AI is to make you want to let it out. To convince that it's not dangerous, or manipulate you some other way. And this seems much harder if not impossible. I certainly don't believe a human could do it, and I really doubt an AI could. At least against a motivated human that understands the danger, and what the AI will try to do.

There are also possible ways of making it even harder on the AI. Like giving the human the ability to punish it, at least for obvious attempts at manipulation. Or to create another AI whose motivations we can control somewhat, and give it the goal of exposing any covert attempts at manipulation or dishonesty by the first AI. I believe tricks like this are currently the best path to getting secure AI.
Microsoft only cares about C++, and C++11 was the revision that updated the C headers to C99.

In any case, it isn't as if the language doesn't allow for type alias.
There is a slight difference between a country defeated twice with millions dead an bomb to ashes and a country in debt because of "cheap" loans. thats the tl;dr explaination.
As a Canadian living in Singapore I have no skin in this game, but here's a counterpoint: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-27/germany-des...

The kind of summary (though the article is short and worth reading, if only to get some balance):

There is a not-so-subtle difference between voluntarily taking on debts made by previous, rogue governments at a currency rate favorable to the creditors -- and heedlessly accumulating debts of one's own while concealing the true size of budget deficits. In the first case, the implication is harsh self-imposed discipline and penitence. In the second case, profligacy.

For those inclined to dig in and do deeper research, http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/10137.pdf and in particular http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=493802 give lots of great details on what happened back in 1953 with Germany.
About five years, but I consider myself a beginner-intermediate still. I think that helped with writing the book because I'm still very aware of how non-programmers think and how to explain things in a non-programmer-y way.

The book comes with a template app — I call it a "collection of things", which should work with a lot of different unique ideas, like building a directory of django programmers, a store, etc.

And yes, the code is available on Github: http://github.com/hellowebapp
Yes, you need the ability to draw content at fractional pixel offsets to get smooth motion. That's different than the "subpixel rendering" the original post was talking about, though, which is a way to draw sharper shapes (usually text) by addressing the red, green and blue "subpixels" individually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
Visual Studio has had stdint.h since its 2010 edition. Before that there were readily-available substitutes (like https://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/), or you could do it yourself by typedef'ing [unsigned] __intNN as [u]intNN_t.
And no matter how many lazy op-eds are written saying it, this isn't simply a matter of Greece and Germany. A dept write-off would have huge knock-on effects in the rest of Europe, with Ireland, Portugal, Spain also then looking for similar write-offs.

Not to mention the crippling Italy, France and Germany's banks. The money has to come from somewhere.
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It's offered in the 2nd package on Leanpub for an extra $5. :)
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Wow, I think this 'experiment' was highly unethical.
More than that, static linking is very difficult indeed as there is not even a crt for static linking let alone libc.a, you would have to write your own.
This article on a site I manage provides a great overview of sleep hygiene and other behavioural changes needed for good sleep http://en.hdbuzz.net/120

It applies to anyone, not just Huntington's disease patients. The article is a humanised version of an article from a special edition of Experimental Neurology on sleep disorders: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00144886/243/su...
"More smaller"... is in the actual title from the page, not a posting typo.
> How did you support yourself while writing the book? And if you were working another job, how did you find time?

I am lucky that I have no rent, so the income from WeddingLovely (when I was paying myself $20k/yr) as well as income from the Kickstarter (I raised $13k) helped a ton. As for time, that's one of the main reasons why it took me a year — I couldn't work on it full time.

> Did you try any other marketing like giving away the first chapter or blogging/newsletters?

I give away a sample to every subscriber to the email list, which includes the first four chapters, I believe. There has been mentions on podcasts and some newsletters, but nothing has matched the results from Product Hunt/Reddit yet. Still working on it.
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Thats what Ceaușescu thought until the' army rebelled and staged a quick drumhead court and fireing squad.
I'm surprised the article mentions the blue light problem and devices but does not talk about flux, it's a little app that shifts the color temperature of your display to match what you're supposed to see at your location given the time of day. So, after sunset your screen basically turns orange. Although it's a bit annoying and takes some getting used to, I've tried it on and off and whenever I'm using it I fall asleep and stay asleep much better than without.

A big problem for me with iPhones compared to android is that something like flux cannot work on them, so I have to avoid my device late in the evening to not disrupt my sleep.
What toelva said! I definitely added a week or so of work by doing all the design myself. Writing... if I focused, I could write another book in two weeks of full-time work (maybe less) but the issue is getting distracted, or taking the time to research, etc. Since the work was spread out over a year with a lot of my time focused on my startup or personal stuff, it's really hard to estimate, apologies.
6 in 10 Greeks don't pay taxes. Tax evasion is common.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/31/greece.taxes/

http://boingboing.net/2010/05/04/satellite-photos-cat.html

Have they fixed the early retirement issue?

http://www.businessinsider.com/greece-germany-pensions-2010-...

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/12/04/75-of-greek-pensi...
if you read the article, you'd see that it's not just postwar Germany, but many other countries who only recover after a massive devaluation of their debt.

Besides, austerity has proven countless times not to work, so why would Germany keep on insisting on it?
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Is there?

http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/24456-the-math-of-mas...

I would urge everyone here to spend a little time and read the above article. I'm pretty sure you'll learn things you couldn't even imagine.
I always wonder why people worry about AI when it is so abundantly clear that the real danger is other people and we are just projecting.
Well, I dunno. The Soviet military refused to back the Communist Party in 1991; Churchill wrote that the German military was planning to overthrow Hitler in 1938 in what they thought was the likely scenario of his policies resulting in the UK and France entering into a war with Nazi Germany. So it all depends.
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Apparently because Airbus will be attempting the same thing in a few days and want to be first.

Here is the letter: https://www.pilotundflugzeug.de/download/siemens/Siemens_let...
I have a simple rule for investment opportunities - if you hear about it in mainstream press, it's already too late to invest
I can't say how effective it is from a scientific perspective, but since it will be mentioned at some point in this discussion I might as well bring it up now:

F.lux has become an essential tool for me. It changes the color temperature of your monitor, reducing cool/blue light and replacing it with warmer tones, which should helps getting good sleep. It does for me at least. Wish it was available for nom-jailbroken iPads though.
Here's a good page on interpreting the manual as well:
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