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I said that if the consensus theory is wrong then we'd see constant power shifts.

This is clearly wrong - I demonstrated a stupidly simple alternate theory which disagrees with the consensus, but still lacks constant power shifts.

Rapid shifts in the composition of various fields would debunk basically every theory that presupposes human nature doesn't rapidly shift. As such, your theory proves very little, and other theories (e.g. mine) make the same predictions. So why cling to that theory, rather than, say, my theory of p=A - B x math_content + second_order_corrections?

My theory predicts more things (e.g., it predicts % women in academia, % women in finance, % women in tech vs non-tech roles) and is vastly simpler. How is that not a win?
I think it depends. In the long run the trap that must be avoided is when women (usually women) leave the workforce after having children since "one parent stays at home" often means "mothers stay at home", after which they have a hard time reentering it (or have to re-qualify/take other jobs etc, which is a huge waste).

If the burden of looking after children is split more evenly between mother and father (say 1 year at a time as long as necessary) and both parents keep their careers afterwards, the difference is smaller. The question is what the state can do to encourage this kind of equality and prevent women from leaving the workforce. The view in progressive economies tends to be that it's long parental leaves, where there is a large part earmarked for the father.

Edit: I should add that the US actually has a pretty decent labour force participation for women. The view that women in the US often end up "homemakers" after having children seems to be pretty exaggerated.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2012/ted_20120907.htm

There are countries (Italy and Turkey stand out) where the situation is much worse, to the point where it probably makes a significant dent in the GDP/Capita.
Surely not as weird as the Bir Tawil border dispute between Egypt and Sudan. Both argue that it should be part of the other country!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil
>And by "most important" I don't mean "covers 20% of the topic" but rather "solve it and the rest of it can be done by a monkey" sort of thing.

Here it is: API is a POLITICAL concept, not a technical one.

It would be better if author provided concrete examples of politics-driven APIs because it seems like some API functions can be a 99% a technical problem rather than a political one.

Certainly some API calls might be trivialized to "just a function" but other API calls have ramifications of burning lots of real cpu, bandwidth, etc to provide them. Whether the company absorbs the expense of providing that API as a cost of doing business or monetizes it by charging users doesn't seem like it's all reducible to "politics".
Apple's implementation actually adds a (potentially hard-to-predict) branch to every single Objective-C message send.

They're extremely careful about the performance of objc_msgSend, because it's so significant to the overall performance of apps. The running time for a hot path message send is down to single digit CPU cycles. Any addition to that shows up pretty loudly. I'm sure they checked to make sure the check doesn't add too much overhead in real-world use, and that the wins are worth it.
> Switzerland is one of... three maybe (Luxemburg, Norway) countries with higher standard of living than the US.

If you're judging by average income. The wealth distribution is so off in the US that you'll find several dozens of countries where people in the low middle class are much better off.
Which Ubuntu image are you using? The official Ubuntu 14.04 image has always been only 4 layers and is about 190MB total size.
> I would probably hypothesis that CS was seen as a risky degree, so while men are generally less adverse to risk

I don't know about that. Men consistently study fields with higher income potential than women. The current theory is that when CS started gaining prestige and power, the same thing happened as with all professions that carry power and prestige -- women were pushed out (and by that I don't mean that there was some conspiracy, but society simply started directing women away from CS).
Ok. I did and you seem to have a point.
I must say that RPython is not a very good name. I assumed it was a system for R and python integration. Like say the RPython package http://rpython.r-forge.r-project.org
Over time Norway's GDP expansion almost perfectly matches the increased production domestically and price increases globally.

Track the price of oil against Norway's extreme GDP per capita growth from 2000 to 2008 ($37k per capita to $95k per capita), a time in which the price of oil went up ~10 fold. It's plainly obvious that Norway's economy is highly dependent on the performance of oil. Their wealth boom the prior 15 years came almost exclusively from the big oil run. Until the year 2000, they did not stand out as especially wealthy compared to other top tier nations. Their GDP per capita was almost identical to the US throughout the 1990s.
Yes your correct, nordic countries have achieved a very high standard of living without 300 years of government supported racketeering, money laundering etc. Unfortunately, anything Switzerland brings out my ill tempered side.
See also http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/ for further information about early work (reverse engineering!) at Bell Labs on typesetting machines, and http://haagens.com/oldtype.tpl.html for general phototypesetting history, featuring gems like: There was a romantic tradition, in [the US] at least, of the drifter Typesetters, who were good enough at the craft to find work wherever they traveled. They'd work in one town until they wanted a change and then drift on. They had a reputation for being well read, occasionally hard drinking, strong union men who enjoyed an independence particularly rare in the 19th century.[0]

It's amazing how interlinked typesetting and computing are. Here we have a troff link, then there's the PDF (from postscript) and TeX world, keyboard layouts, telegrams, rotating drums and early mechanical cryptography, etc.

