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More details here: http://www.nwas.org/committees/waf/new_supercomputer.php

The DOT website in NYC already has a street parking function which displays the rules in effect for any specified street / intersection. I don't know if this is legally admissible, though - I believe the rules can only be enforced if the signage is in place.

I'm red/green colourblind and the final version (with the stripes) is pretty readable. The first version (with out the stripes), not so much.

That's a great response. Thanks.

I suggest that you put this detail on your website - it's a compelling argument for the product (apologies if it's already there but I couldn't find it if so).

The site claims these bibs are designed for "exceptional fit and performance" but I suspect you will have to provide more justification to persuade people to buy these instead of Rapha/Assos/Capo, the current kings of endurance bibs.

AFAIK, all the above brands use pads from EIT (http://www.elasticinterface.com/) - are your pads better and if so, why?

And this is one of the reasons why I uninstalled the android app and use the mobile website instead - it still offers the option to sort by most recent.

These are the tricky bits:

Defining a swap: the OTC market is complex and there is no standard representation for many of the products - this makes reconciling data submitted by each of the firms complex. A simple interest rate swap report could contain up to 1,000 elements to fully describe a trade.

Volume: the 2 major OTC reporting regimes, Dodd-Frank and ESMA, both generate tens of millions of trade reports daily. This data needs to be correct; needs to be both ingested and retrieved quickly and needs to support complex post-reporting processing and queries.

Complex workflow: each swap undergoes many changes during it's lifetime, which complicates the workflow and data for reporting. For example, you may trade a block CDS, which is split into 20 allocations, some of which are new trades and some that alter existing trades (step ins; step outs; terminations; reductions...). Each of the allocations may require different reporting treatments.

And yes, the 'too much data, not enough scientists' problem with interpreting the submissions. Bear in mind that the SEC reporting hasn't started yet - that's 2015...

15 minutes for electronically confirmed swaps.

In reality, the swap data repositories are finding the data submitted by each institution very difficult to reconcile - it's a step in the right direction but the goal of constructing a full representation of each financial institution's derivatives exposure is still a way off.

What's to stop a thief buying a VengeCycle kit, that includes the 7-star key, and then using that to dispose of the explosives on other people's bikes?

Plus tickets, sales tools, blotters, order management, routing, reports (reg and otherwise) etc...

Assuming 40 pairs, 2 ticks per second and 1kb to store a tick (including timestamps, indexes etc), I reckon that's about 70TB for 40 years worth of data, not counting weekends.

I've assumed only outright ticks, hence the 40 pairs - in reality most banks store the crosses as well, which can be up to 1,600 pairs (40 x 40), which will get you into the PB range for the 40 years.

Unfortunately, for many applications in my industry, the problem is trying to fit a set of tables into an in-memory graph of objects (either because the data is more easily defined as a set of tables, or because it already exists as one).

This article feels overly simplistic (look - bad bankers!) given that it doesn't mention securitization and the lax oversight of the ratings agencies, who should take a significant portion of the culpability.

Most of the developers I work with (including me) already work in this fashion - multiple windows open on the desktop showing (for example) code being edited (usually in an IDE); code open for reference (a 2nd copy of the IDE, or simply notepad/uedit/vim/whatever); scripts (vi/emacs/grep/less); database stuff in another IDE; source control; folders view and usually multiple grep windows. My point being that I pick what they need to use and let the desktop take care of displaying them simultaneously. I'm not sure I can conceive of, or even desire, a single IDE that can handle every scenario that I encounter for me. I think most scenarios are handled by opening another vi/notepad/ide session as needed.

Security, innit.

Why does Sweetwater County, Wyoming, population 45k, need 60 assault rifles? Why does any rural police force need any assault rifles?

Yes, plenty in NYC.

The UK driving test is much more stringent than the NY state test (I can't comment on other states - I believe each state defines their own driving test).

The NY test - 10 minutes in the car. I drove around the block; parallel parked, 3 point turn and back to the start. Done.

UK test - an hour in the car; had to drive in urban, country and highway settings (a dual carriageway, not a motorway - learners are not allowed to drive on motorways in the UK); parallel park and answer a lot of questions while doing so.

That's not to discount the fact that the UK has a lot of bad drivers - but the NY test was simply a joke.

For a good insight into how city police are trained, I recommend reading Cop In The Hood by Peter Moskos.

Peter joined the Baltimore Police and describes how they were taught to "own the situation", which in effect means responding with escalating force until the situation is under control. This approach is evident in the reports from both the Washington Post and Al Jazeera journalists. From the book's description of the training, there appeared to be little effort to educate on correct responses for different situations.

I have friends in the UK Police force (I am not a cop myself) that tell me they are taught how to diffuse situations rather than escalate them and that getting into a violent confrontation is seen as a last resort, not a first response.

I have every sympathy with the police, and the tough job that they face, but I can't help but feel that the differences in approach and specifically the inflexibility of the US police training does not help them.

This made the internet for me today.

In 2006, Gartner estimated there were still 180 billion lines of COBOL code running in production [1].

I don't believe a significant proportion will have been retired since.

Languages never die - they just keep running...

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9004821/Cobol_The_New...

I worked on AS/400s for 10 years and still consider it the most productive environment I've ever used. Uptime was indeed legendary - our IBM rep told me he knew of an AS/400 running at another site that had been up for over 7 years.

Serious question: Why do you click on HN links if you don't have the time to read the article?

In my professional life I have rarely (if ever?) seen a language chosen on the basis of it's syntax.

Do I have to take this to the pub for my beer too?

2 nations, separated by a common egg.

No, they are not.

I would be more likely to sign up if the site had links to previous newsletters so I could see what I was actually committing to.

Any form of government intervention in the markets is out of line with pure capitalism, e.g. farm subsidies; import taxes; bailouts of the auto and finance industries; medicare; medicaid; social security... one could make an argument for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well.

That's not to say that the above are not reasonable policies for an advanced western economy, just not that they could reasonably be considered purely capitalist.

Stating that the US military has... "enabled that continent to break its historical cycle of bloodshed and live in relative peace the last half-century" is a huge oversimplification.

Undoubtedly the US military is one, if not a major force in the post WWII security, but many other factors have contributed to this, such as Khrouchtchev's policies of co-existence; the emergence of China as a nuclear power that forced Russia to side with the US and the European Union that bound France and Germany economically, making future pan-European wars much less likely.

Lets not also forget the European conflicts since 1945 despite all of the above - Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; Turkey invading Cyprus; Bosnian war; the Chechen crisis; Kosovo; Russia-Georgia and the Crimea.