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> I'd like someone to explain the impact of a per-capita debt of over $150K and 229% of GDP on the People's Republic of Switzerland.

The explanation is simply that you're using the wrong data. Kind of embarrassing for someone who is complaining about how nobody else understands the importance of numbers and spreadsheets.

The number you've marked as "national debt" is actually "external debt", which is a totally irrelevant statistic. It's the amount of debt owed to entities in different countries by business, invididuals and the the government. It's particularly meaningless because it's only looking at debts rather than both debts and credits. Switzerland is in fact a net international creditor.

The number you should be using is the government debt. Unfortunately it's going to be pretty bad for your incredibly insulting "People's Republic of Switzerland" narrative. That'd be 34% of GDP for CH, 102% for USA.
There is a lot of history and useful knowledge archived in Usenet. A lot of that content (e.g., the early UNIX newsgroups) puts today's forums and blogs to shame.

Google acquired Deja News (if Usenet is wortheless, why?) and now all the archived Usenet messages are web-access only and fronted by Java and Javascript nonsense.

If the Usenet archives are no longer important or if everyone thinks Usenet is "dead", then why put these messages behind Javascript and try to prevent bulk downloads (which is how NNTP was designed to work)?
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Me too. In theory a lot of it sounds reasonable to me, but a lot of things sound good "in theory." :-)
Looks like we found the first thing that needs to be disrupted!
I think it depends on your market. Where I am, there are a lot of people just using their personal car. I heard the minimum is a 2000 year car in good condition, which is about 15 years old now.
Reminds me of the long-abandoned libcpu project: https://github.com/libcpu/libcpu
Yes, the average person has a vehicle.
Related NYTimes article from earlier this year [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/travel/26nicaragua-cover.h...
Musk has said Tesla didn't need the government money, it was just used as a cash buffer (which of course was repaid early with interest). As for SpaceX, they've been profitable for 7+ years and NASA is a client so not sure. As for Solar City unsure, but government money doesn't make a business succeed. No matter how much. (Solyndra) c
Well. Not sure if this is the EU only but I am from the Netherlands and moved to Spain. Cost went down, quality of life is so much higher it now seems like a joke I ever lived in the Netherlands. And was born there. If quality of life is what you are working for the south of the EU is something to consider.

Disclaimer: I am very leftish ( I was very right when I was young; if you will not work fuck off ) by circumstance : by design of what you and me do, there will be no jobs like there are now. And people cannot die in the streets so we need to change things. I spend all my waking ours trying to do that and loving it.
I'm unfamiliar with Clojure, but I rather liked Douglas Crockfords comment on code coloring (Lisp) based on scope rather than syntax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EF0VTs9Dc&t=15m30s
I'm very interested to see how well it goes. If it is as flexible as it seems, perhaps it could be used to emulate the Mill? It'd be great to mess around with all these architectures!
How about something like:

"The privacy of your own data center."

To me, AWS VPC is a game-changer for privacy. The isolation and network configuration options satisfy every need of a "private cloud" or "behind the firewall install".
Vanguard Target Retirement 20XX tend to shift from high growth, high vol into low growth, low vol towards the end of their lifetime.

This reduces your risk of a big stock market downswing hurting you just before you retire.
TLDR Yes, but you probably wouldn't want to.
I'll admit to being skeptical, too, but I seem to recall reading that people thought that the US was not going to be able to finish the original canal and that the whole project was foolhardy. I think the US was just more tenacious than France before it (also people had learned about the role of mosquitoes in disease and sprayed the mosquitoes)

China has a very long history of massive building projects, so if Nicaragua is willing, and the similar sentiment as the first canal makes me hesitant to dismiss it.
Does anybody here have experience as an expat living in Panama? I've heard good things about the quality of life and tax benefits (for immigrants/expats), plus a reasonable cost of living. I wonder if they're accurate, and what impact this rival canal might have on those conditions in the unlikely event it proceeds.
Commercially licensed !instantly= good pilot. And vice versa.
I am not sure in which EU countries you get less? It is a question.
Yes, I thought about addressing this in the comment. Most Uber drivers are much more like 1099 contractors, but I think for this purpose a general notion of what a "sharing economy" entails is sufficient for the purposes of comparison with this idea. Either way it just doesn't hold up.
What bugs have you seen that were caused in part by the choice to use signed integers?
> First problem: there's no identity authentication mechanism in NNTP.

Yup. Which is weird, since every message is sent by someone at a host; it should have been possible to simply use signatures to prove which site generated a message—and punish sites which didn't police their users. But crypto was hard (and illegal to export, once upon a time).

> Because it's a flood-fill store-and-forward system, each server node tries to replicate the entire feed.

The upshot of this is that reading news was fast. So fast that folks these days can't believe what a user-friendly experience reading from a local news feed can be. Imagine reading a website where pages come up in milliseconds—that's Usenet on a local feed.