If anyone's interested in good collections on the history of printing, I can recommend both the Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication (Musée de l’imprimerie et de la communication graphique) in Lyon, France[1] and the National Technical Museum (Národní technické muzeum) in Prague, Czech Republic,[2] which also sports the best permanent exhibition on the history of photography I have ever seen (by a long shot). For those of you in California, there's also the International Printing Museum[3] in Carson (open 10-4PM Saturdays).

[0] Added to 'Hackers of History' section of my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

[1] http://www.imprimerie.lyon.fr/imprimerie/

[2] http://www.ntm.cz/en

[3] http://www.printmuseum.org/
The article mentions this as an example of a second-order enclave (whereas the Bangladesh–India enclave it discusses is third-order):

> There are a web of enclaves within enclaves in Baarle-Hertog, a Belgian municipality with pockets of Dutch sovereignty.
RPython and PyPy are (IMO) the coolest Python projects out there. I made a little Brainfuck intepreter with it and it was super simple, but making small changes seemed to slow it down a lot. There is very little visibility as to how the code is compiled - i.e should I use a list or a tuple for some things? Can PyPy work out that a list is fixed sized? How should I classes to make them as efficient as possible (like are classes with two or so fields passed as structs)?
"I'm too lazy to eat this steak because I have to chew, can somebody please turn it into liquid so I can drink it?"
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This doesn't sound hugely informed. I spent the evening discussing this yesterday with Americans in a beer garden in Munich.

Actually, more than the working conditions, the Americans didn't want to go back because of the guns.
/u/MtGox_Adam is the same reddit account as previously used by the Mt.Gox CEO. Of course it's possible the account has been hacked.
The article discusses enclaves extensively, and then refers at the end to "exclave residents". Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave) says:

> An enclave is any portion of a state that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state. An exclave is a portion of a state geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory. Many enclaves are also exclaves.

If I understand this correctly, the WaPo article really means to refer specifically to exclaves, not just to enclaves, throughout.
Unix stderr not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_error
> Bad posters drive away good posters and encourage even worse posters, which eventually results in something akin to YouTube. Forum entropy for lack of a better term.

I've heard it labeled "evaporative cooling", per [0].

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...
I almost can't even believe that commercial is real.

I would love to see how it affected Cadillac's sales.
Cuckoo clock is southern germany, not switzerland. Common misconception.
Heh, I set up an internal IRC server for my previous employer; I mostly just got tired of AIM being shitty, and was already using IRC so I set it up (which was a pain, btw! maybe it's easier now?) so we could all use it.

Pretty amusing, too, because it was four people in an irc room, all of whom were also in the same physical room.
No I know exactly what democracy is, and told you that I did not contradict your statement. Also, obviously, you never lived in Switzerland. Chill.
This article is very confused. It makes a case that an API is a boundary (which it is) and because there are also other boundaries (like borders) it must be a political boundary (which it is not). But it doesn't stop there. Once it has mistakenly _added_ the attribute "political" to boundary it goes on to essentially _drop_ "boundary", too. So now we are left with "political", so APIs must be about "power, money and respect" after all. Well, that's not my experience and this text does not provide a reasonable argument for this extraordinary claim. However I applaud the author for having tried to formulate a new concept that could have been interesting.
> legal requirements

Well yes, there are legal requirements when money is handled.
BitCoin operates in a fuzzy realm, for sure, but it is still poor practice to not follow banking safety practices.

Any business that handles customer money (for example, a lawyer that holds client funds in escrow to pay for services later) is required to maintain separate accounts.

The only exception would be if the customer is lending money to the business (as when you invest in a bank account), not having the business to hold the customer's money.
Ask HN: What's your favorite personal cloud storage service?
Not self hosted, but something that offers a monthly plan.
Related, "How to Speak How to Listen" by Mortimer Adler, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169928.How_to_Speak_How_t...

Also, Alan Watts http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/the-zen-teachings-of-alan...
> "We have our own internal IRC server if you know what that is..." I said "THANK YOU JESUS!"

That would be exactly my own reaction if it would ever happen to me. But so far, unfortunately, it was always either Hipchat or Skype.
Yes, in fact healthcare in America used to be affordable.

The two big price jumps were in 1990-2000, and then 2000-now. The last one is what finally broke the private system in the US in terms of affordability.

It's easy to look up the facts and demonstrate where the costs began to soar:

http://i.imgur.com/OXg7Nx7.png

http://i.imgur.com/R6MbaD9.png

Healthcare costs per capita have gone up four fold since 1990 roughly. Real household income in the US was about $47,000 in 1990. Today it's around $58,000 or so. That means people in 1990, with just around 20% less income, were spending 75% less on healthcare. Yes, it was affordable back then.

You can easily prove this another way: look up medical caused bankruptcies, and look at how they surge from the 1990s forward.
>There's also Single being passed 2 rows = crash. SingleOrDefault being passed >1 rows = crash.

It's not a crash, it's an exception. You can catch an exception. But, as others have said, you could instead call the function that doesn't throw an exception if having more than one result isn't an error.
That doesn't make the business look any more professionally managed.
Income PPP adjusted also doesn't factor in taxes. Things like free tuition are paid for by much higher rates. Healthcare is usually part of compensation packages in America. I'm not sure if that gets included in gross income.

My main problem with quality of life indexes is they tend to overvalue income equality. It's true that income inequality is generally associated with poor countries but the USA is clearly an outlier. Favoring equality is a normative judgement.
The fact that Java's the only language that infers type on the right hand side of an equals sign should tell you something. Every other language thinks that's the wrong side.
Were the borders actually disputed, or just really weird? The article made it sound like while the borders were odd, both countries agreed on where they were.
From my point of view, it boils down to communication and self awareness. Nonviolent Communication that was mentioned before is a great book.

Also, I found that the Pathwise Leadership Program (http://pathwisemanagement.com/) has helped me a great deal in knowing myself and finding out how to frame your communication in the best way possible.
Whether it's true now or not we still beleive in it.
Reminds me of a local recruiter from a while back who wouldn't stop calling, emailing and then resorted to sending messages on twitter (creeped me out) asking if I was interested in a 1~3 month contract with a fairly esoteric stack with no overtime pay and a generous minimum wage, no lunch, 4 hour commute. I told him no and he asked if I knew anyone else that would be interested.
The author makes a good point which is that engineers have a tendency to couch emotional and political rationalizations in technical terms and then annoyingly believe that their objectivity is unassailable. That's definitely a thing.

But we must recognize that an API is fundamentally a technical construct, so you can't really have an informed political discussion about an API without exploring the technical aspects at the same time. The devil is in the details, as they say, and APIs are nothing but a big pile of details.
I believe up to VB5, then in VB6 it was finally natively compiled. I had projects in VB6 that people would try to decompile, the best they got was Assembly. Unlike .NET which without external tools will give you back almost everything (except of course comments).
Even worse than this, this wasn't a corporate account, it was Mark's personal account!

I understand how you could read that from the employee's statement, but this allegation is contrary to fact. Gox did most of its business through a series of business accounts at Mizuho, one per currency. A list was provided by the bankruptcy trustee to creditors multiple times -- c.f. here: http://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20141126_document.pdf
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Go join any standardisation committee to see for yourself.
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I was excited to see a contrarian perspective here, but I'm disappointed that you've just selectively quoted the parent while claiming they are wrong. I would love to know how you define political and why you think the decision to make a function public instead of private is apolitical.
I just finished The Charisma Myth:

http://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magneti...

On audio book and immediately bought a physical copy. The book is filled with tips and tricks to increase your charisma that can be applied right away.
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Switzerland actually has quite a diverse economy, and depends a lot on the export market to the rest of Europe and tourism. That's why the strength of the Swiss Franc is always a problem for the economy here.

One downside of living here though is that the housing density is fairly high, or at least it is in Zürich. Most people live in flats and getting a bigger place with a garden for the average person is not very feasible.
Nonsense. Almost all that is described in the blog is the standard across western (or at least Germanic) Europe.
Pretty obvious no? Switzerland is a smallish country that acts as a moral-free world bank. It's easy for them to become rich in that situation.
You can use hash_map just find in C++11/14 mode, you'll just a nag #warning at compile time.
The trillion dollar iraq war cost harmed US economic performance massively in fact.

It stole productive capital and put it toward destruction. The debt cost then goes on perpetually in the form of interest (currently at $430 billion per year), making it even worse over time. Instead of investing into factory production, business expansion, R&D, science, healthcare, infrastructure, long-term economic growth in general, you accumulate a trillion dollars in long-term veteran care costs, and perhaps destroy hundreds of billions worth of equipment, and run up the price of oil, gasoline and commodities in general by devaluing the dollar and destabilizing the middle east - for absolutely zero real benefit.
> ... and APIs are nothing but a big pile of details.