> Consequently news admins tended to put a short expiry on posts in binary groups

Frankly, binaries were Usenet's downfall. Had those been eliminated, then I hope that Usenet would be a lot healthier today. I couldn't get numbers on the size of a daily text feed nowadays, but I imagine it's pretty manageable.

> Upshot: usenet clients remained rooted in the early 1990s at best.

Back in the 90s I used a pretty nice Mac GUI client.

But really, it doesn't get better than gnus…

Anyway, Usenet's not dead—it's still alive, people are still posting and some groups are doing pretty well.

They world could use a new Usenet, with the lessons learned from the first one: site-to-site; non-commercial; anti-spam measures built in.
That last point is debatable in the Western world but yes it holds globally.
Meh if you have a private pilot's license it isn't that difficult to get a commercial license. An ATP license on the other hand...
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>The rules are to strict. If your friend is a pilot and you guys decide to go out on a flight, you can't in any way pitch in for gas money because it could be interpreted as commercial exchange.

That isn't true and that is not at all what I said. You can be compensated legally. You just can't be over compensated. In other words, you are not allowed to make a profit on a private license.
Wow a shout out for our Discourse project from Avi. This made my day, thank you!

And yeah, distributed discussions are moon-shot hard, unfortunately.
I guess the second thing would be the no fly list (and the TSA).
Pilots are as cheap as economically possible. Some are even on food stamp programs.
I have come to believe, for better or worse, that you cannot be the leading economical force with those things in place. I think it is needed for that.
Competition is only healthy when safety is put above profits. This happens when regulations have teeth.
Sort of, voting rearranging the chronological stream of conversation makes it significantly different IMO. There is also the phenomenon of funniest image tending to win the votes, too. (Barring excellent moderation, but Reddit does very little to make moderation easy, or even set goals for moderation.)

That's not great for discussion, but then Reddit was always designed as more of a system of briefly commenting on URLs than actual discussion.
It's not the words that need to be processed, it's the context.
So far it seems that scirate is used just for the "like" button, which is the one big missing feature of the arxiv. (And probably should not be implemented there anyway.) Most science trolling still seems to happen in a very public & attributed way, via those articles with title "A note on..."
déjà news acquisition was in 2001, lifetimes ago in web time. And it does fit with Google's stated mission of putting everything online, in easily searchable format.

The "let's put a thin web veneer over X" approach has never been a great one, perhaps sufficient for Web 1.0, but not these days.
If you don't have a pilot's license you can't be in air in the 1st place. The landing fees alone would probably make it nonviable for small charters Lufthansa and American Airlines would probably pay smaller fees for landing a 747 than you would landing a 2 seater Cessna.
Few pleasures compare to earning money/kudos/badges with something you love. Productivity? Eh? I worked stacking shopping goods for supermarkets when I was 13; doing 1000 did not feel better than 200 for anyone there, including the full time staff. I understand you probably meant something else but productivity needs definition here.
There is a tremendous amount of awesome work happening in this space. Tsuru is one such great project, thanks for adding it to the thread.

One big difference is that Convox uses managed services over writing and running our own components. For example, we use DynamoDB for saving build and release records. And we use ELBs for load balancing and routing.

This approach ties us closely to AWS, but results in a stack of infrastructure that has minimal operational overhead (e.g. Amazon is keeping DynamoDB Available, you don't have to manage an etcd cluster), and great scaling potential (vs tuning and scaling individual HAProxy nodes).
This is a well known effect. Humans are made to strive and struggle, and if they have no purpose to get up in the morning for, they tend to die.
With no code release yet it definitely seems early to be discussing on HN. The author of the excellent Capstone disassembly engine (http://www.capstone-engine.org/) is involved though, so it definitely has my interest.
That's rich. GTK+ doesn't pretend to be seriously cross-platform. Qt does but looks horrible on anything but KDE. It tries to mimic native UI but enters the uncanny valley and is immediately noticeable as a fake. Particularly horrid on OS X.

Don't lecture us on a technical choice you don't understand.
Which, to me, makes the article state what should be normal but is not. For people getting older and doing less or no manual labour, pension is not needed. Or even dangerous.
As alluded to later in the replies here, no discussion website ever tried to be fully decentralized like NNTP was from inception.

It is a super hard problem, and as the declining popularity of NNTP itself illustrates (and the tendency toward mega-centralization on the web like Facebook, too) maybe it was solving the wrong problem for today.
Lauren is actually male. I met him once.
I did a search of Vanguard Target Retirement funds on google and came upon this[1] criticism of target retirement funds, as the second result. In short, it argues that target retirement funds are more costly than do-it-yourself funds, and you can halve your fees with a DIY portfolio. Thoughts?

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2013/06/05/the-trouble-w...
You realize you can shrink your browser window width and
increase the text size to make the layout how you want?

On iOS/android you generally can't.
We have not "decided that we're always operating in ring 256/65,536/etc". We decided that being a little more efficient can save a room in the computer's building. If correctness becomes harder, well, there's an acceptable price. The programmer is always in the building anyway.

An obsolete decision, sure, but I wouldn't call it incorrect.

This begs the question, though, why don't we revert it in new architectures, already incompatible with everything. Tradition, I guess?
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This is only true for the front page and for things like /r/AdviceAnimals. The front page is in and of itself a separate phenomenon than the rest of the subreddits, in my opinion.

For many subreddits, there are truly fantastic discussions that are very relevant to the subreddit topic. /r/askHistorians or /r/askScience, for example, has an extremely high signal to noise ratio.
I really wish people wouldn't base their claims on security contests like this: "nobody has claimed the reward so it must be secure" is fundamentally a really bad argument, and - as Moxie's article on the Telegram crypto contest [1] demonstrates - it's easy to design constraints that look reasonable but in fact make the contest unwinnable, regardless of the scheme's security.

[1]: http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/
Yes you did, you just did it at a personal level. Most consumers are not that tech-savvy. Windows may not be for you, but it is for the masses.
I agree with the comments in this thread about how the FAA is a right to enforce strict regulation in this market, and that Uber did indeed shift risk to operators, and that this would be incredibly unwise to do for air travel.

IMHO, I think we need more major airports. Right now it seems we're bounded by lack of access, here. Perhaps any disruption in this market needs to be done at local governments in how they determine land use for airports. I imagine it would be a special kind of torture to have to drive from, say, Anaheim or other parts of LA East of downtown, to LAX to catch a flight after a meeting. Don't know the total history of LA, but why isn't there a second major airport out that way ala JFK-LGA-EWR in New York?

A quick google search found this[1] document about en route flight operations and how flights travel across the country. Perhaps there's some work to be done in terms of developing some kind of fantasy air flight simulation game, aimed at optimizing how we move people around the country - if anything, just for fun. After reading through some of this, I'm even more convinced that "Uber for air travel" is not a wise idea considering how complicated all of this is and the safety risk involved.

One can wonder, is Atlanta such a major hub simply because they have so much land or is that really an optimal connection airport for so many major routes?

[1] http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/av...

Here's the page with the whole document:
http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/av...

Edit: Grammar
How about that they at least mandate appropriate insurance coverage and give you a fixed statue in law as a paying passenger?

Not to mention that under UBER you might be stuck in a legal limbo in which you can't sue the driver for damages in case of an accident without proving gross negligence while can be still sued by the 3rd party for being involved in the accident in the 1st place under the "joint adventure" precedent.
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I've lived in Spain, it's joke since we all here how great the civilized modern organized North where people work hard unlike the barbaric chaotic south filled with lazy who just want holidays and don't pay their taxes. If quality of life is what anyone's looking for, get rich, sacrifice your youth if you have to be, and then retire young (mid-40's early 50's) to some tropical island or some country in South America like Ecuador or Uruguay. The EU is not a good place to be, it is continually getting worse for the people, people are getting angry and people are starting to get violent in some countries.
I don't think the parent comment was making a normative statement either way, rather just suggesting that "move fast and break things" is not a good way to go for things that fly in the sky.
This is roughly what I do, but 99% of investors aren't capable of managing their own investments. Target retirement funds are "set it and forget it".

I do, however, have a smallish vanguard target retirement fund left over from my academic days. It's actually performing pretty well.
I just wonder how did these mistake happen - poor programming or, most likely, manually sending emails?
Can someone please remind me how demographers defend treating post-WWII generations as being 20 years in length when the evidence is very clear that real generations are much longer?

http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Generation_length

I wouldn't care so much if it weren't for having to endure another round of inane punditry.
Note that www.ipfs.io does not work. Did you perhaps type in www.ipfs.io rather than what was linked?
Holy negativity batman!

This is a great collections of essays, I'd say bed time reading for the budding entrepreneur and/or VC.

Ignore (or misunderstand) at your own peril.
> A simple way to begin to control decline is to cordon off the blighted areas, and put an attractive façade around them. We call this strategy SWEEPING IT UNDER THE RUG. In more advanced cases, there may be no alternative but to tear everything down and start over.

I've found the most successful way of dealing with these code bases is definitely not this. It is to surround them with a body end-to-end functional tests and then slowly refactor what is underneath, which mostly just involves doing this:

* De-duplicate wherever there is code duplication.

* Pull the different modules apart so that they are minimally dependent upon one another instead of tightly coupled.

* Replacing re-invented wheels once they are de-coupled with higher quality modules.