And so is international law. But nobody really believes that international law is fundamentally a legal construct.
I grew up very poor in the U.S. Poor as in, my single mom earned $6000 / year with little federal benefits to raise four kids. But, now, I'm in my late 30s and very successful. So, in that regard, I love the U.S. For the upper middle class and wealthy, the U.S. is like an adult playground. And, I don't mind the long hours of work; I still get plenty of work-life balance.

But, honestly, the only way that this occurs (unless born rich) is if one is smart, ambitious, hard-working, cunning, and lucky. If one is poor and doesn't have those attributes, they'll have a very hard time here. For instance, intelligence will not get one very far, alone. I grew up gifted and talented. All of my siblings were also gifted and talented. But, of my family and classmates, only 20% made it out of poverty. In that way, the U.S. is quite horrible.
It sounds like you guys do it a respectable way. But I don't understand why you can't accept the facts as I present them, as I have given no reason for you to doubt my claims or abilities to properly assess the situation. Maybe you think it's just too crazy to be true? Because that's what I'm thinking for sure... But them be the facts despite my preference of otherwise.
I can try to put it in plain English if you think it'll be confusing to a newcomer.

Before I try, let's explore how Ethereum is described by those who develop it. The home page seems as good a place as any.

https://www.ethereum.org/

Here's what the first paragraph on the homepage describes Ethereum as...

"Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference."

So even the Ethereum developers describe the core use as contracts. It doesn't strike me as a controversial idea.

How would you describe Ethereum?
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I'm a dual national UK/Australian resident in the US. If I were to find that I needed serious medical attention, I'd be on the plane back to either country as soon as I could. Out of interest I'll look up how much it costs to rent a jet and pilot.
I moved out the US just for a few years. Almost a decade later I still haven't returned. And when I seriously contemplate picking my return date I see events in the news like Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Sam Dubose and think why should I move back.
Well, that's about a standardisation process then. There are different parties involved, so of course there will also be some politics. But APIs are not limited to standardisation committees and politics certainly does not have the central role the article implies.
This was just painful to read about how little the author understands about basic economics and the privileges afforded to that ONE tiny nation.
That man is so down to Earth, very inspiring.

For those who wonder like I did why the probability of picking a square-free number is 6/Pi^2, it's explained on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-free_integer#Distributi...
Any business that handles customer money (for example, a lawyer that holds client funds in escrow to pay for services later) is required to maintain separate accounts.

Respectfully: this is not accurate generally or in Japan. Lawyers are special-cased in the laws of several US states for this purpose.

Software consultants in Japan, to use one example I am intimately familiar with, are not. If you take a deposit of $50k from a client which isn't your money yet, you book an asset (the money, typically deposited in your bank account, where there is no duty for segregation) and a corresponding 前受金 ("advance payment received") liability. As soon as you provide the service which you've received the money for, you're obligated to decrement that liability and increment sales. (This is important for tax purposes if the two events happen in different calendar or fiscal years, one reason why I have to keep books and report to the friendly local tax office once a year how much of OPM I'm presently holding.)

n.b. My understanding of GAAP here would be that Gox would probably hold the money on the books as a deposit (預かり金) rather than an advance payment (前受金) but I'm not positive about that -- my business never had to worry about it.
I think you need to run your own instance for Amazon Data Pipeline. If I need to run my own instance - I as well may use the standard cron.
This is a less interesting statement than it sounds at first. Corporate finance is simple enough that a highly intelligent person can learn what they need to know fairly easily.

A more accurate statement would be: "CEOs must be highly intelligent, and they must understand what their company is doing" -- which might involve technology, finance, or both, depending on the industry.
That one seems pretty straightforward. Each country's preferrence nets them more land. Bir Tawil is far less valuable than the larger disputed landmass (being baren rather than bordering a navigable body of water) so neither party seems to care to fight over it.
Pretty much an abbreviated version (quotes the same people) of the original NY Times article, which was extensively discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983224
More time off would make me happier. I'd give up $10k/year for it. $90k/year is enough money. Besides, few pleasures compare to spending quality time with your loved ones.

So now we have two pieces of anecdotal evidence, worth exactly twice as much as one (2*0)
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Separating client and corporate funds, if done properly, will also protect the money from company debts. E.g. If the company becomes bankrupt, the client funds cannot be used to pay creditors.
The point is that if there aren't multiple parties involved, it's not called API.
How is it a treatment?