An unappreciated facet of dealing with big balls of mud is also that unit tests usually range from unhelpful to downright harmful. If you don't have self-contained, loosely coupled algorithmic modules to test, unit tests aren't helpful. They will almost inevitably mean tightly coupling your tests to architecture you know is bad, a mess of unnecessary mock objects and an inability to write tests for real bug scenarios that users report.
I agree with you - the only really "unique" Murakami works I've read are Hard-Boiled Wonderland (a mix of SF and fantasy), his non-fiction (especially Underground is good, a series of interviews with victims and perpetrators of the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo Tokyo gas attack), and After the Quake (even that one walks straight into "typical Murakami" territory sometimes).

I think it's one of the reasons why he won't get the Nobel Prize even though so many always list him as top contender, he's just too repetitive.
The most dramatic example is the INT_MIN/-1 case, since that causes an outright crash.

For example, Windows has the ScaleWindowExtEx function, which scales a window by some rational number, expressed as the ratio of two ints. Using signed arithmetic is already suspicious: what does it mean to scale a window by a negative fraction? But of course they forgot about the INT_MIN/-1 case, and the result is a BSOD. http://sysmagazine.com/posts/179543/

http://kqueue.org/blog/2012/12/31/idiv-dos/ has some others. Fun stuff.
Used it a year back for some classwork, and it made life easy.
Depends on who you kill.
I'm more familiar with I2P than Tor.

I2P includes a webserver, to host the local configuration & status page. You can also host your own public site right from there, by dropping files in the right place. Click "Website" from your console page and it'll tell you what you need to do. The URL will be <some hash>.i2p, but you can register with one of the name servers to give it a more human-friendly <name>.i2p redirect, similar to DNS->IP address.

From quick googling, it doesn't look like Tor includes a webserver, just TCP tunneling that you can set up to talk to an independent local webserver install: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en

Note the same is possible in I2P if you want to use your own webserver.
I tested Cortana, I feel she is not very intelligent, so I disabled she again.

For Edge, I feel it is a semifinished product. It has many bugs and still lacks many important features, such as favorites management.

Other than above, I feel Win10 is good.
Fwiw, this article contains a graphic summarizing vacation days in different EU and non-EU countries. Surprisingly, Portugal and Austria lead the pack: http://m.welt.de/wirtschaft/article144702793/Der-Mann-der-se...
There's another graphic where people were asked how much vacation they prefer. Not surprisingly, many want more than what they have...
The article, by the way, is about an American who works for only six months per year.
That's all possible unless you want to get some financial security (sickness, age, family) or if you are lucky and have a nicely paid seasonal job. I do know examples of people like that - the operators of a sailing/surf school/café, for example, who only work between March and September, but then often 12 hour days.
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Is this good high-concept pitch for Writer.is?
I'm meeting investors for http://writer.is
And need high concept pitch. I got this one "Typewriting on wallpaper"
Is this good?
What the article fails to mention is that it’s very hard to make a profit in the aviation business. That’s why we end up with oligopolies, sooner or later airline corporations have to merge in order to cut costs. So if the big players have a hard time keeping afloat I don’t see how an Uber style airliner could make it. Unless of course they end-up landing in peripheral airports, charging for luggage like Raynair does, extending waiting times for a few hours and cutting many of the amenities we’ve come to expect as standard.
reddit low number of mods and users that browser r/new creates the very opposite of usenet.

reddit is incredible unilateral.
That is illegal under the Innocent Passage clause of the UN Law of the Seas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_passage
Federal Credits are crucial for SolarCity. Most of the SolarCity customers do not own their Solar plants and SolarCity quotes a "very high" price if any one asks for a SolarPV to own.
The amazing part of it imo is that no matter the industry, a high tech company with the high tech standards of IT, customer service and efficiency will win,
as long as it completes against classic industrial/commercial companies
I am sure accidents happen. So some contamination will occur regardless.
That would have limited military use. Long-term airborne drones are slow, light, and carry a small payload.
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> for (unsigned i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--)

An defined behavior alternative:

for( size_t i = n; i --> 0; )
Um, the title of the article is "Why I’m NOT ready to switch from Mac to Windows 10"...
"I can see the boycott coordination angle (except, the offensive vendor can just change its identity)."

If the vendor changes its identity but the public is still aware of the connection, the new identity goes on the sanction list. If the new identity can't be linked, then it has absolutely no reputation and has to start from scratch to convince people to buy from them. That is an effective deterrent.

"What if everyone around you believes that you should be detained, but you actually shouldn't (according to the theoretical 'rule')?"

There are no "rules". What I'm describing is a society organized via voluntary actions, but by following prescribed rules. If everyone around you thinks you should be detained, you get detained. That's how society works.

Sanctions don't prevent bad behavior, they punish bad behavior as a deterrent. Separately, a police force exists only as long as people fund it, and as long as people approve of their uses of force.

I'm not saying this is all bulletproof, but I think it's going to be fun to explore as we build the foundations for these sorts of systems.